This works great if you can kill during p2 or very early p3. If you're spending more than like 5 seconds in p3 then you want those crystals.
If you don't have the DPS to kill Lura before the first Dark Archangel normally, making this entire strategy pointless to begin with, your group will not have the DPS to overcome the 33% damage reduction, and then kill before the 2nd Archangel.Who is this post made for?
Our guild has been doing this since we started our heroic attempts. It only took us 1 night of attempts to get her with this.
Creative use of not doing game mechanics.
Instead of always trying to make things easier, how about learning the fights and practicing to become better and handle the challenge?Things have been already Nerfed. Maybe try playing without needing to rely on a screen full of addons and macros for all combat abilities?Could be a help. Why is it when 100 people at most complain about something, they end up nerfing it. Meanwhile, no one else has any issues. They understand things take time and it's a challenge. Also, try using more than just the 3-4 abilities you constantly spam while standing in the same spot lol
This is a combat advantage and unfair to players that don't go outside of the game and read it.
The even better strat is to skip the first crystals, not the second ones. It makes it so the "dps the crystals quickly" is lined up with your 2min cd and the "don't use big cd because the boss is taking -33% damage" isn't, so you get way more dps out of this. Also it means your crystal holders get their crystals at the very end of p1, instead of holding them through most of p1.Lastly, and this is how you know people bashing this strat are mostly telling on themselves, it allows your raid to see and learn p2/p3 earlier in prog, which is pretty valuable even if you decide to play the boss without skipping crystals. You can cheese p1, learn p2/p3, then get back to learning the arguably hardest phase of the fight.Also, this strat gets more and more value the smaller your raid is. 5 crystal holders in 10-man and in 30-man make up for two very different fights.
totally terribly tuned fight... 5 crystals for 10 ppl group and not 15 crystals for 30 ppl?
we've been doing this for 3 weeks now...very new strategy
Was this really a new strat? I've seen people doing this since week 2 in pugs and we weren't all 280+ ilvl then so obviously now it makes even more sense.
