After a while, Rancor will flat out ... BOSS MODE you!
May 2, 2016 10:31PM
edited May 2016
I'm searching high and low in the description of the phases (ok just glanced over them) to find some reasoning why this happens. I found my Rebel / Ewok squad holding their own against Rancor T4 and T5.
I had five, fully healthy allies with abilities timed perfectly for continuous damage and healing. Then it happened, Rancor just straight up "rancor slammed" me and wiped out 4 of my 5 full health allies. Then he just swatted the last one down with a 1HKO and that was the end of it. I said "wat"!?! I had noticed that his hits kept increasing in power but I wasn't prepared for that.
The same was true of the Gamorrean phase too but it was less subtle because they don't have an AoE like Rancor. But eventually their attacks just grew more powerful over time.
Now the thing is, I don't think this is inappropriate because I could have spent the next 3 hours fighting the Rancor this way until he was dead. So it seems like there is a fail safe built in to prevent any one guild member from totally monopolizing the raid.
For the record, Rancor was well into his "boss mode" or whatever that Fearsome skull mode is. The cool down had expired a while back. And this was obviously not one of the phases where Devour was available to him.
Anyway, others seeing this too?
EDIT: Changed my title so that this doesn't look like a flame post.
I had five, fully healthy allies with abilities timed perfectly for continuous damage and healing. Then it happened, Rancor just straight up "rancor slammed" me and wiped out 4 of my 5 full health allies. Then he just swatted the last one down with a 1HKO and that was the end of it. I said "wat"!?! I had noticed that his hits kept increasing in power but I wasn't prepared for that.
The same was true of the Gamorrean phase too but it was less subtle because they don't have an AoE like Rancor. But eventually their attacks just grew more powerful over time.
Now the thing is, I don't think this is inappropriate because I could have spent the next 3 hours fighting the Rancor this way until he was dead. So it seems like there is a fail safe built in to prevent any one guild member from totally monopolizing the raid.
For the record, Rancor was well into his "boss mode" or whatever that Fearsome skull mode is. The cool down had expired a while back. And this was obviously not one of the phases where Devour was available to him.
Anyway, others seeing this too?
EDIT: Changed my title so that this doesn't look like a flame post.
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Detailed? Where? I'm reading it now and there's no mention of a power creep nuke like this. Please explain?
Honestly, it's okay anyway. Even if it's not I just found this whole thing interesting and wanted to post the info. I'll probably go into the next phase and do the exact same thing.
Last phase he doesn't devour
Ha ha yeah I remember the moment. It was just about the time I started thinking "wow I found my Rancor synergy. Man I'm going to do huge damage this ph.....oh wait, WAT"?!?
Yes agreed. As I stated in my OP, I think it's appropriate I just didn't understand where the power creep was coming from. I read thru all the descriptions but didn't know what Enrage mode meant until now. It sounds like everyone else somehow already knew this but I didn't until it happened.
Depends on the tier of the raid and your timing/luck. Carefully timing door drops and lining up TM removal + TM removal assist calls can actually get it done I would believe. Especially at lower tiers when his resistance isn't as high. I personally hit the enrage timer today with 4 toons remaining, he didn't hit for 30k as some here were, but it was usually 18+
I was wondering what that thing was. Doh.
Enraged is an mmo term for 'your time is up'. That's why in raids DPS (damage per second) is an important stat ... If you couldn't bring down the boss within allotted time, the boss ends the fight via enrage mechanic. At that point the team has a few seconds to try and do something if they're close to finishing.
In a turn based game this is a fairly elegant solution to the enrage timer.
Yh but we should then be retreating before it happens. I'm going to try it lol. If I can survive the 15 rounds or so lol