Why do people not understand A8?

[Aelinau]

I still don't know what to do when the AoE circles and Arrow drop at the same time in A8 last phase.
For some reason I always die.
It's super confusing. At this point I think it's because I'm going in front of him and getting hit with something, but I still can't be sure. Thankfully I'm the only one that dies.

At that point if you are the one with the arrow split dmg part run to the boss soon as the aoe circles disappear everyone should head to that spot knowing it( or at least this is what's done the times I've ran it) soon as the mech goes off you need to run behind the boss to not get hit by his next att. I hope that helps some lol

[Aelinau]

Super Jump was the bane of our groups existence. He'd turn to face the five of us huddled together and line one of us up. And we'd just stand there and let him jump on us. It took three times before the tank we came in with pointed out that if we don't know who he's targeting just everyone scatter. It was a proud moment.

You can usually tell if you are the targeted person as you'll get the little look at me aggro sign in the corner. But ya spread is always best there ^°^

Back to topic though, I haven't really had much issue with alex YET, Monday was a mess for a8...but idm Wipes as long as people progress on next try. Since content is still so new...go into df expecting some Wipes and when you don't bask In the victory.

[KarstenS]

There aren't even visual guides out yet for anything, and we all know that only a very small percentage of players seems to be able to read written text

Even without reading its not hard to understand what is happening.

As we went into it on day one (blind run), we have beaten it in the second try.

[Culfinrandir]

Even without reading its not hard to understand what is happening.

As we went into it on day one (blind run), we have beaten it in the second try.

Yup, plus visual guides were on YouTube within a day to a few days depending on which floor. Written guides were on reddit within hours of 3.2 dropping.

[Dement]

honeslty, i've cleared this fight like 9 times now, and i still dunno what this tank swap mechanic is people keep mentioning ? >....>; ive never died in there, so i have no idea..

In the first phase, when he uses perpetual ray he gives a vulnerability debuff on the MT. The safe way to handle it is a tank swap and have the OT take over while the following two missiles land; however, most good tanks can just mitigate through it as long as the healers are on point. The only other tank mechanic really is that double rocket punch can be double tanked to split the damage.

[Ranox]

One safe way someone pointed out in DF (this was a good tank and was nice enough to share this with us) was to make a triangle in the middle with the markers for M4-A8 (however you wanna call it) to make the missiles and stacking a no brainer. MTank just stays in A while the rest stack in B or C, once the missiles come down move to the other mark and as soon as you do that you all should be stacked to share dmg, rinse and repeat. Been trying to explain this one to people as well but for some reason someone likes to remove those marks and use them to mark the adds, which you can easily just mention by cardinal points and assign one dps to each to clear them. Well, they'll learn it one day but for now it is scatter for their lives and hope to make it in time for the dmg sharing in DF.

Even when knowing the fights blunders can happen, patience is key in these.

[Almalexia]

Did you know that Enumeration is similar to The Avatar's Ballistic Missile?

You have to match the number of players in the AoE radius to the number of balls floating in the AoE graphic. If done correctly, the attack is harmless.

Too bad no one gives a shit and will continue to chase me around/bail out of the radius.

[Kurogaea]

it's new? How about we not expect people to be flawless at content that's only been out a few days?

Thank you. I was almost certain there was no hope for this community, I see the light now ( *o*)

[Dramatic]

I still don't know what to do when the AoE circles and Arrow drop at the same time in A8 last phase.
For some reason I always die.
It's super confusing. At this point I think it's because I'm going in front of him and getting hit with something, but I still can't be sure. Thankfully I'm the only one that dies.

What we do is stick a B market in front of the boss, an A marker to the right side, and have the tanks opposite B with the boss facing them (back to us obviously). Everyone stand at B to bait the AoE's there, as soon as the markers appear and someone is targeted for the damage share we all run to A to avoid AoE and soak damage. Once the shared damage has been spread run directly through the boss to avoid his laser/beam attack and scatter to avoid the jump. When he's back in position return to B and repeat.

[MXMoondoggie]

Did you know that Enumeration is similar to The Avatar's Ballistic Missile?

You have to match the number of players in the AoE radius to the number of balls floating in the AoE graphic. If done correctly, the attack is harmless.

Too bad no one gives a shit and will continue to chase me around/bail out of the radius.

I figured that out on the first day and still people don't handle the mechanic correctly. I'll usually go inside and the person runs off or somebody else decides to get inside it and hurt us all. It doesn't really kill the person in the normal mode so nobody seems to care about it but I'm sure on savage it'll probably one shot a person if they fail to get the correct number. It adds a debuff also so people shouldn't be ignoring such an easily done mechanic if people could learn to count.