LIMIT | Sanity's Edge Yaseyla HM in  

My health was just desynced on that fight. For whatever reason it seems to happen often on that fight when arcanist MTing for me, I'm guessing because of interactions of the arcanist shields with heal absorptions and/or oblivion damage. It's actually pretty sketchy when you get heavied with a 40k heal absorption and have to portal away to kite firebombs out of heals and you have no idea how much health you have. Given that, I don't think I've ever died to doing that since the arcanist is a actually a fairly decent spec for that fight with preloaded runeguard heals and giga shields for non hemorrhage damage. Also, my healers are pretty attentive. My health actually fluctuates quite a bit on this fight: ibb.co/c64wYsd

@@wondernuts We've tried something with our tank and it seems to work well for him but would like your opinion on it. Instead of blocking the heavy attack, he just eats it so he gets the resistance reduction instead of the 40k healing debuff. Have you played with that option and do you think it's viable?

@@magickellogg2760 that is certainly an option, especially since resistances matter less on this fight, as Hemorrhage is oblivion damage. There are actually quite a few effects from Rattled, Hindered and Devitalized, I'll send some snippets below: Seethe: Overwhelmed by anger from a missed attack. For 12 seconds damage done increased by 60%. Rattled: You are shaken up for 12 seconds. Damage done decreased by 70%. Damage taken increased by 40% Rattled is immune to skills that remove negative effects. Hindered: Healing your missing health is prevented for 12 seconds or until 39670 points of healing is received to penetrate and remove Hindered. Hindered is immune to skills that remove negative effects. Devitalized: You are weakened for 8 seconds. Physical Resistance and Spell Resistance decreased by 60% Damage taken increased by 30% Damage shields are decreased by 30% Devitalized is immune to skills that remove negative effects. Heavy attack. Applies Seethe if dodged (or the attack otherwise missed; i.e. outranged). Applies Rattled and Hindered together if blocked. Applies Devitalized if not blocked or dodged (note: if shielded and the damage is fully absorbed, you can also get Devitalized; assertion: fully shielded/absorbed damage doesn't take block mitigation into account in this case. Has been reported as a potential bug). See notes for tooltip explanations. Seethe is a buff that empowers the mob for 12 seconds. Personally I wouldn't do it while tanking since the loss of a GCD plus having to break free both heavy attacks and chains and being in Spaulder probably isn't sustainable. Also, having your damage shields reduced by 30% on a gibbering arcanist tank build isn't exactly ideal either. Eating a heavy and having both increased damage taken and 60% reduced resistances into a Shrapnel/Furious Slashes combo might also be pretty deadly. If your tank feels like it works out better for him then by all means.

This is on live. My health was just desynced, which happens pretty often on this fight arcanist tanking for some reason. You can look at a relevant comment below to see a screenshot of a log of my actual health.

@@wondernuts Thanks for the clarifying. I guess my group either have to step up the button clicking or slow down to an easier to execute strategy.

Gibbering Shelter is simply a stronger defensive option than Glyphic for the group. If you're asking about why I didn't slot Glyphic front bar for the Intricate Runeforms passive, it's simply for sustain-related reasons since I'm in Spaulder, and slotting Gibbering gives extra sustain through the Wellspring of the Abyss passive. I do swap it out sometimes but it puts my sustain at the edge. Minor breach is easily achieved nowadays through Brittle + Blockade of Frost, and in my case Cruxweaver Armor too. Double ice staff tanking saves you a bar slot, keeps a higher uptime on Major Maim and Brittle (for non-Arcanist classes), and should be the default option for tanks. We have AOE Major Breach through Boneyards and sticky Major Breach through Noxious Breath.

@@wondernuts So Puncturing Remedy is useless?

@@Hellscreax it's not useless, it's decent option to integrate a heal GCD with your taunt. Puncture is also extremely cheap when paired with cost reduction glyphs. However, most tanks and groups will find that high major maim uptimes will benefit their personal survivability more, as well as the group's. This is especially true on fights with high incoming damage on group members that are sourced from the boss, such as Yaseyla (Shrapnel) and Bahsei (Death's Touch).

@@wondernuts Thank you so much for taking the time to reply, have a nice day!

Nord

@@wondernuts man i need an eye dr. Could have sworn ive seen a tail

@@markuska that's actually a dinosaur costume from an event

@@wondernuts hahaha, thats super based!

@@wondernuts im a mighty telvanni wizard!! I have a Dinosaur costume!

Of course it is. Nothing prevents you from doing that on console