The Warlock is a huge *** and can often open with Sleepga's and then sleepga again if their woke up while the RDM is still trying to silence it. It has a very potent resistance to silence so will typically need 2~3 casts to land. So there exists a very small window were the BLM can just be a ***.
Kinda late but just would like to share things about backline positioning and kill order.
Usually we open with brd lullaby but before all NM are slept, only brd and tank would run in, everyone stay at starting corner.
This prevents the oh ***moment that healer and DD randomly get hit with slow para sleep and slow down dps.
Once everything slept DD kill tamer first and healer start working on silence in the order of hecteyes > warlock > duelist > reaver. Brd work on dispel spams on next adds too.
And DD killer would be tamer > eyes > warlock > duelist > pug > reaver.
This order buys healer time to land silence on adds so whenever DD engage next adds it's all silenced and fully dispelled.
So by the time DD engage tamer eye would be silenced since it lands in 1 cast (eye likes to cast tons of ***spells that slows down dps), by the time DD engage eyes warlock should be silenced, or at least silence should land before manawall. Before warlock engaged it's slept so it's not dangerous in any way.
And the list goes on, reaver should be silenced and fully dispelled by the time DD engage it. If not it can be dangerous.
I personally prefer Tank DD cor geo brd healer instead of 2 DD 1 cor setup listed on bg wiki. I haven't get the chance to try no healer setup yet.
The kill speed with 1 DD 1 cor 1 geo is not slower at all. Fastest VD run with above setup was 5 min 7 sec including buff time, but having extra geo help with silence cure dispel helps kill speed a TON.
This is because if warlock reaver duelist isn't fully dispelled and silenced by the time DD engage it, they can be dangerous. If DD wait for it to land, it will slow down runs. Fury frailty doubles physical ws dmg in ambu, so geo definitely help more than extra DD.
This ambu is 100% about how good your mage and tank is, from my experience going with very good tank and mages pushes VD clear to 5 min range including buffs, sometimes even closer to less than 5 min. Going with worse tank and support, then kill speed float between 6 to 8 min since DD suffers from random hate pull and death on adds, and adds gets more dangerous if silence dispel doesn't land on time.
This ambu also has way too much main boss hate reset and hate pull on adds with 65k ws, that good tank makes HUGE difference in terms of kill speed.
Oh and btw, leaden salute works on adds but not main boss, I entered solo the other day to test leaden numbers in VD and it hit 36k at 1.5k to 2k tp completely unbuffed, no wizards nor malaise. So cor should be able to solo darkness sc on adds with malaise.
Sylph.Citrelautame said:
»dps was just gone, the blm which would drop in 4-5 ws, took about 4min and prob 15ish ws? coming from a ukon war, even w/o a brd or geo that blm should never last that long and we had both
Never witness any mechanics that buff adds. So youd have to find out what went wrong.