Quote Originally Posted by Sarcatica View Post
NidEX's adds are kinda strange. Physical doesn't do a lot of damage while Magical deals a shit tonnes after 1st stack. One way to solve if your DPS is too low is to kill the Falak (magical) first instead. This will 100% make it easier since Physical tank buster tickles like mosquito bites for first few stacking.
The problem with doing that is the physical add also has a magical attack, the miasma spit or whatever it does after the 3rd phys stack iirc, so if you swap from magical add to physical one while having magic resist down stacks, the spit will murder you. Safest way, in my opinion, is to kill the physical add first, while the tank with the magical snake takes 2 stacks, and uses Holmgang/HG/LD for the 3rd stack if DPS is low. First magical breath tickles, but the second one does around 33k dmg, so you want to double up on CDs for that, and depending on gear also have tank stance. 3rd breath you won't survive without cheating death.


Personally, I save Thrill + Vengeance or Rampart + Sentinel or Shadowskin + Shadow Wall for the 2nd breath while in DPS stance at i238. At lower gear levels I'd pair those CDs with tank stance.