Infraction for Lucinde: Quote Splitting

LodeRunner · 01/12/09, 6:49 PM

Post: Sartharion and Company (3 Drakes) - Discussion
User: Lucinde
Infraction: Quote Splitting
Points: 1

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Original Post:

We had prior reviewed the results of others in this thread and indeed concluded first hand that killing Tenebron (without heroism) before the second set of whelps, then using heroism on Shadron was the best option.

I don't really understand why this keeps coming up, because there is no 'best option'. In the previous 8 pages there are two seperate "sections" that deal with "BL on Tenebron vs. BL on Shadron" and the conclusion is that both versions have their advantages and disadvantages. People seem to think that "omg Shadron is dangerous" whereas it's actually "Shadron + Vesperon is dangerous, but as long as Tenebron isn't out of the way you can't DPS Shadron anyway". The three drakes are essentially one mob when it comes to health.

Regardless, both ways result in Shadron dying at the same time and since Vesperon is on a timer, the length of the "hard period" will be the same. Until guilds can kill Tenebron before Shadron lands *without* the use of heroism there will be no 'best option'. Once guilds can do just that, the fight becomes trivial, as you can then pop heroism to get Shadron out of the way before Vesperon even lands. But that's completely irrelevant for killing them now.

I would say that if guilds are using heroism on Tenebron, at least let your raiders know that you would prefer to use it on Shadron

Why is that? I personally very much prefer using it on Tenebron because that means she's out of the way before Shadron lands. That means we have the adds cleaned up long before Vesperon lands giving us a decent amount of time with nothing but Shadron to deal with effectively increasing our DPS on her. The clean playground is infinately more useful for us than some hasted healing, especially as the benefit of hasted healing, with our healing setup, is insignificant.

A much overlooked side effect of having less adds around (as a result of killing Tenebron with heroism) is that your add tank isn't taking tons of damage, freeing up some healing to compensate Twilight Torment.

Use what works for your guild. It's quite simple.