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

[HitomeOfBismarck]

So my raid doesn't really have a bard atm, after some t1 I am wondering is it viable to raid at this time without one? Any groups out there not use one? mnk/smn/nin/blm/war/pld/sch/whm

You should be fine. Exact same comp. we use.

[Carth]

http://www.twitch.tv/vidulasaix

A3S stream.

Edit: Another one since other stream stopped for today, but it's Japanese: http://www.twitch.tv/iroha_ig

[MisterBob]

http://www.twitch.tv/vidulasaix

A3S stream.

Edit: Another one since other stream stopped for today, but it's Japanese: http://www.twitch.tv/iroha_ig

The ihora_ig group seems to be getting the 30k insta death AoE at 2:09 instead of 2:44, which is pretty weird. One hand was glowing for about 6 seconds before this happened.

[Dignity]

cuz they didn't do the mechanic right on that part. it's distance based (oh no strat leaked)

[Mahoro]

Ad revenue > strategy moratorium! Capitalism wins, guild leaders shed hot tears, film at 11.

[Aiurily]

cuz they didn't do the mechanic right on that part. it's distance based (oh no strat leaked)

call the cops

[Shenrien]

cuz they didn't do the mechanic right on that part. it's distance based (oh no strat leaked)

Cut the stream, Lucrezia might be watching a group that just got in to A3S that doesn't know any of the mechanics, we might leak something. That's all I took from that stream yesterday with your group.

[Kelenae]

Cut the stream, Lucrezia might be watching a group that just got in to A3S that doesn't know any of the mechanics, we might leak something. That's all I took from that stream yesterday with your group.

Gotta hide dem strats so they can get the girls who love world first clears

[Ratatapa]

Why so much mad, if they don't wanna stream it's fine.

I don't get all the "world first" though because in 3 months we will all have the same gear anyway

[Kipling]

Why so much mad, if they don't wanna stream it's fine.

I don't get all the "world first" though because in 3 months we will all have the same gear anyway

Why so much mad, if they wanna world first it's fine.

[Ratatapa]

Why so much mad, if they wanna world first it's fine.

I'm not mad? I'm just wondering what so important about it

[octopus]

they weren't mad either ;o

[Judai]

downed a1s, didn't get a chance to run yesterday due to a fucking telephone pole by our tanks house catching fire, so we are super late.

twitch highlight if anyone cares \o/

http://www.twitch.tv/tmnterps/v/8378380

and youtube vid now

[ryuuken]

a3 is fun

[Ratatapa]

We beat faust yesterday by 'solo' tanking yay! (what i mean was PLD taking faust + every adds while war DPSed the whole time)

Anyway we are having issue with Opressor and I need info. (The issue is probably healing cuz I suck but still asking)

My real cohealer (WHM) is not ready yet because he had alot of RL things to fix, and is only I160 for now, so we needed a rep temporarly, and we ended up with an I175 SCH so we went double SCH. The double SCH might not be a good idea since there's alot of AOE heal and it's not SCH's niche.

Anyway we started having issue when 0.5 comes out, we just have issues with Gunnery Pod, he spits like 4 of them and each of them does like 2-3.5k so everyone exept tank drop to like 1-2k HP after it, and Succor + (forgot the Atherflow healing move) is not enough to fill up.

We tried to split heals aka first SCH healed the tank + DPS on Oppressor and I did the same on 0.5, it did seem to help but not alot.

My question is, is there anything we need to do to make this part a bit easier ?
Will getting my real cohealer (a WHM) Help this part much more, or is it really normal that we drop this low

Thanks

Also most of us are full I180-I190 with hive weapon (Exept the war)

[Seravi Edalborez]

Tight healing was pretty normal even with WHM+SCH. I would say once you smash your face into it enough you will start to learn when all the damage goes out. I don't have perfect recollection of all the Gunnery Pod uses in phase 2 but from rough memory

(add spawns first time / land from jump)
3000-tonze Missile
*Gunnery Pod
Emergency Deployment
Resin Bomb
Royal Fount (blue laser frontal cleave)
Spaser (landslide-laser)
*Gunnery Pod
Royal Fount?
double Prey
Royal Fount
Hypercompressed Plasma
(missiles should explode around here)
Royal Fount
Royal Fount?
(jump)

Think there's another Spaser in here somewhere?


DRK should pop "Rampart" and Dark Mind about 1 second after Prey's cast bar completes; this will let you have it up for both Royal Fount and HyPlasma. Delirium is a given and Reprisal can usually be put on too. Every other one (1st, 3rd) I also throw in "Sentinel". Lighter/physical cooldowns used during the missile/add shit because there is definitely some Gunnery Pod fuckery going on too.

Based on timers I imagine WAR can pre-pop Vengeance around this time above too. I dunno if you pop it on reaction if you just barely have it up in time for the next HyPlasma or not even close.

e: thanks solracht

[solracht]

Gunnery Pod comes after Tonze and after every Spaser

[Avarice]

Based on timers I imagine WAR can pre-pop Vengeance around this time above too. I dunno if you pop it on reaction if you just barely have it up in time for the next HyPlasma or not even close.

If you pop on reaction it will just barely come up for the next one, so I'll generally pop it a little early. 15 seconds is a lot of wiggle room, so it's very safe to use early once you get the rotation down and know when it's coming.

[Abbul Stonecleaver]

What is better for raid dps in Phase 1 of SA1? After opener so aggro is no concern.

Grit on: how much does 20% less damage on MT translate to healer dps uptime?

Grit off: 25% more dps from MT (even more with Blood Weapon). 20% penalty acts as 25% buff from default of tank stance on.


And, should one healer be near full time Cleric Stance in phase 1, or both healers swapping in and out as they see fit?

We've only had an hour on Oppressor so far due to scheduling, and got to something like 63 or 64% when .5 spawned. We can definitely do better, and I feel much better with some optimization on the dps of the 4 non damage dealer roles.

[Taint]

What is better for raid dps in Phase 1 of SA1? After opener so aggro is no concern.

Grit on: how much does 20% less damage on MT translate to healer dps uptime?

Grit off: 25% more dps from MT (even more with Blood Weapon). 20% penalty acts as 25% buff from default of tank stance on.


And, should one healer be near full time Cleric Stance in phase 1, or both healers swapping in and out as they see fit?

We've only had an hour on Oppressor so far due to scheduling, and got to something like 63 or 64% when .5 spawned. We can definitely do better, and I feel much better with some optimization on the dps of the 4 non damage dealer roles.

I've only been in A1S for an hour in a PUG but you want max DPS before the 2nd boss comes down. Idealy your tank is in DPS stance and healers are also DPSing. After the 2nd boss drops down you can play it safe and put Grit back up. When both are out healing is more intense.

On the plus side we one shot Faust in the PUG.....everyone was assuming he was going to be hard.