From my understanding from Tanking it the dot stays on you until the blue phase is over then it resets. I slot dragon blood and vigor, use a tri pot and self heal as much as I can, then when I know the next tick will kill me no matter what I use my magma armour ultimate and that gets me through the blue phase, then the dot resets and repeat until it's dead.

The dot only goes away when the blue fire phase ends and she lays down on the ground, so youll have to survive that a bit longer. My suggestion would be to take it at the beginning and keep it until the first portals come and then let someone else take it once, because the longer you hold it the bigger will the dot become. If a dd or a heal is holding it once the dot isnt very harmful, especially if the person has the light armor shield that absorbs magic damage.

We usually keep her in one place the most of the fight because shes not doing more damage in the red phase than when youre running in circles, but the damage she gets will be MUCH higher because of the dds aoes that she doesnt run out in that case. Just step aside when she does the attack with the fire aoes from the ground.
When she gets blue we just do the switch stuff until she goes down. After that we usually ignore the portals and just burst her to death. DPS needs to be enough for that though. Otherwise Id just keep doing the same as before and close the portals.

Thanks for the answers. Im still concerned about this question though:

Is the dot supposed to disappear immediately another player takes pinion? (Or is it supposed to keep ticking for some time after (> 10 seconds))?

EDIT: ah I think I understand now. The pinion dot gets stronger as long as I have pinion; it stops growing when someone else takes pinion, but the dot doesn't disappear from me until blue phase ends.

As others have mentioned, the DOT increases over time as you hold the pinion. Once someone takes the pinion off you, the DOT doesn't disappear immediately but fades off over time. During the blue phase the DOT is magnified quite a bit, so if you had many stacks of the DOT when entering the blue phase you could die as a tank even if she isn't near you. Only once the blue phase ends will all DOT stacks be immediately removed.

Just ensure that the party rotates the pinion once in a while, like whenever she does her dive attack, and the DOT should never build up to unmanageable levels.

WillhelmBlack wrote: »

If you're magicka you should be using any morph of Annulment.

If you're stamina you should be using Vigor.

Add these to your class heal, shield or purge and this boss is a breeze. Kent HM is the hardest part of WGT. Apply the same on this boss as well.

Unless you're a magicka-based tank wearing heavy armor, and then you can't use annulment as that now requires 5 pieces of light armor to wear, as of CWC. In that case, look at sets or skills that increase your resistances if those are lacking.