Hi there, i am member of IDDQD, Russian-speaking guild and i wanna share my thought about whole Sanctum Ophidia trial, and ofc share the vid's


First af all i am like the direction ZOS chose for PVE content keep goin!
Trash mobs make this trial even more difficult, i like it too, but i think ZOS need make less copy-paste pack of it, better have less pack's overall, but each pack must have *unique* mechanics and for beat those pack's you will need make more than raid stacking.

Mantikora
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WGD9tjIFkZw

Our raid setup there:
3 healers (Templars)
1 Main tank (Templar)
1 Offtank in plate ,resto staff 2nd bar/combat prayer (Templar)
1 Offtank in light, resto staff 2nd bar/combat prayer (Dragon Knight)
6 DPS (3 Sorc, 2 NB, 1 DK)

We was the first who kill Mantikora on EU megaserver (23.09), and this boss not so hard, most of guild's just pick up PTS kill tactic even with "negate magick" was nerfed, just make little changes. This was a big mistake IMHO, our guild dont even touch Sanctum Ophidia on PTS, so we start makin our own tactic. This is one of our first kills, so DPS not so good (630~seconds on video) compare to nowdays (460-490 sec. 4th portal dont even spawn now).
Thiss boss have small DPS check, same time you need good coordinaton, personal skill for whole raid and very good two tanks!

What i am rly dislike on this boss, there are some bugs here, like portal spawn on Atronach and sometimes portal didnt spawn at all, or didnt suck you into it.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jt8XXRs8-6A&list=UUgkyThzErKno1sFKVYNMszg
Second thing i dont like, there is no Achivement for this boss



Serpent

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wVqP91EhSoU
Our raid setup there:

1 Main tank (Templar)
1 Healer (Templar)
3 Offhealers (Templars)
1 Offtank in light armor, desto staff 2nd bar (Dragon Knight)
6 DPS (5 Sorc, 1 NB)



I am got mixed feelings here...
What i am like in this boss?
Long fight, so you cant just *DERP DERP ZERG* him.
Melee/stamina friendly.
Beautiful place overall.
More than *one* way to go on this boss, you can chose what you will do there, which totems focus 1st, how manage ADDs, what do with two mini Mantikoras same time, how to mange with Pull totems etc. Action pack boss! You will be scared every second by curse totem, pull totem, and BOOM phase!
For this boss you need very good DPS (not Extreme but still), good Tank, Skilled guys who wanna deal with Lliams and almost EXTREME good coordination for BOOM phase. Usualy we lose 1-2 guys on BOOM phase, sometimes we manage pass BOOM without any one dying there..

In this vid, we was make many mistakes (on BOOM and Posion phase's) and i am did sometimes weird actions here , still our DPS raid was very good, and we manage to kill him before 4th BOOM phase, if you raid DPS will be very good, you can kill Serpent even before two Mantikora will spawn.

What i am dont like here?
Rewards... just doesnt exist at ALL! Loot wise = 0! Title? no.
What changes to AA and HRC after we beat Serpent? We did normal AA afterwards - 0 changes, maybe we neet kill AA hardmode? or Kill Serpent Hardmode than AA hardmode to loot golden v14 aether with super enchantments? Why we must suffer so much if we can just farm trial weekly? ZOS, if you wanna make people start go grow their skill, make GOOD rewards! this is best motivator TBH!
No point to farm this boss.

33 minutes time run, ZOS are you serious? no one will make this before 1.5 i swear, 63 minutes seems more real, just imagine, you manage come to Serpent with 0 death (best our soul count was 33~), even if you can make it for 25 minutes, how you manage to lose 0 people on BOOM phases every time?

Lets talk about thrash pack's again, Serpent itself not so difficult, but this amount of packs provide you too little time for practice on Serpent. Our raid time is 4-5hrs~ per day, and for this time we can come to Serpent like 3-4 times.. add here BOOM phase and posion phase that prevent you to *evade* boss sometimes..

Random factor here, bad luck on this boss can make him almost unkillable so you will need evade boss.
For example - how will purple bubbles will respawn on BOOM phase, How many pull totmess you will have, where they will spawn...
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Post you comments and questions here, about Sanctum Ophidia, our guild, or maybe you wanna know some Sorc tips?:) i will answer for sure.
Right now we take a break, most of our guild members didnt even touch DSA on veteran mode, and we need make Achivements on AA and HRC hardmodes (beat those before patch, and didnt get Achivements )
Serpent on hardmode will be later, i hope we can do it before 1.5 hits on Live.

p.s. Sorry for bad english here
p.s.s. My performance on Serpent kill was awful