11-22-2005, 03:44 PM
Bolty,Nov 22 2005, 10:20 AM Wrote:Ahhh, THIS explains the sideways-directed Continental Airlines flights we were taking - someone next to us gets smacked by a Random Explosion and we go flying. Any idea what the range is on the explosion effect?
Experientally, I'd have to say somewhere around five yards, maybe as long as seven.
Quote:So, the walls are nice, but if everyone groups up in front of a wall, it just means more pain for everyone. Better some lone mage get knocked back into the lava than 8 players go airborne and suffer 2,000 damage in an instant. This goes double for main tank healers - one blast in that pack and the tanks lose all healing for 4, 5 seconds and the healers have to waste time/mana all healing each other as well.
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Yep. This is the problem when dealing with that attack. The walls will stop you from being kicked into the lava, but if you all group up close, the chances of getting kicked at all increase, since the random selection only needs to pick one of you to toss the rest.
The key is finding a balanced spread formation. You can't avoid the explosions completely, but you can contain how many people get bombed by each one. There should be enough room along most of the walls for the majority of your ranged groups to spread out enough. You can spread out in terms of "depth" as well. Healers can go in the back, whereas fire mages (who have to use arcane missiles in this fight) will probably be standing at the front edge of the lava.