Crusher/Hunter Arah 3 Boss Change

#1 - Feb. 27, 2013, 12:03 a.m.
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Seems like there were changes to a few bosses that don’t show up in the patch notes.

The most significant I saw from tonight outside of AC is in Arah 3.

The Crusher/Hunter are significantly different now.

The Crusher has a large AoE heal and constantly revives dead risen, which includes the hunter and the group of 4 mobs at the closed door area. This means for speed runs where you only kill the first 4 mobs, you can’t pull the duo up to the door area anymore.

The Hunter now has an additional large poison AoE field and charge up projectile which can be reflected and is a Champion mob instead of a Legendary.

Because the Crusher has other skills now, he doesn’t spam his insta-down crush move as often. You can actually just focus the Crusher and ignore the hunter and use any projectile reflects you have. If you are organized, you can just time your condition removal incase you get immobilized and just full on dps the crusher quickly.

So the mechanics are quite a bit different but if you’re organized it’s actually quicker. Doesn’t look like anything changed for other bosses in Arah 2/3 though.

#11 - Feb. 27, 2013, 9:56 a.m.
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Was it really THAT hard to document every kitten dungeon change?

ROOOOB!

Also did they touch Lupus? Tell me they didn’t touch Lupus, I need a new world record tonight.

We did not touch Lupicus. Go do your world records.

I do document the changes. I am not in charge of the patch notes – that’s someone else job, and they decided that the patch note wasn’t worth including. Keep in mind we have to translate these things, and there could be several reasons it was not included, from budget to time constraint. I am working with the people who write the patch notes though, to not drop off as many as they have been lately for dungeons.