Alexander!. Thoughts on difficulty? and endgame. [possible spoilers]

[Khalithar]

Got to turn 4 but can't beat it. The healing check is kicking the ass of the pugs in the DF! Also, I don't know if it's a bug, but as a tank I keeping getting pulled in to that side room to kill the add over and over again. I know it's an intended mechanic, but I mean I'll land on the ground, start running towards the leg and get pulled back in immediately before I can even do anything. There's no way that it can be intended to be that fast.

[lololink]

I know it's an intended mechanic, but I mean I'll land on the ground, start running towards the leg and get pulled back in immediately before I can even do anything. There's no way that it can be intended to be that fast.

Can't be, unless DPS on the add is very very low ( but then the tank would die )

[Onikimaru]

It is faceroll. Cleared it in a few tries in duty finder but honestly.. I dont mind. I will finally be able to fully enjoy hard raids without being afraid of casuals trying to force SE to nerf it.

That makes no sense since alex is already a nerfed coil.

[Reaperking386]

The new raid seems to have some real challenging bosses for the short bit; Not like wow's raid finder which some players stated that it was like it. I really enjoy it and enjoy the zone.

[Airget]

This version of Alexander is designed to be forgiving, so the mechanics aren't as perfectionist as Coil was when it first came out.

Now this is only my guess but for 1st stage, be prepared for 4 laser sights, 1 DPS grabbing each add and killing all 4 before the bombs touch down. That's one mechanic difference that might occur in the harder one on top of other mechanics they may throw in much like how Hard Mode and Extreme Mode tend to have new mechanics added on top of what they normally do.

[Nektulos-Tuor]

Its pretty hard when you pug it. I did it 17 times already and cleared the first floor. <3

[Mirakumi]

Floor 1 - npnp. It's only bad when someone doesn't get the add in beam properly. My heals they BURN.
Floor 2 - Basically Coil t4 in a nutshell. Ez mode
Floor 3 - By far my favorite one. Just lots of mechanics and I've always been a fan of negative/positive since Thaddius from Naxx. (Yes WoW reference deal with it lol)
Floor 4 - Endurance Fight - I like it just requires 100% attention. It's hard I honestly can't wait to see this fight Savage. ;o Judgement on Healers/I like this Mechanic lol

[Dualblade]

F1: Easy once you know how to position the adds with the missles. Geir helps me get two of em on me for that part which helps. Gonna assume four missles for Savage mode.

F2: Easy so long as the tanks pick u pthe extra adds and split up the big ones right at the end. Stil can't figure out recharge for some reason but the mech is fun! Also great area for Range/Mage LB

F3: Probably the hardest one IMO, atleast in getting used to it. First thing I did was jump into the electricity to see what happened~

F4 Loved the music, not too hard if you don't have too much melee since its easier to spread out that way. Getting sucked up really got me though, thought we failed!

[AlphaFox]

I'd say the challenge is fair, at most with PUGs, we wiped about 2/3 times on the 1-3. The 4th one took us 4/5 wipes but we eventually nailed it down with no issue, with 2 ASTs I might add (cus I keep seeing people rejecting ASTs cus they suck around my server)

[Krr]

If you've played Second or Final Coil pre-Echo, all of the stuff in Alex is going to be faceroll content. For people who are new to raiding or can't raid on a schedule, Alex NM is honestly a decent entry point - the fact that it's solo queuable in DF seems almost a deliberate design to draw in players who wouldn't normally raid. The mechanics aren't terribly punishing as a whole but a few core (and easy to screw up) items are very, very difficult to recover from, and the fights themselves have (or teach) interesting dynamics that entry raiders need to know.

DFing this stuff is going to be very hit or miss once the Big Deal raiders move on, and when you're running at the front of the pack it's easy to forget that there are players behind you not anywhere near as skilled as the prog raiders already farming for their armor pieces in preparation for Savage.