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dssurge · 07/25/08, 3:02 AM

We found that casting the shield on the 3 or 4 second mark exactly causes the Shield of the Blue issues because the buff it gives refreshes every second so when it dispels the original to apply the buff again, the Darkness will hit us before it refreshes server side. We started casting between one second intervals and our shield has never failed us since.

Off topic, but has anyone else heard of a bug or exploit which causes KJ to not cast meteors at all in the final phase of the encounter? Another guild on our server has killed him twice with this happening on both of their kills, with WWSs reporting extremely low hit rates on Armageddon (4 and 5, all but one are 7.5K or higher). We rarely, if ever, are hit by Armageddon from 55% to 25% but seem to rack up quite a decent amount of 500 hits under the shield during the final phase.

I've been browsing through WWSs and finding similar occurrences with many of the faster kills. Some guilds are hit with 0 Armageddons throughout the entire encounter, others post extremely low hit rates, usually before the final 2 minutes of the encounter. Deus Vox for example has 21 hits on their highest DPS kill, almost all of which are under the Shield, but guilds like flatline, Void, Apex, and Such a Thing have between 0 and 4 instances of Armageddon on their WWS reports.

This leads me to believe there is a bug or exploit in the encounter which makes it significantly easier if you can reach 25% with a few people down. I'm not here to bash the efforts of guilds who legitimately are not hit by Armageddons, because I do have faith it can be done, but it seems very suspicious after having members of a guild where he does bug tell us about this. It's bugged twice from them so far, and both times they have killed him reliably after posting sub-10 million damage counts for night and nights worth of attempts.

07/25/08, 3:02 AM	#108 (permalink)
dssurge Von Kaiser Notix Orc Hunter <Tasty Beverage> Frostmane	We found that casting the shield on the 3 or 4 second mark exactly causes the Shield of the Blue issues because the buff it gives refreshes every second so when it dispels the original to apply the buff again, the Darkness will hit us before it refreshes server side. We started casting between one second intervals and our shield has never failed us since. Off topic, but has anyone else heard of a bug or exploit which causes KJ to not cast meteors at all in the final phase of the encounter? Another guild on our server has killed him twice with this happening on both of their kills, with WWSs reporting extremely low hit rates on Armageddon (4 and 5, all but one are 7.5K or higher). We rarely, if ever, are hit by Armageddon from 55% to 25% but seem to rack up quite a decent amount of 500 hits under the shield during the final phase. I've been browsing through WWSs and finding similar occurrences with many of the faster kills. Some guilds are hit with 0 Armageddons throughout the entire encounter, others post extremely low hit rates, usually before the final 2 minutes of the encounter. Deus Vox for example has 21 hits on their highest DPS kill, almost all of which are under the Shield, but guilds like flatline, Void, Apex, and Such a Thing have between 0 and 4 instances of Armageddon on their WWS reports. This leads me to believe there is a bug or exploit in the encounter which makes it significantly easier if you can reach 25% with a few people down. I'm not here to bash the efforts of guilds who legitimately are not hit by Armageddons, because I do have faith it can be done, but it seems very suspicious after having members of a guild where he does bug tell us about this. It's bugged twice from them so far, and both times they have killed him reliably after posting sub-10 million damage counts for night and nights worth of attempts.