CopperBell Questions

[Maero]

Yes the blob needs to be on top of the red hill type thing so he can explode.
As a tank i mainly focused on the blob while the healer i believe triggered the explosions and other members took care of the adds.
This dungeon went by so fast i am actually surprised i remember it, lol

[Niwashi]

You do need to keep both or all four parts of the blob within the bomb's radius, but so long as the rest of your team leaves them alone (as the blobs can't be damaged at that point anyway) so they aren't attracting aggro, that's pretty easy to do. A few uses of flash should be enough to keep everything grouped nicely. If one of the blob parts starts heading off toward someone else, add in a shield lob to bring it back to you. The only thing the rest of your team should be doing while you get the bombs to split the blob into eight parts is to kill off any spriggan adds so they don't kill the bombs. (Of course, this depends on whether your teammates know how this fight works.)

The final boss fight isn't too hard to tank. Whichever strategy you use, success or failure will mostly come down to your DPS team. Can your DPS kill off the initial adds before they break the second wall, or can your DPS kill the boss before you're all overwhelmed by that second wall's adds. Of course, your own damage to the boss while you tank it also adds to that, but the challenge is in how much damage you're dealing more so than how much you're getting.

[CrisGer]

ok cool thamks that sounds very hopeful. I was kind of dreading this one. appreciate the help a lot.

[Akuha]

Conjurers can also push the adds away from the wall with Fluid Aura, buying you a few extra seconds if your DPS' damage is on the slow side.

[Orophin]

Just to answer your original question, the boss has a frontal cone attack that should mark the ground when it's being used. As others said, if for some reason you can't see the graphic, watch for the cast bar.

[CrisGer]

OK thanks all, heading in now

[Niwashi]

there's two tricks to the final boss. The first is to go all out on dps with the boss and ignore the adds. ...

The other trick is to tank the boss next to the second opening. Since the adds don't initially aggro on anyone, the dps can safely attack them. ... your melee dps to quickly kill the adds and then attack the boss.

I ran this last night on my archer and we used a combined approach suggested by the conjurer in our group. The lancer stayed on the boss the whole time, while I fought the adds emerging from the first wall. I was able to kill off the first several adds before I think it was about the fifth one that broke through the second wall. At that point I joined in the fight with the boss, but our lancer and gladiator had gotten him down to around 1/8 of his original health by that time, so the all-out DPS race didn't need to last very long.

[CrisGer]

Interesting strategy i will have to try that if the group wants to, was not able to do it last night as they closed for maintenance just as i got to the entrance to the mines The update sure made play smoother tho, it is nice.

[CrisGer]

It went well, thanks for a great team who knew what they were doing. The end boss battle went fast, we just worked on the main Enemy and ignored the Adds pretty much and it worked out fine. The blobs went pretty fast until i got killed due to a lag problem ..the healer and the two DPS guys got them all down and they were great. Lucky so many know what they are about here..and I am learning as fast as i can thanks for all the help here.

[CrisGer]

Finally made it thru, got a good group who knew what they were about and the Healer was especially good, so it went smoothly. The unexpected problem for me was severe lag so bad i could not move due to a runaway svghost on my own computer finally got it turned off and was able to do the final boss fight and we made it thru. the group was very nice about it all and i am glad to have made it thru the first three dungeons enoough to get on with my main story quest line. thanks for all the help here. The blobs went fast because the healer knew just what to do and i was able to flash spam them onto the hot spot. those big green blob monsters are sure icky...someone at SE has a good imagination.