User:Falconeye/Guide to killing Rotscale

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List of commonly encountered monster skills

Damage

Support

Control

• Natural Resistance
  • Strong Natural Resistance
• Burning Immunity
• Giant Stomp
• Stun Immunity
• Stun on Critical Hit
• Critical Hit Probability

• Sweeping Strikes
• Crippling Attack
• Long Claws
• Nibble
• Shield of Fire
• Fire and Brimstone
• Wurm Siege

• Undead sensitivity to Light
• Deafening Roar
• Order of the Lich
• Order of Unholy Vigor
• Master of Necromancy
• Animate Undead

List of creature-type and species-specific monster skills

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

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 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 Primary Warriors: Rangers: Have the Ranger maintain Winter and have a necromancer continually keep Spinal Shivers on it. Broad Head Arrow: Primary Monks: Players should consider the following combination. Primary Necromancers: Players should consider the following combination. 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. Primary Mesmers: Visions of Regret: Shared Burden: Fevered Dreams: Combine with Epidemic and Frustration for a faster kill. Primary Elementalist: Primary Assassin: Primary Ritualist: Players should consider the following combination. Earthbind: is the only skill that can bypass Rotscale's immunity to knock down. Primary Paragon: Primary Dervish: