Bone Dragon Trolling

[Icebrand]

Kind of tired of seeing end-game trolls wipe out the other teams by ignoring the Bone Dragon's mechanics in Labyrinth of the Ancients.

Would like to see it do more damage when you don't handle the Platinals correctly, garuanteeing a wipe if you miss more than 2 like it was when the content was originally implemented.

Can't think of a single reason why people shouldn't have to handle the mechanics the way they're supposed to.

[MilesSaintboroguh]

What are you talking about? I see people screw up this mechanic so much that wipes happen anyway. The only reason you think there should be a bigger punishment is because everyone is overgeared now. And even if people get by the bone dragon's mechanic, the later fights are more unforgiving.

[VanilleFang]

You're complaining about Bone Dragon? Try going an entire KB fight with the DoT constantly hitting. It frustrating as hell to have to run over and activate the tower as a healer, especially if Meteor is coming soon.

[MXMoondoggie]

Not always trolls some people are just that bad. Often get new people too since it's a quest to start off the whole CT chain which is why you often see the soldiery bonus in there. At a push when things go to hell the bone dragon damage can be healed through but depends if groups stack around healers. As for KB it's a frustrating fight in general when people don't understand what goes where and what tower they are on. Not just that but it's frustrating when you get dumb healers who don't understand to stack regen on the MT and keep an eye on their HP so he dies and KB kills everyone. If i don' see the same number of regens on the MT as WHMs in the raid i just want to punch whoever is slacking.

[Frost_Trunks]

I've seen many people ignore mechanics on this entire raid. Skellies on Bone Dragon, Bombs on every stage, people leaving the atomos platform, Adds on Thantos or people just DPSing boss without being "ghost" form and tanks not swapping, iron giants running amok, comets being placed on behemoth (which is useless), people ignoring claws or not running to the platforms on last boss. I know some people are new, but it's their responsibility to let the party know so they can get instructions. Only reason I run this is for the weekly. Otherwise <No Thanks>

CT is a cluster of bad players in all three instances quite often. It's nice when you get a good raid and people communicate and help one another instead of trolling and being a complete a$$hat. The past few instances of WoD have been so immature I have been tempted to stop running it.

[Nestama]

You're complaining about Bone Dragon? Try going an entire KB fight with the DoT constantly hitting. It frustrating as hell to have to run over and activate the tower as a healer, especially if Meteor is coming soon.

I think the tower automatically 'stops' itself when Meteor is being cast.

[Mykll]

This is what you get when:

1. People have not ran this place in a while and have forgotten mechanics.
2. Over inflated gear allows you to just not handle mechanics. Inflated health and healing power will let you survive.
3. Because of #2 new people coming in are not really learning the dungeon.
4. Those fairly late to the game only ran LotA once to unlock ST, so they then farmed ST endlessly.
5. Everything gets dumbed down to an aoe zergfest and trying to brute force your way through. As long as you win the fight who cares if half the raid is dead.

[MilesSaintboroguh]

And now there's people trying to speed run the towers and not even wait for other teams to catch up.

[BobbinT]

OP, you want mechanics to be punishable for more challenging effort right? What about the rewards for that? If for some reason I had to deal with more punishing mechanics, but can only get i80 armor loot against 7 other people, I'm not sure I want to do that.

Want more challenging content? Then give more rewarding effort.

Let's not make this become another hardcore-idiocy suggestion please. ^^;

[Parawill]

Just laugh it off. Every single time people die from an unexpected Ancient Flare (with TP users having to Sprint to platforms) in Crystal Tower, I laugh so damn hard. When World of Darkness' weekly quest first was done with my FC, we forgot about the pad mechanic completely with me screaming "WHERE'S THE PUDDLE?!"

Oh my gosh. So many laughs! *tear*