Normal Mode is nothing like Hard Mode; it's an insult, quite honestly.
The few times I have run NM honestly felt like I had to dumb myself down in order to clear it. It's almost a night and day difference. Only thing I can say that is beneficial to HM that ypu get from NM is learning the debuff rotation since taking poison isn't an option anymore. Berserkers seem to have a more difficult time with the AOE than other classes. Leaping strike alone won't get them fully out of range. There seems to be a trend of berserkers slacking when it comes to that. Grants on your clear nonetheless.
Yeah, tried phase 1 a bit that night, (group has lancer, warrior, slayer, priest) lets just say all the melee died within 10 seconds of the fight and we called it a night
yeah , he changed spec to have a constant uptime on whatever that 20%? speed buff is, and is still struggling to survive that aoe. Showing him the korean zerker video (that like perfectly dodged everything) helped him at least now survive it... sort of >.> He always gets out by time he's like under 20% hp![]()
I think some would say that all her moves one-shotting is what makes the fight different in HM, but its really the attack speed. If you can't adapt to the changing speed, especially as a melee with donuts and scrunches, you are going to get rolled.
Scrunch and donut speed during sub 8% is Daigo Umehara third strike parry tier (not really - but its still fast), so I hope your Zerker friend realizes that.
If you can dodge NM, you can dodge HM, NP. She doesn't gain the permanent 10% buff after the first buff below 50% as well, but that really shouldn't make it much harder, as the tells gives you enough time to dodge. If you can dodge the laser at 100%, you can dodge it at 110/120%. If you're animation locked, you're dead at any speed.
People get hit in NM all the time. If it was the same slow speed in NM with one-shot capabilities, the fight would be 100% different. The way aggro sheds and the distance you have to be even get healed, with everyone running around like headless chickens is what makes it hard, and that's mainly a result of one-shotting.
Could be a mix of both, but I'll forever lean towards the one-shotting and aggro sheds that make this fight not hard, but not for the bads.
It's normal mode for a reason. If people are not retarded, they learn from this. I can agree with you if you're somehow saying an MCNM should not even exist, but it's a 147 after all, so not very insulting.
@Gulk: Weren't you telling me this shit was easy like 6 weeks ago when you saw some Japanese video or some shit? lol
I don't mind if they want to put in a Normal mode for people to practice on (hell, I actually like that idea), but I don't like how they implemented it. They dumbed it down way too much; it's a fucking joke. If someone thinks they can easily oneshot Normal, and then go into HM expecting only attack power increases, then you're in for a world of hurt.
It was easy, for me actually. As for everyone else, they all died multiple times (excluding tank, which averages about one death per fight). As you can see in the pic, I have 2 seconds left on charm... no death
The fights pretty forgiving for ranged at least, melee are pretty fucked (especially the zerker) >.>
Only thing I need to worry about really is the laser (easily dodged with teleport), the "jump" thing she does is pretty herp derp easy to dodge, as she lands the spot where you were last standing when she starts, and the "leap" is forward only.
The static group runs 3 dps (one the dps is a warrior so he also swaps as a backup tank at times) so I'll probably sitting out, as the others "train more on surviving" as they put it. As the melee are having the most difficulty dodging stuff (phase 1+2). The positioning is pretty good and all that, rotations np on rings even when people randomly die, only thing we got holding us back really is people surviving.
I may try fraps recording a fight so you can see the circus the melee do (especially the zerker flopping around from the "curl into a ball aoe" mid leaping strike, if I'm in today anyway (warrior posted an afk the other day probably because he hated dying alot on queen) .
Randomly for anyone interested, the korean zerker video
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M3yVpUa1xBc
Gotta stop playing with scrubs.
We did HM fairly easy with a sub tank last night. Just gotta listen and not be bad. lol
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1/11
Was supposed to be Gold's 3rd, but he got excited and rolled before changing loot settings like a dork. So 3/45?
So apparently I won the Boneshaker mount and permanent dye kit from doing the Masquerade Mayhem costume contest. Yay to free shit for taking a screenshot.
^Nice! Good to see someone on the forums snag goodies ^^
Talk about an accomplishment Don't even need a campfire for charms!Spoiler: show
boom shakalaka my first +12 T14 lol
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One down, three to go.
^Omg. I didn't think that really happened. I spend hours trying to get one of those for my wife's castanic ><; Grats.