How many AA Axes can you handle?

Flamebeur

So a group and i have been trying our hands on hardmode the past couple of days and im just wondering, how many axes should a good tank be able to handle?
Ive tried looking up and checking videos but they usually have a decent team so they only get like 2-3 axes, even on hardmode. But i dont know, any tanks out there that might shine some light on this for me?

GnarlyArchfiend

3+ axes. but if you're in a decent group you should not get anymore than 4.

Flamebeur

GnarlyArchfiend wrote: »

3+ axes. but if you're in a decent group you should not get anymore than 4.

True, but im wondering whats the most one can handle, like i've never seen a tank with 6 axes, is it possible? if so, how?

GnarlyArchfiend

Well I also have not seen more than 4 on the stage so I guess 4 is the most a tank can handle. If there is anymore than that then it is a DPS problem.

RazzPitazz

Axes?

Moonshadow66

rajaniemiorama_ESO wrote: »

Axes?

Good question.. I don't know either.

Jeckll

We only get 2 axes, maybe 3 sometimes. So that should be the maximum you'll have to worry about. Your healers should provide you with enough Spear Shards to make sure you're not running out of Stamina.

Or do you have other issues in tanking multiple like keeping taunts up?

I dont think the right question is how many should you be able to tank but what is hindering you to tank as many axes as possible. I mean, how many axes do you want to tank? If you get more than 4, it's not a tanking issue anymore.

@rajaniemiorama_ESO , @Moonshadow66 The Mage spawns spectral axes that usually 1shot people if they dont block. So the tank has to taunt those (which is ok because that's the only thing he has to do :P)

P3ZZL3

Is this vDSA?

sdtlc

AA stands fo Atherian Archive

Rosveen

What's with you guys, the title clearly says AA Axes.

Septimus_Magna

The tank we did AA hard mode with could handle 4 axes, he is an Imperial Templar.
He did need stamina spears to keep up his block of course.

Tavore1138

rajaniemiorama_ESO wrote: »

Axes?

It's one of the mechanics for the final boss in AA, basically giant pink axes spawn and start tryin to whack everyone unless they are tanked... and, no, I have no clue what the devs were inhaling when they came up with those visuals

Flamebeur

Jeckll wrote: »

We only get 2 axes, maybe 3 sometimes. So that should be the maximum you'll have to worry about. Your healers should provide you with enough Spear Shards to make sure you're not running out of Stamina.

Or do you have other issues in tanking multiple like keeping taunts up?

I dont think the right question is how many should you be able to tank but what is hindering you to tank as many axes as possible. I mean, how many axes do you want to tank? If you get more than 4, it's not a tanking issue anymore.

@rajaniemiorama_ESO , @Moonshadow66 The Mage spawns spectral axes that usually 1shot people if they dont block. So the tank has to taunt those (which is ok because that's the only thing he has to do :P)

Thanks for the answer i dont myself have a problem with my tanking, i really was just wondering how many axes it is possible to handle in the game as of now. The thing is that a shard from the templars can really mess up the aggro on the axes, at least they did right after 1.6 got released. So i never use shards and i can handle 5 at most for a certain amount of time of course. Its not just the shards though, all dmg done to the axe even though you are taunting them every 14 sec, they still make you loose aggro on the axes and you cant retaunt for a while. At least thats what i have been told and i've also experienced it myself.

asteldian

4 is my max and it gets uncomfortable quickly. The biggest problem I find with 4 is taunting them because they sometimes overlap and instead of taunting each one I hit the same one twice so axe escape becomes a risk

Bashev

As some people already said, the problem is not in the tanking but in the taunting.

leandro.800ub17_ESO

Problem is not being able to handle dmg but not losing them
I had tanked 5 for a short time and 4 for long time

ThatNeonZebraAgain

asteldian wrote: »

4 is my max and it gets uncomfortable quickly. The biggest problem I find with 4 is taunting them because they sometimes overlap and instead of taunting each one I hit the same one twice so axe escape becomes a risk

This is my problem as well. So hard to target them when you get 3 or more. As a NB, I can tank 3 comfortably (the occasional Spears helps with stamina), never had to do 4 in the groups I've been in. We also had a designated off-tank in case the axes got squirrely on us.

AlnilamE

I've never tanked AA, but I've run it with training groups, which tend to take longer to take down the Mage. Is there a max number of axes that will spawn? Do they despawn after a while? I will try to pay attention next time, but I usually have my own stuff to do in the fight.

Epona222

Never mind, thought you were talking about something different, nothing to see here...

Flamebeur

asteldian wrote: »

4 is my max and it gets uncomfortable quickly. The biggest problem I find with 4 is taunting them because they sometimes overlap and instead of taunting each one I hit the same one twice so axe escape becomes a risk

Yeah i have the same problem myself when i get 4+ they are pink so the red outline isnt really that visible so i have some trouble taunting them but usually a quick position switch would do the trick, but still you need to be very focused. If you loose one its a pain to get it back quick enough before someone dies.