Pharos Sirius

[kukurumei]

Actually, the first boss is remarkably easy if you do everything the rest of the game has told you not to do to beat it. Namely, take your sweet, sweet, sweet time.

The adds spawn based on % of health of the boss, from what we could tell, and it very quickly becomes overwhelming when before you realize it, there might be 8 zombies running around, along with the mechanics of the debuff stacks and the aoe circles and whatnot. The trick is... TAKE IT EASY on the boss. Just let the tank hit the boss for a lot of the time. Have DPS only worry about the adds as they come, and only touch the boss once the room is clear. Seems like the adds put debuffs on the tank when the tank tries to pick up any of the adds, so the tank should only ever bother with the boss. Long as the tank hugs the wall when the Giga Smash or whatever it is comes in so the knockback isn't a problem (it barely hurts, too), it's a very easy fight. It's all about slow and very steady, not trying to force through it. My group learned that the hard way after the first 3 wipes. When we scaled everything back and took it as a slow burn, it felt effortless and we were shocked by the difference.

That is so not the strat to beat it. it risky bet to do it that way, and the dogs give whoever their opponent is the stack.

I'm sure people will get the trick eventually on the 1st boss.

[Avalon_Albrook]

That is so not the strat to beat it. it risky bet to do it that way, and the dogs give whoever their opponent is the stack.

I'm sure people will get the trick eventually on the 1st boss.

Three runs in a row doing it resulted in three very easy and painless kills. Wasn't risky for us at all.

[kukurumei]

Three runs in a row doing it resulted in three very easy and painless kills. Wasn't risky for us at all.

If you're ilvl70+ then of course you can. There's a lot more optimal strategy though. For one thing, stuns do full length on dogs don't you know. With some things our side is still trying to get down, you can go through the 1st boss with less then 2 stacks, resulting in less then 1k damage on counter hit (the ones that aoe burst your stacks)

In fact you can probably get it down to no stacks, if you bring the healer into the dps (which you can totally can) You can totally down both dogs before stun wears off, resulting in no stacks, or 1