Bozjan southern front tanking issue

Good morning,

This is my first post on the forums so please forgive me if this was answered elsewhere. I am a veteran player of dark knight, which is my main class, my load out is 490ilvl on it. I was in the bozjan front the other day. Trying it out with my wife, who is a lvl80 white mage which is also geared in 490ilvl gear. We ran into an issue in skirmishes where I would be holding a group of mobs, my health is full with darkness knight up as a buffer. As its part of my usual rotation when its just her and myself. When out of nowhere I was one shotted. Which took her and I by surprise as there was no indication anything like that coming.

So after rezing me we finished that on off and moved to another. This time I have darkness night and she have put her bubble on me as we. But same thing. No indication of a tank breaker. No orange your standing in stupid. Nothing. Just one shotted. So I ask my FC and they had seen other tanks getting destroyed like I did. So my question is. Is there a mechanic I am missing? I feel like the front is broken as I have never been taken out in one hit by anything while I have been talking at lvl80. Like the tank busters in puppet factory don't even hit that hard and only take a tank out if your unlucky with having another tank stack on you during it.

Thank you for your time reading. Maybe I am missing something but I feel the bozjan front has a bug and I will be avoiding it till its fixed or till whatever I'm missing is explained to me.

Mizuki Amaya

What mobs were you fighting? Some of the higher ranked enemies hit really hard.

Take note of the rank of the enemies you're engaging.
Rank 1-2 should be easy to hold several as a single tank.
Rank 3-4, you probably want to be in a full party, or just take them a couple at a time.
Rank 5, you will need additional mitigation regardless of how many people you have, Reflect, Manawall, Potion Kits, etc.

I can't remember the specific skirmishes beyond the one in the first area with the Garula. I had her topped off and went to give a swiftcast raise to a DPS that had got flattened, looked back, and she was on the ground.

I wish I could recall the other two specific skirmishes. This wasn't my first time in there, but I've never tanked in BSF and this was her first time in the battle area of the zone.

Yo some mobs esp rank 4 and rank 5's will DESTROY you if you're not careful, and if you ever see a star rank mob dont bother unless you know someone around has Death available.

Have you tried restarting the game?

I was still in the first zone, as I am still only merit rank 2, and the enemies where not all that bad. At first. Like they where hurting me, sure. But it wasn't anything im not used to as a tank. It was just the sudden nuke form orbit I get nailed with.

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Originally Posted by Mizuki_Amaya

I was still in the first zone, as I am still only merit rank 2, and the enemies where not all that bad. At first. Like they where hurting me, sure. But it wasn't anything im not used to as a tank. It was just the sudden nuke form orbit I get nailed with.

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Nah man, you havent seen a nuke from orbit yet. Wait till you get invited to Red Choctober after you get a few more ranks.
On second thought, if you were in a skirmish, perhaps you ran into my absolute favorite villian NPC who i lovingly call "Chaos Blackmage" That dude throws aoes like he doesnt give a f about anything. Love the nonchalant kaioken floating escape he does after beating him too. 10/10 best villian in game.

Rank V mobs auto for around 50K on tanks.

Star mobs hit for 70K+ and are better off just being instakilled with death.

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Originally Posted by Mizuki_Amaya

Good morning,

This is my first post on the forums so please forgive me if this was answered elsewhere. I am a veteran player of dark knight, which is my main class, my load out is 490ilvl on it. I was in the bozjan front the other day. Trying it out with my wife, who is a lvl80 white mage which is also geared in 490ilvl gear. We ran into an issue in skirmishes where I would be holding a group of mobs, my health is full with darkness knight up as a buffer. As its part of my usual rotation when its just her and myself. When out of nowhere I was one shotted. Which took her and I by surprise as there was no indication anything like that coming.

So after rezing me we finished that on off and moved to another. This time I have darkness night and she have put her bubble on me as we. But same thing. No indication of a tank breaker. No orange your standing in stupid. Nothing. Just one shotted. So I ask my FC and they had seen other tanks getting destroyed like I did. So my question is. Is there a mechanic I am missing? I feel like the front is broken as I have never been taken out in one hit by anything while I have been talking at lvl80. Like the tank busters in puppet factory don't even hit that hard and only take a tank out if your unlucky with having another tank stack on you during it.

Thank you for your time reading. Maybe I am missing something but I feel the bozjan front has a bug and I will be avoiding it till its fixed or till whatever I'm missing is explained to me.

Mizuki Amaya

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yea there are some mobs that can kill you with a one shot or 2 hits usually like those rank 5 guys. Those guys will flat out murder you.

So I guess my question is. What do I need to look for when tanking a rank 5? As I am not even sure who to tell what rank a mob is in there. I thank all those that have replied and given advice so far.

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Originally Posted by Mizuki_Amaya

So I guess my question is. What do I need to look for when tanking a rank 5? As I am not even sure who to tell what rank a mob is in there. I thank all those that have replied and given advice so far.

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They have Roman numerals next to their names (to the left)

I'd strongly suggest taking a defensive stance like Guardian or Breathtaker + potion kits for actually tanking rank V/star mobs.

The former adds around maybe another 20% passive mitigation while the latter adds evasion and reduces the chance of a potion kit fading to a measly 10%, meaning your HP will just keep getting automatically topped off whenever it dips below 50% barring extremely bad streaks of luck.

As others have pointed out, the likely source is that you accidentally took aggro on a mob that was rank 4 or a 5. Next to each monster's name is a roman numeral (I - II - III - IV - V) that denotes its power level (note: the ranks are just identifiers of power level; rank 5's can appear in the first area). The damage they do rises exponentially, to the point rank 5's can auto you for over half your health without mitigation, and tanking more than one 4 or 5 can result in being insta-gibbed without proper planning.

Rank 4's & Rank 5's can be accidentally pulled by people into skirmishes (People accidentally aggro one on the way, then when it follows them into the skirmish, random aoes cause it to start killing people as it runs around insta-kill autoing everyone who hit it), so its best to be vigilant while doing skirmishes and if you see mobs not part of the fate being pulled in, watch how you aoe/switch to single target to not accidentally aggro them. (mobs part of the skirmish can be identified by having a purple circle next to their name)

If you want to tank a rank 5, its almost mandatory you obtain one of the essence lost actions that makes you beefier (Guardian) or the one that gives you crazy amounts of lifesteal on all your attacks (Bloodsucker), as they do tremendous amounts of auto damage. It's also advisable to be in a full party as they have huge amounts of HP and your healer will be busy healing you almost every GCD, if not every other one, making you basically the only damage dealer if its just you + your wife.

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Have you tried restarting the game?

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This usually helps me when ever I have tanking issues.

Since no one mentioned this. You are also sycn to ilvl 430. Your gear outside of bozja doesn't matter unless it has the haste which is the only thing carried over. The 5s on a healer without defensive buffs autos for about 80% of your HP so yea. Mob ranks matter.