Title says it all.
I’ve had 4 healer tag the mob then just run to the stairs and stand there doing nothing.
Several you could tell the healers were healing their butts off but people were still dying.
Not to standing in the bad, just to the mob melees.
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Sounds like bots.
I’ve tanked them and had no issues, I was the only one that threw out heals though.
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This is what happens when you only dust the cob webs off a character every other holiday event lol.
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It’s legitimately harder.
I tanked and healed it- the puddles on the ground hit way harder than they used to.
It used to be a total joke, the mechanics.
Now, it’s semi-serious lol
I’m a good healer, couldn’t prevent some deaths. We cleared it though.
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I mean I’ll queue as healer in dps spec and just blow up the boss lol
I usually at least throw a token shield or other defensive around.
Standing on the stairs is bot behavior though.
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The sprays do significantly more damage currently, and people are chain running their alts for mount drops that they aren’t going to receive since it’s one/day now.
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It’s a scaling issue. I don’t know if there is a specific breakpoint, but healers are trying their best and not able to make a dent in HP. Meanwhile, my tank was keeping people alive with word of glory.
This was a bug that existed last year, too, and I whispered some healers about it. Later, I saw firsthand how bad it was when I tried on my own healer.
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Healing this seems to depend on the level of the others.
I’ve done four runs as a healer so far.
- No issues whatsoever, everything melted.
- DPS were oddly taking a boatload of damage while not standing in anything, but everyone lived and stuff melted.
- Rogue died 9 times, tank died 7 times, mage died 3 times, druid died 3 times, I died once when everyone else was dead and running back.
- Tank and melee dps were taking a boatload of damage, but no one died and stuff melted.
That third group that was a travesty to all groups… that was a bunch of level 74s, except for me. I’m wondering if there’s some wonky scaling issues.
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My run yesterday was pretty easy. No one died and everything was burned down fast. Today’s run I watched the healer get erased from existence because the tank didn’t pick everything up. Luckily everything was dead before their spirit form was gone. So not really any harder than yesterday I guess, but we had a bonus moment of panic. lol
I was seeing my health drop sharply from puddles before the visual loaded in, so that seems to be an issue that isn’t doing folks any favors. Nine times is a lot though
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Yea. I’ve been running it on my protection paladin and was getting damaged pretty good. I don’t remember them hitting so hard before.
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To be fair, that group was standing in everything, including the sprays. It was super bad. Like… even beyond anything I’ve seen with full curses during HH bad.
I’ve only tanked the dungeon but what I’ve seen is a lot of dps standing in puddles
Ive only done it once and a DPS died while everyone else was fine.
I assume they stood in purple or didnt Kick or some other thing because they were only focussed on Details!
Cant decide if I could be bothered farming it on all my toons. Likely I wont.
It’s definitely tuned differently this year. My wife got caught in a spray and it about dropped her. I had to pinch heal her because the healer was already going crazy trying to keep the group alive. Puddle visuals are wonky right now too. My graphics are at the highest setting and I was taking damage before the puddle appeared. I kept glancing at my bar because if it started to drop I knew I had to move.
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I’ve run it twice on my mage and they died so fast nothing mattered. Maybe I’m getting put with other geared 80s…I’m not sure. So far smooth sailing for me.
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My DK tank just melted.
22 runs, the scaling was way off.
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It’s both.
Fight was a joke for a long time and now it actually does damage but ppl still expect it to be healerless. Not harder enough to bother with the antidotes, but you can’t stand in the frontal or puddles, even as a tank.
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My money is on this. I’ve also had a similar gamut of experiences, but managed to not have anyone die (only ran on this character last night so far, Spirit Link is a crutch that I tossed in Scenario #3 to avoid deaths). I ran it multiple times because I directly queued prior to doing the quest, because I was mislead by a clue during the questline, and then completion of quest).
I’ve stood on the stairs twice after moving in range. I don’t think I’m a bot. But who knows?
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It’s not scaling. It does way more damage across the board. Even max level decently geared characters.
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