Chapter 3 Gate of Madness boss - Way to easy.

[nytestalker]

I dont know if this skill update did it, as I never tried him before the update.

But last night, I was stance tanking for a PuG group going at the "kill shiro/lich" mission.

We get to lich / shiro.


Suddenly the group is argueint about not having some such skill and not being able to make it.

Im like. Shut up foools. I can solo tank Shiro (i just didnt want ppl to leave, I figured at most, I would just kit him around while the monks healed me)

soooo We kill the lich. And I start wailing on shiro. We (as a group) move to the first shrine.... We take it, shiro stays on me. I forget to follow the group.

So now im alone with shiro.... (im a warrior / ele at this point, wanted both caps in one run ya know)


so its me and shiro...

I pop Glads Defense. (WTF 6 second duration?)

Im kinda panicked but i press on. (alone the monks left me)

Swinging on him, building adren.

Glads defense ends. I pop Watch yourself. And then disciplined stance (ends if you use a skill)

swinging swinging swinging Watch yourself, Defensive Stance, swinging swinging swinging Watch YourSelf, Glads Defense, swinging swinging swinging, Watch yourself, Disciplined Stance, swinging swinging swinging, Watch Yourself, Defensive Stance. swinging swinging swinging Watch yourself Glads Defense.

I do this. Alone. For 5 minutes. Shiro never even got close to killing me.

So. someone needs to stick wild blow or something on shiro so he doesnt get solo stanced. He is still WAY to easy.... As I solo stanced him for atleast 5 minutes alone, while the team was busy capping shrines for the masters (which we got incidently)


And after that. Lets talk about abadon .

The same team (I switched to Shock/Axe for maximun DPs for this)

Smacked abadon after 10 minutes. Masters is <20.

So something needs to be done there. Although, I will say that Easter Egg of the dancing Abadon is just to cute imo.

Anyway. Lets think up ways to make the END GAME Boss Mobs harder to kill/tank.

[cranialexodus]

That would be because you weren't doing any real damage. Shiro hits ~30% health and suddenly enters pwnage mode, in which case it's generally time to toss a coin and see if your pug is going to get wiped by impossible odds. This is also the point where he becomes immune in effect to conditions to bsurge stops working.

[Erasculio]

(Shouldn't this topic be at the PvE NF section?)

I do this. Alone. For 5 minutes. Shiro never even got close to killing me.

Shiro is very easy to handle until he gets low on health, when he triggers Impossible Odds. You can completely ignore him until that point - I went to capture all the altars without even bothering to leave someone with him.

Erasculio

[nytestalker]

well then lets get them to change that impossible odds to a higher %. Maybe 80


All I know is one of the final boss's in the game, should not be "handled" by a single player. (I dont care how GREAT I am at the game )

[Master Knightfall]

@OP

Way to post a bunch of spoillers nim.

[quago]

Someone in guru have managed to beat lich and the whole mission with grenth balance build solo. Nothing anet can do about it really.

This is really a big spoiler for some people.

[salaboB]

Someone in guru have managed to beat lich and the whole mission with grenth balance build solo. Nothing anet can do about it really.

This is really a big spoiler for some people.

If people are concerned, don't open a thread titled "Chapter 3 shiro"...

Of course, you could simply report the post as having a spoiler and a mod would probably slap a tag in the topic for it.

[maguskwt]

well...everything gets easier after some time...cause ppl start devicing strategies...I remember when I first came to killing varesh mission and then the lich/shiro mission...wasn't that easy...had to try alot of times with pugs...

[Skyy High]

Shiro doesn't do damage when you're just sitting there tanking him. He destroys parties when you actually try to take him out, unless you have your party set to hex him to death. If you didn't see him really hurt anyone with impossible odds, sorry mate but that wasn't you doing an awesome job tanking, that was someone keeping some miss hexes or blind on him the entire time. You can't even tank him once he starts using riposting shadows, unless you somehow get your group to not attack him (nigh-impossible with pugs) because he just shadow steps around hitting anyone who hits him.

[Scutilla]

All I know is one of the final boss's in the game, should not be "handled" by a single player. (I dont care how GREAT I am at the game )

Just like no one should be able to solo the Underworld, one of the hardest areas in the game?