Given the Moogle event, Wanderer's Palace is seeing a lot of activity—and a lot of awkward pulls. You know the one that I'm talking about—from the three skeletons to the boss room. The group has to get lantern oil and turn two wheels to open the boss room, and I see a lot of tanks making this more complicated than it needs to be.
There's an opportunity hear to spread best practices and make this smoother for everyone.
I don't always tank, but when I do I like to do one long pull—I'll grab the three skeletons, the two ranged mobs outside the room, go down the stairs, pull the tonberries in front of the boss door, and I'll pull all of that to the second wheel that needs turning. I'll grab the mobs at the second wheel and take this entire group (everything starting with the three skeletons) around the next corner, the one with the overturned bucket.
The bucket allows you to LOS ranged mobs so everything packs tightly. The tonberry doesn't go that far. It's clean and easy to AOE everything down.
On the way back to the boss room, the tank can aggro the tonberry if needed so a DPS can turn the wheel. Same outside the boss room.
In any case, it's clean and orderly. I usually drop a "long pull inc" in chat just to let people know.
How do you like to do this pull?
That one pull in Wanderer's Palace...
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03-29-2021, 07:59 AMEquitable_RemedyThat one pull in Wanderer's Palace...
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03-29-2021, 08:25 AMBsrking5
What boss is after this mob pull? Im not sure which pull you are talking.
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03-29-2021, 08:29 AMSeraphorYou know this pull. It's the one with the giant, invulnerable tonberry's.Quote:
Originally Posted by Bsrking5
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03-29-2021, 08:37 AMBsrking5You mean basically all the large pulls? Yea that helps out a ton.Quote:
Originally Posted by Seraphor
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03-29-2021, 08:38 AMTintI think he means the second boss.Quote:
Originally Posted by Bsrking5
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03-29-2021, 08:42 AMlinayar
It can be done in different ways, not a big deal other than staying away from the big tonberry.
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03-29-2021, 08:45 AMBsrking5They pull with the 3 skellys ones in the middle with the free water wheel? He's saying he doesnt stop to get the freebie? Thats odd.Quote:
Originally Posted by Tint
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03-29-2021, 08:49 AMTintWhat freebie? One of the DDs or healer has to turn the wheel, the tank keeps pulling more mobs.Quote:
Originally Posted by Bsrking5
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03-29-2021, 09:42 AMCanadane
Don't forget you can literally lock the entire pull out of the boss room and they'll de-aggro. No need to fight anything but the ones you must kill.
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03-29-2021, 09:56 AMArtemiz
I must admit after reading the thread title I'm a bit disappointed this story didn't include a flute.
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03-29-2021, 10:17 AMIscah
Assuming the standard route everywhere is to turn left after the room with the three skeletons, go down those stairs and past the boss room to reach the second switch in the corner, I had a tank go the other way recently and it was so much better.
Turn right as you leave the room, so you don't bump into the tonberry coming up the passage.
Continue around to the right and go down the other set of stairs.
Straight up the corridor to the rusted switch in the corner, then along to the boss room.
I haven't gone back to re-test it, but I think you could avoid ever encountering the big tonberries if you wanted. We dashed past one on the way to the boss room and let it get a few stabs in, since they're not sufficiently lethal to worry about it, but I assume they used to be and I could could never understand quite how you could hope to avoid them without a huge amount of waiting and hiding. -
03-29-2021, 11:52 AMAriel_Valmont
I always preferred to go right, when you come out of the endless rise you can pull the two tonberrys from the lower level, move to the right (ne corner of the rise) in the corner you can pull the lower corner mobs (ghost/skeleton) and the south pack of ghosts, it’s. A big pull but the lower mobs take a bit to get there. After that the path out the east is clear and you can easily get the lower Theo water wheels and go into the boss room.
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03-29-2021, 12:23 PMAwha
I voke the two mobs that drop the lantern up top kill them with the skeletons then have the dps get the doors.
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03-29-2021, 10:50 PMBsrking5Your assuming that they will. In my experience that never happens.Quote:
Originally Posted by Tint
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03-29-2021, 11:23 PMAldoraThis is what i would usually do as well, while i was leveling my tank(s). It was easier / faster to just deal with 1 big Tonberry, rather then 2 on the bottom floor (near the boss room). But, i'm willing to try out different strategies with my Alt PLD (which i'm leveling to 80 at the moment).Quote:
Originally Posted by Awha
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03-30-2021, 07:43 AMTaleraRistainBack when they were lethal, we didn't pull everything at once so it was easier to take paths that avoided them.Quote:
Originally Posted by Iscah
And it's no fun to do WP efficiently. You gotta scream and run like maniacs while the homicidal tonberries slash at you. That's the best type of run. It's just boring if you don't get the chance to get scared.