so... how the hell do u beat captain madison in satasha hard?

[AzakaTonnerre]

He does a debuff on the MT and after a few seconds he stuns the person with that debuff. Another player (melee) should go hug the tank and get the debuff from the tank. This way the tank does not get stunned.

The huge damage move the boss does can be stunned, so that is why it is good to avoid the tank being stunned, so he is free to stun the boss

The huge damage move also does not kill the person it hits (at least it didn't in any attempt we tried) if they have decent remaining HP. It literally leaves them with less than 100 HP's. What kills the person is that it poisons everyone before it does that move. So one click after the tail move they die from poison. When we won our healer just cast esuna on whomever the Tail move was going to hit (the are identified by a targeting line from the boss to whomever its attacking) before it landed. After the hit, she just casted cure to bring their HPs back up. It was easy that way (though I can see the possible difficulty identifying whom it was targeting).

*disclaimer: If I am wrong and we just got lucky I apologize to anyone for the repair costs they accrued attempting this.

[Snugglebutt]

I ran Satasha HM one today and wasn't too bad. Died once I think on gunner boss but after that cleared him taking out the adds asap when hes not firing at someone, if fires at someone then switch to all out attack on him even if some adds still around, then clearing adds and so on. So many adds spawn near end I think if did not clear them as went along it could of been very much harder than turned out to be. The Krakken on the other hand was pure chaos, I assumed would be kill couple arms then focus on boss but those arms spawn so fast and so often that at times we ended up running around or being tossed around like headless chickens. Took a long time getting him down but I don't think we wiped on it so wasn't too bad just long and chaotic.

I haven't yet tried Qarn on HM. Will do that some point later on.

[BillyBones]

That's why they shouldn't have listened to people who cried for harder dungeons. The challenge might be fun the first couple of times you beat it. And then you have do the daily EX roulette for the next 3 months and hope that you won't get Sastasha HM. Personally, I'll just leave right away if I get it in DF next time. I'll have to wait for 30 minutes but still save ALOT of time.

[Granyala]

The huge damage move also does not kill the person it hits (at least it didn't in any attempt we tried) if they have decent remaining HP.

Correct it cannot. It drops them to 1%.
As such it is not necessary to heal people back up to 100%.

Just let them hover at 30-50% (except tank ofc) but dispel the poison immediately. There is enough time to dispel all three, so identifying the target isn't even necessary.

This boss if freeloot whether he gets stunned or not.

That's why they shouldn't have listened to people who cried for harder dungeons.

Sastasha is piss easy once you understand the mechanics.

[BillyBones]

Sastasha is piss easy once you understand the mechanics.

I understand the mechanics and can beat it with a group of friends no prob. Go do it in DF and you will most likely either fail the dungeon or spend more than an hour clearing it. I don't want to take any chance and pray to land in a good party.

[Granyala]

I understand the mechanics and can beat it with a group of friends no prob. Go do it in DF and you will most likely either fail the dungeon or spend more than an hour clearing it. I don't want to take any chance and pray to land in a good party.

Yeah, crappy randoms can be a royal PITA™ I give you that.

[ExKage]

I don't know about people here. I run Sastasha HM just fine.

Ultros on the other matter. -_- That has been 50% success rate for me as I try to get the minion.

[Estellios]

If you are having issues w/ Madison in DF it might be worthwhile to have non-tanks stand behind the boss and just have everyone ignore adds once he gets to 25% or so, it shouldn't be too difficult since everyone together means the tank can grab the adds even if he is bound and it's not too hard healing people up. You stop his gunfire quickly, it's easy to understand, and it makes him leave the fight sooner which makes dealing with the adds a whole lot easier.

I resorted to doing that one evening as I was having trouble explaining the mechanics to the wife of our JP FC member (her english isn't as good as his and he wasn't there that night) and ended up clearing it just fine at that point. Thankfully I was able to use markers to explain what to ignore in the final boss. The difference between Tentacles and Arms might not be something that comes across easily in other languages... I kind of wish they were different colors or something.

Edit: Maybe I should ask this here, but for the first boss of Snowcloak does anyone know what determines if you get a freeze stack from snowdrift (the attack that seems to hit the whole area and does a blizzard-like effect)? It just seems to randomly hit people or not.

[GenericPoster12029]

From what I heard, if you are moving during the cast , not sure at what point, for Snowdrift, you'll avoid it.
Just tested it out, as long as you're moving for the flurry animation ( the snow blowing across your view); you won't get the debuff unless you get hit by the AoE.

[sayafrost]

uhm... I hate that part - I normally DPS, but our WHM wanted to dps, so I went to heal, the fact is, the moment it does start shooting, the healer has to spam heals on the character that is getting hit (ç_ç I'm not good healer, my group wiped 2 times before I managed to make them survive to beat it - I died, they lived, and the beat it). But at the point when he start shooting everyone is on the captain ignoring adds, then when he escapes, we use a aoe LB on the adds. - still we managed without problem downing it, with our main healer XD

It worked this way (i still hate it <o< along the cactucar thing in Sunekn HM)