Alexander Discussion, Round 2: Wait is this the easy mode thread?

[Ramset]

If everyone was good at this game I would feel empty inside because I fill the void in my heart with hate and contempt for dumb people.

[VentusInvictus]

It makes me sad that a lot of full i180 DPS can barely do 75% of the damage your DRG is doing in i130. What the fuck is wrong with people?

I'm the drg so thanks lol :]

[Avarice]

Faust is real, holy shit. 6200 raid DPS and we barely met the check (he enrages at 7 stacks).

[lilbubbles]

Ya, and if he enrages its like 140k damage lol.

[Kimkytaru]

Faust is real, holy shit. 6200 raid DPS and we barely met the check (he enrages at 7 stacks).

Um that's good news, I've heard you need 6.8k dps to beat his enrage. Guess it's lower then.

Just saw a group doing it with 7k dps and it was very close. Something must have been wrong wiht your parse, I dont think 6.2k will cut it.

[Avarice]

Um that's good news, I've heard you need 6.8k dps to beat his enrage. Guess it's lower then.

Just saw a group doing it with 7k dps and it was very close. Something must have been wrong wiht your parse, I dont think 6.2k will cut it.

Well we went in again, and had 6500 this time and it was still close. Point being, 6000+ and it's still very tight. Also, yes, Faust does respawn each time, unlike old weekly-lockout Coil where progress was saved every week.

[solracht]

lucrezia just downed A1

https://twitter.com/Lucrezia_Alex

[Ratatapa]

Well we went in again, and had 6500 this time and it was still close. Point being, 6000+ and it's still very tight. Also, yes, Faust does respawn each time, unlike old weekly-lockout Coil where progress was saved every week.

So the progress saved that they talked in patch, is only when you cleared the floor?

[Avarice]

So the progress saved that they talked in patch, is only when you cleared the floor?

Looks like it. Faust will be up every time.

[lilbubbles]

My static doesn't run until tonight so just doing A PUG.. DPS are all doing 1k plus and we hit enrage and died at 1%. A lot of people are gonna have problems just getting past faust at all, I am happy about this lol.

[Avarice]

Oppressor's hard enrage looks to be on an ~8m30s timer. Queue Self-Destructs for 200k damage, lol.

[Carth]

Oppressor's hard enrage looks to be on an ~8m30s timer. Queue Self-Destructs for 200k damage, lol.

Can confirm. Watching a stream and they hit the hard enrage at 8m30s.

[Taint]

Can confirm. Watching a stream and they hit the hard enrage at 8m30s.

What are the new mechanics?

[Jahaudant]

inb4 literally identical with tighter enrage and more damage.

[Carth]

What are the new mechanics?

Faust seems to hit enrage at 7 stacks and oneshot your tank (Hallowed Ground is bypassed). Requires ~6500 combined DPS to clear.

Oppressor's hard enrage is 8m30s on the dot. The laser move is a magic tank buster that can oneshot tanks. Requires a cooldown and a stoneskin/Adlo to survive.
When the Oppressors jump, they now land at opposite sides of the arena, and they also fire poison circles on the raid group while they're in the air. Poison circles deal 4k damage per tic.

[samalis]

There are also 4 missiles as everyone guessed and if the bosses get too close and get a stack its permanent, it doesn't go away

[Avarice]

Hypercompressed Plasma is a magic-based Tank Buster, does ~25000 damage unmitigated. Four 3000-tonze missiles. When Oppressors lift off, it follows a pattern of separated, together, separated; after the third lift off, you're close to enraging. Resin Bomb leaves puddles now that inflict a ~6000 damage bleed (wears off if you get out of pool), and very potent heavy. Opressors are also heavied by the pools.

[solracht]

does Plasma have a castbar? I wasn't paying a lot of attention to the streams

[Avarice]

Yes it does, it's not very long though.

[Dein]

Has anyone tried killing the adds on Faust to see if that reduces his stacks?