So WARs now are terrorizing bards with their Berserk macro too?

[FoxyAreku]

I agree with you that people shouldn't want to literally jump off cliffs from not breaking Bismarcks back in one attempt.
But you see, someone in a video guide mentioned they did it that way, so now that's the only way to do it ever. Sigh...

If you don't have the DPS to break the carapace in one go, you probably don't have the DPS to kill the snakes before the phase change. Just saves time that way.

[Krylo]

If you don't have the DPS to break the carapace in one go, you probably don't have the DPS to kill the snakes before the phase change. Just saves time that way.

The problem is it takes more DPS to kill the snakes than to kill the chitin and killing the chitin in one go uses all your CDs and prevents you from having a quickly ready LB for the snakes meaning you need even more DPS for the snakes than you would if you held back on the chitin.

[FoxyAreku]

The problem is it takes more DPS to kill the snakes than to kill the chitin and killing the chitin in one go uses all your CDs and prevents you from having a quickly ready LB for the snakes meaning you need even more DPS for the snakes than you would if you held back on the chitin.

A point, but you also lose more HP on the island if you don't break the chitin in one go, and that can wipe you later if there's a mess up.

[Krylo]

A point, but you also lose more HP on the island if you don't break the chitin in one go, and that can wipe you later if there's a mess up.

Only if you don't throw up the shields for Bismark coming and/or fail to kill adds fast enough. The former shouldn't be a problem as it's very easy to put the shields up at the right time, and if you aren't killing the adds fast enough to prevent them attacking the island you're never going to win. It's not until the third phase that island damage is unavoidable. All island damage during first phase can be negated.