A Visual Guide to the Bone Dragon in Crystal Tower

[Timethiuas]

Every time we have done the dragon, and I have tanked him a couple of times, we pulled him to the North Wall. I have NEVER seen him tanked in the middle. It may just be the way our group of servers does it, but it works, which makes it viable. And just because SE thinks it should be done one way doesn't mean the populace will find another way to effectively do something. For an example, just look at Ninja in FFXI. SE was very surprised it became a tank, since it was never intended to be.

[File2ish]

Every time we have done the dragon, and I have tanked him a couple of times, we pulled him to the North Wall. I have NEVER seen him tanked in the middle. It may just be the way our group of servers does it, but it works, which makes it viable.

I've never seen it tanked on the north wall. In my server group it's always been in the middle in every CT run I've done. But if it works there's no problem with it, might confuse a lot of people who have never seen it tanked at the far wall. I'm sure there have been tanks who tried to rip hate and pull it back into the middle lol.

[Roris]

I for one am glad to be in a sensible data center that tanks it in the middle and have only seen this exactly twice the very first week it launched.

[Versiroth]

I for one am glad to be in a sensible data center that tanks it in the middle and have only seen this exactly twice the very first week it launched.

Haha, sensible? I've never seen Bone Dragon tanked in the middle and I've also never wiped on this boss. Tanking it on the far wall can't be bad if it works flawlessly. I've tanked, healed and DPSed (melee) and it's simply not an issue tanking it north.

[Leash]

Haha, sensible? I've never seen Bone Dragon tanked in the middle and I've also never wiped on this boss. Tanking it on the far wall can't be bad if it works flawlessly. I've tanked, healed and DPSed (melee) and it's simply not an issue tanking it north.

I normally Tank CT and this strategy has never failed for me as well. I've only been in one group where we wiped at bone dragon and that due to a troll tank.


Regardless, both strategy works. Every data center does it slightly different.

[KogaDrake]

8 paths, not 6 or 10 as ppl show here.

Tank north, skells E SE S SW W and the last one S but closer to middle. Melee pick one and burn before leaves the platform, then burn the 2 on south that are always fallowing on a platform, and ranged focus the other 3 with melee help as they cross over a platform. not hard, just bad DPS dont know what to attack (i.e. ranged burn melee friendly ones 1st or melee focus ones sitting in poison)

Tank Middle face NNE, skells E SE S SW W NW, DPS burn them all. (if DPS not split even less time for melee to run between skells = higher chance of bomb skelle in average DF group)

middle = less time to kill and higher chance of people getting hit by dragons cones/fears

I have done it both ways, and personally it is easier with the dragon moved to the north. give me a full FC group all geared and I may say the middle is better, but with randoms in DF in spiritbind gear and half afk since all randoms and dont care about rep with people they dont see regularly, i'll take the north ever time as it is harder to mess up imo.

[BotenAnna]

It doesn't make sense though, why make your bad DD in spiritbond gear run around and take poison damage?

[KogaDrake]

It doesn't make sense though, why make your bad DD in spiritbond gear run around and take poison damage?

They don't.. example, melee split evenly on W and E skel. they die before they leave platform, melee then run to middle focus middle/S, then kill one from S, all running was along platforms. ranged focus the SE and SW that have bad running paths for melee, and melee help as they cross paths where it is safe (each has at least 3 melee safe spots before getting to dragon).

[Pseudopsia]

I find it humorous this discussion is still going for an extremely simple fight where the only real key to win is you don't stack skeletons.

[Mycow8me]

Technically taking the boss far north and taking skellies far south to separate pads gives more room for error in terms of how long you can DPS them before they get to dragon. Whether or not its more of a benefit when dealing with the poison pool depends on how well the healers deal with it and the melee care enough to atleast DPS off the poison as much as possible.

It's a matter of opinion mostly.

* if say for some reason SE decided to up the poison damage to say 300-500 a tic, I think people would definitely only use the circle strategy.