<Failure and Friends> Satele Shan 16m Dxun: Red: | Screenshot Encounter 1: | Screenshot Encounter 2: | Screenshot Mutant Trandoshans: | Screenshot Huntmaster: | Screenshot Apex Vanguard: | Screenshot Unfortunately I forgot to take proper screen shots for the first 5 bosses, however I hope that the kill videos provided with achievement pops in chat and the screenshots with my achievement timestamps are sufficient for the claims.

I'm not sure whether it was decided how/if the Grandmaster achievement would be tracked in this thread. But with the "Tour De Beast" bonus achievement being fixed in the recent patch it is finally possible to fully complete all the achievements required. So i thought i would post that <Failure> Group Emerald completed the Grandmaster Achievement tonight. Its nice to have a raid title that is before your name instead of all the recent titles that are after your character name. https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/673465245859184641/737904707288301619/Screenshot_2020-07-28_22_29_30_448375.jpg

<Failure> Group Emerald - Satele Shan Dxun Arrow: https://i.gyazo.com/e40d0ac0b97e77f75b180368214722c8.jpg Fun Fact, everyone gets the mount on a successful timed run! https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/629978671859367946/731408224112214136/unknown_3.png

Apparently it is a point of controversy that we have not posted our kills yet. I was waiting until we cleared the raid so we could just post it all at once. As for our Apex kill, after we became aware of the Red Venom Cloud bug and with the community consensus being that it is acceptable to use, we decided to use it in our kill. Big congrats to <Farming Components> on their Apex kill and congrats to all the teams pulling master mode Dxun getting kills, keep it up the tier isn't over yet! <Failure> Group Emerald - Satele Shan Red: https://i.gyazo.com/ec732a68b130f7c6922cd6921c8c1f28.jpg Encounter 1: https://i.gyazo.com/c4c7cc8f1c94ff8af88ebfe8dceb42d1.jpg Encounter 2: https://i.gyazo.com/c94b723f497370c2127051ff1403ba8e.jpg Mutant Trandoshans: https://i.gyazo.com/7294a3e7e291b31bca9c1868b0aab984.jpg Huntmaster: https://i.gyazo.com/ac8822ec3731cc02408c5ea4b9b236bb.jpg Apex Vanguard: https://i.gyazo.com/2ddc8542e420ad2519277f216122663e.jpg

<Failure> Group Emerald World first legit Scyva 8m Proof: Now i'm sure some of you are wondering, didn't Group Emerald get world first Scyva already? Yes, yes we did. But it came to our attention that as NA players we only kill bosses using exploits. This lead to deep introspection and reflection on our past kills. Through this reflection we discovered that our scyva kill was indeed exploited. However this exploit was not limited to us. EVERY SINGLE raid team i have seen kill MM Scyva has (intentionally or not) taken advantage of these unintended game mechanics. Now what possibly could this exploit be?!?! The exploit in question involves the Unstable Acceleration and Anomalous Entropy buffs you gain in the catalyst phase of the fight. (Red and blue stacks for the simpler folk here that refer to atomic scattering as "explosion".) It isn't the double stacking to 7/7 stacks to completely roll over the fight. No no no. It is the fact that these two buffs are supposed to KILL the players when they expire naturally. These buffs are meant to be de-stacked during the later half of catalyst phase in order to remove the buffs without them expiring. If you doubt this feel free to read the descriptions of the buffs Unstable Acceleration and Anomalous Entropy. When you combine these descriptions, the functionality of de-stacking in the fight and some comments from the Raid developer himself it is apparent this mechanic is not working as intended. These stacks provide substantial output increases to the players and trivialize some of the most important dps checks in the fight. Specifically the rail gun turrets, ignite core, and the overall enrage for the encounter. I seem to remember concerns with this mechanic and Scyva's overall broken state as a fight on some thread in a private forum far far away. But some European groups of players seemed think "Boss is fine" and "Boss is good as is". Could it be that these players wanted the fight to stay broken in order to take advantage of it later on? Or could it be that some of them don't even understand the basics of the fight like how the gravity module is meant to be used or that Deconstruct and Destroy are melee/ranged attacks that cannot be shrouded. Regardless of their intentions, all these other teams have taken advantage of broken game mechanics (AKA E X P L O I T E D) and must be punished. According to the rules this thread has laid out: and therefore they should have their kills stripped from the boards. (and have achievements reset and GftM titles removed.) Also since these teams no longer have valid Scyva kills, they will drop to lower standings leaving Group Emerald on top as the only team with a LEGITIMATE full clear.

Izax 16m | <Failure> Team USA | Imperial | Satele Shan (This is our last team name change i promise) https://i.gyazo.com/03d66b7c368068af728d893e3e4fb059.jpg Bonus: Also claiming WORLD FIRST SCYVA 16M MASTER MODE BONUS BOSS Epic kill right here >> https://www.twitch.tv/videos/410340147

Nahut & Scyva 16m | <Failure> Team Santos | Imperial | Satele Shan https://i.gyazo.com/29d93c3a8c68449a589c8f12effc4afd.jpg https://i.gyazo.com/443bb279db059d4c5e82503cadde1265.jpg We have decided to rename our 16m raid group from Team REEEbounders to Team Santos to improve international relations. (teamsantosdotcomfortryouts)

Doom's Delayed - <Failure> Group Emerald - Imperial - Satele Shan https://i.gyazo.com/91aa09ff048422552bdae7e8352ab0b9.jpg

Also since this thread is being bumped, will the Defeating Izax (8-Person Master) and Defeating Izax (16-Person Master) achievements be fixed to grant the Master Mode Trophy decoration? Currently the Master mode Izax achievements are granting the Veteran mode Trophy decorations.

Tyth and A&E 16m | <Failure> Team REEEbounders | Imperial | Satele Shan https://i.gyazo.com/ad3a8f7c6beb0555b382b8d29c5029a4.jpg https://i.gyazo.com/7719e05a13cf2e784fef403b861b1515.jpg

Thank you for creating Parsely and keeping it running and updated Mari.

Greetings fellow SWTOR gamers! I have arrived in this thread to claim world first Colicoid Queen for <Big Happy Guild> ! Before we get to the definitive screen shot proof of our record breaking kill i think there are a couple fun facts to share!!1 All group members 248 item level or lower NO reflect used No Raid® Bug Spray used We accidentally stumbled upon this boss while searching for Ood Bnar Tunings Mac's mainhand and offhand were broken, Mon's only GCD was powershot, and Spice spread induction to the entire group (oops wrong boss) Heres a link to all our raid days/pulls spent on the 5.10.1 progression cycle. Epic screenshot proof! Due to the international nature of our group (3 Americans, 1 Brazil, 3 Australians, and something called a Kiwi??) I believe this kill should not be limited to one server or faction. (but if we had to choose we are Imperials from The Hot Prospect). Thanks for the competition and good luck to all those still progressing! oh yea almost forgot our 16m VM screen shot: Big 16m (Ignore the extra 4 people on stand by in the raid group)

Izax 8m - <Failure> Group Emerald - Imperial - Satele Shan https://i.gyazo.com/e22c79ba7c1ed47fb0c58b8024860580.jpg

KOTET MASTER MODE CHAPTER X... i mean Scyva 8m - <Failure> Group Emerald - Imperial - Satele Shan https://i.gyazo.com/4fa3cc72a4e9c0e504dbead69a18bed9.jpg

Nahut 8m - <Failure> Group Emerald - Imperial - Satele Shan https://i.gyazo.com/f6969381ead070d593869f75f2aea5bb.jpg