Q: Was this change intended?
Fractals of the Mists
Bug: Mai Trin and First Mate Horrik no longer scale appropriately with fractal levels.
The recent changes did not fix the scaling issues with Mai Trin and First Mate Horrick. Rather they have introduced a number of inconsistencies when it comes to NPC damage.
The amount of damage done at doing a fractal at the level 1-19 bracket is the same as the amount of damage done at the 40-49/50 bracket. This appears to be an exact opposite as to what the patch notes imply.
- Mai Trin’s Teleport Shot constantly hits for the same amount while wearing the same gear and agony resist values across fractal levels.
- Mai Trin’s Electric Blast constantly hits for the same amount while wearing the same gear and agony resist values across fractal levels.
- Mai Trin’s Pistol Spin constantly hits for the same amount while wearing the same gear and agony resist values across fractal levels.
Compared to Mai Trin’s other attacks such as Slash,Slice, and Champion First Mate Horrik’s attacks Cannon Explosion,Electric Blast,Momentous Strike which indeed appear to scale exponentially as the level of the fractal increases.
The end result is even the most heavy of classes can be killed in one damage rotation; drastically changing the prior mechanics and tactics required for this encounter.
(Overall negative community perception here)
It is possible that the Captain’s Shield buff is having unintended effects of the current scaling; Damage appears inconstantly high within in this fractal to other fractal bosses while the shield stacks are present.
If you manage to remove around 7-8 of the shield stacks the damage with the “high damage” special attacks do appear to decrease in value; however inconstantly the non “special” attacks (slash/slice) do not appear to change.