A Visual Guide to the Bone Dragon in Crystal Tower

[permbanned]

So many people talking about meelees an dps standing in poison, you all have a jump button you know, an the platforms arent even that far apart, much less only has poison in it for a small portion of the fight.

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





Not to mention it's more of a pain in the ass for melee on the dragon as well with the tiny little space they get to work around with. I've done both strats and center tank is by far the most popular on my datacenter and I'm grateful for that. Most people /facepalm when they see someone pull him to a wall, myself included.

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

[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?

[Snorgrind]

The ones who continue to stay in the middle are the ones who don't pay attention and die anyways.

i always stay in the middle cuz ancient flare only hits for 9999 so with 10k+ hp its not problem, sadly he cant be targeted or dmged in that phase

[am0n]

Never saw a main tank holding the Bone Dragon in the middle, it's always North platform.

I've never seen anything but the main platform.

And it's always been easy.

[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.

[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.

[Zeille]

As someone who has healed this fight too many times, it is not difficult to pop a regen/cure on a DD who has to run into the poison.

The fight as a whole isn't difficult for healers, at all. So, not really sure why that's being thrown out as downside of pulling him to a wall.

This fight is a snooze fest even if your tank is the MT.

[Colt47]

I've never seen anyone on Balmung tank the dragon on the north wall. I feel especially glad I've never had this happen.