Licknmelollypop did mention a raid by Gustin to take him out first. (would be very sweet to see it happen indeed as I missed the Anthares defeat when Heaven was still Heaven :confused:)
Mind telling me when this is and if so would I be eliagable to be invited? Basically no need here to get drops just the privilage to see him go down mind you. (allso I do not care about politics myself personally so I am up for any alliance willing to give it a try).
well, I dont want to bash your hopes of joining in on the fun of taking down the dragon...
but:
With a limit of only 200 players allowed into the area to kill him... they are going to want as many high level DD's they can get... as well as support classes... it just makes more sense...
It does the raid no good to have a person take up a slot that will only be doing 1 damage, when someone eles might be doing 3000 damage.
I cant wait to see how this comes about...
Would be nice if they could set up a camera like they do for sieges and stuff at the viewing crystals...
the GM's make an announcment:
Antharas is under attack: if you wish to watch please go to your nearest viewing crystal...
I agree a High level SE/EE are nice to have... but till we see what the AI is like i would assume that it would be something like 150-175 DDs with the rest Healer/rechargers
DDs mean Mages and BDs for the Mages... for the most part...
Maybe an archer group or two, and a tank group... maybe even a few OLs for buffs and De-buffs on the dragon...
but most parties will have a SE/EE for recharges, a BD for mystic and Con... and if there are enough a SwS with the new Mana Song, not sure there are any that have it yet...
then a Healer/res party... with a BD, EE/SE to res people that get killed... but they will be doing nothing till people start getting killed...
you will only be able to have 22.22- parties... so if you can...
that gives you 16 mage parties. 2 archer parties, 1 tank, and 2 healer parties... leaving room for 11 random people to come.... make a mixed party
this would be an Ideal raid army... can this happen? who knows? I dont even know if there are enough 70+ mages to do it... you would need 96 Mages, and perfer the ones he is weak to? Sps? is it weak to water? it would make sense if it was...
Then Support... 22 SE/EE one for each of the parties and 18 BDs, these dont have to be to high... they just have to have mystic and con. dances... and 16 SwS only if they have the Mana Song for the mage parties... and maybe 2 for the archer parties... thats a total of 154 people... leaving 46 for mixed groups... be nice to have a few OL's for buffs and hp regen control... maybe a few Orcs to cripple it?
This is what I would try to bring if I was planning the raid...
In a raid like this, it is a given that people are going to get killed... and the melees more then the mages... atleast for the most part...
In the last Raid on antharas I was in... We had a total mage wipe out... atleast for the most part, maybe a few were still alive... but we res'ed and got people up while the archer party ran the dragon around...
Most people like to wait for the Bres and 98% bishop res, but if time is an issue, then a 50-75% EE res will just have to be good enough...
I mean, I dont know many people now adays that dont try and have a B-res on them incase of death... Make sure all the healers and everyone has a few Bres on them and as people get resed, they res the others... it should go pretty fast... then the OL's come in and buff and everyone gets back on the fighting line...
Should take about 5 min now that we dont have to have people drop party to get res'ed...
And a TPW of the mages wont happen if they are not stupid and sitting right on top of each other... split them up to 2, 10 party groups... then they each attack for the oppisite side of the other...
Edit: I guess I should ask, Wari... When was the last time you got a Scroll res? and did not go back to town hall, use a Bres or have a high level Bish come and res you?
Wonder if the GM's would ban us if we kill their little dragon pet? We've gotten banned over more redicilous stuff then that so I don't know if I dare kill him.
I doubt you can seriously tank it like you would a RB.
But look at it this way..
How long will it take for the dragon to kill 100 SPS and 100SE's vs how long would it take for him to kill 50 Melee's, 50 Bishops, 50 SpS and 50 SE's. Who knows some very high level tanks with the right buffs and resist fire might be able to UD and take a few hits even.
Ya gotta have your meatshields.. :) (course my opinion may be tainted by the fact that I am a meatshield..)
The Melee's are there to take damage so your mages don't have too. Or at least for every melee that dies, you save 2 mages, or maybe they get a couple more hits in on Sweet V.
On all Mage party sounds good, and it might work.. unless the thing slaughters them all in the first 2 minutes.
Wonder if the GM's would ban us if we kill their little dragon pet? We've gotten banned over more redicilous stuff then that so I don't know if I dare kill him.
Valakas is way different than Antharas for one, Valakas is aoe orientated. He has a massive area spells that has a huge radius (which I will call Meteor Rain) and then his cone of fire has a nice range to it as well. Not to mention you have to jump off a cliff to get to the battle ground(Fall dmg ftl), take constant dmg from the area(LAVA HURTS), and he's like lvl 85. 3rd classes and noblese are about the only thing that can do enough dmg to him probably.
The korean PTS took him down, there were a post about it somewhere.... They wrote the aoe did 36k dmg to a lvl 78 Hierophant(Prophet), and 8k to a lvl 75 UD'd tank...
I've already been to his lair (wyvern ftw), the lava damage is rather intense as well.. even with Majestic jewels. There are very few spots that you can stand and not get the lava damage.
If you guys have ever seen or done a antharas raid, you would know you dont tank. You simply kite them around in circles where at one point the mage party is standing and all shoots, and rests mana while the kiter (usually a Bower) finishes and started the next circle. You sure as hell dont tank it.....
Edit: I guess I should ask, Wari... When was the last time you got a Scroll res? and did not go back to town hall, use a Bres or have a high level Bish come and res you?
back to clan hall is 50%, EE's with 50-75% is fine... you were acting like 50% is a horrible res... i never click back to town, cause obviously there is no point if i could just click to get a 50% but a 50-75% res is not a big deal compared to lets say a 96% bishop res or a bres...
If you guys have ever seen or done a antharas raid, you would know you dont tank. You simply kite them around in circles where at one point the mage party is standing and all shoots, and rests mana while the kiter (usually a Bower) finishes and started the next circle. You sure as hell dont tank it.....
Just think
This technique is no longer going to work like it used too. No more debuffs means no more Entangle.
Valakas is a DD dragon compared to Antharas being a tank dragon, so I doubt that the tried and true techniques are going to work on him. (her?)
Regardless, you aren't going to tank either of them, kiting might still work on Antharas, but it ain't gonna work on Valakas, because he's going to 1 shot the kiter, and then he's gonna start 1 shotting everyone else in sight. LOL
All's I know is ya better bring alot of bishops! mass rez FTW!
Kiting does still work on antharas FYI...yeah I have absolutly no clue as to how valakaas works. I am sure there has got to be some possible way that people may not ALL die. IM sure a few will, that granted....