It has been 14 days since the patch. Rumblus needs a balance change. Grast is not reliable enough to be a fall back plan if groups aren’t able to coordinate the interrupts. Might I add that the coordination is hard for pugs to do over ingame chat.
The problems I have noticed are:
- Grast is knockeddown and killed when the rocklanche begins.
- Grast gets the bubble off but the boss’ auto attack knocks the majority of the party out of the bubble into the rocklanche and dies.
- Pugs not able to coordinate the interrupts correctly and rage quits ensue
- Grast dies from splash damage before the rocklanche phase begins.
Possible solutions:
- Make Rumblus stand in place and continue the scream animation during the rocklanche.
- Give Grast and Tzark invulnerability.
- Remove the knockback effect from Rumblus’ auto attack.
- All solutions are under the assumption that Grast is fixed to where he activates bubble at the same time Rumblus begins the rocklanche cast/channel.
I will admit this is a fun fight when coordinating over skype with above average skill level friends. This fight is a chore when trying to pug it no matter how hard I try to pick up other people’s slack.
Final suggestion – I suggest adding a knew dungeon difficulty with guaranteed 1 rare/exotic drop per boss fight. The new dungeon difficulty would be limited to only level 80s and would have more complex mechanics than the EM versions. With that in place the EMs can be balanced to accommodate the level the dungeon becomes available. Level 80 EMs, except for Arah, could be balanced toward lower skilled 80s while the “Hardmode” versions would be for the higher skilled. Arah is pretty fine as is for a “Hardmode” dungeon, just add the guaranteed rare/exotic per boss and fix the exploits that allow players to ignore the fight mechanics.
