Runes of Magic US / AU

So far everyone I know of clearing first boss has thus far burned it down.

However I'm sure we'll get a group in there soon enough for the purpose of just trying to figure out strats.

Goodluck in the meantime though, I'm sure you guys can get it! ;o

Well, my older brother (was the guild leader and founder of Bringersoflight), after telling him what happened and what the map was, concluded that the strats are the exact same as the strats in Origin for the bosses. The adds spawned by first explode on contact to deal a high amount of damage. They do not explode if you immune until your immune wears off and they come into contact with you. My suggestion would be possibly have a wl/ch and a couple priests with zs/dl item set skill use their damage reducers on group and then everyone survive the adds from 90% damage reduction. (priests switch off with the iss if the first priest is still on CD for holy candle shield)

aoe adds...get a k/m with HLD, and it shouldn't be an issue...

either that, or have some1 dedicated to aoeing the boss...

According to my brother, you couldn't pull the adds away from their original target in Origin. Gotta either kill them before they reach you or survive the hit. And I believe they have like 6mil hp?

u gotta kill them en masse asap. thus, aoes. I believe they all spawn in 1 place(under boss), which is different than original when they came from all sides...

anyone figured when the adds spawn? 6 for hole fight, every x % of boss hp or every x seconds? also how long does it take for boss to enrage if it does enrage, anyone figured that one out?

The adds spawn at 18 seconds into the fight. 1 bug spawns for every player in the instance. Each of these bugs 'chase' the player that it was spawned for, and if they reach them, 1 hit them.

Apparently the strat was to aoe and aggro the bugs, then kite those alone while the rest of the party killed the boss, but for some reason they ignore aggro. At least, they did before the patch. Not sure if it is actually fixed yet.

The adds do not spawn underneath the boss but a slight ways away from the boss in correlation to the position of the players in the party. And also, they do not one hit you if you have a ton of hp and def or if you have a damage reduction going. I know this because I got hit by mine after my immune ended and it exploded, taking me from my approximate 250k hp (i had 315k pdef) down to about 80k hp. I forget whether I had Shield of Discipline going or not.

This sounds very much like the first boss of origin, as I do not know how/where to enter the hall, much less how hard they are, I will be unable to run the instance. Keep me posted on strats though. As for the agro issue, have you tried taunts? They bring you to the top of the agro table, assuming no one does damage after that the kiter would be able do his job, provided enough taunts, (K/W or K/S? maybe?) Has anyone looke at the bugs, threat meter how high is the number not the %. Also, try stuns. If they are stunnable, use mages with discharge. If they are unstunnable, use slows, thunder-storm + surge of malic from a m/wl is a large amount of slowdown. I'm curious what are the numbers on the boss? Pdef/mdef and HP.

last i checked, values were about PoM-HM level...except the chamber bosses have crit resist...

maybe i will dig up the values from rom-welten if i have the time...


anywho, yeah, most of the bosses sound like origin 2.0... which is awesome, because origin was a great instance(one of the best imo)...

Quoted from "heirienza"

Well, my older brother (was the guild leader and founder of Bringersoflight), after telling him what happened and what the map was, concluded that the strats are the exact same as the strats in Origin for the bosses. The adds spawned by first explode on contact to deal a high amount of damage. They do not explode if you immune until your immune wears off and they come into contact with you. My suggestion would be possibly have a wl/ch and a couple priests with zs/dl item set skill use their damage reducers on group and then everyone survive the adds from 90% damage reduction. (priests switch off with the iss if the first priest is still on CD for holy candle shield)

I think you (and your borther) are mixing Origin with Raksha Temple. In RT you have Bolgu, that will cause 90% damage. Have 2 of them and there you have 180% damage - killing you. (and everyone else in radius of their AOE skill)

How so? The adds that Life Leecher spawns run up to you and deal 60% damage to you. They do not explode if you kill them before they reach you, nor do they explode if you are immune or magically immune. They explode once that immunity wears off. I know this because I actually tested it in Origin and didn't kill the add that spawned. it dealed exactly 60% of my hp when it came into contact with me.

EDIT: Also, I know what the bolgus do. I also know that they have a very large range of their explosion upon death. That is not the case with the adds spawned by first boss in Hall of Earth first boss and Origin first boss. They run up to you after being spawned, hit you with their regular attack while continuing towards you, and then explode once they reach you. When they explode, they automatically die. The adds do not have a terribly huge range when they explode. If you think I'm mixing up the two, get onto your retired toon and go to Origin first boss. let the add spawned hit you instead of just killing it. Then you can tell me I am mixing them up.

You guys act like youve never done origin at level 55 cap, c'mon now. Hall Of earth is pretty much the same thing, jsut saying.

Gigi, while I have not done Origin at level 55 cap, I did go into Origin recently to figure out how the adds work. They spawn about every 25 seconds, their exploding aoe is magical, and i'd estimate the range to be about a max of 100. I also tested the different immunes to see if they would explode or not, if a tank can pull them off of people (which is possible with a taunt, though tank will be a sacrifice), etc.

I know this thread has not been used for a while, but if anyone still wonder about how to handle bugs spawned during 1st boss, i went in Origin lvl 55 and managed to aggro the dark blood bug off me using elite r/s substitute. Hopefully same tactic can be used in hall of earth

I just need to know if you can aggro the bugs in HoE with damage via an aoe. If you can, then a wl/p can make it possible to get past the bugs. Also, adds in HoE spawn every 20 seconds.