SR: Magmadar: Dead.

[mjdoom]

What we do see fairly often is the timer from whatever UI mod you're using being off (too early, too late). The fear appears to act as a skill on a cooldown (conveniently the same cooldown as zerker rage), which Magdamar usually, but not always, uses whenever it's ready to go.

When I see the "5 seconds 'till fear" warning, I usually start counting to 5 and try to hit zerker rage around 4.5, giving the longest possible window. Messed up the last time I tried to do it MTing (nerves mostly), but as a DPS warrior on that fight I've had at least 5-6 encounters without a single fear.

Congratulations on the Magmadar kill!
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To expound on this a little Magmadar's fear seems to be one of those skills that he can use every 30 seconds. This means that he can use it any time he feels like once 30 seconds have passed. For this reason mod timers can be slightly off. The one time that I faced Magmadar with Galreth I did pretty much the same thing Olon advocates here; I hit my berserker rage about 4 seconds after the mod's warning in order to give myself the biggest window. This resulted in only one fear on my first (and only) attempt so far and I would expect that I can iron that out to zero fears per kill (barring extenuating circumstances) pretty soon.

Also, GRATZ!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

- mjdoom