I am a lousy tank and have never once tankswapped before.
How do I know for sure when Shiva swaps her weapon? I often mistook Windbite icon as Sword form and tried provoking at all the wrong times.
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I am a lousy tank and have never once tankswapped before.
How do I know for sure when Shiva swaps her weapon? I often mistook Windbite icon as Sword form and tried provoking at all the wrong times.
You only tank swap after her bow phase. She'll float up in the air and conjure her weapon.
If you're having a hard time telling the icons apart, you can try enlarging them, shift+pgup i think, I'm not sure.
Shiva will slowly rise and spin in the air when she switches her weapon. At that point, you will see either her wielding a staff or sword. If you're the OT, just keep an eye for that. There are no real aoes to avoid at that stage I recall.
close. Shiva in stage 1 will do 1 of two Animations when swapping weapons.
1) She will rise up and Spin, this means she's going into Staff phase.
2) She will simply rise up and summon her Sword/Shield.
So, Spinning = Staff ..... No Spinning = Sword
In the second Phase I believe its an order? Generally its Sword/Staff, Sword/Staff, Bow.... Sword/Staff, Sword/Staff, bow. Thats how mine usually go. Regardless, if you're really having trouble, can ask the other tank or someone to call out weapons in party. Generally when I go, regardless, someone will call out Sword or Staff during those phases, and then "Get behind her, bow" or something to that effect for bow.
This is one of the easiest EX/Endgame fights right now once you get the rhythm...