CoF path 1 secret buff?

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Posted by: Scarn.1703

Scarn.1703

The searing effigy boss is spawning about 10 crystals every few seconds, they are healing him for a huge amount, and hes throwing out attacks ive never seen before. Ive run this dungeon plenty of times and I remember the bug he had before they nerfed him and its exactly like that. Does this bug still exist? did anet buff this guy again? my group cant even put a dent in him right now and we’re all noticing the same things.

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Posted by: Overlord Falcor.6014

Overlord Falcor.6014

We’ve been running this path great with no problems. I don’t know what bug you speak of but I have yet to see it. When he spawns crystals we have one person break off and take some down right around him. As long as we can keep his regen under 8 stacks we have no problems.

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Posted by: Scarn.1703

Scarn.1703

yea, usually thats how we do it. We finally beat him but it took almost 10 minutes, had 3 on crystal duty, other 2 just pound on him. trust me, i’m not sayin the sky is falling, but something is def different about path 1 tonight .we’ve all been experiencing a lot of issues tonight with path 1 and 2. during path 2, one of our party members got kicked from the party on his end, but to us was still in the party. he could whisper and talk to us, but none of us could talk back. if anyone else is having troubles feel free to chime in.

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Posted by: Natsu Dragneel.1625

Natsu Dragneel.1625

well, path 1 has already been tone’d down to an acceptable level, its not that easy, and it is not that super ridiculous kitten that it used to bee, with his 25 stack and like unstoppable heal >.<

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Posted by: Scarn.1703

Scarn.1703

It was just unusual. I’ve run this path a lot before and usually he’s no problem at all but tonight it was obvious that something was very different.

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Posted by: Kiraki.9761

Kiraki.9761

Yep, there has definitely been a buff. It was kinda expected though considering that before the buff you could practically just ignore the crystals altogether.

Just need a little bit of planning now before you take him on. ^^

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Posted by: Nanoha.3892

Nanoha.3892

Did this yesturday (about 8 hours before OP), didn’t have a problem at all, in fact it was easier than usual. Could it have been party make up? I’ve been in some groups which really struggle through lack of damage but last night we killed the boss in record time (as far as my groups go). Can’t recall 5th member but team was Mesmer, Necro, Thief, Guardian and I think it might have been a ranger or warrior too.

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Posted by: UnrepentantProcrastinator.7420

UnrepentantProcrastinator.7420

Did it earlier today it seemed as easy as usual.

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Posted by: Kiraki.9761

Kiraki.9761

Nanoha.3892

Did this yesturday (about 8 hours before OP), didn’t have a problem at all, in fact it was easier than usual. Could it have been party make up? I’ve been in some groups which really struggle through lack of damage but last night we killed the boss in record time (as far as my groups go). Can’t recall 5th member but team was Mesmer, Necro, Thief, Guardian and I think it might have been a ranger or warrior too.

Nope, ran it with the same group as always, could tell the difference right away.

Perhaps the crystals where just bugged before and not working properly, so it only felt like a bit of a buff because the crystals where now functioning properly?

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Posted by: Humposaurus.5764

Humposaurus.5764

Just did it same as always. Apply bleed/poison and you can forget about the crystals.

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Posted by: Nanoha.3892

Nanoha.3892

Done it again, seemed easier than usual. Definately don’t think there is a buff.

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Posted by: Scarn.1703

Scarn.1703

I’ll post back here after i run it again tonight. i think we hit a bug of some sort, because like most say, he’s usually super easy and only takes a few minutes to beat.

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Posted by: Seren.6850

Seren.6850

did it last night, didnt bother with crystals

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Posted by: BHamlyn.2601

BHamlyn.2601

one of our party members got kicked from the party on his end, but to us was still in the party. he could whisper and talk to us, but none of us could talk back. if anyone else is having troubles feel free to chime in.

Yes, had this problem with my AC run yesterday too. Two different party members suddenly said they were no longer a part of our party on their end, and we had to re-invite them. They were ninjabooted individually too.

Also, earlier in the day, we were doing a HotW run with some other people, and four of the five of us (I kid you not) DC’d over the entire course of the run. Lag spikes were hitting everyone, even though no one outside of our instance was having that problem. Then NPCs would repeat their dialogue no less than four times. We all agreed the run was cursed, and just quickly killed the Butcher and left with our tokens. (One poor soul got 30, too. )

No idea what was going on there, but it was really odd.