Preliminary patch notes are up

[Alahra]

Edit: Nvm. I misread and thought bismarck was requiring i175 xD not Ravana. That makes more sense then, even if Bismarck is still only 10 ilvls below the drop ^^;

Yes, Bismarck is one of the few outliers, but the DPS requirements in Bismarck are fairly stringent (more so than Ravana's, in my experience), so I'm not surprised it has a relatively high requirement.

[Noxifer]

Yes, Bismarck is one of the few outliers, but the DPS requirements in Bismarck are fairly stringent (more so than Ravana's, in my experience), so I'm not surprised it has a relatively high requirement.

TBH, I didn't think so; the only reasons I've ever seen an auto-wipe* in Bismarck was due to adds being neglected because of everyone going "oooh, look, a whale to ride!" and consequently leaving them to break the island. But I'll say that I still have very little clue how to recognize the weather patterns and that I'd be lost if I didn't have an FC mate do the weather call-outs o.o (I also still have problems with the doors in Lost City, unless that mechanic is skipped altogether ^^; So it's not necessarily that it's a difficult mechanic, only a type of mechanic that I personally have issues with.)

*) I first wrote 'hit enrage', but then realized that the whole island reaching 0 might not be the actual enrage, so I changed it ^^;

Most wipes I've seen on Bismarck was due to lacking DPS, with the others normally due to tank swap mixups during the serpent phase. That's just in my experience, of course.

Fair enough ^^ I haven't really seen that happen that much; I've only been told by people I've run with that unless the carapace breaks in at the most two goes, there's not enough DPS to clear it. In the beginning, that was tricky and it sometimes took two goes and a little bit due to the debuff (but it was good enough for practice and learning the mechanics, and we usually wiped due to everyone falling off or dying, not due to failing DPS checks, so...), so I guess if that's right it could be tricky with DF groups, when you can't be sure of how much practice they've had.

[Alahra]

TBH, I didn't think so; the only reasons I've ever seen an auto-wipe* in Bismarck was due to adds being neglected because of everyone going "oooh, look, a whale to ride!" and consequently leaving them to break the island.

Most wipes I've seen on Bismarck was due to lacking DPS, with the others normally due to tank swap mixups during the serpent phase. That's just in my experience, of course.