Spells: Poison breath too easily resistable

[Nirgon]

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I've had more luck resisting Trakanon's breath than envenomed bolt from the krup shamans in seb at the same resistance levels (even without considering NPC level). This feels terribly not classic, especially when you consider the resist check that has to be made casted from a mob at least 5 levels higher than any player. It should be approximately 3 times harder to resist than EBolt if tuned correctly.

On live, this fight was a heal/cure frenzy (even afterwards!) to ensure no one dipped into low hp aggro range to get life tap gobbled by Trak.

The poison requirement shouldn't be that a lvl 55 with just a DMF and resist poison can laugh off this attack.

It should also correctly incur 1200 instant damage, fire every 30s, have 9 poison counters and last 8hrs 20mins at 150dmg a tick. Again, I'd test this but high chance of getting cussed out/gkicked or causing a wipe... not a good thing with enemy guild around :P.

Disclaimers:
1. I'm aware that he dies in second when competing blue guilds dog pile him here. It's about the content, and what I've witnessed in my experience engaging him (happy to log on these chars and prove this to devs).

2. I can't engage this mob and allow it to cast over and over for reliable testing, maybe I've just been lucky but other players certainly report the same.

[quido]

The contention that an average joe 55 can resist Trak's AE with ease is without merit.

[Nirgon]

You stick your nose elsewhere mister! This benefits you btw!

Might I add the low hp/sitting aggro are pretty close to classic and very awesome.

[Splorf22]

At least when I did Trakanon with VD he would usually land his aoe on me with 250+ PR and L60. You do realize that 1 fight with 1-2 lucky resists is not a legitimate sample, right?

[Nirgon]

That's why I'm saying it needs a GM parse.

250+ RP on a 60 yeah OK, parse it out.

Having it resist consistently on a 55 char with 120.. needs a look.

[Dullah]

For the sake of the integrity of the project, would it not be possible to just disqualify ignorant players from posting in the bugs forums when they post nothing but assumption and unsubstantiated claims?

Trak breath has hit me at 400pr multiple times, and with under 300pr it will land quite frequently, even on level 60 players. Players under 60 get wrecked by it. Could post logs of 50 trak raids, but obviously the level and pr of the players couldn't be verified, much like everything Nirgon presumes to "fix".

[Nirgon]

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

For the sake of the integrity of the project, would it not be possible to just disqualify ignorant players from posting in the bugs forums when they post nothing but assumption and unsubstantiated claims?

Trak breath has hit me at 400pr multiple times, and with under 300pr it will land quite frequently, even on level 60 players. Players under 60 get wrecked by it. Could post logs of 50 trak raids, but obviously the level and pr of the players couldn't be verified, much like everything Nirgon presumes to "fix".

Thanks for trolling, have a great day.

[Rettii]

Your mad because Nirgon is presenting data regarding possibly trivial dragon data?

All hes doing is showing some numbers and requesting a GM with a testing tool run a few tests.

[Splorf22]

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

All hes doing is showing some numbers and requesting a GM with a testing tool run a few tests.

Except this is not what he is doing at all. Everyone knows that Trak's AOE is a lure style with a -150 resist. If he were posting numbers, he would go to a trakanon raid, ask everyone for level/pr, and post the log of 'so and so is poisoned' and then have a % resist. Instead he is waving his hands in the air and saying 'this should be harder' witih 0 evidence.

[Lazortag]

I think the problem here is that, from an outsider's perspective, it looks as if the hardcore guilds are trying to trivialize trak or conceal the fact that he's too easy, since it's mostly hardcore raiders who've responded (with the exception of Loraen I guess). I think this is the narrative Nirgon is trying to promote, because there is absolutely no basis to his claim that level 55's can resist trak's ae with ease. From the few times I've been on Trak raids on this server, I have trouble resisting the ae even at level 60 with insane bard resists. When I was in my low-mid 50's I literally never resisted it. This isn't a case of big guilds trying to cover up an exploit, this is just Nirgon trying to stroke his own ego and act as if he's a guru on classic eq by saying things we already know (like that the ae does 1200 damage. Really we needed you to tell us that, thanks Nirgon).