11-04-2006, 11:13 AM
Quote:My CTRA decursive function broke some time ago, I had no problems on Chromaggus. I can't speak to Noth or Sapphiron, except to say that many of the people who say Sapph is impossible without decursive also say Chrom is hard without it.
Sapphiron and Chromaggus are entirely different leagues. Noth is sort of a step between them. Three of Chromaggus' debuffs are small dots, and the other two aren't directly fatal. There's plenty of time to locate and cleanse them. The only thing raid-threatening is if all five debuffs land on a player and he gets transformed, and even that's not fatal if your raid is on-the-ball enough. There is, at any rate, ample warning before a player gets to that state, and you have 20-30 seconds at the very least to clear everyone.
On Noth, you have ten seconds to clear a curse before it blows up and effectively wipes your raid, which is a lot more dangerous. Still, it has a max target cap, it's outrangeable, and ten seconds is enough for one decurser to clear a group and then some (four global cooldowns = a little over 6 seconds counting latency). He curses once a minute or so, which is five or six times across the typical fight.
Sapph is orders of magnitude worse. Every thirty-ish seconds (the fight is nine to ten minutes long), he randomly Life Drains 10-20 people. You can't control it or outrange it, and you have all of three seconds to get it off everybody before it ticks. Everyone's hanging around at half life due to Frost Aura anyway, so a tick of Life Drain has about a 50/50 chance of being lethal. Even if you lose nobody to it, the heals as the result of Life Drain ticks will probably wipe you anyway.
Certainly Chromaggus doesn't require Decursive. The thing is, Chromaggus has about ten times the margin for error, and Sapphiron's Life Drain is nastier than any four Brood Afflictions combined. It's pretty clear that the encounter is designed to be won by cleansing Life Drain every time it happens in three seconds or less, a task that's nearly impossible without mods.