Syrcus Tower 1st boss

[Eekiki]

Welcome to the dungeon that separates good players from the scrubs. This is a great thing. Please keep this up.

And, SE, for the love of GOD, do NOT make this and ANY of the new dungeon easier, like you did with Pharos Sirius, and number of others.

This this this a thousand million billion times this. I *love* the difficulty level on Syrcus Tower. There is plenty of other stuff in the game that caters to lazies and low IQs.

[Edli]

This this this a thousand million billion times this. I *love* the difficulty level on Syrcus Tower.

What difficulty. People have completed it on first day, with 23 complete strangers, with everyone being clueless to the fight.

Is that difficult? I imagine in a week when everyone is familiar with it, it will be a boring cakewalk.

[NyneAlexander]

Make no mistake everyone: I love the difficulty level too and am not shy towards mechanics that actually require thought. I just hate it when mechanics require thought and people don't think.

On the bright side, its very possible to do this entire raid with 2 parties because one is composed of total boneheads who end up totally dead the entire fight(s). I'm looking at you, Party A from primal data center at 11:30 PM EST last night!

[Suirieko]

Make no mistake everyone: I love the difficulty level too and am not shy towards mechanics that actually require thought. I just hate it when mechanics require thought and people don't think. !

Don't hate the game. hate the players.

[Andres_Lonegrief]

My FC first try ended with a vote abandon. We were all new and didn't know what to expect. An alliance member tried to explain everyone what we were supposed to do, unfortunately he was doing it during the fight so not everybody was able to pay attention. However, our second try was really smooth. When we cleared it we had still 40minutes and with no wipes at all.

I was surprised and pleased, I know that it will not be always like that but It really was fun and relaxing. Sometimes you can't just avoid being pissed off, but it is such a pity: it spoils your game experience regardless your "right" to feel frustrated or not.

[Moqi]

The first few times can be a bit confusing, it's only the second day and most people still haven't done it. I ran ST today for the first time. It was a very fun raid, but the first boss took me by surprise as well, and even though they had roughly explained the strat first, it still took a wipe to connect what was said in chat to what was happening on screen. Positioning is something that comes with practice.

[RyuDragnier]

TBH the first and 2nd bosses are the hardest of the tower. Bosses 3 and 4 are incredibly easy, and I'm surprised they weren't used as the first two bosses of the tower.

[Kuwagami]

Cleared the tower with 21/24 new players, one guys was explaining before each fight (even trash)


It went surprisingly well (even if it was totally hectic) :

=> 1st boss : one wipe the time to get the mechanics right. Then it was half "I know what to do" and half "OMG a fireball is coming gotta run", but we managed to live through till adds. Then we zerged it (multiple death but multiple epic raises and great tank swaps. I think the 3 of us died on that fight at some point, but thankfully we got back in right after).

=> 2nd boss : one wipe due to a robot going everywhere, the second time was cakewalk. People still going random but usually they became great bait for the small bots

=> 3rd boss : surprisingly, no error were made. At all.

=> 4th boss : We got some trouble with the black orbs and nearly wiped on 2nd teleport, but it was pretty good. Once more, we tanks had to rotate due to dropping dead (that guy hits like a truck seriously. If the raid takes idiotic damage, the tank is done for) but it went well.



TL;DR : you can pass the CT2 with around half the people knowing what they're doing as soon as at least 2/rd of the tanks and healers know what to do, in order to prevent stupid wipes.

[Kiara1]

Done it 6 times now to get any of the WHM gear but after 6th run I settled for the Caster Leggins. (Which btw don't match anything and they show too much. Why can't we just get cute skirts ()
Some runs were really smooth, not a single wipe, and some runs were horrible, wiped 3times at first and 3 times at the 2nd.
Sure everyone's new and that's fine. But when after two wipes ppl still don't go to the water aoe when he uses ancient flare, even I get a little frustrated.

I'd also like to add that I love the mechanics, they are really fun and a lot different from most of the other contents

[Orophin]

First boss definitely seemed like the most challenging. Liked the fact there were actually some T9 mechanics in there with the ice and fire.

I'm totally calling it Circus Tower from now on as well. The name will totally apply within a month when the place is constantly trolled.