Waste of dps?

[Ricdeau]

when the bombs explode, they do a room wide AoE that adds freezing stacks. At 4 stacks, you are frozen solid for 10 seconds. A minimum of 4 bombs will spawn during the fight so if you ignore adds completely you will get frozen at least once. 10 seconds of no DPS is worse than the small amount of time that it takes to just kill the adds. If you really wanted to min/max, then you could just kill the first bomb and ignore the others. That would work fine.

Some adds in this game can be successfully ignored, like the second boss in Temple of Qarn HM (except the guardian of course, gotta kill him) but i would not consider the first snowcloak boss one of these instances

With enough DPS you can kill the boss before getting 4 explosions. My ninja friend and I do this every time we run Snowcloak. Granted you need pretty high DPS in the first place. We both pull near or over 500 DPS on that fight.

Edit - I should mention that in a random group I'll kill the singles, and then when the two spawn at the end it's more of a judgement call on where you stand at that point if DPS is fast enough or not.

[Tex_Mex]

With enough DPS you can kill the boss before getting 4 explosions. My ninja friend and I do this every time we run Snowcloak. Granted you need pretty high DPS in the first place. We both pull near or over 500 DPS on that fight.

Edit - I should mention that in a random group I'll kill the singles, and then when the two spawn at the end it's more of a judgement on where you stand that point if DPS is fast enough or not.

500 dps is a number that is achieved by only a small fraction of the playerbase. For the large majority of PUG groups, it is much smarter to just kill the adds. If you are good enough to pull 500+dps, then there is very little outside of FCoB that should challenge you.