Post your reaction the first time you played the "Desert" Map...

I didn't really understand what the problem was.

The clones only face one direction and never move.

The actual boss DOES face other directions and moves.

Was able to pick him out of the crowd pretty quickly.

5 man mapping, Day 1 or so of Warbands, we're obviously undergeared from rushing through content and trying to start up mapping. I was playing SWT, pretty hard to lay Totems under him. Progression goes something like this:


"Yo guys, this is in one of the Challenges, only a 68 boss so np"

"Damn, this clear is going nicely, we got this"

"All right, there he is"

"It's the guy from Dried Lake"

"Wait wtf so many clones"

"WTF"

"WHAT THE HELL IS GOING ON"

xxx has been Slain

xxx has been Slain

xxx has been Slain

"I'm tp'ing out, screw this"

"STAY ITS A CHALLENGE GODDAMNIT"


We've Chiseled every Desert Map since.

In comparison he is quite hard, yea. But ripping to him more than once can be considered dumb. As mentioned the clones only face and attack in one direction, so they are very easy to dodge. The boss however moves, turns and uses skills, so he can be spotted very quickly.
Also if there are too many clones you can just run aways and wait 20 sec, so that the clones are vanished. Easy fight.

His overly high health is annoying though, the fight takes a lot of time.

Zana mission "desert" twinned fleet bosses.

me : this gonna be gud

20 minutes later : ok this ain't that gud

Peace,

-Boem-

Dat boss made me make a mirror/blink arrow summoner.

"put map in"

"starting device"

"warped back into act 2 of Diablo 2"

No, really, it was just like im back in d2 and going for the right tomb =).

It's a great map, sadly only lv68. Would've loved to do it more often. The boss is of course a monster :D

holds down my machine gun tornado shot device, while screaming "DIE MOTHERF...ER" at the screen :D

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PoofGoof wrote:

I didn't really understand what the problem was.

The clones only face one direction and never move.

The actual boss DOES face other directions and moves.

Was able to pick him out of the crowd pretty quickly.

The problem for melee (and particularly Cyclone since there's no namelocking) is that you'll only get a second or two of damage before he blinks again. Then it's back to scanning the hundreds of clones for the real one, finding it, closing the distance, and by that time he's about ready to blink again. Yeah he's not all that dangerous if you keep moving, but damn he's annoying as shit and totally not worth running, especially as a 68 map.

I got a 75 zana Desert earlier today. He hits harder but still easy as pie. Just takes forever and I was not really enjoying myself.

VAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAL CYCLONNNNNEEEEEE

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coatofarms wrote:

it was literally fuck this map

I don't think people know what literally means these days.