Snowcloak first boss

[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.

[Shougun]

I would love to know how some people dodge it, I imagine they offset the stacks with some mechanic (probably RNG, SE loves them some RNG) just so the whole party does not shutdown at the same time.

Normally I just throw my weak stoneskin* on the healer if they're new/barely geared, pop a defense cooldown and patiently wait it out.


*(It has made a few fights that would have normally been wipe, not complaining everyone is new/undergeared at some point but.. lol thank goodness for that extra help to others)

[Raucent]

to prevent the freeze you need to be moving near the end of the casting/a few secs after the cast bar is finished.

[Alukah]

So apparently this was "fixed", yet it's still 50% work chance for me...

[AdamFyi]

So apparently this was "fixed", yet it's still 50% work chance for me...

Last I've tried, you have to be moving during the animation until you see the damage show up.

[Alukah]

Last I've tried, you have to be moving during the animation until you see the damage show up.

Two runs so far and managed to avoid every single freeze, this worked 100%.

[Fyrebrand]

I've only done Snowcloak once, but what I was told is that you have to move around to avoid getting the debuff. Seemed to work for me. I only ended up getting one stack, when I was late on the timing.

You may have to start moving a little early, and stop moving a little late, just to be safe. Whether that's how the mechanic works, or it's lag/latency, who knows. But I really don't think it has anything to do with proximity to allies or the boss, or RNG, or damaging the boss, etc.