05-16-2008, 01:14 PM
Quote: Fighting the phases completely independently greatly simplifies the fight. The essence of the fight - at least from my perspective - was in managing the phase transitions, controlling the next phase while cleaning up what was left from the last one.
Eh, from the few attempts where the axe tank wasn't on the ball, and where it stayed up until Phase 3, I didn't notice much of a difference in the following phases - it just means that a 400 dps tank and his healer has to be occupied for another minute or two, as the ranged burns down Thaladred, and spends a few seconds on the axe.
As for the final advisor, while we were getting all four of them down before Phase 4, I didn't see the threat in Copernian staying up for another minute. She doesn't deal too much damage, and Kael hits like a wuss when his fireballs are constantly being interrupted.
The nerf that helped us the most, I'd say, was the change to clouds so they reduce your health by at most -60, instead of -90... Considering that our main tank seems to be all over them as soon as Gravity Lapse starts. Every time we've killed him, or came close, he was at 40% of his health for most of the fight (Meaning that an uninterrupted fireball will 1-shot him)...