Runes of Magic US / AU

An idea a friend of mine came up with a long time back, resurfaced in guild chat and figured I would share with the rest of you...

The goal was to find the theoretical fastest way to burn bosses. Putting things like 10m damage wound attacks from 1 player aside, we came up with 2 mehtods:

Method 1 (my favourite)
9x m/wd
2x healer
s1x tank with a lot of taunts...(preferably k/w for debuff)

9 x 20 flames = 180 flames in 4s. If each flame does an average for 500k damage, then in 4 seconds your group does 90m damage. That's first boss belathis (or bethomia) hard mode dead in 4s. And 500k flames with a k/w debuff isn't that farfetched in either instance, although it would be much harder in Belathis but still theoretically possible. GG

Method 2: This method is more practical in Belathis hard mode, since the defense plays a smaller role in regards to damage output

9x warriors
1x k/w tank
2x healers

All warriors use 2h axes. Slash and Tactical Attack for the damage. Tactical attack will hit 11 times from each warrior if the k/w has a slash bleed on the boss. If each tactical attack does an average of 300k damage, that's 29.7m damage in 1 second. Tactical attack has a 4s cd. So the rotation looks like:
Slash 5.4m dmg (600k ea x 9 the k/w dmg is omitted)
Tactical Attack 29.7m dmg
4s worth of dps 21.6m dmg
Slash 5.4m dmg
Tactical attack 29.7m dmg

Assuming each warrior does an average of 600k dps (sans the tactical attacks), it would take 6 seconds (2 tactical attacks from each warrior) to kill the a 90m HP boss (or 9s to give some leeway on slow players)

Anyone have any other crazy ideas to do insane damage in a short time? I know of s/r but....scout.....nuff said


Edit: why did the first time I edit the post result in all the formatting disappearing, and it all becomming a huge wall of text?
Edit2: correct calculation error in method 2

While learning the strats is one way to kill bosses, the point of the thread is to try to come up with creative ways to "burn" bosses. Instead of just having 4 OP players doing 2m dps each, you can try having weaker m/wds all going super burn mode and see what happens, for example.

And @ ziav, ofc adding in wl/m would improve damage output, but that's assuming the wl/m even has enough time to put the 4 stacks on boss before the boss is dead xD

Howabout....

1 k/p
1 wd/s
1 c/p
1 wl/m
1 r/m or wd/w
1 s/d (no that's not a typo)

1 k/w Tank
1 d/w
1 s/r
1 s/wd
1 m/wl
1 other healer


Buff the pdmg,attack speed and attack power of the r/m or wd/w in group 1 to an insanely high amount, while debuffing boss for more damage received. The s/d provides rage/energy to the dps in group 1 to spam more skills. 6m dps player without sigil? .

Did some testing with said skill, its apparently bugged. With a +50 efficiency guidance and +59 vamp arrow, I only get 2 rage....However it did trigger EVERY vamp arrow.

Guess use a s/k >.>

Good call on the s/w Hangman. that could replace the m/wl if the goal is to ignore defense and go for a +pdmg group.

Also, in regards to s/d....

While this makes no sense, Efficiency Guidance at +0 (that is not a typo, it is plus zero) yields the full 30 rage/focus/energy regen and activates EVERY vamp arrow. So 30 rage/focus/energy every 12s. Pretty good....If you have Efficiency Guidance at +50 you get a whopping 2 rage/focus/energy. Backwards effects ftw?

in the m/wd case, the mages need only use candy since the boss will die in 4s.

In the other cases, idk about aggro lol. Just assume possible xD. Lots of taunts ftw?

Indeed. But as stated in the original post, "THEORETICAL" methods. It might be impossible or impractical, but that doesn't mean we can't write about it.

Lol didn't consider c/m's. That would be interesting...11c/m so each one would need to do 8.1m Elemental rampages on a 90m hp boss. I know it hits for millions of damage, but has anyone ever hit for 8.1m ?