Infraction for rotcod: Grammar

• Belac_K · 02/11/08, 5:21 PM

Post: Archimonde
User: rotcod
Infraction: Grammar
Points: 1

Administrative Note:

Message to User:

"(my typing is rly shit ask my guildies)"

This is true, but your post would be fine if you didn't abbreviate every other word.

Original Post:

Normally I wouldnt post on places like this (my typing is rly shit ask my guildies).

Anyway weve been pulling Archimonde for 2.5 nites about 8hours total, best percent was 51%. We cant seem to stop the random fear/doomfire/airburst combos for the most part curses have not been an issue. We have been using the 4 corner strat, (decurse heal dps in mini grps traveling together reverting back to original spot when cleared)

I was trolling this forum and caught the mountainer strat, and this got me personally conflicted for a bit, so i brought it to the attention of some of my guildies and we were all torn, some say not an exploit some said it was so we talked to a GM

A dude in my guild talked with a GM and they couldn't get into deep specifics because it could be construed as giving boss advice to a guild, and they are not allowed to discuss strats. However, after talking with him, standing on the hills is NOT considered an exploit so long as the following criteria is met:

A) Everyone is able to hit by an Airburst (not an issue w/ this strat)
B) Those that are dps'ing the boss or healing the tank are in range of fears. (again, not an issue w/ this strat)
C) Anyone standing on the hill is CAPABLE of being hit by the fires. So long as they are able to path up the hill, it is "not an exploit, it is a use of terrain to ease the mechanics of the fight." to quote the GM

So we did some testing took a cpl heals our main tank some rouges and a lonely lock into archimonde had the dps strip we healed the tank for as long as possible with a few ppl in each camp spot.

This is wut we found outta 6-7 pulls fires pathed direclty to 1 camp once and 1 pathed next to a camp.
So this Proves that fire can path into the mountains its just a variable u hope doesnt heappen much like tanking the first real boss in mech on the corner of the stairs

Now personally i like the dude who said he used melee in the middle to help ctrl the fires. I plan to try to utilize this with 2-3 bad ass melee and bad ass decurser and healer prob an extra drood if i have one around.

So id say mountaineer is not an exploit but it wouldnt surprise me if someday guilds who got use to this method went in for there wkly farm and find that the terain has been changed. I plan on ninjaing a kill this way since it is NOT AN EXPLOIT according to the 3 standards we were given, and still wiping to get the normal way still