TheNightflame wrote: »

change my mind (for real, it's fun. the best two fights are tzogvin and vault keeper by far though)

I'm going to have to respectfully disagree with you.

I did this dungeon on veteran for the first time today (since the free trial was up) and I thought it was excruciatingly stupid. Is this an MMORPG or am I suppose to be Jovovich from Resident Evil dodging laser bobby traps? Because that dungeon seems to indicate the latter...

I hate silly mini games during boss fights in the first place. But I hate them even more when they are instant death one shot mechanics if you mess up or don't follow the correct pattern. This is just not the kind of game play I'm looking for when I sit down to play an MMORPG. These are stupid gimmicks in my opinion that do nothing but make the fight more annoying and frustrating and take away from the game's core game play.

Needless to say, this is one DLC I won't be purchasing. Nor am I in a hurry to ever go back to that annoying place. If the developers won't to know why people don't buy their DLC dungeons anymore - this is why. Enough with the stupid mini games that one shot you. I'm sick of it.

But I'm glad you enjoyed it. Different strokes for different folks I suppose.

Scalecaller Peak, and I don't see anything changing my mind.

Frostvault endboss is amazing. The rest... not so much.

Really, except the last boss that, in HM, has a lot of RNG to manage, and so the godmode will be a pain to achieve, but not impossible, just need luck.

First boss is easy. Have the tank to taunt the boss where he is. DDs and healer go behind, between the boss and the gate. Goal is to heal a lot while adds are aggroing the group. To spare time to healer, as a tank i drop time stop each 10 sec. When the boss is jumping, he kills the adds all around him, and it's so a matter of bashing the boss when he is about to hit the mate that got punched.

Second boss is quite easy too. Tank has it in center of the room and mates are spaced enough. When archers pop, tank chains them on the boss, and AoEs will kill them. When boss port before launching fire attack, it's time to drop ultis while healer overheal. When it's growing ice AoE, just go on border, manage to not be in a little storm, turn anticlockwise, and wait he has finished with. Tank taunt him in middle, grab the two new archers, and DDs kill boss.

The Centurion is tricky. You want barrier not to protect from lasers but from Spheres heavy attack, launching a rolling AoE that deal a ton of damage. It's only needed for the last sequences when there are 4 lasers. The sequence is 1-1-2-4-4. When boss enters the ground and put the shield on him, take a look all around to see where laser starts, and on which side is the lasergun. Go on the other side of the shield. When it's a sequence of two, once you are protected for the first laser to pass, look where is the other and move accordingly. If you're short, you can rolldodge thru boss shield. For the sequences with 4 lasers, the two first are important, because you'll know if you have to turn around boss' shield clockwise or anticlockwise. It's where barrier is useful (one on tank, one on healer) to protect from Spheres where you could have no time to break them. Still, better if all magicka can equip crushing shock to interrupt from range. It's not a DPS race, but Spheres are deadly. Try, of course, to avoid rolling nades, they'll stun anyone that is moving into one. Interesting fact is that you can kill both Spiders and Spheres with them, but it's really RNG depending. And, last but not least, better to tank the boss in middle of the room to have more space with lasers.

Next is the mage and the frost attronach. Healer equip taunt to get Rizuk (the mage) on them all the time, and DDs focus on. When boss ports and starts to channel his heavy, crushing shock and DDs continue to damage him, then. Tank stays on Avalanche, close to, and around middle of room. Place is important because Avalanche has a special attack, a "dance" in a close AoE, and if you can't follow its steps, you'll die. If you aren't close, but not far enough, the same, you'll die. But in the middle because large frozing AoEs pop on borders of the room. If avalanche can't dance because of that AoE and can't move far enought (or cast MagmaShell), tank will die.

Last boss is a true pain, as said before, in HM because of RNG, and sometimes you can't skip the steam, or it's to go thru fire. But non-HM is pretty easy. Your tank is in front of boss, he rolldodges right arm attack (so the arm on the left of the tank), but just tank the lasers and fire, with the healer dedicated to heal. DDs focus right then left arm then boss. Healer, supposed to be magplar, equip the skill that push back ennemies, and take care of spheres to throw them out of platform. When Centurion appears, tank taunts him but dodge the heavy "hammer" attack. When fire phase, it's mostly time for recharging with heavies, while running around the boss for a complete circle. Mouse phase isn't that hard, but go on Alcast website to get an idea of how to deal with. And maybe install a minimap addon, it's easier for orientation.