Coil Turn 1 - Dirty Cannons

[dimsumdarren]

hey guys. Some advice please.

ADS fight, turn 1.

The adds I'm tanking at the back, they use a virtually instant cast aoe called Dirty Cannon, that hits for like 5-6k....almost always insta-kills me. I'm a warrior with almost 8k health, but combined with the other damage, its sometimes an insta-wipe....sometimes I get lucky...can't tell which particular node it comes from, seems like it can randomly come from any of the adds...any advice?

I tried just kiting...too hard to hold aggro when everyone is pounding on it...I tried doing run-by skills, hitting it as I strafe by, but that only misses me 50% of the time.


thanks

[Burritoboy]

You should tank ADS and if there is a Paladin in your group have them tank the adds in the back.

[Vodomir]

I tried just kiting...too hard to hold aggro when everyone is pounding on it...I tried doing run-by skills, hitting it as I strafe by, but that only misses me 50% of the time.

Why is everyone pounding on them? You can just have the off-tank grab the adds and tank them as far away from the ADS as possible. Everyone else just focusses on DPSing down the ADS. You can then do the kiting thing once you've established some solid aggro (only need to worry about healers, as DPS won't build up any aggro on the adds this way). Burn your cooldowns while doing it. If your DPS is alright, the ADS should be down before things start to get messy for you.

[Brannigan]

Only one of the nodes uses that skill, and iirc it's always right after it uses Repelling Cannons. Stay out longer/back up again right after repelling.

I want to say it's the patrol node but it's been a while.

[saber_alter]

from what i'm aware patrol node does use only "diry cannons"

i don't know the timing for it, so i am forced to eat them...it takes some time after the repelling cannons before it uses them, so i don't think its a good idea its a good idea to get chased by it for the time it takes for it to use it.

as everyone else said, just have a paladin tank it. our cooldowns makes it easier for us.

[Addonex]

Above posters are correct, the node that uses this attack is the Patrol Node. From my experience, they only use it as a follow-up attack about 2-3 seconds after Repelling Canons. Once you see them use that ability, you need to be ready to already be moving. Since you don't exactly have a whole lot of kiting room, try ducking out of Repelling Canon, run back in and get another hit in on the mob, then dart back out until you see Dirty Canon go off.

Addonex

[Vodomir]

You should tank ADS and if there is a Paladin in your group have them tank the adds in the back.

as everyone else said, just have a paladin tank it. our cooldowns makes it easier for us.

That only works out if you go with either 2 Bards or at least one Monk (who knows what he is doing) though, otherwise the PLD needs to stay with ADS for the silence.

[dimsumdarren]

thanks for help, was mostly to confirm that its the patrol node that does the dirty. Guess i'll do my half kite/half strafe tanking on the patrol node and fingers kinda crossed

[poh]

Its the patrol node and its dirty bombs, when it spawns the main tank on ADS pops cooldowns and both healers focus the off tank. Dps is strong so its usually dead within the cooldown. Good luck!

[Zdenka]

I don't remember Dirty Cannons doing 5-6k damage.... as I've been hit by it on MNK and lived when we used to kill the baby nodes. Perhaps its a split damage move.