Lessons from the past

[JunseiKei]

Joining Dun Scaith in progress on the third boss Scathach. The raid chat was complaining that dun saith had rolled their mentor roulette. If your a mentor then play pretend that it's day 1 3.5 and explain what Scathach does. Instead this nightmare ended before anything could be explained because of vote abandonment.

It takes a while to explain the main things the boss does and a lot of people don't want to wait patiently. Having actually done explaining with trying to keep things crisp and simple, a lot of it will still get forgotten or ignored.

After something like 3 attacks, Scathach does an AoE around her that melee should run out of her range for; there's no cast.

When she pushes you back, make sure to stay away from her should she teleport to you- her next AoE indicator is fast and will give a stacking debuff as well as hurt pretty hard.

Thirty Souls is a raid wide AoE and can hurt.

Sometimes there is a slowing debuff that also comes with a DoT. This can spell doom to those with it and Thirty Souls is cast (I've seen this claim a lot of people, especially if DPS is slow, she starts casting this combination a lot). Only solution I've found is to power heal through it.

Shadespin is always safe on rear and one of the positionals. Once you figure out which flank is safe, it doesn't change until you recommence the fight.

(See where the circle breaks on the striking dummy? A lot of people apparently don't know this, but that's where it indicates where rear ends and flank begins. You don't need to stand directly to the back, left or right to get those positions.)

Those are the main things I see killing people. To be fair though, I've not seen a vote abandon much in Dun Scaith unless all three alliances are fairly bad at handling mechanics. It's not like Ozma where one raid dead, or one tank, probably means you'll wipe unless the people with the mechanics actually know how to compensate.

As for dungeons, on the flip side, people can also ask for slow and steady preemptively. I've seen a few ask, both for slow and if it was okay to speedrun.

[Ilenya]

Sometimes there is a slowing debuff that also comes with a DoT. This can spell doom to those with it and Thirty Souls is cast (I've seen this claim a lot of people, especially if DPS is slow, she starts casting this combination a lot). Only solution I've found is to power heal through it.

To answer this, you don't move when the floor changes colors. Anyone who moves gets the debuff.