A Visual Guide to the Bone Dragon in Crystal Tower

[am0n]

And by the way, jumping doesn't dodge poison or anything else in the game for that matter.

Actually, it kind of does. It's the same issue with PvP. When you jump, the game doesn't track your position in the air. It assumes you are still where you were before you jumped, until you land and the game updates. So, if you jumped from a platform into the poison and then run to the next platform, you'll be hit for fewer ticks of poison, versus running the whole way. You can see this also if you jump from the poison to the platform; you'll actually take poison damage as you are in the air over the platform, because the game still believes you are standing in the poison.

Also why you shouldn't jump during plumes on Titan.

[StouterTaru]

That's exactly the point. Compare the two images and tell me which strat forces melee into poison. It's not rocket science.

By melee you must mean monks, because everyone else has ranged attacks. They have so little HP that there is no reason to chase them through poison with 20+ people attacking 6 of them.

ps - there are 8 rows, not the 6 in your pictures

[Dano]

That's exactly the point. Compare the two images and tell me which strat forces melee into poison. It's not rocket science.





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this... first picture makes much more sense

[Eardstapa]

I have only ever seen the tank it in the center method, and incidentally, just as you all claim, "Ran it in the north, never wiped. Pro tanking method, GOML!" I have yet to wipe within the center... And to anyone saying the cone is an issue, if this game has taught us ANYTHING, it is that you do NOT stand in front of 99% of the enemies tanks are tanking due to cleaves. Every group I run with stays to the side/rear of the dragon after the adds are dead, and it is burnt through easily... To each their own however.

[ispano]

I have only ever seen the tank it in the center method, and incidentally, just as you all claim, "Ran it in the north, never wiped. Pro tanking method, GOML!" I have yet to wipe within the center... And to anyone saying the cone is an issue, if this game has taught us ANYTHING, it is that you do NOT stand in front of 99% of the enemies tanks are tanking due to cleaves. Every group I run with stays to the side/rear of the dragon after the adds are dead, and it is burnt through easily... To each their own however.

That's part of it though, since NO one should be in front of him besides the tank, why have all the open space? Back up against the wall and there's more room for them to run, more time to DPS them or in short, more breathing room. Running around in poison to DPS them during that phase is nothing since that's pretty much the only damage there is until he gets back up.

[Ricky]

This guy is so easy he does not require a diagram but thanks

[Kewitt]

I only thing is pulling bone dragon on 3 round to one of the edge so that eyes don't pop near it.

Also no medica II, No Regen.

Off tanks don't fight over skillets

[Neri]

Does it really matter which strategy is best though? Might as well just learn the 2 ways and adapt to it and let the main tank decide which way he wants to do it.

But anyway since we are already in this topic, I have a question about before the dragon use his massive cone, you will heard some sort of lock out sound or something, and an icon will pop up above the main tank. What does that icon do?

[mindful]

Are data center will just most of the time have the main tank that is going tank behmoth later on ,pull the dragon north with there main healer if that pair can not do it then time get a new pair, and then all the tanks stand on the platforms were the skellys spawn and tank skellys and kill them, and all healers stand in the middle to keep eye on the tanks that are not so good, and dd spread out some, and 2 to 4 dd attack the dragon the rest just sit back make sure skellys dead, then go dd the dragon real fast from behind till next wave of skelly, then after the 3 rd time everyone mages included just nuke the crap out of the dragon real fast. less drama. down the road.

[Velveteer]

I never knew about tanking bone dragon at the center since the runs I've been in have tanked him at the north.
And as a melee I just stick to the tank that's on skeleton duty.