OP's Group Thursday 26/01/2012 Report (Read It But only the Op's Group may comment)

[vladic]

First Official Run

Well everyone First official OP's group thursday run today, aside from late starting (partly due to my self and people getting lost ) went exceptionally well, First boss was down on the first attempt, aside from minor agro issues, boss swinging around for his knockback due to over agro, was One shot kill

Second boss, bit of a DPS shortage and due to it being a completely new fight (1st boss had been internally guild pugged a few weeks ago) after several attempts (and some really good luck) Ghajr went down also.

Third boss (Pylon) was to be honest a real pain due to either an invisible timer or a bug, basically we ended up speeding through the Pylon controllers trying to match the symbols up before a Bug or timed issue where 12 Acklay elites spawn and gank each group, after around 7 or 9 attempts we were also successful with 2 people being awarded tier tokens and others Prototype quality items.

This was sadly when we had to call it an evening as after spending 20minutes attempting the 4th boss (with an apparent bug affecting both tanks but NO ONE else) we decided to call it a night whilst myself and Imhotep aimed to resolve the bug by testing several methods (which did eventually work and we also believe we located the cause of the bug as listed below in Notes).

Excellent turn out from the group all stimmed and medpacked up and excellent communication with many willing to input abilties or information I had forgotten.

Notes And Recommendations

• To avoid the bug on the 4th boss, No one must buff during the fight and if anyone is applying HOTS (Heals over Time) before the fight for example Kolto shell, please remove this buff as it may cause the bug (detailed below)
• The bug which caused the tanks to be constantly effected with the "helper" buff for attempting to help others, the way to resolve this is after looting the Pylon boss chest to have everyone use the exit area above the radar and have the OP's leader reset the Operations Stage (this only resets current bosses)
• Equipment from PVP can be used and is better then Tionese/HM FP gear to an extent (less main stat more sub stats like accuracy etc) Please try replace Greens and blues with this equipment
• Minor lag through out the evening may have contributed to DPS issues on Gharj as it was minor however slightly unnoticable
• Speak to our crafters about Crystals Mods etc as they can make equipment partially on Par with HM FP equipment
• Excellent Communication within the group (some peoples Mic's where rather low) and very few whipes
• Robot trash after first boss has a nasty knock back (as Lurek found out )

I will attempt to get a form of Video software to record our Runs for future reference and future groups to view, Two polls will appear in the Members only Forums there are for OP's Group Thursday ONLY, thank you for reading.

Well Done Everyone from tonight.

Vladic

[vladic]

The Polls are located in the none Members section due to Posting restrictions

[JanuZ]

Yesterdays run

I think the run went very well even with some hickups on the later bosses.
 

• Annihilation Droid XRR-3 went down first try and even with only one death on the last few % and that was pretty nice.
• Gharj showed us that we are still a little under geared seeing as he enraged every try but killing him on 4th try ( or was it 3rd? ) isn't bad even though everyone but psykoo died.
• Ancient Pylons had clearly been buffed since the video guides were made but we made it work in the end.
• Infernal Council would have gone down first try I think if we had been correctly placed on that try. A shame we didn't find the fix until after the operation was finished.

The run went about the way I expected it to go, I was expecting that we would kill the 1st boss on first or second try and then that we would use some time on 2nd boss.
Every try on Gharj went relatively smooth and only enrage timer hindered us from finishing him on first try. I expected Anicent Pylons to be free loot but since it was buffed it clearly wasn't ( I am guessing it wasn't a bug and just a soft enrage timer ).
I was expecting that we would butt our heads against the Infernal Council for some time mostly because I wasn't sure everyone was geared enough for the fight.
We didn't finish them but we would have done it easily if it wasn't for that bug and while I didn't see much of other peoples fights, they seemed to go pretty smoothly for everyone.
Even Sheepy who was clearly the person with least end game gear in the group.

Next run

Assuming that at least 5 people are the same next week( and at least 1 from each group of healer, dps, tank ) and that the gear of the group overall is slightly better then yesterdays group
 I would expect us to finish each boss on 1st or 2nd try( except maybe pylons ) and that we should get about an hour or so on the last boss.
I am not sure if that is enough time to actually kill that boss but I expect that we should be able to get him to phase 3 assuming people know how to jump between platforms

• For the Ancient Pylons, someone that isn't clicking the consoles should count down on TS to start the fight. seeing as TS has about a 2 second delay and that a person who is counting down often clicks and then says go. This can cause the second Pylon to start 5seconds later then the first and based on yesterdays run those seconds can be important
• We will not need to reset the instance straight after the pylons before we try the council. It worked the first time we tried killing them and only after they reset didn't it work. So we should be able to run straight to them and try. Then reset the instance if we don't kill them first try or if they bug on the first try.

[KKND]

Also i think whe need to finish the op's whe have started as it will be reset in 3 days and some hours.
Wut be a shame to start all over again the first 3 bosses!!

Bout the gear that will take some time to get people good geared dont forget whe just started....so dont rush.
In my eyes whe cleared the first bosses decent even with this gear most have at this time.
Only with the Ancient Pylons whe got wipped few times,things are all new to any one but whe will learn from this.

[vladic]

Excellent replies, as to the gear KKND just stating where to get some as some people stuggle for replacement gear for belts etc

[JanuZ]

found this cheat sheet for the pylon rotations.

Ok guys here is a cheat sheet for ya guys for the puzzle pylons, first color is the one that in the middle of the pylon and the second is what color you need to get it to followed by turns to get there, each console is a different direction.

blue+red=Rightx2
blue+purple=rightx3/leftx3
Blue+White=leftx2

Green+purple=Rightx2
Green+white=Rightx3/Leftx3
green+yellow=leftx2

Red+white=rightx2
red+yellow=rightx3/leftx3
Red+blue=leftx2

Purple+yellow=rightx2
purple+blue=rightx3/leftx3
purple+green=leftx2

white+blue=rightx2
white+green=rightx3/leftx3
white+red=leftx2

Yellow+green=rightx2
yellow+red=rightx3/leftx3
yellow+purple=leftx2

[vladic]

Good find, ill try reemmber to dish out a copy to each pylon clicker in each run, otherwise we just speed run through it as usual