er we been nerfed of have epics mobs mellee damage gone up a LOT

[Venomo]

<DIV>now i know epic mobs have been buffed recently to stop all the uber guilds raiding them with wooden spoons but i was MT for King Zalak last night and the changes from the other times I've MT'd this mob were shocking.</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>His 'normal' mellee attack was hitting me, fully buffed, for 2-3k crushing damage per hit - and he was hitting almost every swing. Needless to say this made things difficult to say the least, as well as the fact that weapons i've used to tank him before were now either ineffective or 'not sufficient quatily to hit'. </DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>Got him eventually but was a very very messy fight, with him bouncing between me and a 50 zerker. Also the zerker was MUCH better at tanking him for some reason, can't be group buffs as we were in the same group but he seemed to get hit a lot less and for less damage. First time i've had this trouble with the King and tbh was feeling absolutely useless as i was getting taken apart for 10k+ mellee damage in seconds. Anyone else noticed changes or was i just having a bad night/bad version of the mob ?</DIV>

[Urglu]

Just a guess here, but is it possible someone forgot to debuff his str/agil?  I watch my damage most fights, and invariably when I see a bunch of 1300-1600 hits (have seen one as high as mid-3k) it is usually b/c someone forgot to debuff.  As soon as I yell at them to debuff, it will drop down to 700-1000.

[Shizzirri]

<P>I haven't seen any major changes done recently to Zalak or any of the other instances (tanked all of them last night and didn't see any increases in damage).  Even right now the contested mobs are bugged with the new level increases their special AE's are broken but that will change soon and it will be even more "interesting."</P> <P>The contested mobs are now 56-57, whereas Zalak is around level 54.</P>

[Noah]

<BR> <BLOCKQUOTE> <HR> Venomous wrote:<BR> <DIV>now i know epic mobs have been buffed recently to stop all the uber guilds raiding them with wooden spoons but i was MT for King Zalak last night and the changes from the other times I've MT'd this mob were shocking.</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>His 'normal' mellee attack was hitting me, fully buffed, for 2-3k crushing damage per hit - and he was hitting almost every swing. Needless to say this made things difficult to say the least, as well as the fact that weapons i've used to tank him before were now either ineffective or 'not sufficient quatily to hit'. </DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>Got him eventually but was a very very messy fight, with him bouncing between me and a 50 zerker. Also the zerker was MUCH better at tanking him for some reason, can't be group buffs as we were in the same group but he seemed to get hit a lot less and for less damage. First time i've had this trouble with the King and tbh was feeling absolutely useless as i was getting taken apart for 10k+ mellee damage in seconds. Anyone else noticed changes or was i just having a bad night/bad version of the mob ?</DIV><BR> <HR> </BLOCKQUOTE><BR>only contested were adjusted...none of the instanced mobs have been touched for a long while now (cept the power regen).

[Venomo]

did him again tonight, 50 zerker mt'd him with no worries, seemed to get hit a lot less as well. I'm assuming he wasnt debuffed properly last night. Out of interest so i can compare what are you other level 50s stats self buffed? Not sure if im missing something myself here, have fair equip at my level, but seem to get a lot of hits and damage these days, A lot more than i think i should be getting...

[Juk]

i tanked him tonight np like every other nights, now i didnt even abuse defense as we had only 2 defilers and 2 templars healing. selfbuffed stats:  avoidance 69.1%  mitigation 57.6%  hp 6900ish  str 134 agi 172 sta 168 sure it did hit me alot with only about 73% buffed avoidance but i tanked darathar before it so didnt feel that bad :p its doable with 2 healers and 2 groups i believe tho if abusing defense. warden templar troubador zerker conjuror to mt group and other group full of dps+chanter and voila zalak is down in less then 10 minutes <div></div>

[Drozan71]

<P>Just my 2 cp.. The nite of the change to the epic mobs that they patched I was having severe difficulty taking any Heroic encounters.  I was very frustrated like they had ninja patched the game to make Heroics alot tougher then before.  Well... 2 days later after playing an Alt due to being frustrated I tried a Heroic encounter.  Needless to say it was like it was back to normal.  So either I was having a very BIG off nite that nite or the patch was applied to all mobs and changed back or something.  Sorry to go off topic but figured I would throw it out there and maybe that was part of it.</P> <P> </P> <P>Drozan</P> <P>48 Guardian  Butcherblock</P>

[Nazo]

<P>Hi Venom</P> <P>What was your group composition when u got hit a lot while tanking Zalak. Based on that I can probably tell you who was slacking :smileyvery-happy:</P>