timidobserver wrote: »I definitely can't think of a way for a none Sorc tank to do this. The only other vague possibility is a werewolf tank if werewolves can even use eyes of jode? Even if possible it would probably still be less effective.
Kippesnikke wrote: »timidobserver wrote: »I definitely can't think of a way for a none Sorc tank to do this. The only other vague possibility is a werewolf tank if werewolves can even use eyes of jode? Even if possible it would probably still be less effective.
i did backyard as a full tank.
s7732425ub17_ESO wrote: »The tank not taunting the hulk is equivalent to not immediately taunting an axe in AA. Sometimes, when the axes first spawn, they will be attacking a DPS for a few seconds before the tank is able to grab agro. Does the DPS die because of this? No, you just hold block for two seconds and then resume your normal rotation. It's the same thing here.
hedna123b14_ESO wrote: »s7732425ub17_ESO wrote: »The tank not taunting the hulk is equivalent to not immediately taunting an axe in AA. Sometimes, when the axes first spawn, they will be attacking a DPS for a few seconds before the tank is able to grab agro. Does the DPS die because of this? No, you just hold block for two seconds and then resume your normal rotation. It's the same thing here.
AA is an easy trial since you can just stand and block until the axes are taunted and nothing will happen to you...in the case of vMoL there are additional mechanics that can kill you such as Meteors, tether orbs, beach balls and etc...but none of it really matters. The post is about a strat that let's the fight be finished faster than with the current meta. This strat is unique. The purpose of this is to help groups that want to clear that fight faster and in a more interesting way. Whether you want to taunt or not taunt the hulk is your choice we didn't even mention it in our description. The goal of the post is to showcase a better way of doing Rakhhat and of giving the sorc tanks and opportunity to shine. Keep in mind that sorcs have reduction. To ulti cost so the uptime on warhorn is higher on other fights than with a DK or Templar, which offers additional benefit.
I am at a loss for why several people seem to be zeroing in on something completely irrelevant to the purpose of the thread...
lolo_01b16_ESO wrote: »Why do you call a strategy that assumes the group having not enough dps new meta? I mean it is nice to give tips to less experienced groups, but your title makes it sound as if it is better to take an offtank instead of an additional stam dd.
Oreyn_Bearclaw wrote: »lolo_01b16_ESO wrote: »Why do you call a strategy that assumes the group having not enough dps new meta? I mean it is nice to give tips to less experienced groups, but your title makes it sound as if it is better to take an offtank instead of an additional stam dd.
Has anyone cleared this place without an offtank? This is not a choice about whether or not to have an off tank or a DPS. It is based on the premise that an offtank is required, and thus what is the best way to utilize them during the fight.
As always, way to think outside the box. I am going home to delete all my sorcs, just in case I draw the short straw if we decide to try this. Haha.
@paulsimonps You got that sorc leveled yet, buddy?
hedna123b14_ESO wrote: »@Oreyn_Bearclaw you don't even know what we will show next week...it's even better!
Oreyn_Bearclaw wrote: »hedna123b14_ESO wrote: »@Oreyn_Bearclaw you don't even know what we will show next week...it's even better!
Can't wait. I just started learning back team on this fight, so if I can talk the off tank into doing it, all the better. haha
Funny thing is, I am starting to think this is the easiest fight in the whole place. When we dont mess up, we are getting him down well before middle phase now. Honestly, I think the first boss is the hardest one to go death free.
hedna123b14_ESO wrote: »Oreyn_Bearclaw wrote: »hedna123b14_ESO wrote: »@Oreyn_Bearclaw you don't even know what we will show next week...it's even better!
Can't wait. I just started learning back team on this fight, so if I can talk the off tank into doing it, all the better. haha
Funny thing is, I am starting to think this is the easiest fight in the whole place. When we dont mess up, we are getting him down well before middle phase now. Honestly, I think the first boss is the hardest one to go death free.
Yup deaths are a biggie...practice practice and more practice...we just changed up our strats completely and we will need time to adjust to them considering we only raid once a week with core atm...
Oreyn_Bearclaw wrote: »hedna123b14_ESO wrote: »Oreyn_Bearclaw wrote: »hedna123b14_ESO wrote: »@Oreyn_Bearclaw you don't even know what we will show next week...it's even better!
Can't wait. I just started learning back team on this fight, so if I can talk the off tank into doing it, all the better. haha
Funny thing is, I am starting to think this is the easiest fight in the whole place. When we dont mess up, we are getting him down well before middle phase now. Honestly, I think the first boss is the hardest one to go death free.
Yup deaths are a biggie...practice practice and more practice...we just changed up our strats completely and we will need time to adjust to them considering we only raid once a week with core atm...
Deaths are everything!!! We moved into the #2 to spot because we had this crazy thing called vitality at the end. Almost positive it was not our fastest run but best score by a long shot. Funny thing was that it was my first time in there on a sorc and I died twice to that damn curse. Haha.
Oreyn_Bearclaw wrote: »
As always, way to think outside the box. I am going home to delete all my sorcs, just in case I draw the short straw if we decide to try this. Haha.
@paulsimonps You got that sorc leveled yet, buddy?
AHHHH dont delete, embrace the outside of the box, the inside is so square :P @Oreyn_Bearclaw you should try it, its easily the most stressfull fun (is that a real thing?) i have had in game in a long while.........
What @Woeler is saying is that there is ways to do this without an off tank at all meaning you don't require your offtank to be a Sorcerer, sounds as if they do that now
Xantaria is a stam dragonknight, highly doubt it would be a dps loss. And with race change around, Xantaria is probably an Imperial now, that would mean there would be no respecing required for attributes only his CP and a quick gear swap addon (can do all that during rakkhats speech at the end)hedna123b14_ESO wrote: »What @Woeler is saying is that there is ways to do this without an off tank at all meaning you don't require your offtank to be a Sorcerer, sounds as if they do that now
I get it, but they have that other perrson who tanks the twins for them swap to dps gear and stay up front..thats a DPS loss overr sending that offtank in the back and keeping the backroom DPS in the front....unless their tank in DPS gear can outdps the backroom DPS...which would be a problem in itself...
Xantaria is a stam dragonknight, highly doubt it would be a dps loss. And with race change around, Xantaria is probably an Imperial now, that would mean there would be no respecing required for attributes only his CP and a quick gear swap addon (can do all that during rakkhats speech at the end)hedna123b14_ESO wrote: »What @Woeler is saying is that there is ways to do this without an off tank at all meaning you don't require your offtank to be a Sorcerer, sounds as if they do that now
I get it, but they have that other perrson who tanks the twins for them swap to dps gear and stay up front..thats a DPS loss overr sending that offtank in the back and keeping the backroom DPS in the front....unless their tank in DPS gear can outdps the backroom DPS...which would be a problem in itself...
Wait you don't know Xanti? He was one of the few to bring the stam dk alive ages ago, back in like last Septemberhedna123b14_ESO wrote: »Xantaria is a stam dragonknight, highly doubt it would be a dps loss. And with race change around, Xantaria is probably an Imperial now, that would mean there would be no respecing required for attributes only his CP and a quick gear swap addon (can do all that during rakkhats speech at the end)hedna123b14_ESO wrote: »What @Woeler is saying is that there is ways to do this without an off tank at all meaning you don't require your offtank to be a Sorcerer, sounds as if they do that now
I get it, but they have that other perrson who tanks the twins for them swap to dps gear and stay up front..thats a DPS loss overr sending that offtank in the back and keeping the backroom DPS in the front....unless their tank in DPS gear can outdps the backroom DPS...which would be a problem in itself...
Id like to see that DPS then:)
Wait you don't know Xanti? He was one of the few to bring the stam dk alive ages ago, back in like last Septemberhedna123b14_ESO wrote: »Xantaria is a stam dragonknight, highly doubt it would be a dps loss. And with race change around, Xantaria is probably an Imperial now, that would mean there would be no respecing required for attributes only his CP and a quick gear swap addon (can do all that during rakkhats speech at the end)hedna123b14_ESO wrote: »What @Woeler is saying is that there is ways to do this without an off tank at all meaning you don't require your offtank to be a Sorcerer, sounds as if they do that now
I get it, but they have that other perrson who tanks the twins for them swap to dps gear and stay up front..thats a DPS loss overr sending that offtank in the back and keeping the backroom DPS in the front....unless their tank in DPS gear can outdps the backroom DPS...which would be a problem in itself...
Id like to see that DPS then:)
An offtank that is able to have an understanding and do competitive DPS is a very nice thing, lets you do some good stuff on certain bosses
Xanti pulls 50k+ on AA and Hel Ra bosses like varlariel, foundation stone atronarch and rakotu. He just switches CP and is a complete full DD. On rakkhat he is also on level with our other stam DK's (khajiit getting a little more).
Your role is not written in stone. At least not for the off-tank.
Xantaria OP.
Oreyn_Bearclaw wrote: »lolo_01b16_ESO wrote: »Why do you call a strategy that assumes the group having not enough dps new meta? I mean it is nice to give tips to less experienced groups, but your title makes it sound as if it is better to take an offtank instead of an additional stam dd.
Has anyone cleared this place without an offtank? This is not a choice about whether or not to have an off tank or a DPS. It is based on the premise that an offtank is required, and thus what is the best way to utilize them during the fight.
As always, way to think outside the box. I am going home to delete all my sorcs, just in case I draw the short straw if we decide to try this. Haha.
@paulsimonps You got that sorc leveled yet, buddy?
Edit: Our last good clear on monday, which I believe was #2 on PC/NA, had one stamina DPS.
Not to be the party pooper but you guys are the ones doing that, what group other than your own is going to have a Sorcerer off tank, and named the thread with new meta strategy, most groups if all but yours do not have a Sorcerer off tank
Not to be the party pooper but you guys are the ones doing that, what group other than your own is going to have a Sorcerer off tank, and named the thread with new meta strategy, most groups if all but yours do not have a Sorcerer off tank
If you are capable of skipping the 3rd backroom (which you are), you are capable of burning the hulk and doing what Woeler said (just be mindful of your shields, I am sure they are all on that level), swapping your off tank to DD and sending your 2 fastest sorcerer DD's or 1 Sorcerer 1 Nightblade will let them clear it as fast as possible to get more overall DPS on Rakkhat
I'm not shutting your idea down, but if you get that Stamina Sorcerer to put on support gear for Rakkhat instead of staying in tank gear, you might get some pretty nice results, negates are pretty sweet
Not to be the party pooper but you guys are the ones doing that, what group other than your own is going to have a Sorcerer off tank, and named the thread with new meta strategy, most groups if all but yours do not have a Sorcerer off tank
If you are capable of skipping the 3rd backroom (which you are), you are capable of burning the hulk and doing what Woeler said (just be mindful of your shields, I am sure they are all on that level), swapping your off tank to DD and sending your 2 fastest sorcerer DD's or 1 Sorcerer 1 Nightblade will let them clear it as fast as possible to get more overall DPS on Rakkhat
I'm not shutting your idea down, but if you get that Stamina Sorcerer to put on support gear for Rakkhat instead of staying in tank gear, you might get some pretty nice results, negates are pretty sweet
SublimeSparo wrote: »I'm starting to think you could probably get away with a shield stacking/spamming dps sorc to be off tank for vMoL, just need to be able to hold first for 15s while tank cleanses, could probably tank the black second boss fairly easily, just shield before negates, n might even be able to streak out of it with good timing. Coyld hold the savages in trash packs, armour shattered doesn't affect shields afaik. And just go full dd for rakkhat and use woelers single taunt strat, hulk should melt with extra full dd.
SublimeSparo wrote: »On another note does anyone have any good strats for beating the screen freezes/ disconnects