Curse

Karlos · Mar 04, 2007, 07:04 AM // 07:04

The new change to the Summoning Shadows skill is that it's instant cast and takes effect after 3 seconds. However, I believe an undocumented requirement of the skill is that it requires him to be in range of his foes somehow, like he has to have those foes in "earshot" range of him or something. We'll test more and report our findings.

sumrtym · Mar 04, 2007, 11:27 AM // 11:27

Ok, I'm too tired to go into details this A.M., but suffice it to say Mallyx has been beat by another team since the update. We just finished putting the hurt on the purple monkey. BTW, don't make the mistake of having a full inventory. Your primeval armor does not drop to the ground for beating him (unless they made it random after the first time also...my 2nd time, another guy 2nd time got one, so dunno). Anyway, no armor for me anywhere.

I'm tired, I got his tactics shield, and I'm going to bed.

malevolence · Mar 16, 2007, 11:05 PM // 23:05

well, with a nice team we have tried today to kill him 3 times, but we failed, we have tried with the golem trick and it worked, mallyx was stuck in the door and we started to spike , until a noob monk casted an enchantment on himself , and he activated then all mallyx skills and started to kill us. The other 2 times we tried it didnt work at all, dunno why .

So please, if anyone has a little guide how to kill him, please share it.

Cheers.
Malevolence

Abyss1 · Mar 17, 2007, 11:18 AM // 11:18

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Originally Posted by malevolence

well, with a nice team we have tried today to kill him 3 times, but we failed, we have tried with the golem trick and it worked, mallyx was stuck in the door and we started to spike , until a noob monk casted an enchantment on himself , and he activated then all mallyx skills and started to kill us. The other 2 times we tried it didnt work at all, dunno why .

So please, if anyone has a little guide how to kill him, please share it.

Cheers.
Malevolence

Hmmm wondering if you were in the group I was in yesterday afternoon that failed.....
We got him down past 50% and then he all of a suddens tarted using his attacks. I presume and it looked like soemone moved to trigger it.

On a unrelated note , calling someone a noob in an area that has a serious lack of anybody that has a exact clue on how to do it is kinda wrong. AND anyways experienced or new very very very few people make it and when failed the once pointing fingers usually are the one that cause it. But ok lets leave this always lasting debate I guess....

Kakumei · Mar 17, 2007, 02:02 PM // 14:02

I beat Mallyx a week ago with a French group, and it seemed oddly easy.

I, as the bonder, was ordered to stand on the hill just outside the door and not move. Mallyx was aggroed with just the tank inside, he ran to the door, cast Summoning Shadows, and I was dragged to the door, and another monk was dragged through it--no one lse moved. Mallyx didn't move, didn't attack, didn't use a single skill other than Summoning initially and the one that removes conditions/hexes whenever he got a condition on him, and our eles just wore him down and he died with no fanfare.

I don't understand how or why any of it happened, but hey, I got his Hatred, so meh.

tknorris · Mar 17, 2007, 02:38 PM // 14:38

I can say for us that we've killed him several times in the last few weeks, but we have yet to find something that works reliably. Our success rate at this point is about 50%. The biggest problem we've had is we haven't been able to identify what causes one run to be successful and the next one to not be. We are still working on finding a combo that works every time.

Dragou Du Porzan · Mar 17, 2007, 09:14 PM // 21:14

Like the others here, I'm finding that beating Mallyx seems pretty random. The group I was with took him down on our 3rd attempt, and very little changed from run to run. For some reason he activated his skills on runs 1 and 2, yet stood stock still on run 3 (letting us kill him easily). No one moved during all 3 attempts, yet he attacked and killed us the first two times. Why didn't he attack the last time? Your guess is as good as mine.

The most I can say is that, on our final successful attempt, we set up a bit differently. Everyone not on Mallyx's side of the gate lined up on the right wall by the gate. When Mallyx teleported us, everyone but one monk was brought inside the gate. This was just like every other attempt (all but one party member getting teleported in), but this time he didn't attack. Could it be something as ridiculous as the angle of our entry into the chamber? Heck, I have no idea.

Tarkin · Mar 20, 2007, 12:52 PM // 12:52

LOL

I beat the last quest, and try mallyx with a normal group (no super stars, no noobs) with a lot of first timers i think 3 or 4... well we try the trick, personaly i think the coin in the ground to mark the spot to tank are in the wrong place... but, well the carnage begin he teleport us... and.. kill everyone less me and a monk... well 50 min of no stop air nuking (luck i r5 and air, if i r3 i think can't bet him), kill him in the first try!

Lucky he dont kill one monk.

Now i have lovely rit focus and a knife from him. Both take afther the nerf.

Tarkin · Mar 20, 2007, 01:10 PM // 13:10

Quote:

Originally Posted by Kakumei

I beat Mallyx a week ago with a French group, and it seemed oddly easy.

I, as the bonder, was ordered to stand on the hill just outside the door and not move. Mallyx was aggroed with just the tank inside, he ran to the door, cast Summoning Shadows, and I was dragged to the door, and another monk was dragged through it--no one lse moved. Mallyx didn't move, didn't attack, didn't use a single skill other than Summoning initially and the one that removes conditions/hexes whenever he got a condition on him, and our eles just wore him down and he died with no fanfare.

I don't understand how or why any of it happened, but hey, I got his Hatred, so meh.

First time i try to kill mallyx with the new trick (never try before), we have a monk in the hill away to rez us later if trick fails, all stay together (less me a bit behind (my noob fault)), tank pull him to corner more he can, and mallyx teleport us i get teleported to inside chamber the others stay outside, he kill the necro i think, and dont kill no one more, the tank still alive and we nuke him to dead.

Sample Attack · Mar 20, 2007, 05:14 PM // 17:14

Anybody know what's up with attacking the priest ? I belive it's Dryder.
Anybody have any sort of problem and how to get around it?

Valeria · Apr 01, 2007, 12:44 AM // 00:44

i have been 4 times inside mallyx place now ( and failed a few times at the last enemy groups) but yet there was no way beating him. As soon as he starts attacking there is nothing you can do.
Once he was doing nothing until his hp were low and the margonites appeared. They saw us and then mallyx started whiping our group.

Another time that happened when he was down at 50% and the tormented creatures appeared.
Has no one found a trick to defeat him yet?

Abyss1 · Apr 01, 2007, 07:21 AM // 07:21

K so mallyx is actually easy.

A few simple rules :

Do not move
Bring a flesh golum and split your party 50/50 and leave the bodner dead inside.
DO not move
Do not enchant
DO not move
Do not wand
Do not enchant
do not move

Ok repetative there .....but most failures are because people wand,move and or enchant. These 3 things trigger mallyx's attacks. If done right you can kill mallyx in under 2 minutes (excluding with the 18 groups before).

In my opnion it is harder to deal with the first 18 groups then it is to kill Mallyx and his following.

just for illustration

forgive my movie editing skills but you get the idea

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yWU1-XKUDlw

Valeria · Apr 01, 2007, 09:26 PM // 21:26

thx a lot for the movie! the only ones i captured were more embarrassing

so 4 ppl inside and he only killed the bonder?
What happens if the spawning creatures attack you? (well maybe with some healing you could survive long enough to kill him and then run and rez later)

Abyss1 · Apr 01, 2007, 10:22 PM // 22:22

Basic story ....

Bonder suicides inside before mallyx is pulled.
the golem makes sure the NT monk gets out and he rezzes the bip 1 ele and the other monk out.
So 2 ele's the tank and the dead bonder stay in.
Tank agro's mallyx runs back to the 2 ele's, mallyx will (for some reason) run to the body of the bonder. Now wait say 15 to 20 seconds before the ele's let loose on him with all attacks. Keep in mind bip and br and such are also not good as they are enchants ! all together even without the ele's and bip(if he has an attack) mallyx dies in roughly 1 minute.

Then you run :P regroup, regen, rebirth and clear the last bit

Ruphfus · Apr 01, 2007, 10:39 PM // 22:39

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Originally Posted by Forum R Us

but why arent they thinking out of the frames?? all iwe seen them do is make the boss stronger, faster, non-interupptible etc...

couldn't agree with you more.

make the boss killable, but the room/area he is in harder to fight in. Not by auras or negative buffs that hurt you. but by flames, spikes, pillars that crush. that are going on WHILE you fight him.

You guys remember the Iron Forgeman from Sorrows Furnace? How he pulled the chains and dumped lava out on you. Yeah, more stuff like that.

Shadowlion · Apr 09, 2007, 07:14 PM // 19:14

After reading all the posts, I found
Luck is very important in Mallyx fight.
This boss is not designed well, not fully completed, still has a lot of problems. Hope Anet will do some work. And I agree they shall remove that priest quest let us face Mallyx directly.