Quote Originally Posted by Zfz View Post
You should not even be near Vishap, let alone the adds. Only the tanks (or even just 1 tank) need to be by Vishap, he can catch all the adds as they come for the healer, if the healer is properly positioned.

Vishap&Adds&Tank-----Healer------DPS&Cannons

That's all you need to do. AOE? What AOE? Adds overwhelm your tank because you're not using the cannons to take them out. Cannons deal 2000 AOE damage per shot. It's far stronger than any DPS is capable of in the game now.

On the run that I cleared it as healer, we had exactly that formation I noted above. I only needed to heal 2 people: regen on the tank and maybe one or two Cures, and another one being a BRD who refuse to stay on the cannons and get hit by adds AOEs as you mention.

The fight doesn't need to be toned down. You're just doing it wrong. What you're asking for, is to break the fight so you can complete the trial using your wrong methods. It's like asking for the last boss in Tamtara (normal) to not go invincible when Imps are up because you don't want to kill the Imps.
As a DPS you still need to DPS Vishap himself some. If you do just the mechanics alone it only takes him down to 20% I believe. At least 20% of the boss needs to be DPS'ed by normal means. Or at least that is what I saw. All you have to do though is just be behind him. Will not get hit by the feet. If you have to do a positional, just wait till his foot is down then do it.