Nahvintaas Hard Mode “Downstairs” Feedback

WrathOfInnos

I’ll start by saying that I’m really enjoying this fight, and the entire trial. I just have a few comments about specifically the part of the fight where 3 people must enter the portals and defeat the mini-boss.

Last week, completing this part of the fight was challenging, but fair. Something seems to have changed in Monday’s patch 5.0.1. Possibly more damage in general, or an increase in the rate mechanics are happening in this phase. One specific combination that we are having trouble dealing with is the phase where 2 people are pinned with bolts, and the third needs to interrupt the boss and unpin their allies. We’ve started getting call lightning during this phase, which kills the pinned people nearly instantly. Last week there was a delay between pins going out and when call lightning started (luck? Or a change in timers). Now it seems like need to burn the boss before the double pin (doable, but nearly doubles the DPS minimum the fight previously had), or lose allies (which is very hard to recover from since rezzing is nearly impossible with call lightning unless you have a Necromancer ultimate).

The other factor that plays into this is the inability to get help from the rest of the group. In Rakkhat “backroom”, Pinnacle “upstairs” and Z’Maja “portal” if an individual died they could call for a backup and someone else from the group could replace them, and possibly avoid the group wipe. This is not an option here, since the portals disappear (well actually seem a little buggy currently, but I think they are supposed to disappear). And since the double pin mechanic will wipe the downstairs group of all 3 people are not alive, leading to a wipe of the entire group, the design of this encounter is very unforgiving to a single weak link. Maybe that is the intent, but IMO it doesn’t encourage teamwork as well as the similar encounters in other trials, where we can adapt and help each other.

code65536

@ZOS_Finn

I'd also like to add that the amount of health the Eternal Servant has downstairs in HM seems rather high. As a point of comparison, it has about the same amount of health as a HM Iron Servant. Except that, when dealing with the Iron Servant, you have the full group plus the help of a mechanic that grants a huge damage amplifier.

For the Eternal Servant, we have just three people. We can't just straight DPS is because of everything else that's going on--cones to dodge, allies to unpin, lightning strikes to sidestep, large ground AoEs to get out of, etc. The only help that we get are from the Time Wounds' Time Echo effects that, unless we are missing something, are so modest in what they do that they are nearly unnoticeable.

And as noted above, there's really no way to recover. The near-constant incoming mechanics means that rezzing someone (without the use of a necro ult) is often impractical. There's no way to receive backup from upstairs. All that makes the double-pinning seem rather excessive.