T2 Progress

[cichard]

Has anyone had any progress in t2s yet? Ive gotten DSM down to the gatekeeper and im working on getting my single target rotation for my mage better he seriously lacks dps single target. Im also been working on RD. if anyone has a rotation for mages that can pull more then 500 dps plz let me know. My rogue is currently pulling over 800 dps single target its crazy the buffs they made to ranger. but my mage can some times pull about 450-500 dps singlet arget but more often then not its closer to the 400-450 range.

[Alge]

You're a long way ahead of me. I gave up on T1s because of my group makeup - warrior + 4 rogues is not practical end-game. I'm now levelling warrior, cleric, rogue, 2 mages so will have a lot more flexibility at 50.

[cichard]

ya i was able to MB t2 RD up to eliam ill have to practice that fight i have everything down pretty good except having to move the characters when i have to kite cause of the ground aoe. they need to dps in the kite phase so they cant just run behind me but i cant stack them the aoe snares and hits pretty hard i may try stacking them again and strafing the whole group out of the aoe and pop some aoe heals as i do it. But i have to aoe dispell the snare and pop aoe heals at the same time i think soon ill be able to down that one i might still farm the t1s to get more gear.

[Alemi]

AP, CC, and DD cleared. Going to do DSM or RD if they ever come up on my random dungeon finder :(

[cichard]

you 5 boxxed AP? ive so far have gotten CC and DD and RD up to eliam cleared but how did you get past the first boss in AP having to keep everyone Spead apart cause of the debuff then stack everyone for los but keeping the one person away if they get hte debuff.

[Alemi]

you 5 boxxed AP? ive so far have gotten CC and DD and RD up to eliam cleared but how did you get past the first boss in AP having to keep everyone Spead apart cause of the debuff then stack everyone for los but keeping the one person away if they get hte debuff.

Don't spread out. The debuff is pretty minimal damage and will drag people with them as you move out of the aoe. There's an easy spot to los and not have to worry about the pillars. Insane DPS + quick reaction means you'll get him. I've been farming AP for a while for rep for epic saga, it was my first T2 down. I've got a vid that cut off right before the kill but I'll post it.

[Alemi]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P-44IJYvge8

Here you go.

RD cleared.

Oh, and if you want a mage spec that pulls insane dps with a simple rotation and good aoe? 51 ele/15 stormcaller

Rotation is simple single target, refresh ignite manually, macro is below

petattack
cast Icy Carapace
cast Lightning Strike
cast Crystalline MIssles

aoe

cast Arctic Blast
cast Forked Lightning

Cooldowns, refresh ignite, cast fast summon, swaming flames, intensify elements and watch dps spike to 2k.

[cichard]

with the last boss in AP how did you avoid the rotating lazars?

[cichard]

OMG Boss Practice Dummy: (01:55) | 147810 | 1285 | [Diggens-Lightning Strike-2400] | Diggens | 147810 | 1285 | Fire Ele | 0 | 0 That build is crazy it spiked over 3k dps lol 3455 is the top dps it pulled

[cichard]

Ok the issue im having is the damn RNG if he does the maelstrom thing first then right after does his ground aoe that summons the rock i cant move my guys they keep getting sucked back to where he casted the maelstrom and we wipe but if he doesnt cast them so close to gether we do just fine but there is always 1 point in hte fight where he does that.

[Alemi]

I totally cheese Calyx. I run 3x chloromancer 1x archon and justicar tank so I park my justicar in the center and the other 4 spread out on the edges and just nuke away and heal over the beams/freeze. My justicar has a spam cure macro in his attack spell so he immediately cures the ice block on the chloros/archon and it's about 2 minutes of boredom spamming nukes and flourishing over the frozen wrath, but it's ridiculously easy. In all honesty, the beams do so little damage, I could 2 heal it, but 3 just makes it so much easier.

The 51 ele is such an under-represented spec because it's AOE is terrible compared to a pure stormcaller build. In a long boss fight, swarming flames generally accounts for 20% of my 2 ele's dps or ~23k in 10 seconds. It's pretty ridiculous that a single cooldown will take off 20-30% of a boss's health.

I've never had him cast a maelstrom when he casts the ground AOE. Usually when he maelstroms my mages, the one who gets maelstrom'd moves cleanly and will drag the mages with him, but the "pull" breaks your current movement. So if you strafe out of the ground aoe holding down your stafe key as soon as maelstrom pulses, the 3 that are pulled will stop moving even if the strafe key is held down... my best solution to this is to push and hold the strafe key for a second and rinse and repeat.

As far as RNG, it's like that for a lot of fights. I have had him cast maelstrom on a pet, which pretty much is a wipe since both my pets are casters they are generally next to my mages and don't move when I strafe, it's pretty much GG. It's pretty similiar to Caelia in CC - pets are valid targets for her dots, so I have to move away from the damn pets because it's too much of a pain to try to cleanse pets.

Eliam, I found pretty easy. I spread out my 4 mages in a semi circle around the rift area with my chloro healer in the center, pulled Eliam and started dpsing. Turned to face away at the blind, and when he entered kite phase, I didn't kite him. I simply healed through the damage (which was really easy and my gear is pretty much craptacular) with a single chloro. When he ran to the center, I didn't follow anyone but nuked the two ghosts. As soon as that 2nd ghost dies, he will immediately cast a blind, so you have to turn away and the first Torment will go out. So I had to turn away and then find the mage who got tormented, cure and then run him out of the aoe, manually. (Switched to their screen) And then turn everyone back so they could dps and heal. This was by far the hardest part - and I used tank cooldowns just to make sure I'd live through this mess.

The rest of the fight was just watching for torments and manually running them out of the aoe and turning from the blind.

He died after the 6 pack of ghosts... he didn't live long enough to get to the 8 pack. Took 3 pulls to get him down. I had a harder time with Atrophinius... but that's just because I insisted on doing it a different way, lol.

And if you want to have a little more dps fun... use a witchstone on that mage and you'll get near 3k lightning strikes, more if you use a guild banner + flasks.

[cichard]

i got him down what i ended up doing was putting hte ele pets off to the side and putting htem on stay so if they got the debuff it was all good.

[Alemi]

i got him down what i ended up doing was putting hte ele pets off to the side and putting htem on stay so if they got the debuff it was all good.

Grats!

The one problem with that is that if they get knocked back due to the pillar if they're on stay, they'll end up out of range. I just try to position myself away from them now.

[cichard]

ya I made a click bar to control all the pets so if they get knocked back i just take them off stay till they are in range again to attack then put htem back on stay.


still having issues with the last boss in AP out healing the aoe damage it takes everyone down to about 10% hp its had to aoe heal and get the tank back up

[Alemi]

Up to Plutonus in DSM. It was late and I was exhausted yesterday, but did manage to get him sub 50% before I got a crappy single wall circle. Boo.

[cichard]

that single wall circle all u have to do is not be in the center of hte wall u can still be against it the beam hits hte middle of it. well i cleared CC AP RD now in t2s