Can you technically softlock LotA?

My partner and I were having a conversation yesterday about recent bad experiences in LotA (short version: people pulled early in Atomos fight and our alliance only had 4 people so we couldn't fight it until another alliance was done because we had to stand on the platform for them), and I had an interesting thought that I'm wondering if anyone has experienced.

In a hypothetical situation, let's say not enough people got into the fight area for B, and the stragglers got put into A. If there's only 3, they can't power the platform to allow C to fight their Atomos, and thus are stuck. A already finished theirs because C could power their platform, and naturally no one paid any attention to B not having enough (trust me, this happens). The people in B could get killed by the mobs that come out of it, but A can't because they're done and C can't because their Atomos is blocked (actually, can it still spawn enemies? I can't remember).

Since it's all technically one area, no one can move over to the other zones, and since not everyone can die, are they basically stuck? Or is it possible to return or something out of it?

I think SE needs to make it so you only need 1 person per platform like they did for the Ozma fight.

That and fix the auto teleport in thing. We get placed in the right party in later 24 man fights. Ozma, Construct 8. Why can't they do it for the LotA Atomos fight.

You could at one point but with the warp functionality allowing stragglers to instantly be ported in it's not much of an issue so long as you aren't missing a ton of people. If someone pulls Atomos w3hen one Alliance has three or fewer people however the rest of the Alliances should frankly just stay outside the arena and let them eat dirt till the spots get filled.

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Originally Posted by Enla

You could at one point but with the warp functionality allowing stragglers to instantly be ported in it's not much of an issue so long as you aren't missing a ton of people. If someone pulls Atomos w3hen one Alliance has three or fewer people however the rest of the Alliances should frankly just stay outside the arena and let them eat dirt till the spots get filled.

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Not but see the stragglers get warped into the leftmost area, not their respective lane. So that's how you frequently end up with like 12 people in A.

no eventually atomos will summon iron giants that will 1 shot people

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Originally Posted by Doozer

Not but see the stragglers get warped into the leftmost area, not their respective lane. So that's how you frequently end up with like 12 people in A.

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I've actually never had that happen. Huh. o_O

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Originally Posted by Crushnight

no eventually atomos will summon iron giants that will 1 shot people

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Ooh, I want to see that.

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Originally Posted by Crushnight

no eventually atomos will summon iron giants that will 1 shot people

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I did have that happen that day actually. Can they come out of locked Atomos? For some reason I don't remember if those spawn enemies (probably because I was too mad that someone wasn't on a platform so I didn't see).

Oh wait, but what about the alliance that finished theirs? Nothing can spawn to kill them. So they're done and everyone else is dead, then what?

Iron giants spawn in all 3 regardless of atamos presence.

I've seen it several times lol.

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Originally Posted by linay

Ooh, I want to see that.

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its hilariously tragic when it happens XD

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Originally Posted by Doozer

I did have that happen that day actually. Can they come out of locked Atomos? For some reason I don't remember if those spawn enemies (probably because I was too mad that someone wasn't on a platform so I didn't see).

Oh wait, but what about the alliance that finished theirs? Nothing can spawn to kill them. So they're done and everyone else is dead, then what?

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so long as there is 1 person in or 1 atomos alive they can spawn

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Originally Posted by Valkyrie_Lenneth

Iron giants spawn in all 3 regardless of atamos presence.

I've seen it several times lol.

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Ah. Okay. I haven't seen it so I wasn't aware that there's a very strict enrage timer. That's good to know.

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Originally Posted by Crushnight

no eventually atomos will summon iron giants that will 1 shot people

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This. If things are not done correctly in there, big 'ol IGs come out to force a reset. While it still doesn't address players getting teleported to the wrong alliance, usually mentioning in alliance chat to not start the fight until enough members are present to stand on the platforms is usually all it takes. These type of things the devs rely on the players actually communicating with each other to get things done. There is no reason for them to go in and spend valuable resources that is perfectly and easily accomplished by the players.

I once had a similar expirence like the one you described long time ago and yes we got all stuck because one alliance couldn't kill their Atomos and we had to wait for the timer to run out.

they could also just adjust the aggro range of the atomos so that people that're standing just slightly in front of the atomos don't pull...

but I doubt SE has any manpower devoted to addressing outdated stuff like that.

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Originally Posted by Doozer

Ah. Okay. I haven't seen it so I wasn't aware that there's a very strict enrage timer. That's good to know.

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It's not an enrage timer per se, more that if too many adds are spawned at a time that it happens, or if a group wipes.

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Originally Posted by Doozer

Ah. Okay. I haven't seen it so I wasn't aware that there's a very strict enrage timer. That's good to know.

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It isn't so much an enrage, but it's there's to prevent exactly what you were wondering. But honestly LotA had a plethora of ways for just one person the completely wipe the raid. It's nice that they have taken steps to mitigate that with a lot of the newer raids.