Not Addicted

Err.. Yeah. Not sure if we can chalk this up to a complete rethinking of the encounter, SoE’s nerfing of the fight, or the two combined (I’m leaning on the latter), but Absolute Whatshisface is down. IN UNDER A MINUTE.

Shin-Ein from Kotaku's comment section explains:

it was a bunch of Dark Knights with haste builds Souleater Zerging Absolute Virtue. A Dark Knight's Souleater Zerg does an insane amount of direct damage in just a short amount of time.

Souleater = converts 10% of your hit points into direct damage for 45 seconds. They were also mostlyl using Gloom Breastplates that turns the 10% into 12% damage. They all used their 2 hour abilities called Blood Weapon which drains all dmg done by melee attacks into hit points for 30 seconds.

Using the two together creates a return loop of if you doing damage, eating your own Hit points, then Draining your hit points back for the next 30 seconds.

the Krakken club is a super rare item that will occasionally attack 2 to 8 times. They had Bards give them haste as well as white mages cast the haste spell which will stack.

The end result is what you saw, a bunch of Dark Knights decked out with K.clubs and haste eating away at the monster. A did see one guy using a Mercurial Kris, which has the same effect as the K.club.

Way to go, guys. Uhh. Grats! My fav part is after the downing, half the guild is FUCK YEA-ing, while the other half is WTF-ing.

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