ZoS, please, make Maw of the Infernal's daedroth small like a chihuahua!

Kiara88

@ZOS_GinaBruno

As a Tank, the Maw of Infernal's Daedroth is very very annoying. It is enormous and spawns in the same position of the tank, completely surrounding your character, so the result is that you can't see your character, you can't see the animation of your buffs to check if they are still active (i.e. Hardend Armor), you can't see effects or mechanics on you. It becomes dramatic on Ozara: with a giant daedroth surrounding you, you are unable to see if you are pinned, even the teammates can't see if the tank got the pin, so no one is gonna keep your pin out.

Sometimes you can't even see the boss (if the boss is not very big or tall), so you are unable to see the boss' skills and you can't prepare to mitigate. Permablock is the way, yeah, but if you need to bar swap, you have to identify the best moment to do that, otherwise in vet Trials swapping in the wrong moment means death.

Things come even harder for the tank when in a trial group there are 3-4 sorcerers running that monster set, with 3-4 daedroth always at the tank place. With only one daedroth you can move a bit to avoid the giant crocodile surrounding you char (just a little bit, 'cause you don't want to move the boss out of the DD's DoTs), but if there are more daedroth, there is nothing to do: you have to stay in permablock, download add-ons to check you buffs (if you are a PC player), bar swap only if you can see what the boss is doing, hope and pray. Also, it's not very funny to play as a tank if you don't see anything ^^"

So please PLEASE, ZoS, make Maw of the Infernal's daedrot small like a chihuahua!
... Or make it invisible for other players that aren't using this set...

Lord-Otto

Like the mini Deathclaw in New Vegas' Old World Blues... Hilarious!
I like it!
x'D

Liofa

It also pushes other players around . Among all the monster sets , this one does the highest DPS and cannot be used in raids because of this reason . Kinda sad to be honest .

Waffennacht

But... Then he won't look cool

VaranisArano

If you could still see the boss, you could pretend you'd morphed into the daedroth. That'd be cool.

Beardimus

Don't mess with the set, its cool. And has been all the while even when it wasn't buffed and popular.

Just ask your group to switch it out if its causing problems. Otherwise leave Dave alone.

Style wise its that age old question of would you prefer to be attacked by a hurd of duck sized horses or a giant horse sized duck.

Kiara88

Beardimus wrote: »

Don't mess with the set, its cool. And has been all the while even when it wasn't buffed and popular.

Just ask your group to switch it out if its causing problems. Otherwise leave Dave alone.

In a perfect world, I could ask my teammates to use another monster set and they would be smart enought to understand the trouble caused not only to the tank, but to the whole team, 'cause if the the tank dies in this mess of 3-4 crocodiles that covers the tank, covers the boss and pushes around players, it's a problem for the rest of the group, not only mine.

In the real world, sadly, DDs are constantly measuring their D...PS, and, since Maw of the Infernal make it bigger, that makes this set the way to go, no matter if the tank is in trouble. Basically it's not their problem, it's mine (and a problem for all the tanks in trials).

So, please ZoS, do a favor to all the tanks and do something to fix this set. If you don't want to resize the daedroth, it can be made invisible for players who don't use this set, or make it spawn on the owner's side, instead of the tank's place, or... nerf it, so no one will use the crocodile anymore ^^"

Thannazzar

ZOS just make summons flank rather than front face an enemy.

Prototype11

I honestly get annoyed as tank with a fat daedroth in my face aswell as the sorc pets and other graphical effects around me
-> please note the sarcasm.
I agree that this boss set is blocking the vision quite a bit, but on the other side you can first of all ask your group mates to not use it.
But since it simply puts within the best dps numbers of the boss sets for some specific setups i recommend even if this now sounds ***, to get used to tank without 100% of the vision. I myself play this game since the first day of its release and played several roles and classes, so for me even with a plant/tree/rock/DAEDROTH in the vision between my camera and the boss its not impossible at all to tank.
Know your timing, know the positioning and get a feeling for how much you have to move your mouse and turn the camera approximately to hit the next enemy.

This reply might not be the most liked one, but im just telling that practice can equal out issues and fix your problems - in case you were having problems tanking enemies with the daedroth around.
As quick info, they fixed things like AA chain lightning at the mage so it wont hit them pets anymore as i heared.

If the set was not causing any mechanical problems for you but rather just beeing annoying in general without much loss besides.... I agree, its hell'a annoying sometimes, but its effective :'D

QUICK NOTE: Even if some may say that the set is not useable in some situations, there is not a single situation which comes to my mind in that it wouldnt be useable. The only reason to not use this set would be due to vision block mostlikely and in some very tricky self-made-millionaire scenarios which cant be listed as general setup/tactics.

pteam

As was suggested above, all they need to do is make the daedroth invisible to other players in pve just like lots of abilities such as wall of elements etc are now. It would be a really good change.