QARN HM Final Boss - Red Beam Mechanic

[Armell]

Hey guys,

Absolutely love the Qarn HM dungeon, and I've ran it a total of three times now. However, after my third encounter, I came across a mechanic I hadn't seen before in the other runs. The boss will suddenly conjure up a red laser on a random player, and follow them around the room. Eventually, that red laser will give you 4 stacks of the Mummy debuff, and immediately turn you into a mummy. I've tried looking around on the net but can't seem to find a solution. Any ideas on how to take on this mechanic?!

[BrielleBeaudonet]

EDIT: Apparently it's not based on whether someone was mummified earlier in the fight, as was my initial observation.

Orig: I've seen this. It happened on a run where nobody got mummified from the sarcophagi, but it did not happen in a fight where I had earlier been mummified. This makes me think it's an attack that's only used if nobody has been mummified yet, as a way to ensure the party has to deal with it at least once.

I couldn't see any way to avoid or break it--from my view as the tank, he aggroed to the healer and repeatedly applied stacks until the healer was mummified. It happen very quickly, and there was no obvious way to intervene, so I don't think you can.

[Estellios]

^^^
This is incorrect. It's just something that may be able to happen later in the fight regardless if someone has become a mummy yet or not.

It also does not take you fully to 4 stacks, on our first run it targeted me and brought me to 2 before stopping. I'm assuming damage or some other mechanic stops it. Damage makes the most sense if people claim not seeing it since maybe they are stopping it before it's noticeable.

[Estellios]

After running it a bit more, I think I figured out what may be happening.

When someone becomes a mummy, the boss's AI changes temporarily and he will walk around to attack people randomly (I'm assuming this is so it's not a guaranteed wipe if the tank or healer get mummified). I think the one time he stopped doing the red beam on me someone might have become a mummy which interrupted his current actions so he would go off to attack people randomly. It also might be why some people never see it, it might be some mechanic that happens after no one has been mummified for an extended period of time, and if people are getting mummified on occasion (my FC is pretty lazy with dodging mummies since it's pretty funny) you don't see the red beam happen at all since his script keeps getting interrupted.

[Kletian]

I had it happen to me (as the tank) three times. I was the only person to turn into a mummy. Definitely can't outrun or stun it, so I'll try standing still to see if DPS helps.

[Pterois]

maybe it is just another means to get you to turn into a mummy... lets say you narrowly escaped the wall but with 2 stacks, now your fine until you get hit with the laser which is gonna finish the job.

was thinking maybe there is a way to swap it to someone else "hot potato" style?

[Kletian]

It's fast, it's zero to 4 in less than 10 seconds.

[Xaphire]

Yeah, I've had this mechanic push me from zero stacks to four. I have no idea what to do about it.

[Ignnis]

He kept doing this to me if the tank got mummified. It might be random or they might purposely go for the healer like Fenrir in the new dungeon if everyone gets frozen.