Levi EX (Paladin stunlock Help)

Hey guys!

So i've already beaten this bad boy a few times on my PLD but always the other PLD insist on MT and i always end up having to stunlock those annoying adds and so far we managed. but i'm not satisfied with my results, maybe its my team not killing them fast enough? But often they get one or two skills off which shouldn't happen.

can anyone help me out here?

i usually wait untill the mob gets to around 80% of HP then i stun them, Last 6 seconds. When that hits 1 i wait one more second then stun him for another 3.
Then my stun only lasts 1 second? And from that point on he will be able to cast dread stuff, Or do i just do it wrong?

Yeah there's diminishing returns on the stun. Once you've done the third that add needs to be dead or he'll cast.

Or someone else needs to do something else to stop the cast. Like WHM using Fluid Aura for the knockback.

You can wait longer for the first stun. Ofxourse that depends on the DPS but my stun rotation starts close to 60%

You can wait longer between the 1st and 2nd stun. The 1st stun's timing is critical because you cannot stun the move once he starts casting. But the 2nd stun is more lax. That's where you can make up some time. You can wait until the cast of the move that he does after the 1st stun (Dreadwash?) is to 50%, then do the 2nd, 3 sec, stun. (I dont recommend waiting any longer on his cast bar because it takes a little bit of time for your stun to actually go off).

I haven't tanked this in some time but I believe that sahagin's rotation is something like Ruin Ruin Darkness then stuff you need to stun. So after you see Darkness, start stunlocking. Or whatever his 3rd move with a castbar is that is just damage.

All right thanks for the replies guys gonna try it again tonight and hopefully get another win:)

Cheers!

If your 2nd stun is only lasting 1 second then someone else is stunning the Wavetooth. You'll have to remind all the DPS that they must take stun actions out of their rotations on him...it's their fault not yours :)

Start your stunlock at around 75%-80% HP. He won't cast until around then. Don't bother really keeping aggro on it as you'll risk missing the stun.
You can do this for two reasons:
It won't do very much damage at all in the 20ish percent HP before it starts casting Dreadwash, and obviously won't be attacking when it's stunned.
The DPS should have it dead before your stuns wear out. If not, he won't be attacking anyway as he'll just keep casting dreadwash.

-First, don't wait to stun him at 80% health. Chance is he may cast Darkness during that time frame and you won't be able to stun him at all. I say after he cast 2 of his normal attacks is a good time to start the stun lock.
-Second, never chain 3 stuns back to back as in case your DPS slow at getting him killed before he get stun immune, he may be able to cast Dreadwash and it is a wipe at phase 2, when the rail is down. Instead, stun twice on him back to back, then wait until you see him cast Dreadstorm at about 50% finish casting time, then stun. Don't worry about the Darkness as he will cast darkness somewhere between the first two stuns and the CD of that skill is pretty long. And if he is not down by then, your DPS 's team is really really low...

So Dreadstorm is stunable? and dread wash isn't ?

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Originally Posted by Blitzace

So Dreadstorm is stunable? and dread wash isn't ?

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The skills where they put the little hysteria circle on the boat isn't stunnable. You need to keep him stunlocked and make sure he doesn't get the chance to start casting it.

It's a quirk of this game's resolution for resolving effects, damage, and general animation delay.

The short version is that by the time you see the cast bar for Dread(whatever), it's already too late to stun it. Your stun must go out before it starts casting. Which is why people generally just stunlock.

Correction : By "Dreadstorm", I was supposed to imply the Dreadwash, the AOE unavoidable hysteria.

I believed both Dread skill are stun-able. The rotation for the caster is something like " Darkness-Dreadwash-Dreadstorm". From the time when he appears to the moment he cast Dreadwash, he should have already been stunned twice, then the third stun is for the Dreadwash. That explains why Dreadstorm can not be stunned because by the time he cast Dreadstorm, he already gain Stun immunity thanks to diminish return.

Awesome :) thanks guys!