Runes of Magic US / AU

When he ports to a side of the room and starts casting "rebirth," what killing the egg does is make the mob that comes out smaller and hits for less. I believe when you don't kill the egg, the mob comes out enraged, and does a nasty frontal aoe.

For Rune Energy Resonance, there isnt much we figured out on how to stop it, so we just prep for it by casting regens on the tank after the rebirth phase ends. It hits for about 90% of your health, so best to have the tank pot on the spot and have your druid do a quick MEF or priest soul source.

Quoted from "Ravesden;539620"

When he ports to a side of the room and starts casting "rebirth," what killing the egg does is make the mob that comes out smaller and hits for less. I believe when you don't kill the egg, the mob comes out enraged, and does a nasty frontal aoe.

For Rune Energy Resonance, there isnt much we figured out on how to stop it, so we just prep for it by casting regens on the tank after the rebirth phase ends. It hits for about 90% of your health, so best to have the tank pot on the spot and have your druid do a quick MEF or priest soul source.

Yes if you don't kill the morcus beast fetus the add that "births" is much larger and angry .

I have my own ideas about rune energy resonance but little proof to support them, having the tank kite and keeping people grouped up makes it easier to get everyone healed after it though (priest can just soul source). The main thing is people need to NOT rely on their healer in this boss - if you get hit by it, ppot for god's sake! Most situations you can't wait for a cast time on a heal when you are sitting at 10% hp (especially if you are a dps, UH and shorter cast spells go to the tank first).

Also when kiting him I have noticed he does the big aoe a lot less - maybe only once during the whole fight, whereas when we were first learning it he did it nearly every round. Pay attention to the circles on the floor. Black is bad - yellow/gold is good.

Boss always has 1 of buffs - the purple one (destruction rune, I believe), or golden/yellow one (rebirth). If u kill the mob while he has purple buff you gonna be hit with the powerful aoe. So when he has destruction buff while mob is alive its best to wait until he switches it and kill mob

Quoted from "toudie;540815"

Boss always has 1 of buffs - the purple one (destruction rune, I believe), or golden/yellow one (rebirth). If u kill the mob while he has purple buff you gonna be hit with the powerful aoe. So when he has destruction buff while mob is alive its best to wait until he switches it and kill mob

oooooo thanks. is there a way to change the buffs, or is it just random?

Quoted from "toudie;540815"

Boss always has 1 of buffs - the purple one (destruction rune, I believe), or golden/yellow one (rebirth). If u kill the mob while he has purple buff you gonna be hit with the powerful aoe. So when he has destruction buff while mob is alive its best to wait until he switches it and kill mob

That's bomb, thanks for the info. Will try this for a cleaner run

Quoted from "toudie;540815"

Boss always has 1 of buffs - the purple one (destruction rune, I believe), or golden/yellow one (rebirth). If u kill the mob while he has purple buff you gonna be hit with the powerful aoe. So when he has destruction buff while mob is alive its best to wait until he switches it and kill mob

Thanks greatly appreciate this!

What i've started noticing is that sometimes the boss will still hit that AOE with the rebirth buff on, especially at the beginning of the fight. Sometimes the boss comes out with the rebirth buff. I've killed that ad a couple times when this happens and *BAM* aoe...

If we wait for the rebirth buff to change to purple, then change back to rebirth, healers take aggro since boss is immune to tank damage while ad is up. So I don't know if this is a bug or if there's more to the strategy that we aren't getting. Sometimes this boss goes down like a wimp and seems like the 2nd easiest boss in the instance, other times it's just frustrating.

Also, is it possible to proactively change the boss' buff? or does it change automatically?

Quoted from "kynamdoan;545844"

What i've started noticing is that sometimes the boss will still hit that AOE with the rebirth buff on, especially at the beginning of the fight. Sometimes the boss comes out with the rebirth buff. I've killed that ad a couple times when this happens and *BAM* aoe...

If we wait for the rebirth buff to change to purple, then change back to rebirth, healers take aggro since boss is immune to tank damage while ad is up. So I don't know if this is a bug or if there's more to the strategy that we aren't getting. Sometimes this boss goes down like a wimp and seems like the 2nd easiest boss in the instance, other times it's just frustrating.

Also, is it possible to proactively change the boss' buff? or does it change automatically?

It's best to kill the add at the start immediately, then the knight can HS to protect from AoE. Giving the knight/tank about 10s or so at the start so he can get about 1m agro before start dpsing also very helpful. Boss does an AoE the heal him every time someone got hit so run out just before he does that.

the boss's buffs change automatically, so just wait for it.

Quoted from "kynamdoan;545844"

What i've started noticing is that sometimes the boss will still hit that AOE with the rebirth buff on, especially at the beginning of the fight. Sometimes the boss comes out with the rebirth buff. I've killed that ad a couple times when this happens and *BAM* aoe...

If we wait for the rebirth buff to change to purple, then change back to rebirth, healers take aggro since boss is immune to tank damage while ad is up. So I don't know if this is a bug or if there's more to the strategy that we aren't getting. Sometimes this boss goes down like a wimp and seems like the 2nd easiest boss in the instance, other times it's just frustrating.

Also, is it possible to proactively change the boss' buff? or does it change automatically?

Yes, it is incredibly annoying. Half the time I end up tanking for the first 10 seconds if we don't just kill the add and immune.

Easiest and safest way is probably to just for all to run to the middle (killing egg or not at this point doesn't really matter) and then Knight use Holy Shield at the very beginning, quickly kill mob while still immune and proceed normally tank taking boss etc. When boss spawns egg kill it and have someone offtank or whoever is strong enough to take care of dog and wait for yellow buff to appear on boss, then gang bang that dog and attack boss untill next big cast, then repeat untill boss is dead. This is more safe way if you cannot handle stronger dog. You just want to keep eye on buff colors and make sure they are yellow, but be careful when buff changes.

If you have strong enough team you can try another way which might be riskier, if buff decides to change at the wrong moment. If boss has purple buff when he spawns egg, do not kill egg at all, so stronger dog spawns and then kill stronger dog right away while boss still has purple buff and continue to dps boss (I'm not even sure if that really matters). If boss has yellow buff while spawning egg, kill egg and dog right away while buff is still yellow and continue to dps boss. If you kill dogs on wrong time, prepare for big damage.

I suppose everyone knows to avoid black circles on the ground and run away from big cast at least and people should barely need any healing during this fight at all. DPS is not really that important in this fight at all either, as neither is with Ice/Fire bosses. Boss will do big rune cast once every 20% either way...

That's how I've understood what's happening, but I'm there just to spam flames while jumping around from one black circle to another...

Thanks for the responses! Yeah we started bubbling for it, one of our main tanks is a champion. I just wanted to know if I was going crazy or if there was more intricacies to the boss strat that I didn't know. Cheers.