great hunt after stat squish

Just tried to solo The great hunt solo tonight, only to realise that the stat squish has ruined the ability to farm it solo atleast if your a tank. The bull that needs to die, to stop your insta death just wont die fast enough :(

Tried to solo it on Extreme as a reaper, but in the second phase he just kept spamming the stack marker and I couldn't keep up with it. Is he supposed to do that, or does the RNG that determines his next attack just hate me?

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Originally Posted by blackemu

Just tried to solo The great hunt solo tonight, only to realise that the stat squish has ruined the ability to farm it solo atleast if your a tank. The bull that needs to die, to stop your insta death just wont die fast enough :(

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You can just respawn, it just counts as 1 death / 3 and you can still continue then

He enraged at like 15% for me, but I was only lvl80 DRK, so I think it should be possible for lvl 90

Don't disable echo

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Originally Posted by TheMightyMollusk

Tried to solo it on Extreme as a reaper, but in the second phase he just kept spamming the stack marker and I couldn't keep up with it. Is he supposed to do that, or does the RNG that determines his next attack just hate me?

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Pretty sure the stack marker is always intended to hit several times consecutively, no?

I think it's supposed to go three times in a row. It was going for me nine or more in a row.

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Originally Posted by Kaurhz

Pretty sure the stack marker is always intended to hit several times consecutively, no?

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Yep, multiple hits that leave spicy lava puddles behind.

As a tangent, I find SMN to be very good for Rathalos, either difficulty, due to high mobility plus shields. MCH and BRD probably work well too but have no shields for the stack markers. When soloing him he'll charge at you a lot of course, no one else to target, so the range plus ability to dps on the move helps a lot.

Mch is easy and bard. Bard has dispel as well if your stacks get out of hand. I'm not sure if one cycle is doable yet but it might be in raids .

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Originally Posted by blackemu

Just tried to solo The great hunt solo tonight, only to realise that the stat squish has ruined the ability to farm it solo atleast if your a tank. The bull that needs to die, to stop your insta death just wont die fast enough :(

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Killing the bull is easy as a tank.

I can't kill him fast enough in the final phase with all the knockdowns is my problem.

You can't solo it. If you can't kill the bull as a tank, that's on you. It's definitely doable. But that's not the problem.

The problem is afterwards, he has a damage reduction buff that makes it impossible to finish him off. You need to hit him to make him drop, and then burst him down. If you fail to kill him then, you won't be able to drop him down again before enrage.

I've tried multiple times, with different jobs. The best I've gotten is 15%. Don't waste your time. Bring at least one other person. lol

I solo'd rath ex on my 90 warrior the other night. Saved inner release for the bull and knockdown phases in the second half. I STILL hit enrage my first go but was able to do it my second attempt. I wouldn't recommend it to farm tho. Bringing even one more person would probably make it a joke

Find a friend.

used to have no issue with the bull, now i just dont have the damage it seems.

Just tried again, I can kill the bull in 3-4 globals.

My issue is the final phase. I can only get the down meter to 80 percent or so the 2nd time before running out of time and getting the hard enrage instant kill.

Solo'd it, first try, unsync'd as WAR.

I can agree that the bar is now longer to fill, but it is by no means impossible to solo. You just need to maintain uptime as much as you can.

Don't see what would have changed mechanically. You're getting the 60% Epic Echo that the other Stormblood duties give now, aren't you? That should make damage a no brainer, even with the stat squish. I mean, WARs solo Shinryu Ex and other Stormblood extremes now... Rathalos should be a joke.

I don't think they would have changed how long the down meter takes. It's always filled at a rate of 1.5 Down Gauge per GCD. Only GCDs fill it. That means 67 GCDs to bring it to the ground.

As for Mollusk's question: Yes, Rathalos's RNG hates you. He can perform his second set mechanics in any order. This sometimes means he will do back to back to back group stacks, which come out in sets of 3. The most back to back group stacks I've had is 2, though, which is 6 group stack markers in a row.