Dasein wrote:
VP really isn't all that hard, and with the exception of Nexona, no encounter has as many outright fail conditions as Venril, nor any conditions so easy for anyone to activate. 1. Power to Low = Fail.1b. Mana Sacrifice serves to complicate power management, and will take effect instantly.2. Failed cure = Fail. 2b. The fear and spell reflect effects can make getting off cures in time challenging. 3. Missed Statue Click - Fail.4. Moving beyond Venril's eash point = Fail (not merely a reset, either). 4b. The fear effect can ake this more likely to occur depending on pull location.5. Power too high = Massive Venril Heal. Not a direct fail, but pretty close, especially if it happens multiple times. I am not aware of any other encounter in VP with this many fail conditions or where any and every member of the raid could potentially cause a wipe. Even Nexona is more forgiving in this regards - while the fight overall is very challenging, one or two people could have a lag spike or get distracted for a moment, and probably not cause a wipe. The same is not true of Venril. So, let's drop this idea that if you cannot take down Venril, you won't do well in VP. Of the T1-T4 encounters, Venril is arguably second only to Nexona in difficulty and frustration.
I found this in another thread, someone said low power was the only fail condition, yet this guy posted 5. (maybe 4.5)
People I know that need venril, pay a raid guild 300p for the update or they are screwed, no one even goes down there to try and get the upate any more.
I personally have tried about 50 times to take him down, and always there is 1 person who screws up. Since I am not in a raid guild i have to take what I can get down there, and since TSO is out and u high powered peeps gotother things to do, it is time for him to be nerfed.
this encounter was built for hard core raiders. not raid alliances that are still trying to work through the content.
Keeping my power between 30 and 60, self cure with a pot, seems plenty easy to me, but someone always f-es it up. to my friends that need VS for their mythical updates, I just say "Pay for it or your screwed"