Lecture Notes on Boss Strategies for Season Two

Introduction

• Discussion on problems encountered with certain bosses this season.
• Focus on hardest bosses and strategies to defeat them.

Swamp Face

• Direction Agreement: Decide to go left facing the boss to avoid confusion.
• Awaken the Swamp: Look for faint rubble spawning on water, move as a group to avoid puddles.
• Cooldown Usage: Use party-wide cooldowns like Darkness, healer cooldowns during puddle phase.
• Tank Alert: Post-wave, boss uses Tank Buster, use big mitigations for Sludge Claw.

Big Mama (Floodgates)

• Add Management: Move boss along the wall, bait mecha drones to the wall for effective cleave damage.
• Sonic Boom: Party stacks towards the wall, target moves out to dodge.

Giga Z

• AOE Circle Awareness: Circle is larger than it appears, avoid electrifying water puddles.
• Tank Coordination: Adjust position to avoid knockback into puddles.
• Dangerous Overlap: Giga Zap followed by Turbo Charge, requires defensive cooldowns to mitigate.

Dark Flame CLA Wax Beard

• Fixate Management: Avoid melee hits from laborers, use stuns, kites, and CC.
• Add Spawns: DPS focus on destroying the underhanded tactics cart quickly.
• Line of Sight Tactics: Use pillars to break boss charge, maintain DPS up-time.

Blazon

• Candle Mechanics: Light as many candles as possible to reduce DOT stacks during enkindling Inferno.
• Dowsing Breath Overlap: Pop personals if low on health during this phase.

Kindle King

• Candle Management: Use debuff circles to destroy multiple clones.
• Group Strategy: Stack up to minimize the spread of candle spawns.

Darkness

• Min-Max DPS: Utilize shadow blast debuff cast time.
• Candle Management: Move candle to strategic locations to allow easy access for replenishment.

Ruker

• Debuff Management: Pass chaotic corruption debuff strategically among players.
• Tank Role: Can take debuff twice with proper mitigation.

Monstrosity

• Positioning: Assign players to specific ledges for effective crystal management.
• Tank and Healer Strategy: Position to facilitate healing and tanking mechanics.

Motherload

• Boom Bot Strategy: Utilize BFA strat by tanking in the lower-left quadrant for safe spots.
• Missile and Gatling Gun Dodge: Use defensives to manage simultaneous mechanics.

General Tips and Announcements

• Goop: Ranged players should avoid standing on edges to prevent leftover mobs jumping away.
• Moda: Manage boss charges and position strategically for flexibility.
• Cinder Brew: Stagger barrel explosions to manage debuff stacks.
• Busby: Control puddle placement and manage adds effectively.
• EA: Tank awareness for add spawns and positioning for optimal DPS.
• Suan: Tank positioning on stairs to manage slam mechanics.
• Brun-P: Manage soak strategy to avoid unnecessary debuff stacks.
• Merp: Focus on breaking shield ASAP during phase transitions.
• Workshop: Understand boss hitbox size for effective positioning.

Conclusion

• Special thanks to Patreon supporters and YouTube members for their contributions.
• Encouragement to utilize provided resources and strategies for improved gameplay.