My LS went to go pay a visit to Vrtra today, we had what seemed to be well more than enough strenth to take him down. We went at him with all the regular ways people talk about taking him down on these boards, and that have proven effective before~ SMN for main DD, had almost 2 full ADD teams with 10+ blms, and 6 or so mnks plus loads of misc DD and some ninja vokes mixed into the adds as well for help with claiming pops quickly.
The ~problem~ we ran into seemed to be the new claiming system. His summons share hate with vrtra, i know, but the new system seems to have complicated things greatly. Even 3-4 vokes wouldn't even claim the spawns, they just stayed unclaimed and kept chasing the kiters. It was so rediculous that at times, the adds would die STILL unclaimed and chasing the kiters. Now, this alone could be handled- we just slept/nuked/grav the unclaimed adds, but here's the kicker:
Occasionally as well, a kiter in the main ally would voke vrtra, and that would seem to actually claim the ADD to the main ally where ADD teams couldn't even touch them. This actually happened where an add team had a mob claimed and was killing it, but then main ally kiter voked Vrtra, and the spawn went purple to them and they ceased to be able to attack it, because that claim switched to the main ally.
Needless to say this caused some huge problems since we couldnt get spawns off the kite team that claim-linked without having to constantly drop people to CFH the mobs. I realize this is normal when misclaims by avatars happen, but it's another complication to watch for.
So I wanted to do 3 things~
1.) Ask if anyone else has run into this?
2.) Give an advanced caution to anyone trying the fight soon.
3.) Ask if anyone has suggestions for how to adjust a strategy, because right now, it seems absurd.