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ruisen2000

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Friday, July 25th 2014, 8:32pm

Pillar of Morfan Strat discussion

Thought I'd start a thread to discuss the strats and observations for the instance.

First boss (Hardmode): Boss casts Charged Sonic Sting, which seems to be a close ranged aoe that hits multiple times and makes the ground orange around it. I think the AoE starts hitting harder as the fight goes on. Because our group survived the first few of these, but after awhile it seems to instantly oneshot the entire melee group. Has anyone tried silencing this cast or moving boss away from orange spot? Ranged got hit by a straight line AoE that seemed to be % based but didn't seem to hit too hard.

After 20 seconds, a yellow message says "In the distance, a deep metalic sound rings out" and first mob spawns. They seem to spawn once every 10 seconds after that. We tried killing the mobs, but they had too much HP, and we couldn't kill it before next mob spawned. When we ignored the mobs, by the time we died we were up to 4 mobs and it was a giant lagfest of confusion.

Third boss (normal): 3 containers spawn on the ground in front of the entrance to the room, and they cast several AoE's that hit for 20-30k but seems to hit several times as well. The containers can be avoided as their AoE have short range. Curse of the Soul Devourer is a AoE cast that hits for a large amount of everyone's HP and leaves a DoT on everyone it hits. Can be magic immuned against.

Last boss (normal): There's a yellow message that says something along the times of devices resonating to the boss, and the boss resonates back. When that happens, the tank gets hit for like 20 times. Devices have 7m HP. Also, boss heals. Anyone know if he heals when he reaches a certain % of his HP, or after a certain time period, or after a cast? I don't think I saw any casts before he healed but I could have missed it. Also a crap ton of AoE's at this boss. He was annoying on easy and normal... I wouldn't want to see him in Hardmode lol.

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CammoXD

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Saturday, July 26th 2014, 2:16am

According to some on the German forums, the door that stops people from going past 3rd boss doesn't disappear after it is killed. Not sure if this happens on easy/normal mode but this happened to us on hard mode and after we killed 3rd boss we could no longer continue.

I know this is probably more of a bug report but just want to know if anyone else has been past 3rd in hard mode yet.

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Rougetopriest

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Saturday, July 26th 2014, 2:22am

Didn't happen for us on Artemis, however it is more then likely server-related.

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Cenre

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Saturday, July 26th 2014, 2:37am

Only happens on hard mode but not every time. 2 german guilds have now cleared full with some also killing 4th. So it seems to be random.

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Mrpushpop

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Saturday, July 26th 2014, 2:49am

Rom instances have had door glitches before. More recent one, Before the ICE 6th boss in Beth, I believe. 2 levers but sometimes the 2nd one wont spawn mobs.

More famous old door problem is the notorious box room in GCH. That room can still bug out to this day

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Lolim

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Saturday, July 26th 2014, 2:52am

seems like the barrier for 3rd does not go down if the tank dies before/as the boss dies

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Hipocrates

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Saturday, July 26th 2014, 3:38am

In my first run on easy mode I had to reset the instance due the barrier. Idk if it's related but I died twice. Now I can easily burn him in 4-5 seconds and hasn't happened again

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Saturday, July 26th 2014, 5:33am

Here is a playlist of ppk doing bosses 1-3.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8FaeazT_…aiMwQgJXGFm8iL4

Not sure what you guys could extract from it.

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sperle

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Saturday, July 26th 2014, 5:52am

ha ha ha, whos pet is disturbed"is"bad?

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bleedingblak

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Saturday, July 26th 2014, 6:38am

Quoted from "sperle"

ha ha ha, whos pet is disturbed"is"bad?

Not sure honestly.

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timthum

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Saturday, July 26th 2014, 6:10pm

Lol how would anyone from ppk really know,3 sw over the years is a great way to know a whole guild.
I do however find it funny!
We try but we are not all fully geared and statted but we do have a lot of fun.
And fun is what the game should be about.
Nice vid Bb that may come in handy even if we are not clearing hard.
Cheers ppk and thx for acknowledging Disturbed.

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northend

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Saturday, July 26th 2014, 8:51pm

Looks like burn. burn, burn. not a looker in the bunch. Perhaps if they released it bugged to hell there may have been some unintentionally interesting strats at least.

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Needundead

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Saturday, July 26th 2014, 9:31pm

PPK pretty much burns everything cause they can lol. However, the third boss got them pretty good. The thing does a powerful aoe that is tough. Also im not sure how hard last boss is, but it did took the first guild from german side almost 10 hours to figure it out.

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bleedingblak

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Saturday, July 26th 2014, 10:11pm

Quoted from "northend"

Looks like burn. burn, burn. not a looker in the bunch. Perhaps if they released it bugged to hell there may have been some unintentionally interesting strats at least.

Correct me if i'm wrong, but i think only ppk is burning 1-3 (and 4 with right people). There is probably strat for people who can't afford absurd gear.

Last boss is a pain.

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Saturday, July 26th 2014, 10:56pm

pillers boss stats

i made these for personal reference so i didn't have to go searching every single time i got asked(it got old fast)...

figured i'd put them here, at least until yoman finishes rom-welten article.

stats are pulled directly from rom-welten. if i made any mistakes, lemme know.

edit: updated for current(.2707)
those that had it before will have to re-download for the most current values(not too terribly different though, but still different)

Cike has attached the following files:

pillers-easy.txt (3.97 kB - 23 times downloaded - latest: Oct 5th 2017, 2:37am)
pillers-norm.txt (3.98 kB - 15 times downloaded - latest: Jan 26th 2015, 7:33am)
pillers-hard.txt (3.99 kB - 27 times downloaded - latest: Jun 20th 2017, 2:14am)

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Needundead

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Sunday, July 27th 2014, 4:34am

Umm looking at that 905k-990k defense, Im wondering if anyone knows what the magic/physical soft cap is? I asked around Palenque and someone replied that on new instance on Hard Mode, 200k MA wasn't cutting it for them so I was hoping someone knows the formula.

PS. Based on this 2011 thread it is around .83 but it's 3 years old and I don't want to revive it.
Magical Damage vs. Magic Attack

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Rougetopriest

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Sunday, July 27th 2014, 6:46am

200k matk isn't really even enough for Grotto HM even... If you're wanted to get near or top of scrut as mage in Morfan HM you're going to be needing much higher matk, but the exact matk amount will vary depending on your secondary class ofc, as some mages will get more matk then others during burn.

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TWMXC

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Sunday, July 27th 2014, 6:46am

lol softcaps

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Needundead

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Sunday, July 27th 2014, 7:15am

Well im currently gearing a warmage so I probably won't be needing as much as other mages because of the 67.2% from stacking Electrical rage but I was wondering if anyone knew an estimate.