Curse

BigTru · Aug 16, 2005, 07:07 AM // 07:07

Quit whining, it isn't that hard to take him down. Your mesmer probably sucked, btw.

Red Locust · Aug 16, 2005, 07:10 AM // 07:10

Diversion. One skill to rule them all.

Louis Ste Colombe · Aug 16, 2005, 07:17 AM // 07:17

I don't even remember meeting this guy

must not be that tough

As everyone mentionned it... Your issue is no diversion, no interrupt, no daze, no nada. You got 4 warriors? And no knockdown? No disrupting chop?

Get some of that, and it gets much easier. Sure it's not healing, and sure it's not direct damage... but that does help tremendously.

I'd like to petition Anet so that they make this game more difficult if possible. Please do not tone down this game.

And just add monks in a few encounters, like 2 of them for every Tengu group

, so that when people get to Thunderkeep they have figured out how to counter them.

Louis,

PieXags · Aug 16, 2005, 07:20 AM // 07:20

Louis, he isn't there for everyone, you get a random monk boss in the mission to my knowledge, once I got a mesmer boss, another time an elementist, only got the monk boss once. If you don't remember it...you didn't encounter it me thinks.

borkbork · Aug 16, 2005, 07:24 AM // 07:24

I have this strange feeling your mesmer was one of those 'omfgbbqwtf' DOT ones. Just spamming diversion is enough to take down the boss. Also, I'm wondering if all the warriors on your team were just sword warriors with: sever artery, gash, power attack, galrash slash, healing signet... a.k.a. 0 disruption... Even a hammer warrior would keep the boss down long enough.

Even then, you said you had eles. Were they even casting meteor shower? A water ele with maelstrom would work too.

Next time you do this mission, I highly suggest you check the skills of your teammates. It only takes a couple minutes.

Nightsky · Aug 16, 2005, 07:27 AM // 07:27

Just have someone with Diversion...

Thats what you get for not inviting the Mesmer into your team! =P

borkbork · Aug 16, 2005, 07:30 AM // 07:30

He said he had a mesmer on his team

I wonder if that mesmer was Dunham...

Louis Ste Colombe · Aug 16, 2005, 07:37 AM // 07:37

Quote:

Originally Posted by PieXags

Louis, he isn't there for everyone, you get a random monk boss in the mission to my knowledge, once I got a mesmer boss, another time an elementist, only got the monk boss once. If you don't remember it...you didn't encounter it me thinks.

Maybe...

I do remember a few bosses, either because the setting was fun, because they were part of a quest, or because they were really tough REDENG..

!

If you don't like monk mursaat bosses in Thunderhead, you won't like them in Rings of Fire... So you better find a solution to that kind of problem because it won't stop at Thunderhead .... And in ring of fire, those monk boss might team up with Cairn the destroyer and that will be real fun

Louis,

RTSFirebat · Aug 16, 2005, 07:52 AM // 07:52

Guys, this boss is well easy if you know how. Here's how my party beat him:

I was the only Ranger, so I just timed when I used his primary healing spell which was Orison of Healing.

And then use Distracting Shot on him, that gives 10 seconds of time when he cannot use the spell and cannot heal. During this time you can do truck loads of damage to him, this applys to ANY monk boss in the game.

If you can beat him, your not doing something right, so stop complaining here and sort out your skills.

Experiment_Jon · Aug 16, 2005, 08:03 AM // 08:03

Quote:

Originally Posted by dargon

Never had a problem with him, Perfected Armor on the other hand...

Perfected armor....that guy was tough. Took like a minuite to kill. At least they don't stick someone like Glint into that mission. But maybe the bosses are random. Because I'm sure that the junk groups I was in would have been stuck on someone like this for a LONG time.

latbec · Aug 16, 2005, 09:02 AM // 09:02

It could be a movie titled:

Revenge of the Mesmers part II: the fall of the holy War-Monk-Ele trinity

A hint for you:
Before that mission, say an announcement in the like of "Group looking for Mesmers anti-monk". And you could even take *GASP* 2 mesmers in your
group...

There are so many mesmers skills to shutdown a healing boss that I won't even bother reciting them.

P.S. IMO I think that they should do the opposite, put even more of these big monk bosses, and even put more mobs containing two monks. It would really put some challenge in the game and force people to build equilibrated PUGs containing not only the holy trinity.

trelloskilos · Aug 16, 2005, 09:09 AM // 09:09

You think Demeitros is tough? THere's a boss that crops up in RoF, "Matron", a very powerful monk who seems to last forever. I filled my ranger slots with interrupts 2nd time round, and it still took a good 10 minutes to take that boss down.

snepp · Aug 16, 2005, 09:24 AM // 09:24

Quote:

Originally Posted by trelloskilos

You think Demeitros is tough? THere's a boss that crops up in RoF, "Matron", a very powerful monk who seems to last forever. I filled my ranger slots with interrupts 2nd time round, and it still took a good 10 minutes to take that boss down.

lol, reminds me of my first trip through there. By that point we had 5 members left in the party and were severely lacking in both damage output and interrupt/shutdown capabilities. It took us nearly 25 minutes to bring that hellspawn down.

Linkie · Aug 16, 2005, 09:25 AM // 09:25

Take diversion.

On another note, me and another ranger killed him with henchies only, without any e-denial or interrupts.

soma · Aug 16, 2005, 09:49 AM // 09:49

i remember killing him while running a melee r/w and henchmen. just had disrupting chop and of course henchmen don't do any kind of shutdown on casters.

4 warriors is piss poor party design anyway. no mission ever needs more than 2.

Artemis Bladewing · Aug 16, 2005, 09:57 AM // 09:57

Backfire and Scourge Healing, then smite one warrior and then kill. HWen the monk boss trys to heal it self, he does 200dmg vs 160 (max) heal so you already do 40 dmg each time he heals.

Louis Ste Colombe · Aug 16, 2005, 09:59 AM // 09:59

No mission really needs anything

And 4 warriors can do the job IF they got knockdown or disrupting chop. So I'd not blame 4 warriors as the problem... But the warriors design itself.

Sure a more balanced party with mesmers, and necros (ahah... necros with shivers and cold damage

.... my warrior got cold damage weapon, so any necro is welcome

just give it a try and have fun! ) would have an even easier time. But it's probably doable with 4 warriors... (and a necro, a monk, a mesmer and a ranger). As long as at least someone is not thinking about damage but about disruption! And un hex / un enchant / un condition...

Too bad all that get overlooked in PvE.. Until you face that kind of situation.

Louis,

ComMan · Aug 16, 2005, 02:00 PM // 14:00

If you can distracting shot/chop his Orison of Healing twice then he's done. But yeah, I hated that boss too and I'm an R/Me.

Also note that if you're using henchmen and aren't a mesmer he is 100% impossible.

DarkAynjil · Aug 16, 2005, 02:02 PM // 14:02

Uhh.. Rigor Mortis? Shatter Enchantments? Maelstrom, Meteor Shower, Hammer Knockdowns, Rend, Debilitating, Distracting, Concussion, Backfire......

Hmm... Methinks the BOSS is not the problem in Thunderhead.....

spiritofcat · Aug 16, 2005, 02:13 PM // 14:13

Quote:

Originally Posted by borkbork

He said he had a mesmer on his team

I wonder if that mesmer was Dunham...

Oh man, don't talk to me about Dunham!
When I was fighting a monk mursaat boss in one of the fire island missions my full hench team spent a good half an hour slowly wearing him down while Dunham just attacked him with his wand.
Not a single mesmer spell, the bastard!
He's now on my list of henchmen to never ever take with me.