so... how the hell do u beat captain madison in satasha hard?

[DarkStar]

Dunno if anyone grabbed by the Captain's Slave noticed, but you're not actually stunned, you just can't move. So long as the DPS and Tank keep the other adds off whoever's grabbed, there shouldn't be any trouble with that part of the fight.

The boss I had trouble with was the first one. Does anyone know if there's some sort of gimmick to the fight, or is it just a hardcore DPS race that you have to throw everything and the kitchen sink at in order to win? My only victory against it felt like complete and total luck...

[Ooshima]

Dunno if anyone grabbed by the Captain's Slave noticed, but you're not actually stunned, you just can't move. So long as the DPS and Tank keep the other adds off whoever's grabbed, there shouldn't be any trouble with that part of the fight.

The boss I had trouble with was the first one. Does anyone know if there's some sort of gimmick to the fight, or is it just a hardcore DPS race that you have to throw everything and the kitchen sink at in order to win? My only victory against it felt like complete and total luck...

Yes you are not stunned, but binded. It is just like the zombies during the Siren fight at Pharos Sirus, just binded to the floor.

But if your team mates doesn't stop the boss from firing his gun at you.. GG you are confirmed dead.

I recalled last night the boss fired like 10 plus shots at me and no, Cure II spam and Benediction won't save you because he will shoot you until you die if not stopped.

[Nghthawk]

Dunno if anyone grabbed by the Captain's Slave noticed, but you're not actually stunned, you just can't move. So long as the DPS and Tank keep the other adds off whoever's grabbed, there shouldn't be any trouble with that part of the fight.

The boss I had trouble with was the first one. Does anyone know if there's some sort of gimmick to the fight, or is it just a hardcore DPS race that you have to throw everything and the kitchen sink at in order to win? My only victory against it felt like complete and total luck...

From my exp as I just finished it a few minutes ago, it kind of sucks for /ra as trying to get out of range for his tail attack (forget the name of it). I found it easier to be right behind him so it was easier to straffe and around him so the move never went off.

[Evenstar]

The boss I had trouble with was the first one. Does anyone know if there's some sort of gimmick to the fight, or is it just a hardcore DPS race that you have to throw everything and the kitchen sink at in order to win? My only victory against it felt like complete and total luck...

He does a debuff on the MT and after a few seconds he stuns the person with that debuff. Another player (melee) should go hug the tank and get the debuff from the tank. This way the tank does not get stunned.

The huge damage move the boss does can be stunned, so that is why it is good to avoid the tank being stunned, so he is free to stun the boss

[AzakaTonnerre]

He does a debuff on the MT and after a few seconds he stuns the person with that debuff. Another player (melee) should go hug the tank and get the debuff from the tank. This way the tank does not get stunned.

The huge damage move the boss does can be stunned, so that is why it is good to avoid the tank being stunned, so he is free to stun the boss

The huge damage move also does not kill the person it hits (at least it didn't in any attempt we tried) if they have decent remaining HP. It literally leaves them with less than 100 HP's. What kills the person is that it poisons everyone before it does that move. So one click after the tail move they die from poison. When we won our healer just cast esuna on whomever the Tail move was going to hit (the are identified by a targeting line from the boss to whomever its attacking) before it landed. After the hit, she just casted cure to bring their HPs back up. It was easy that way (though I can see the possible difficulty identifying whom it was targeting).

*disclaimer: If I am wrong and we just got lucky I apologize to anyone for the repair costs they accrued attempting this.

[Tatsuo]

Good time to have your Paladin use Cover, it's quite useful there

[revonine]

For the second boss we could get 2 things to happen to get him to stop firing, the "oww that hurts" if you do enough damage to him and the "aaagh how did I miss". We could only get the first one to happen consistently. I have no idea how to make the second one happen :S

[Resolute]

Good time to have your Paladin use Cover, it's quite useful there

Yeah the only problem with that is in PUGs healers are probably not used to the tank actually using cover. I ran up to our healer and covered him but, since he knew he was being targeted, he kept healing himself and I died. Not sure how he didn't notice my health falling and throw me a heal but, oh well. :P

[NyarukoW]

Yeah the only problem with that is in PUGs healers are probably not used to the tank actually using cover....

Many things happen in PUGS. I've very rarely seen a tank use cover in PUGs, and none so far in Sastasha HM on the second boss. I even have trouble getting people to stay close and behind captain Madison. The question is how many effective ways are there to stop the musketfire?

[Resolute]

Many things happen in PUGS. I've very rarely seen a tank use cover in PUGs, and none so far in Sastasha HM on the second boss. I even have trouble getting people to stay close and behind captain Madison. The question is how many effective ways are there to stop the musketfire?

I think some of the other people have it right. The way to stop it is to damage him enough. Our problem was that everyone went for the adds when they popped instead of hitting the boss. We tried other things like trying to run around him but it doesn't seem like you can dodge the shots or anything like that.