T8 Reaper quest Mob in South Karana

[bishbash]

I'm struggling to fight this guy. Best I have got him down to is 30% before he says death claims all and anyone engaged just dies. I assume I ran out of time for this.

Spent 6 hours trying him and ended up giving up. Anybody got any strat they think would work with my setup?

Tanking him is fine, I stick on my warrior and with/without disc I can stand upto him without much issue.

My DPS is mainly 4 wizards and 4 Rangers. I have 6 clerics and a few other toons that I use for buffing/debuffing when I get a chance.

I engage him with 2 toons (mage/Ranger), then they die at around 80% from a DT. I then send in a few more, and keep ducking when required. If I start attacking with all my toons, they tend to get summoned in 1 big group and die.

I failed a few times from not seeing the emotes on my toons, as I was waiting for it to appear on my main screen, so that threw me a bit.

After 6 hours of no-warning timer ran out Death Touches (Such a cheap trick) that not even the donor shield death save worked on I'm about ready to admit defeat and give up.

Did I mention that Death Touch is a cheap trick, especially when it serves no purpose other than to wipe the raid when the timer runs out.

[Stickybuds]

if you're making it to 30% you're almost there! I really doubt the timer is running out, one night Mott and I 2 manned for what seemed like forever.

When he summons people before that time, its usually from them not being ducked at the right time. Careful with MQ2 commands on this fight, stuff like mq2cast will make you stand back up to cast, i think the MQ2moveutli plugin will do the same.
I do *almost* everything manual on this fight, and with only 1 or 2 guys to keep it as simple as possible for me.

He is going to hit everyone (ducked or not) for ~30k at that time, you just need to have enough hp to survive it. I don't recall him summoning everyone AND doing the 30k ae, but if he does you can make this handy social hotkey to take care of that.

/bca //stick id ${Me.ID} behind

that will make everyone get behind your tank so hes getting hit by the mob and not them.

[bishbash]

Thanks for the reply, checking through my logs this is the last messages I see:

[Sun Feb 24 01:12:53 2013] Farcical scores a critical hit! (512)
[Sun Feb 24 01:12:53 2013] You slash The Reaper of Mortality for 512 points of damage.
[Sun Feb 24 01:12:54 2013] The Reaper of Mortality tries to hit YOU, but misses!
[Sun Feb 24 01:12:54 2013] The Reaper of Mortality was hit by non-melee for 58 points of damage.
[Sun Feb 24 01:12:54 2013] The Reaper of Mortality was chilled to the bone.
[Sun Feb 24 01:12:54 2013] The Reaper of Mortality tries to hit YOU, but YOUR magical skin absorbs the blow!
[Sun Feb 24 01:12:54 2013] The Reaper of Mortality tries to hit YOU, but misses!
[Sun Feb 24 01:12:54 2013] Your Greaves of Erebos begins to glow.
[Sun Feb 24 01:12:54 2013] Your Greaves of Erebos begins to glow.
[Sun Feb 24 01:12:54 2013] The Reaper of Mortality looks furious.
[Sun Feb 24 01:12:54 2013] The Reaper of Mortality shouts 'Death claims all.'
[Sun Feb 24 01:12:54 2013] You feel your mortality ripped from your being.
[Sun Feb 24 01:12:54 2013] You try to hit yourself, but miss!
[Sun Feb 24 01:12:54 2013] You have been knocked unconscious!
[Sun Feb 24 01:12:54 2013] You have been slain by Farcical!
[Sun Feb 24 01:12:54 2013] Returning to The Hidden Vale, please wait...

This happened when he was at 30%. My warrior never seemed to need to duck during the entire fight and got no emotes to indicate that I needed to. I can only assume that I was taking too long and need to use more of my DPS toons.

[Vaion]

Just checked, it is the fail timer. You have 30 minutes from the time he spawns to beat him. I did remove the DT on fail though. Will be live as of Wednesday's reboot.

[bishbash]

Thanks Vaion. I just didn't know if I sucked badly because I did something wrong, or I just sucked badly because I ran out of time. At least now I know I sucked badly because I ran out of time, not because I didn't do something correctly.

You really must have been having a bad day when you wrote that script. I dont mind being told that you fail because your just not good enough, but to then kill every toon involved was rather nasty.

I am now sure that you are the most evil person in the universe, and take great delight in watching people die. If you ever become president of any country in the world, I am going to dig myself a bunker and await the end.

I'm still not 100% sure how best to attempt the encounter, and I can see a lot more deaths coming my way.

[Sian]

When you will get in t8, because you will for sure, you will realize that Vaion is the most evil person in the world. Indeed, he is the most evil person in the whole UNIVERSE ! Scripts are just getting more and more crazy, as his sick ideas are slowing taking control of what's left of his innocence. We just can hope T9 will soon come live because if we wait too long, this is really going to be "Vaionesque".

P.S: Please do note that I am very cleverly using your post to try to get a date for t9 which was totally out of your topic

[bishbash]

Far be it for me to spread rumours, but I'm sure Vaions idea of T9 is you zone in and just die. Example of T9 script maybe?

Zone in.. Death touch
Still alive? .. Death touch
Still trying to be alive? Death touch.
Dead? Death touch them again just to be sure.

[Vaion]

Im actually working on a "Dead Man's Path" idea...


You zone in and take 1 step left = Death Touch
take 1 step right = death touch
1 step forward.. alright you live this round...

Next step forward = death touch
next step to the left = death touch
next step to the right = live...


Oh the possibilities....

[Donrexu]

Im actually working on a "Dead Man's Path" idea...


You zone in and take 1 step left = Death Touch
take 1 step right = death touch
1 step forward.. alright you live this round...

Next step forward = death touch
next step to the left = death touch
next step to the right = live...


Oh the possibilities....

man i had flashbacks of WoW raiding.. yipiee for doing dances in raid content!!

[Sian]

Im actually working on a "Dead Man's Path" idea...


You zone in and take 1 step left = Death Touch
take 1 step right = death touch
1 step forward.. alright you live this round...

Next step forward = death touch
next step to the left = death touch
next step to the right = live...


Oh the possibilities....

Told you Farci...Most evil person of the U-N-I-V-E-R-S-E