Snowcloak first boss

[Eidolon]

It really does feel like RNG-hell. Sometimes you won't get it while moving, sometimes you will. But I have no idea what causes you to get it vs. not get it. It definitely has something to do with either moving, or attacking the boss, or maybe both.

[Riepah]

Sometimes it almost seems like a good idea to intentionally get hit by something to be frozen earlier in the fight, in order to avoid randomly getting frozen when both bombs are up.

[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.

[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.

[Parodine]

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.

This issue that I've found is that if multiple people are getting frozen at once, or as luck would have it, the entire party, keeping up tank damage vs AoEs on everyone vs bombs is very difficult with regen healing. It's not an issue of predicting when I'm going to be frozen as much as it hoping that the AoEs that come about while frozen aren't life-threatening for the whole party.

I'd rather just avoid being frozen if it's possible to know how.

[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.

[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.

[Alukah]

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.

I doubt it, when someone manages to dodge it everyone else still gets stacks, so there's no way to fully interrupt it, only to dodge it.

[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.