You're right. If healnu gets ours, then Hannah is taking the dps debuff, which will hurt us in the end. Gotcha, good call. So as a practice, Hannah should be reporting to C, and Healnu to B.
As far as people looking for debuffs, nothing really changes for how we look for them except for Hannah. Hannah will have to look quickly to see which of us has the debuff and move to it (hell, you and I can call it fast; if I have it, I can say "Sol" quickly enough). But the dps that gets the buff will still move to B, and Healnu will still run to B to meet him (unless we pick another spot).
Keep in mind, too, that the 2nd digititis doesn't follow a Wash Away, just the hands coming together, so Hannah can prep herself close for a quick swap (somewhere between C and D so you can move right to Josh or left to me, but not within cleave range obviously).
Yeah, this is the only phase that this mechanic is present. He uses Hand of Prayer/Parting and Josh and I bring them in. After DPS check, there is Hand of Pain, then they start to glow and Josh and I separate them. So once just before DPS-check, then one shortly after.
From the guide Josh posted, I've looked at the future phases, and we don't see two hands like this again. I know later there is one hand that will show, but that's different mechanics.
When you put it like that…. it doesn't sound as intimidating. Remind me again of the timer? And what's the talk about baiting either a pray or part that I keep reading in other strats?
Not sure about baiting Hands of Prayer/Parting other than to always keep them apart so that you'll always get Prayer, or to always keep them together to get Parting.
Hand of Pain is the 2-hand stomp that will kill us if we don't meet the DPS check, so it's not like an additional move that we have to consider. So:
Hands glow, Josh and I bring together, we handle digititis. "Equal Concentration" makes one hand 8% higher than the other; 25s to bring it down. After 25s, Hand of Pain will decide if we met DPS-check. Hands will glow and Josh and I take them to the outer edges. I'd recommend here that DPS continues to focus their attacks on w/e add they were doing during the DPS-check to save time until phase change, which is adds.
Baiting the hand of prey or pain. . Essentially the two hands have two mechanics ones hand of prey ones hand of pain. Prey u stack pain u spread. Now essentially merc. We start by baiting the two hand to the outside edge. This forces them to use hand of prey. Once in the middle after dps check. They will use hand of pain cause they are close. This is baiting the ones u want. As the prey and pain are totally random. Unless u force the one u want. By pulling the hands so far they have to do prey and when stacked in middle they also close it forces to do pain. Not really a mechanic u guys need to worry about just me and sol. Reason we force prey first is so that everyone is stacked together in the middle for the dps race. then split off for hand of pain.
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