LotA bone dragon

[spagthetapdancer]

so, I take a patch or two off(april or so) to play other games, come back, and groups are taking bone dragon to the wall at the start of the fight.

this doesn't seem to be working. why do they do this when before it was so easy to just tank it in the mid and handle the fight normally?

[Zophar]

Things must be different on your server. On mine, that's how it has always been. I've seen it tanked in the middle, maybe twice, ever. Since Implementation.

[spagthetapdancer]

I never really do premades so it was never really a matter of which server.

so what's the reasoning behind this strat? because the randoms are failing at it HARD.

[Zophar]

Mainly to just keep that big conal fear contained. Same reason anything with a wide, long range conal attack is generally tanked against a wall.

[spagthetapdancer]

I figured as much. weird that it never came up for so long but I was always stuck healing anyway.

[Mykll]

When the dragon is against a wall and everyone takes the platinals to one to each row, most of their time running to dragon is through the goop, sucks for melees. But, if you stack most of them in a long line behind the dragon, like a conveyer belt, it makes things a little easier and they will still be too far away from each other to get the run boost.

[PetiteMalFleur]

The cone can be silenced. It's better to tank it in the middle so melee can do their thing. This is how my data center has always done it. Originally I was part of the Primal data center (like you) and they always pulled to the wall. There was a discussion thread about it a few months after I transferred from someone expressing the same confusion. Conclusion of the thread is that primal data center is just weird.

[Vodomir]

I play on Shiva (Chaos data center, if I recall correctly) and back in the days when LotA was still run, it's always been tanked against a wall (usually all the way to the north) and that's never been an issue. I fail to see how Melees can't do their thing with this strat, as I've never had any issues in there.

[Kuwagami]

Aether datacenter always did it in middle. Not sure why people would go all the trouble to tank it to the wall when the entire arena yells at you to tank it in middle.

[Vodomir]

Aether datacenter always did it in middle. Not sure why people would go all the trouble to tank it to the wall when the entire arena yells at you to tank it in middle.

- no need to watch for the conal attack
- longer distance between adds and dragon (depending on where you place those adds obviously)