Copy/paste from another thread which has been lost to the depths of this forum (probably due to rather harsh title it was given by OP). Includes excellent suggestions for how to make the fight break up so that’s it not just a giant zerg following a blue dorito, making more focus on small group fights against adds, which would make conditions viable.
SonicTHI.3217:
Considering the above here is how an improved Tequatl fight would look like:
-Arcanist lab houses another power station and its event cannot be active during Tequatls. The quagan event provides extra NPCs for the north station. Completing the gorge quest reduces the number of mobs assaulting the SE station.
-Event starts, hordes of undead start spawning across the entire coast length and start walking inland. These mobs will continuously assault 10 points: 6 turrets and 4 power stations. Bloaters will head directly for the stations and try to blow up on them. Mob rank is adjusted according to the total of players in the entire area but never goes past veteran. With this system the event could be scaled all the way down to 20 players and still be just as challenging.
After 2 minutes Tequatl makes his entrance and starts spawning his fingers and small waves. Tequatl has a individual damage threshold on each of his 3 points that resets every few seconds – damaging all 3 points at the same time does the most damage. The undead increase in numbers and start running. Fingers spawn poison around them. Hylek turrets deal increased damage to Tequatl, bone walls and fingers and clense their poison. Batteries begin charging the laser. If a battery is destroyed the charging is slowed. If all 4 batteries are destroyed the laser will not fire and the event fails. Laser does 20% damage to Tequatl and fires every 2 minutes with all 4 stations charging it. It is the primary source of damage and stuns Tequatl.
After the stun ends Tequatl roars, spawns a wall and a champion for each of the stations. If the wall is not destroyed before the laser fires again it instead destroys the wall with no damage to the dragon.
If Tequatl is not defeated in 13 minutes he spawns the big wave, then destroys the laser. At this point a massive army of undead overruns the area and a new event spawns to recapture it.
End quote. The rest is from me.
This. Yes. This.
I worry that, because of the somewhat harsh tone of your first post, this thread will be deleted and/or people will skip over your second post, which is full of awesome ideas.
These are GREAT ideas for improving the fight. This is the kind of thing I thought Anet would actually do when they said they were “changing” the fight (since we didn’t really get a change; his damage and health just went up and the turrets actually became important, but otherwise this is the same basic fight).
What’s great about your ideas is that they break up the typical “zerg” mentality. Having to defend multiple points would make people split up into smaller, coordinated groups; several 5 man parties working to accomplish small tasks would be more important than blindly following a blue Dorito. Because there would be a large number of targets, you eliminate the issue that is common to most boss fights (i.e., classes that depend on crowd control, like necro with fear, are useless due to Defiant/Unshakeable, and conditions are useless due to the 25 condi caps).
Plus, it just makes absolute sense to me that the primary source of damage to a gigantic dragon would be an epic freaking laser. People hitting his knees with a scepter (I play necro) SHOULDN’T be capable of taking down something like that with autoattacks. And because we would be actively fighting the zombie hordes, we aren’t just “crippled” out of our class skills (like we were in the Zhaitan fight where we just shot fireworks), but can still feel important, and for other roles than the normal DPS cannon role (condi necros with epidemic would feel important! aoe cripple/immob to stop the advance of suicide bombing zombies, anyone?).
And finally, the dragon would still actually be threatening. He could still one shot people (power level appropriate to a dragon) if they’re stupid enough to stand where he could step on them or lean that big, long neck down and munch on them.
Please, Anet, listen to this man’s ideas. Even if you don’t apply them to Teq, you can apply them to other bosses in the future. Making something feel “epic” doesn’t just mean hitting a giant object; coordinating to achieve something like ten different objectives at the same time, as suggested here (defend turrets, defend arcanist lab, escort quaggans, clear gorge for reinforcements, defend charge batteries) would feel much more epic than hitting the kneecaps of a giant, immobile lizard and jumping over some waves/out of some poison.
