04-02-2006, 03:24 PM
Skandranon,Apr 2 2006, 09:45 AM Wrote:My guild got unlucky and drew Corrosive/Time Lapse yesterday (at least it wasn't Ignite, which is flat-out impossible). We beat him on the third attempt. You don't need any paladin tricks - you just need to rethink your strategy.
The main thing with bugged Time Lapse is that anyone caught in it who also has the blue, red, or green Brood Afflictions instantly dies, since each of those are DoTs. Even the 1 frost damage that blue ticks for will kill you if you are in TL. This basically means that the raid cannot eat the Time Lapses as is the usual fashion, since Chromaggus can toss these afflictions just before or even during Time Lapse, which makes for instant kills. Instead, every warrior in the raid needs to fight for aggro and everyone but the MT needs to avoid Time Lapse just like every other breath is avoided. A full battery of healers keeps HoTs ticking on the MT, spam-clicks Power Word: Shield, and tries to land heals on the MT the moment Time Lapse is cast. About 15-20% of the time your MT still takes 1 damage and gets one-shot anyway despite what anyone can do, but just Rebirth him and get him fighting for aggro again. Whoever got Chrom during the Lapse becomes the new MT, and you keep going. If you can DPS down Chrom before all your warriors get instantly one-shot, you win. It's a difficult and admittedly stupid encounter with the bug, but it's doable.
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Thankfully, we got Corrosive/Frost this week. Hallelujah!
--Mav