Chimera

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(Part 1 of 2, due to 1,000 character limit)

I guess it's the price I pay for leveling crafting instead of progressing with my guildies, but damn, is anyone else pugging this and just getting stomped endlessly? I don't see what's so hard about it, but between the Ram's Voice interrupt (which hasn't been as big of an issue as I expected) and people just failing at AE Dodging 101, I've run this thing 60+ times over the past two days with multiple groups of people and have had zero successful attempts.

Some people (justly or not) blame their PS3 or latency or whatever, but the majority of people just seem to get tunnel-visioned in their DPSing or healing or interrupting and forget basic mechanics like making sure you're in close when Dragon's Voice goes off, watching for the crosshairs/ball, dodging the ice, etc.

[Swag]

(Part 2 of 2)

As a slight aside, I was having serious problems yesterday with the frontal cone indicators not displaying after the first Voice cast. They would generally reappear (again, only until the first Voice cast) after the mob was moved a decent distance, but I was repeatedly being hit by them. My healers said that keeping me up through that extra damage wasn't an issue (though I expect that it was, indirectly at least) and I always seemed to be the last to die, but I'm still not sure if this is a bug or an intended mechanic. I noticed that the heads do telegraph the cone attacks to an extent, but not to the extent that you can strafe out of the way quickly enough.

In any event, add me to the list of people who just can't seem to find a PUG that doesn't have huge issues with this simple (for this game) fight.