Quote Originally Posted by Kuwagami View Post
the general DF consensus on Chaos Datacenter is usually "activate Dread before Mines before anything else"

If you put the A and B markers on the towers, and explain where and when to go, it's usually pretty good (people wipe on ballistic no matter how much you explained though >< )


not totally wrong, but not totally right either.

Each time two towers gain a level together, the boss will get a damage buff. That's why you "activate" them to give them some stacks in advance. That way the boss won't get buff. You don't need to stay in the tower after activating it (each activation gives a debuff on the people in it so it's easy to know how many stacks there are ^^)

If two towers fully charge at the same time (either ignored or receiving the same amount of stacks), you'll get a special reward : atomic ray ( 30k raid wipe )
Thank you for the clarification, this is what I thought originally and what confused me was WHEN does two towers being at the same charge cause the boss buff/wipe, because it's inevitably going to happen as we push charges. So what you're saying is as we stand on the tower we rush the additional charges to that tower. Then every time the towers gain a charge naturally, if they hit the same number of charges, that causes the buff, and if they both full up at the same time (5 charges) then we wipe... So basically push them in any order as long as 2 towers aren't ignored or forcibly charged by the same number of stacks (otherwise it's buff/wipe during next natural charge). So now it's just a matter of timing the mechanic you want to deal with.


if you activate the last tower right when AF pops, it should explode before the next AF and prevent the wipe
When you say "activate" you mean force x number of stacks, or ensure that it's at 5 stacks when AF pops?