jacobisconfused Posted April 4, 2012 Share Posted April 4, 2012 The last few weeks we've been gathering all the firestalkers up and leading them out to the ledge and pushing them off. Apparently not a lot of people have heard of/tried this. It not only saves a lot of time, because the stupid dinosaurs have a ton of HP, but it's also a ton of fun. Bye bye firestalkers We used this on hard and nightmare mode. One quick note, you will still technically be in combat from the time you push them off til you beat Gharj. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thorizdin Posted April 4, 2012 Share Posted April 4, 2012 Nice, we're gonna have to try that! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rookss Posted April 4, 2012 Share Posted April 4, 2012 We had heard of this, but didn't try it until this week. OF course all our Inquis spammed their knockback at once and missed like 5 of them... lol fail, but it was still faster than normal clearing. You can also climb up the left side of the mountain right after you exit the Gharj area and get to the pylons without pulling a single trash pack. Saves another 15minutes or so of useless trash. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jacobisconfused Posted April 4, 2012 Author Share Posted April 4, 2012 We had heard of this, but didn't try it until this week. OF course all our Inquis spammed their knockback at once and missed like 5 of them... lol fail, but it was still faster than normal clearing. You can also climb up the left side of the mountain right after you exit the Gharj area and get to the pylons without pulling a single trash pack. Saves another 15minutes or so of useless trash. Yeah, we take the path on the left also. We did a full clear of EV HM in about 40 minutes last night, haha. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cbowsin Posted April 4, 2012 Share Posted April 4, 2012 One quick note, you will still technically be in combat from the time you push them off til you beat Gharj. Yup, heard of it, have done it, and that is exactly why I don't do it. I'll be sure to submit a bug report that agro'd mobs on the bottom are not able to return to the player, as it is clearly a pathing issue. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rookss Posted April 4, 2012 Share Posted April 4, 2012 One quick note, you will still technically be in combat from the time you push them off til you beat Gharj. Maybe we just got lucky, but we killed the last 2 mobs up top (didnt knock them off and everyone's KBs were on CD) and we got out of combat after the last one was killed. Maybe coincidence, but something to try. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Inzi Posted April 4, 2012 Share Posted April 4, 2012 This doesn't work on 16 man fyi ;P Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dragonexadon Posted April 5, 2012 Share Posted April 5, 2012 This doesn't work on 16 man fyi ;P Why's that? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Inzi Posted April 5, 2012 Share Posted April 5, 2012 Why's that? 16 man trash has boss immunity meaning they can't be cc'ed or knocked back. This is consistent in both EV & KP on pretty much all of the trash. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stiksen Posted April 5, 2012 Share Posted April 5, 2012 done this for many weeks now, saves time. Highly recommended. and yes you will be in combat until Gharj is dead or you die yourself, not sure about the latter since we havent wiped on Gharj since we started this tactic. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The_Butler Posted April 5, 2012 Share Posted April 5, 2012 FYI you won't *always* be in combat up to Gharj. We've been doing this solidly for many weeks and it's 50/50 whether you stay in combat or not in my experience - guess it depends on how the mobs act - a lot of the time they just disappear as they fall but it definatley can be gltichy Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
anstalt Posted April 5, 2012 Share Posted April 5, 2012 Can confirm that this tactic is a lot of fun! Usually have a competition to see who gets the last kill, pretty much nullifies the time saving as people deliberately kb the wrong way so they can try again later lol. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Inzi Posted April 5, 2012 Share Posted April 5, 2012 Can confirm that this tactic is a lot of fun! Usually have a competition to see who gets the last kill, pretty much nullifies the time saving as people deliberately kb the wrong way so they can try again later lol. Another fun knockback game is playing with the probes on Fabricator >>. Sadly, in 1.2 they'll despawn after the encounter finishes so we don't have much time to enjoy dying to things falling from the sky. Darn. What a shame. >> Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Havocx Posted April 5, 2012 Share Posted April 5, 2012 People still kill trash to Gharj? LOL! Here's a hint, if you can get someone close to Gharj's room to make him come out, the speeder shows up at the entrance. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PiercerPro Posted April 6, 2012 Share Posted April 6, 2012 Minor note: For anyone who is interested in Legacy points you will not get any legacy points doing this. And also as someone stated, I'm sure its a bug with them not being able to path back to you/Die. Still fun tho Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
khreed Posted April 6, 2012 Share Posted April 6, 2012 wow people are months behind on strat.. after 1st boss everyone leaves the instance but stealthers. they stealth to the boss (easily done) when the boss talks the speeder shows up and BAM everyone is at the boss. after Ghaj going left or right both lead to the pylons without having to fight anything at all... seriously 40 minute EV runs is the only way it should be done. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheRealCandyMan Posted April 6, 2012 Share Posted April 6, 2012 wow people are months behind on strat.. after 1st boss everyone leaves the instance but stealthers. they stealth to the boss (easily done) when the boss talks the speeder shows up and BAM everyone is at the boss. after Ghaj going left or right both lead to the pylons without having to fight anything at all... seriously 40 minute EV runs is the only way it should be done. Not everyone likes to exploit. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
khreed Posted April 6, 2012 Share Posted April 6, 2012 Not everyone likes to exploit. LOL nothing about that is exploiting, its using stealthers to stealth past mobs using cooldowns that make it hard to detect them as the designers intended the skills to be used in PVE as well as using the map layout...NOT A SINGLE exploit is used sorry that its hard to comprehend that the game devs made a game that rewards those that work smarter not harder... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheRealCandyMan Posted April 6, 2012 Share Posted April 6, 2012 LOL nothing about that is exploiting, its using stealthers to stealth past mobs using cooldowns that make it hard to detect them as the designers intended the skills to be used in PVE as well as using the map layout...NOT A SINGLE exploit is used sorry that its hard to comprehend that the game devs made a game that rewards those that work smarter not harder... You really think the devs intended an entire ops group to zone out while a stealther sneaks around mobs until he sees the boss to skip a ton of trash? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TalkingDinosaur Posted April 6, 2012 Share Posted April 6, 2012 How did all the dinosaurs die out? *Links video* Ohhh.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ViperI Posted April 6, 2012 Share Posted April 6, 2012 You really think the devs intended an entire ops group to zone out while a stealther sneaks around mobs until he sees the boss to skip a ton of trash? If they didn't, they wouldn't have made the speeder skip mobs that are still alive. Or designed paths to skip down to the pylons with no agro. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
khreed Posted April 7, 2012 Share Posted April 7, 2012 If they didn't, they wouldn't have made the speeder skip mobs that are still alive. Or designed paths to skip down to the pylons with no agro. ^ this. also you dont have to leave the instance it just makes it faster you can stay at the front of the area where the speeder spawns and do the same thing. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tyraelium Posted April 7, 2012 Share Posted April 7, 2012 I could've sworn that you can train all the Firestalkers and then just pull Gharj; they wont follow you into the encounter. I swear I saw this in a video I watched, but it may have been super sped up or I may have been delirious with no sleep. Either way, the knockback thing still can take a while. Stealthing is faster Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
_Zorth_ Posted April 7, 2012 Share Posted April 7, 2012 This does not work in 16man, Thye have boss immunity there. Altho fine in 8man runs. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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