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

[Taint]

My static is behind, as usual, and can't get Faust down. Does anyone have some parses from Faust that I can look at?

Make sure both your tanks are in DPS stance and save their def CDs for 4-5 stacks. Have everyone AAing him and stacked behind him.

Its actually a very easy fight if everyone just goes into it with a DPS focus.

[Ratatapa]

Some basic tips is have healers go ham till 4 stacks, have ot pull mobs close to faust but far enough so party doesnt get cleaved allowing him to dps faust. Make sure people stack well enough so ot doesn't ever have to move to grab an add.

We made solo tank Faust, it's much easier

War is full time DPS mode and PLD has faust + all adds

[MisterBob]

In general if you need to perform some crazy strats to beat the Faust DPS check, you're just postponing getting stuck on A1S, or if you somehow make it by that, A2S for sure.

Go in traditional, make sure you tanks and healers know plenty of DPS needs to come from them too. Stack on the butt of Faust and just DPS hard. If you can't do this, someone (or more than one person) is failing to DPS properly. Use ACT to find out who and stick them on the dummy until they learn to play the game.

[solracht]

Its actually a very easy fight if everyone just goes into it with a DPS focus.

It's a very easy fight even when people aren't doing that. Personally I think if you have to go the extra mile (doing something like solo tanking, like Rata suggested) then you're probably just gonna enrage the next 2 bosses anyway, so what's the point? I guess you could learn the A1S mechanics before the welfare weapons shit all over the DPS checks next week.

EDIT: I should've refreshed the page, MisterBob said pretty much the same thing

[Judai]

I don't use food or pots for Faust, hell our ninja forgot to put his poison on for over 50% of the fight last week on one of our Faust kills and it was still easy. It's mean to say it but if you can't beat Faust or have to do weird shit to beat it, someone is failing badly.

[Veyron]

Thanks for the tips, much appreciated! Overall our DPS just isn't there for some reason, time to start weeding people out.

[Seravi Edalborez]

Some basic tips is have healers go ham till 4 stacks, have ot pull mobs close to faust but far enough so party doesnt get cleaved allowing him to dps faust. Make sure people stack well enough so ot doesn't ever have to move to grab an add.

I typically just let the add get into melee range (healers stack close-ish if possible) and Unleash/Flash/OverpowerIguess on them instead of running over for pickup. No Grit until 3-4 adds, no cooldowns until 4-5 adds, Living Dead on 6th or 7th add.

Outside of a random Deathflare or someone trying too hard to pad numbers, it's stable and people don't die to 2-3 add cleaves usually if it happens once.

[Lucavi]

Dude, no. Stop. pls

You've seen the extent of the idiocy this dev team can go to in pursuit of BALANCE (much less what they think good job design is); you really don't want to even entertain this idea. Just delete the second to last sentence of your post and hope they didn't see it.

Nope! I've been playing Mount and Blade Warband: Viking Conquest, and love the suicidal Berserker "allies" you can recruit in your fights.

You don't have to worry about that in ARR, though: Japan is too happy-feel-good to ever have that kind of trade-off in their MMO.

[amadouche]

apparantly, PT DPS 7200 cannot even get first legs down for A4S

holy crap thats some serious leg work

Are you talking about Lucrezia or some of your pugs that only happen in JP servers

[Kipling]

Are you talking about Lucrezia or some of your pugs that only happen in JP servers

Pretty sure no one has access to it aside from Elysium. I think Lucrezia would have posted their clear by now, as they post all their other clears.

[Ramset]

Pretty sure no one has access to it aside from Elysium. I think Lucrezia would have posted their clear by now, as they post all their other clears.

In the hour we've spent in A3S so far we've gotten to like 85%, so we're basically in A4S already.

[Seravi Edalborez]

If only ISPs and acts of nature didn't prevent us from running.

[Kipling]

If only ISPs and acts of nature didn't prevent us from running.

Time Warner Cable?

=(

[Ramset]

Time Warner Cable?

=(

Comast, Verizon FiOS, Utility pole fires (took out my internet), storms (power outages), trees falling on cars...stuff like that has all happened to us so far.

[Avarice]

Is there any way at all to influence the direction you get flung with Wash Away in A3S, or is it purely random?

[solracht]

I have been wondering that myself but so far we haven't figured out anything. Wouldn't be surprised if it were random, otherwise the debuff trading would be too simple.

Hope I'm wrong though!

[Ramset]

I don't think so. Although, I've definitely been flung in the same direction multiple times, which is probably just coincidence.

[Shaano]

I've tried camera facing, pointing my character, but not pre-running to where i want to be a little bit. First two nothing helped.

[amadouche]

I've managed to get some consistency if i sidestep to the direction that I want after the cast ended, right before the animation goes off.

[Dignity]

it's r n g