Math Blaster is my new favorite boss

well my problem with him is that i am not so good in this side of english and i dont think i want improve, others must fight this fight ... unless someone in SE will change this mechanic to something same but mechanics to be understandable :( i dont like using google translator when he starts this cast lol :D

I had trouble understanding what exactly he wanted me to do ._. I thought I needed to mutiply/divide my health by the dots rather than add them together... But that was probably my dyslexia making it difficult lol

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Originally Posted by Sylvina

Easy as long as you can remember the first few prime numbers. Who even needs to remember those these days?

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If you know what a prime number is, you don't need to remember them, because you can determine if something is one.

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Originally Posted by Cerbolt

I had trouble understanding what exactly he wanted me to do ._. I thought I needed to mutiply/divide my health by the dots rather than add them together... But that was probably my dyslexia making it difficult lol

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You are hardly alone on that. :) I was trying to explain it to some newbies last night and that was the hardest part. Once they saw it a couple of times it clicked and then it was easier. The first time you see it there's definitely some "uhh, WHAT?" going on. :)

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Originally Posted by Cerbolt

I had trouble understanding what exactly he wanted me to do ._. I thought I needed to mutiply/divide my health by the dots rather than add them together... But that was probably my dyslexia making it difficult lol

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That's very understandable. I thought that the circles subtracted from your health (cus he casts Subtract beforehand). Figuring out what the puddles do and how you reach the ultimate goal of what he's saying is just general trial and error ^.^
Thankfully I semi-accidentally stumbled through it the first time so that helped with the 2nd time XD
I can see how this might be kinda difficult while playing a DPS tho. I was only playing a healer so I only had a very simple rotation to do while doing the math. DPSs are more complicated tho, and I might have trouble doing both (but I wanna try now XD)

I feel ashamed of myself after getting into the new 24-man last night and getting to him. I do payroll for a living, so math is my life....I failed - HARD - at him. Mind you, I did go in blind, and nobody in the raid was explaining anything. I did catch on to most of the other stuff though...so I just need to run it a few more times(bet I will get it a few times during Mentor Roulette this weekend) to practice that part.

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Originally Posted by RiyahArp

when did everyone become such jerks? It's not the math, its the fact that you're asking people to DPS as well as do math with a moderate time limit.

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my last group fought him for 20+ mins so I do not believe (in god) there is any sort of DPS check.

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Originally Posted by Nora_of_Mira

my last group fought him for 20+ mins so I do not believe (in god) there is any sort of DPS check.

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The only DPS check is after the math, with the add phase. If you don't kill those fast enough to be able to escape, he wipes anyone still in the portal. If most of the group survives the math phase and a few people have the success buff, it's not a hard check. Woe be if half your group is dead, though.

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Originally Posted by Nora_of_Mira

my last group fought him for 20+ mins so I do not believe (in god) there is any sort of DPS check.

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There is an add phase but as long as one group gets out (it's like ozma, but after one group kills theirs they can leave) they can probably raise everyone else as his rotation after that repeats until he dies or everyone in the group is dead.

When I did it one group got blown up in there but we just eureka zombied the rest of the fight by raising people continually and chipping away at it's health until he died.

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Originally Posted by Vaer

after that repeats until he dies or everyone in the group is dead.

When I did it one group got blown up in there but we just eureka zombied the rest of the fight by raising people continually and chipping away at it's health until he died.

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yeah that's what I had to suffer as well. Doing my full SAM rotation for 20 minutes made my hand sore.

I think the worst part is when healers fail to top off the party once the math phase ends so anyone who did the math correctly winds up losing their stacks immediately to the incoming Incinerate.