Invulns: Problems and Solutions

[ForteNightshade]

I mean, Spilling Wave deals roughly 23000 damage per wave without mitigation, and each tank gets hit by these 12 times. When it was new that was like between 1/6th and 1/5th of your total HP per hit, and so it was enough to kill both tanks twice over with no healing/mitigation. Even with 50% mitigation you'd still take your maximum HP in damage, in i450~i460ish gear., if you could keep that mitigation running the entire time, which you can't. If they sped up the interval any further the healers wouldn't be able to keep up with healing all of the DPS/themselves for dealing with the actual smokers while also keeping the tanks alive, without holding more oGCDs than they do already for that.

I mean, sure, it's more than manageable, but I wouldn't call it comically low.

That's going to depend on ilvl. Looking at one of my own clears, it dealt roughly 15,000 with only Rampant. The Scholar put Aetherpact on and completely ignored me. In fact, they cancelled it or the tether ran out not even half way through. For a twelve hit move, I shouldn't be able to survive with that little amount of mitigation and healing even at i470. Although, I'll admit they were playing "how low can I go" given I dropped to 12k at one point. It says a lot about the mechanic when I sat on Vengeance and Thrill just so I could cheese Temporary Current. Even at i450, I'd only need to add Raw, Equilibrium or slightly more healing though I wouldn't be eating things for damage at that point anyway.

But this highlights why I've been routinely critical of E3S. Vengeance and Thrill existed so I could cheese his dash or feed Shake It Off. Otherwise, Raw/Nascent and Holmgang were all I needed for every single mechanic he does. At least in terms of self mitigation. For the third fight in a Savage tier, I'd describe that as comically low.