Snowcloak first boss

[Parodine]

I had really tried looking up how to avoid this early on when it came out, but I totally forgot after getting Qarn for every Expert roulette since. ._.;

A lot of people swear by the moving thing. Someone also tried to emphasize that they stacked under the boss to avoid it.

As a healer, it was incredibly frustrating to keep getting frozen. I haven't tried either out to confirm though.

[jars]

moving while he casts it does not work. it seems totally random. I throw up whispering dawn before the freeze goes off and it's largely ignorable though.

[Animarelic]

Something I noticed is when he's casting if the party does a good amount of damage to him during it, no one ever freezes but if we are split fighting or slow on bombs it seems like someone always freezes.

[kyuven]

i've had some groups actively stagger who gets frozen stacks so as few people are frozen at any given time as possible.
basically if the healer and tank can control WHEN they get frozen, it gets a bit easier.

[TheCurls]

I haven't had the chance to test it out, but someone told me it's like T5's twisters. Moving works, but you can't cross anyone's path. Maybe it works, maybe it doesn't.

Or maybe it's like one boss in Qarn and one boss in Sastasha where you deal enough damage to break them out of it. It would fit the theme they have going.

[Cyrusskorrey]

My methods for avoiding it are moving when casting, and if im going to get frozen i force a stack and get frozen early so i can heal everyone else when they freeze

[Garotte14]

Ok so I don't have 100% confirmation on this, but have tried it several times and it seems to work. During the cast I turn away from the boss and keep facing away through the animation. Much like Petrifaction in T7. I don't know if you have to be facing away during the cast bar or the actual snow animation, but this has worked for me everytime. Again this is not confirmation, just what I have been doing.

[LunarEmerald]

I can move the entire fight and stilk get stacks and be frozen. There's definitely more to the mechanic than move.

[Valcro]

Something I noticed is when he's casting if the party does a good amount of damage to him during it, no one ever freezes but if we are split fighting or slow on bombs it seems like someone always freezes.

If anything I tend to believe this theory. My FC groups just power through this boss no problem so I'm not overly worried about figuring it out. At first we got frozen a lot when it was new to us. Now we rarely get frozen. *shrug* it's something. I don't think it's RNG, at least not 100% of it. It's probably a DPS/gear check of sorts.

[Sparktacus]

As a healer, it was incredibly frustrating to keep getting frozen. I haven't tried either out to confirm though.

It is very predictable as a healer when you are about to be frozen, when you see anyone at 3 stacks just toss up Regen +Medica 2 or rouse + Whispering Dawn.