Finny

Thanks again for the input mate, appreciated.

That said I'm not anything pretending to be anything other than some bloke playing a fucking computer game and ultimately I couldn't give a flying fuck where you decide to pigeon hole me.

If we can't kill it because we don't have the dps as that is the only strat then so be it, we can't kill it, unbelievably for a bunch of 'people that only raid 3 times a week therefore shouldn't be able to kill anything, please don't utter the C word' we know what Dispatch, Decapitate, Lifeburn, Manaburn etc is, I know shocking stuff but if ultimately that is the only strat out there then we will have to find other things to do with our in game time.

All I was wondering from some of you people here is if it possible to kill it usinga different strategy or skill set, the world would be a very dull place if we were all the same, we can't all be as good or as bad as everybody else.

One last thing Pinski, if you wouldn't mind, can you let me know the progression path i should be following in order to not be pigeon holed? It so hurts to be labeled *sniff*

Many thanks in advance

Cochy

These mobs are definately doable without stakes, maybe not on the first heal but it should be dead by the 2nd heal. These mobs are closer to the appropriate difficutly imo but are still a little to easy, with ~28k DPS on the nameds they were dieing easily but we have killed them with about 20k DPS. on our DPS light nights.

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Finny

Thanks Cochy for the reply regarding the stakes.

Quick question then.
Presuming you had 4 groups with AE block, 3 bards and a Warden with everybody standing on them what number in percent terms would you expect to see on Viswin's health bar?

We make let the mob get to 11%, we use AE blocking (Bladedance etc), we get the mob down to 8%, it then heals (I think to be honest it is healing too much by hitting un-protected people, even with BD on sometimes I get hit by it which I am at a loss to explain). After the heal we Dispatch and let rip with Decap, Manaburn, Lifeburn and various miracles/blessings and high damage spells/ca's. We just don't seem to have enough to drop him before the second mana sucking AE.

If this is the only strat then i guess we have to keep trying to get better

Rasix

We pop blade dance/tortoise shell at 11%, dispatch and start burning. shortly after they hit 10% life they will emote something, we then have people spam any skill with an interrupt, and chanters hit their stifles. its 50/50. sometimes they dont heal at all if the stifle or interrupts hit at the right time. usually if you get them to 5% you can safely say that they wont be healing and you got the interrupt.

As for the stakes...are these only from 3rd floor EH? or are they the same ones you can purchase in sombourn off the freethinker NPC?

Pronoia

Damage shield hitting you and breaking it?

Pro.

Slippery

Stakes are from 3rd floor of EH and different.

Grevious

Never use stakes and those 2 mobs are not hard at all.

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Finny

Nothing is hard once you have beaten it and know how to kill it, but we at this stage cant kill it so we find it hard.... for now.... if that makes sense hence why I was asking for some assistance.

Fucking hell posting after a lunchtime of Staropramen is dangerous, damn stuff is like rocket fuel

Grevious

Just burn burn burn then if they heal oh well keep going. Next ae that goes off will not heal them so long no one dies but sucks power so be ready to use items to get just enough power back and keep it up. If dps is not enough and he does heal twice its over wipe it and go again.

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Mateo

Like pinski said if you dont have that dps burst you wont be able to do it. Not to be mean but thats how it is, you need a good burn even if you aoe avoid he will heal and you still need a good burn to get him down.

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Leader of Saints of Norrath