User:Falconeye/Guide to killing Rotscale

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See also: Feedback:User/Damysticreaper/Revamp monster skill bars

List of commonly encountered monster skills[edit]

Damage
Support
Control


List of creature-type and species-specific monster skills[edit]

Gloat
Dryder's Feast
Tengu's Mimicry
Tengu's Gaze
Blood Rage
Spectral Agony
Inner Fire
Aspect of Oak
Berserk
Trample
Afflicted Soul Explosion (and equivalent Winds of Change skills)
Soulrending Shriek
Song of the Mists


Summary[edit]

Summarizing all the advice available in the article.

Counters Needed vs KOs, Martials, Party Degen, Conditions, Hexes, Exhaustion
Damage Types Martial, Non-projectile (Degens, AoEs)
Energy Management Low Energy Skills! High energy gains.
Protections vs Elements,
Interrupts Non-spell or spell; Little Thom
Other Fast Casting; Hex revealers; Glint distractions
Helpful Non-Essentials +Energy on-hit; Damage Type converters; Players→Heroes→Hench;
Useless / Counter-productive Minions; Corpse exploitives; Stefan





Strategy[edit]

  • On the island there are certain invisible spots which automatically poison players walking on them.
  • Beware of five Smoke Phantoms that will pop up at the end of the bridge as soon as any player reaches the top of the stairs.
  • The Rotting Dragons that accompany Rotscale use the AoE anti-resurrection spirit Frozen Soil, and will continuously keep one in place, making any resurrections very difficult. This can be bypassed with Restoration, Unyielding Aura or Lively Was Naomei.
  • Rotscale uses its skills with a halved casting time and recharge, approximately double the power and like all Tyria bosses, hexes and conditions cast on it only last one half of their normal duration.


Skill Tactics[edit]

Players should consider the following combination.

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Players should consider the following combination.

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Grenth's Balance Grenth's Balance: A great tool in making the fight against Rotscale shorter. A player needs to raise their maximum health (using skills like Vital Blessing), sacrifice or otherwise lose health to a very low level (using skills like Blood Ritual or Infuse Health), and then use Grenth's Balance on Rotscale. This will drain a sizeable amount of health from him. Using 2-3 back-line bonders and Symbiosis you can raise a tanks health above 3,000 - this allows a massive Grenth's Balance spike when the tanks health gets low.

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Visions of Regret Visions of Regret: Shared Burden Shared Burden: Fevered Dreams Fevered Dreams: Combine with Epidemic and Frustration for a faster kill.

Players should consider the following combination.

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Earthbind Earthbind: is the only skill that can bypass Rotscale's immunity to knock down.