Jar_Ek wrote: »

Is there a way for the tank to actually control this fight (vet Tempest isla, final boss)? The boss seems to randomly charge pretty much anyone but the tank, but it is not the person furthest from her.
Can you force her not to charge by keeping everyone close (still have to dodge the aoe tho)... or is it a case of wearing more health for healers and dd?
I am getting a little fed up of being the last man standing because the healer got 1 shotted by the charge and the dps have died to the aoe, so I'd like to know if anyone has a trick to keeping them alive?

Just stay CaC with the boss , if you are pack on the boss ( heal-dds-tank) she will not charge . but be careful when she incant , just leave for avoid the Red zone , and back on the boss .

As far as I know, yes the hard mode is still bugged. Thanks for the answers... twas as I feared - there is no way for the tank to control the fight. Just need good dps and everyone to be able to roll dodge/run out of the aoe.

As DK tank I spam ingenous shields in all boss fights, including this one. I can survive the AoE if I cast shield and block at the same time but I'm knocked back. The boss tends to charge right after the knock back. In some cases you can't get back up in time, especially with the whirlwinds that can hit you. They sometimes interrupt the dodge and stun you as well. So the fight actually has a lot of RNG. I've also seen that sometimes she does a ligtning attack similar to mage's wrath (sorc), that targets you right after the knockdown. I haven't figured out if it works the same - ex. targets low health players preferentially, but it seems so. IMO it's better to dodge the AoE and not cluster around the boss as someone suggested.

I've also seen they haven't said a word about fixing the bugged scroll for Tempest Island in this patch, just an aggro bug that made the boss chase players. Maybe they are related somehow, but I doubt it.

Don't get me wrong, I have no trouble tanking her (as in staying alive and keeping aggro), but I have a huge problem with the dps and healers dying to the mechanics. They get 1 shotted by the aoe, or the charge, or stunned by the whirlwind and then 1 shotted... so I'm looking for a way to stop them from dying.... as a stam sorc tank (so no igneous unfortunately).

Yeah tried that... they still died all the time.

Yeah thats what I was trying to get them to do... but they really didnt seem to get it. NM.

Thx for that strat @EvilCroc

EvilCroc wrote: »

Healer and 2 DD's should stay on stairs, where scroll lies. Tank should stand a little bit higher upstairs. Tank initiates the fight and waits until boss will charge on him. Then there should be easy dance. We have no storm vortices on stairs, so no random and less care about. DD's and healer should be careful and don't let her charge on one of them again, otherwise all fight will be reset. To prevent this just stay in range of her red circle and move downstairs when she will apply this atack, then move upstairs to her again. This tactics will be easy for healer too, cuz he will be able to spam springs.

We accidentally ended up 2-manning her on the stairs... you can get pretty far down before it resets. We ended up fighting her on the first platform (where the stairs turn 90 degrees), and didn't get a reset. It was super easy without the winds and lightning; as a tank I probably could have solo'd it, although it would have taken me an hour.

Now all I have to do is to get my groups to actually stop and listen to the strat... which they patently failed to do 3 times yesterday (2x Tempest, 1x Engine Guardian).

It seems to me there is a huge disconnect between difficulty of general dungeon bosses vs difficulty of final dungeon bosses. Maybe if other fights were harder, then pug players would be better prepared for the difficulty hike? I don't know, but I am getting a bit fed up with Tempest Isle last boss.

needs nerf