@Kamahl – I’m sorry but your “strategy” post is pretty irrelevant if you haven’t tried the boss or aren’t even aware how the boss works.
But anyways to the main point ->
This one is doable without mesmer or bruteforcing actually. Our setup at the time was:
- Guardian (dunno)
- Warrior (condition based)
- Ranger (dunno)
- Engineer (dunno)
- Elementalist (Me; power, crit, cond, [insert anything] kind of crap)
Anyways we all were damage oriented in some way, with some survivability (don’t remember everyone’s builds) since we like to play as we want instead of some meta crap.
The strategy we used:
Warrior and ranger mainly stayed on boss, while assisting on the crystals that were next to the boss. Rest of us were focusing on the crystals that seemed to give the regen buff to the boss.
The important point was that when the boss had low stacks of regen buff everyone proceeded to dps the boss and when new crystals came everyone did their job again & then proceeded to dps the boss again.
There’s no need to dps all the crystals, just those that seem to give the buff to the boss. Although the range seems pretty absurd sometimes.
Anyways doing it this way took some time and we were relieved when it was finally over. We had to reset the fight few times since we didn’t know the abilities beforehand and I guess it was our third try when we came up with this and finally succeeded.
Awesome boss, ’tho not running this one again in the near future =).
Dunno if this is helpful for anyone but posted this anyway.