Math Blaster is my new favorite boss

[Darric]

Math Blaster?
Cool, looks like i can finally use my secretly unlocked Arithmetician/Calculator job.

[Dualgunner]

Construct "Can't divide by four? Go tank the floor." 7.

Construct "If you don't know what numbers are prime you're not worth my time" 7

[Rhus]

One thing it shows is that a lot of people don't know what divisible by 4 and divide by 4 mean. Seems almost every time people are asking "WTF? how do I divide 3 by 4?" when that's not what was asked.

[RiyahArp]

when did everyone become such jerks? It's not the math, its the fact that you're asking people to DPS as well as do math with a moderate time limit. People also don't get that you are supposed to stand in one instead of tap it and keep adding numbers, as well as that you only add them, since the boss uses subtract and multiply. Some don't look at their HP because it's still at full and they miss the downgrading. People get it when you explain it, but its a bit annoying to see all the "durrr hurr stupid people" over an unusual mechanic the first week of the raid. And yes, i can do it fine.

I hope Yoshi adds this to savage with three digit totals and single digit primes as the pools you have to tap. Be forgiving of other people, don't crow over it, yeesh

[Reinha]

when did everyone become such jerks? It's not the math, its the fact that you're asking people to DPS as well as do math with a moderate time limit. People also don't get that you are supposed to stand in one instead of tap it and keep adding numbers, as well as that you only add them, since the boss uses subtract and multiply. Some don't look at their HP because it's still at full and they miss the downgrading. People get it when you explain it, but its a bit annoying to see all the "durrr hurr stupid people" over an unusual mechanic the first week of the raid.

Exactly, the maths part isn't the hard part. It's knowing that your HP has changed, that the circles add to your HP, that you have to stay in the circles, that outside of a circle can be the correct answer and that the boss is casting the opposite operation the player is supposed to use. Trying to read the instructions when the mechanic is already occurring (especially when it's not in your native language) means people will miss things and not understand how the mechanic works right away. When explained it's an easy mechanic to most people.

[Nora_of_Mira]

when did everyone become such jerks? It's not the math, its the fact that you're asking people to DPS as well as do math with a moderate time limit.

my last group fought him for 20+ mins so I do not believe (in god) there is any sort of DPS check.

[Tridus]

my last group fought him for 20+ mins so I do not believe (in god) there is any sort of DPS check.

The only DPS check is after the math, with the add phase. If you don't kill those fast enough to be able to escape, he wipes anyone still in the portal. If most of the group survives the math phase and a few people have the success buff, it's not a hard check. Woe be if half your group is dead, though.

[Avatre]

The only DPS check is after the math, with the add phase. If you don't kill those fast enough to be able to escape, he wipes anyone still in the portal. If most of the group survives the math phase and a few people have the success buff, it's not a hard check. Woe be if half your group is dead, though.

Yup...my party wiped there last night. Most of us DPS had died a few times by that point too(actually, almost the entire party had died 3+ times to MB).

[Vaer]

my last group fought him for 20+ mins so I do not believe (in god) there is any sort of DPS check.

There is an add phase but as long as one group gets out (it's like ozma, but after one group kills theirs they can leave) they can probably raise everyone else as his rotation after that repeats until he dies or everyone in the group is dead.

When I did it one group got blown up in there but we just eureka zombied the rest of the fight by raising people continually and chipping away at it's health until he died.

[Nora_of_Mira]

after that repeats until he dies or everyone in the group is dead.

When I did it one group got blown up in there but we just eureka zombied the rest of the fight by raising people continually and chipping away at it's health until he died.

yeah that's what I had to suffer as well. Doing my full SAM rotation for 20 minutes made my hand sore.