Quote Originally Posted by Azbroolah View Post
I don't think it's fair to tell them "Divide by x" or whatever because that's not what the boss actually does. He uses an ability called "Divide by x," which is the cast bar, while explicitly saying (in chat as well as an onscreen pop-up) "Calibrate vitals to multiples of x." He literally tells you what to do if you read -- it's not like you have to "figure it out" beyond finding out that standing in the circles changes your hp.

Also, how does a group of math majors think that 1 is a prime number? I have a hard time believing that any competent math major wouldn't understand the fundamental theorem of arithmetic well enough to know that 1 isn't defined to be prime.

First I went with what exactly the boss said with “divide” and his exact quotes just to see what they thought of the actual fight. Like an experiment it is best to go with what actually happened not what should happen.

I told them after a few minutes that it does not actually mean that.

And it seems possible to believe that when you have been being lazy all summer.

Just because we are math majors does not mean we don’t make mistakes haha. And 1 does generally seem like a number that would be prime even though by definition it is not.

My point is they understood the arithmetic, but got confused by the boss’ wording. Once they understood what was actually wanted, they did fine.