Dark Flare & Major Defile

Greensea

Does anyone know if the Major Defile debuff applied by Dark Flare works in PvE? For example if I cast it on Drodda of Icereach in Direfrost would that reduce the amount of healing she does?

(Edited from Minor to Major)

Wrecking_Blow_Spam

I'd assume so and I thought it was major defile?
Did it get changed?

Greensea

Wrecking_Blow_Spam wrote: »

I'd assume so and I thought it was major defile?
Did it get changed?

My apologies, a double check confirms that it is indeed Major rather than Minor!

GrumpyDuckling

In my experience major defile works on trash mob menders, however I'm skeptical about it working on bosses - they have weird immunity circumstances. Also, defiling is so niche in PVE that it wouldn't surprise me if ZOS made an oversight as it concerns defiled status on bosses.

Solariken

Major/Minor Defile definitely works on Bogdan the Lameflame in Elden Hollow for a mega fast kill. As a Stamplar tank I bust out my Dark Flare for that fight.

I certainly would assume the same will be true for Drodda.

Greensea

GrumpyDuckling wrote: »

In my experience major defile works on trash mob menders, however I'm skeptical about it working on bosses - they have weird immunity circumstances. Also, defiling is so niche in PVE that it wouldn't surprise me if ZOS made an oversight as it concerns defiled status on bosses.

Solariken wrote: »

Major/Minor Defile definitely works on Bogdan the Lameflame in Elden Hollow for a mega fast kill. As a Stamplar tank I bust out my Dark Flare for that fight.

I certainly would assume the same will be true for Drodda.

Thank you both for the response, interesting to hear that it does work (at least in some circumstances)! I'd never really considered it as a potential PvE debuff because of how niche it is but who knows, maybe it will help one day

FlyLionel

Be ready to CC A$AP because when the boss does that is when the boss gets their health back up. If you can manage to break out really fast you should be fine(make sure and tell the group that, some random can just stay CC'd and the boss will get a lot of health back). No BS I solo'd it on my magplar healer once when my group left during the middle of the fight...the CC part is vital, magplar is amazing in pve..for now.

Greensea

FlyLionel wrote: »

Be ready to CC A$AP because when the boss does that is when the boss gets their health back up. If you can manage to break out really fast you should be fine(make sure and tell the group that, some random can just stay CC'd and the boss will get a lot of health back). No BS I solo'd it on my magplar healer once when my group left during the middle of the fight...the CC part is vital, magplar is amazing in pve..for now.

Yeah, definitely a case of needing quick reactions. I only ever do this one with guildmates when it's a pledge due to past frustrations with group finder teams just not getting it I was only asking about the Defile from a mechanical viewpoint. Awesome to hear you soloed it, must have been a bit of a slog!

FlyLionel

Greensea wrote: »

FlyLionel wrote: »

Be ready to CC A$AP because when the boss does that is when the boss gets their health back up. If you can manage to break out really fast you should be fine(make sure and tell the group that, some random can just stay CC'd and the boss will get a lot of health back). No BS I solo'd it on my magplar healer once when my group left during the middle of the fight...the CC part is vital, magplar is amazing in pve..for now.

Yeah, definitely a case of needing quick reactions. I only ever do this one with guildmates when it's a pledge due to past frustrations with group finder teams just not getting it I was only asking about the Defile from a mechanical viewpoint. Awesome to hear you soloed it, must have been a bit of a slog!

Yeah the queue life. I have never seen flare used on the boss so it may not work as well, just saying the main mechanic to reduce healing was the CC. And if it is just you and the boss the CC part can be no problem(show off when your group dies don't wipe...ever lol).