A Visual Guide to the Bone Dragon in Crystal Tower

[Kimikryo]

So because the trailer shows it, it is the only possible solution?

I remember the first trailer showing hyur as warrior, roegadyn as paladin, lalafel female as weightmage and so on. Are those the only right races to play those jobs?

It can be done both ways, and to those people with the diagrams:

Look at the screenshot of the video and the how the platforms look



This 10000h paint masterpiece shows where to place skeletons when pulling the dragon to the north wall.

This is even more fool prove than the middle. Because OT seem to have a game "lets annoy the other OT by taking his skelly and leading it ANYwhere" and with this it barely matters where

[Doo]

It looks like some kind of marathon with how far the skellies are from the dragon completely unnecessary unless playing with really bad players. I'll take my chances with bad players.

Must be like EU thing because never seen it done once in NA server and from what I've heard the JPs do it in the middle as well.

[Kimikryo]

I normaly do middle, and I only did it at a time where most of EU would be asleep (4AM CET midweek)

[Timethiuas]

Every time we have done the dragon, and I have tanked him a couple of times, we pulled him to the North Wall. I have NEVER seen him tanked in the middle. It may just be the way our group of servers does it, but it works, which makes it viable. And just because SE thinks it should be done one way doesn't mean the populace will find another way to effectively do something. For an example, just look at Ninja in FFXI. SE was very surprised it became a tank, since it was never intended to be.

[Ecks007]

This 10000h paint masterpiece shows where to place skeletons when pulling the dragon to the north wall.

I could have sworn that there were only 8 "paths" in that room, each cardinal direction essentially. That diagram depicts 4 more magic areas that don't exist. Still.. the idea is the same as every run I've ever been on. Except 1, there was one run were a tank ran in and started tanking the dragon in the center. Everyone was like "WTF!" and stuff and I can't remember if it was a wipe or if the dragon was repositioned in time for it not to be a wipe.

Skeletons spawn on the center platform, so... it would be bad to have the dragon there as far as I see it. If a tank screws up and doesn't grab it, or if two tanks fight over hate a Skele could easily end up running right into the Dragon and hurting the whole raid. Say this happens to 2-3 Skeles and it's a wipe definitely.

[Kimikryo]

I could have sworn that there were only 8 "paths" in that room, each cardinal direction essentially. That diagram depicts 4 more magic areas that don't exist. Still.. the idea is the same as every run I've ever been on. Except 1, there was one run were a tank ran in and started tanking the dragon in the center. Everyone was like "WTF!" and stuff and I can't remember if it was a wipe or if the dragon was repositioned in time for it not to be a wipe.

Skeletons spawn on the center platform, so... it would be bad to have the dragon there as far as I see it. If a tank screws up and doesn't grab it, or if two tanks fight over hate a Skele could easily end up running right into the Dragon and hurting the whole raid. Say this happens to 2-3 Skeles and it's a wipe definitely.

look at the picture I see 4 paths and only 2 of those are in each cardinal direction
but it COULD be that mine is slightly of, I just know it has more paths than the others show

[File2ish]

Every time we have done the dragon, and I have tanked him a couple of times, we pulled him to the North Wall. I have NEVER seen him tanked in the middle. It may just be the way our group of servers does it, but it works, which makes it viable.

I've never seen it tanked on the north wall. In my server group it's always been in the middle in every CT run I've done. But if it works there's no problem with it, might confuse a lot of people who have never seen it tanked at the far wall. I'm sure there have been tanks who tried to rip hate and pull it back into the middle lol.

[Ecks007]

Bad picture.

Here let me help you out.

Er, apparently what I tried to link was part of a Youtube video.... oddly enough. This one: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cvYQQaJ57AI

Still it was right next to what you showed in my google image search. And it quite clearly showed 8 paths, which you can see in the video.

I've run enough darn CT to know what the room looks like.

(also just noticed that it wasn't you who posted that picture... eh, w/e)

[Kyrosiris]

Must be like EU thing because never seen it done once in NA server and from what I've heard the JPs do it in the middle as well.

It really just seems like whatever data center Excalibur is on that does it weird. All my friends that play on other data centers are like "what the fuck" when I tell them.

[Roris]

I for one am glad to be in a sensible data center that tanks it in the middle and have only seen this exactly twice the very first week it launched.