Amaurot changes?

[HyoMinPark]

I can guarantee it wasn't a group thing at all. The two DPS were my wife on her SAM and myself on RDM and we have been through this dungeon tons of time sdue to getting it constantly on our daily roulette. The tank and healer seemed to do just fine and since both of them had between 450 and 460 gear and knew the mechanics, I'm figuring they knew what they were doing.

We ran this thing just fine before the patch. The first boss did NOT spam AoEs on the field from pull until it died before. On the second boss Burst NEVER got to almost cast before it had to be LBed before either. The third boss never even got close to finishing off the final platform niche - we'd usually have it undamaged when he died. I know what this run is supposed to look like. The others running it knew it too. The other two running with us also noted that they messed it up somehow.

Has anyone of you ran it since 5.1 released? If not then don't assume it's the group. You know what assuming does. Run it for yourself. I bet you'll notice that it's definitely changed and not for the better.

The issues you’re describing sound like low DPS to me. Are you sure that the tank and healer knew what they were doing? Having i460 gear doesn’t mean that they were outputting enough damage. It’s very likely the healer wasn’t dealing damage at all, since there are those healers who believe themselves to be above contributing to DPS. Tanks that don’t AOE trash and healers that don’t AOE trash can make the trash feel as if it takes twice as long to die. Were they AOEing the trash? And were you and the other DPS AOEing the trash?

The first boss has always had circle AOEs that fall along the arena starting around the second Meteor Rain cast. The second boss can only almost finish its Burst cast if DPS is low (I’ve seen that happen a few times). And the final boss can leave you with no platform ledges to hide on if you take too long to kill it (so, again, low DPS). None of this is new, and hence why I asked if this was an issue with your party dealing low damage.

[FFgame]

TC you need a parser so you have a point of reference. You have no idea how much a difference does it make when tank/heals also know how to dps.

[Rasikko]

I ran the zone over the weekend, it was the same as it always was.



Yes, the last nub does eventually break. I had a horrible party as a PLD, solo'ed the last 40% of the boss, only to die as the last one broke away at <1%.

Gotta love those soft enrage timers.

[StouterTaru]

Gotta love those soft enrage timers.

If I had known it would fall off completely, I would have popped Hallowed Ground and stood in the middle for ApokaGiantLaser

[JowyAtreides]

Ran it twice since and felt no difference personally.

Sounds to me like you had a party not pulling their weight. There have also been changes to classes in terms of damage output.

Don't take it personally as it could have simply been the other players

[ForteNightshade]

Has anyone of you ran it since 5.1 released? If not then don't assume it's the group. You know what assuming does. Run it for yourself. I bet you'll notice that it's definitely changed and not for the better.

Just got out of it prior to this post. Not only did I do every mass pull possible, I purposely ate Fallen Meteor like I normally do. Not to mention, due to my game accidentally tabbing out, I stood in an Earthquake and got a vuln stack. Boss still didn't do even remotely enough damage for it to matter. Now I'll admit, I'm bis tank but no one in the party was above i460.

There have been no changes I can see to Amaurot. You simply had low DPS, be it from yourselves, the healer or the tank.

[shoobiedoobie]

Got it in my expert 2 days ago. Felt the same as it always has. I think you had issues within your party.

[Rasikko]

If I had known it would fall off completely, I would have popped Hallowed Ground and stood in the middle for ApokaGiantLaser

Little known fact I think, you know that second boss of Fractal Continuum? If the DPS is low enough, you can run out of adds for the CoinCounterWannaBe boss to eat, thus you cannot win the fight because 10k swing can't be stopped. Has happened only once for me though haha. There's probably a few other boss fights with these "soft enrages".

[Flay_wind]

Just got out of it prior to this post. Not only did I do every mass pull possible, I purposely ate Fallen Meteor like I normally do. Not to mention, due to my game accidentally tabbing out, I stood in an Earthquake and got a vuln stack. Boss still didn't do even remotely enough damage for it to matter. Now I'll admit, I'm bis tank but no one in the party was above i460.

There have been no changes I can see to Amaurot. You simply had low DPS, be it from yourselves, the healer or the tank.

Doesn't Amaurot sync you down to 440 at max? I haven't ran it recently so i can't quite remember.

[FirstnameLastname]

Yep its syned to 440, which makes it more annoying than the other expert roulette dungeons. Otherwise, nothing has changed inside.