Pharos Sirius

[Taika]

How does silence work exactly? Im on Monk and the only silence I have lasts 1 second which seems kind of worthless. is it supposed to be cast before a spell goes off, or can it be done in the middle of a cast

It interrupts the cast when used before the cast is finished. It's basically a stun but only works for certain abilities.

[Sebazy]

It's really not too bad, succor up constantly, stoneskin up as much as you can afford to keep it up, especially on yourself but the dps as well if you can manage it. For much of the time the curse won't even stick due to bouncing off the double shield. Don't be afraid to over heal, if you've got mp there be sure to use it.

[MrDiezel]

It interrupts the cast when used before the cast is finished. It's basically a stun but only works for certain abilities.

Ah. It seemed to never work before, but I guess i caught it late/ cast time was too fast. Thanks for the info

[Nailkita]

Ah. It seemed to never work before, but I guess i caught it late/ cast time was too fast. Thanks for the info

Note that the monk one also has to be in a certain stance to work, so you can't just use the ability you need to combo into the stance and then use it.

[Judge_Xero]

I don't believe you can Silence Lunatic Voice. Only stun works to interrupt it. If I remember correctly I moved to stun after silence did nothing for any skills in that fight.

[Nailkita]

I don't believe you can Silence Lunatic Voice. Only stun works to interrupt it. If I remember correctly I moved to stun after silence did nothing for any skills in that fight.

I've been running this fairly often with a Paladin and Bard and they both seem to be under the impression that silences work and I haven't seen a voice go off on siren since the first time I ran it and we were just learning the fight.

[cearka]

while not difficult if you know the tactics, I'm absolutely baffled as to how a party of i48s are supposed to clear this.

[Nailkita]

Yeah, we had a lot of pain points when I did this on an ilvl72 SCH - part of it does seem to be a lot of the mechanics can be pushed if you dps too fast, so maybe with slower dps the damage goes out slower. But, even my ilvl82 WHM was struggling on siren when we first went to the place and didn't know any of the mechanics.

[Kemiko]

I've done this dungeon a few times and have yet to actually complete it. No has I ever met in DF has ever bothered explaining much of anything, even when I asked them. You'd think after wiping for 35 minutes at Siren they'd be better inclined to explain how to best handle things.

As such, I'd like to confirm a few things I'm unsure of, even after reading here.

Charm affliction & Esuna/Leech
From the Healer that always goes with me they have told me that Esuna doesn't work. Does Esuna only work at certain instances of Charm? Does it work only during the countdown or only after the timer is over?

Lunatic Voice & Silence
I have a Bard that I bring with em regularly when tackling this Dungeon. Could someone confirm that Silence does in fact stop LV?

[Kemiko]

Darn you character limit

Continued

Siren's Charge
Now, this might just be me hitting lag spikes or something during my last run. I'm normally able to avoid this easily but during my last run I seemed to get hit by it regardless of where I was. I even, in fact, ran sideways with sprint and hit the wall before the charge went off (on my screen) and was still hit by it. Are there specific sweet spots to avoid it or was my connection just being a jerk that evening?