Different boss strategies on different data centers

[Ooshima]

It's not everyone on NA. Just some... special people. xD

Unfortunately, most of the weirdest stories comes from either NA servers or EN speaking players

For CT, I've actually never seen anything other than taking bone dragon at the center.

I'm from the Elemental Data Center which is the JP servers, and the JPs themselves are mostly so organized that things only goes wrong once in a blue moon, and you can clearly guess which player screwed up (yeah, usually the special ENs).

It has always been like that. Whenever I enter CT or ST and I checked the party list to see a team of EN players, I knew something will go wrong somewhere. 99% accurate.

Last night, in a single ST run:

1st boss: you can surely expect daybreak to petrify everyone else. the other two alliance went downhill and at least 75% of their members died. Left with my alliance with 6 people being whacked all over by adds and boss and maintained by me (SCH) and my other WHM partner. Eventually the WHM caught aggro and died and left me to solo heal. And when I got targeted by the ice, I walked to my team mate with the fire and he bloody ran away from me to the other end of the arena. Seems like he wanted the last standing healer to die as well. Thank the twelve the boss was only left with 1-2% and we won eventually with less than 8 persons total standing.

2nd boss: a simple job of pulling and tanking your own clockwork knight at the correct spot to kill it went wrong, one of them came and killed my EoS.

Last boss: After clearing the starfall circle thingy, everyone was nicely near the center waiting for Xande to return and anticipate that grey ball thing and stack to soak the damage. Casted Sacred Soil (nothing to spend Aetherflow on anyways) and covered everyone just nice. Oh well guess what? That player who got the grey ball runs all the way to the edge of the arena for god forsaken reason. LOL we just let him die there.

[Gilthas]

EU Datacenter here, did this fight like 10 times, no one ever tanked it in the middle.

Did this fight on the Chaos (EU) datacenter too, at the very least some 20 times. I've only seen the dragon being tanked in the middle once, and that generated a lot of people yelling at the tank until a second one voked it off and placed it in the north.

[Shougun]

Imo a lot of the issues I'm seeing pop up here are experienced players impatient with inexperienced players. I've done the tower quite a bit (both towers) and its all extremely easy, middle tanking and all.. half the time I explain the fights in alliance because a new person and then we win.. every time.

[Grembo]

Yeah Chaos has always done it in the middle.

I've seen the OP's situation many times in many different instances and always put it down to an over reliance on video guides.

It feels like 99% of the player base over on the EU and NA servers don't actually learn the fights or pay attention to the mechanics, they just do Mr Happy's dance routine and expect the other 7 people in their party to be doing the same

...if these kind of players even catch a glimpse of an alternative strat, their poor brains just explode.

[Gilthas]

Yeah Chaos has always done it in the middle.

Um, no it hasn't.

[Grembo]

Um, no it hasn't.

Lol, I actually meant North.

Reading through these 4 pages implanted 'middle' into my brain I guess :/

[Urielparadox]

Ive seen the dragon tanked far north 1 time and it was the mostly pointless, stupid and annoying way to do the fight. the dps are literally(not figuratively) running for over 30 seconds to be able to hit the boss, then 15-30 seconds to get to an add, it's just impractical. I think the problem here is it doesn't matter where you tank the dragon just stack the skeletons properly, so they compensate for it by tanking the dragon in a God awful place.

[Anarnee]

O_O Woah that's so weird... I just can't imagine the dragon not being in the center. I've done CT at least 50 times, I love it, and I've only ever seen tanked in the middle.

[Dhex]

This was a topic when CT came out.

Some centers fought it in the center and others did the typical pull it to the edge of the arena like you do with most dungeon encounters and many of the Primals.

Does it matter? No.

Are people inflexible? Yes.

Ragnarok did it on the North point last time I was there - Sargatanas fought it in the center - Excalibur seems to do either or.

/shrug