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Originally Posted by CrazyPro [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Either way, he's proccing it way too much on P99, his AEs are harder to resist than they should be, and his molten breath is apparently hitting for 650 when it's supposed to be 400?

He was buffed during Luclin (because the Luclin-era change of slow from dispel counters to disease counters made him a bit easy). They made him unslowable and changed the raid aoe from 400 to 650. (I think? Having some trouble confirming that with spell data)

This page annoyingly has no dates (and wasn't captured till 2003), but talks about it -

Originally Posted by https://web.archive.org/web/20030512080037/http://forums.interealms.com/shaman/archive/index.php/t-25

Yeah, Sontalak is immune, and has been buffed. His AE does 650 now and may be harder to resist. Not sure of other changes to him, that's just what we noticed during the fight.

Here's another post that dates the slowability change -

Originally Posted by https://web.archive.org/web/20030512080037/http://forums.interealms.com/shaman/archive/index.php/t-25

Roccoss Registered User (3/26/02 3:29:17 am) Reply Re: Sontelak Strategy --- Yes he is immune to slow now, my guild killed him last night and lets just say it was a fun fight [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.] he is a tad harder now than before we usually killed him with a number between 35-40 peeps we where 46 last night and 23 left when he died.

This post from 6/1/02 seems to suggest they may have also changed the aoe to be proc based? However, the poster doesn't strike me as a reliable source. -

Originally Posted by https://web.archive.org/web/20020601203554/http://pub35.ezboard.com/fthesafehousethebackroomsecretsspoilers.showAddRep lyScreenFromWeb?topicID=11187.topic&index=11

To kill Sonta use VS tactic, luclin-style:

Get 40+ people or so, of which minimum:
1 Ranger with weaponshield
4 Warriors with AE taunt+a 2hander
3 wizzies with MB

Cast spellshield+rune V on everyone before you start.

Ranger pull, pops weaponshield(18 sec dodge)
MT1 Hits AE taunt after ranger disc runs out, and pops riposte disc(9 sec)
MT2 Hits AE taunt after MT1 disc runs out, and pops riposte disc(9 sec)
MT3 Hits AE taunt after MT2 disc runs out, and pops riposte disc(9 sec)
Last MT Hits AE taunt and tanks Sontalak for the remainder of the fight using defensive.

If executed flawlessly this gives you 45 seconds where nobody needs heals, and where sontalak should not be AE'ing since his AE is a proc now.

All your casters can and should be kept out of AE range until the 30 second mark, at which point you call in the wizzies to MB sonta, and the clerics, who needs to target the last MT in line and keep him standing for the last part of the fight.

Its however not that easy to pull of flawless, and he usually gets in an AE during the tank transitions. But much better than him chain proccing them.

However, the only guilds I see capabable of pulling this off atm is guilds that already have alot of ST/NToV experience.

So if Verant tuned him with the intention he is supposed to be a dragon a guild gathering their first ST keys can kill, then they are way off base.

This old p99 thread covers the proc issue. It was a deliberate but debated change from nilbog - https://project1999.com/forums/showthread.php?t=218872
There's more discussion from the Velious beta here - https://www.project1999.com/forums/s...d.php?t=171936