Currently the blade is bugged. People randomly getting 3-4 stacks of the bleed when they are nowhere in the trajectory or explosion. Feasts timing on add is also lining up with seismic upheaval which is stunning people and making them take all 3 drops.
Please fix this
A month later this is still not fixed, this is really sad.
Following mostly relates to heroic:
Feasts timing often are awful. Pretty much it kills people in 10-13 people raid so 10man raid is unplayable at all - not enough to free dps and healers to actually save jumped person or nuke add in time. Minimum viable number for non overgeared group is… around 20-25 people in raid, curved gear allows lower number but no less than 3 heals in any case.
On third phase feast always targets people who is running from spikes or who is with eruption. Those goliaphs are excellent tacticians in sphere or how to undermine raid by dropping someone that they wouldn’t cover eruption or killing healer in proper moment to kill tank as well, unless you have double-sized group to cover up those drops.
Having a couple of holy paladins is very recommended because they can save person by bubble but that’s very long cd.
Blade targeting logic seems indeed bugged, not only in that they hit tank or melee who stand out of trajectory and even out of range of boss - it may get bugged and bounce twice or thrice between original targets, giving them 2-3 debuffs.
To add insult to injury, perhaps some people didn’t realized and no guides I saw actually said it - no melee in HC mode should be in range of female general when she throws knives - knives are so wide that they would hit those in melee unless they are right behind her , on opposite side of targets. I suspect that top raiding guilds do not divulge that secret .
That’s somewhere along with Lady Innerva’s bug “kill the raid” - spawn orbs but mark only two players for rays: on third phase this means wipe because of huge damage coming from laser rays and anima network. THis also matters only in HC mode. There are a few minor issues on various HC bosses of whole raid: Altimor’s dogs may hide one of her shades behind wall in “textures”, Innerva may forget one of her pets, etc.