Faralak

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Xardon

Dalayan Beginner
I believe this encounter should be analyzed and tweaked some to be more in line with it's Tier. Several guilds including mine have not been able to down him because of the elementals being fairly unbalanced. Their heals go off so quickly along with the ability to chain stun them not working even with several stunners and the increased high resists since his revamp. Faralak himself seems on par with the other named in the zone, but the elementals should be looked at. The West Side elemental "appears" to be more balanced than the East Side elemental. 1-2 stunners have had no problems controlling the West Side one, and sometimes even 1 Bard can handle it. The East side elemental seems to have much higher resists and stun interrupts the cast at times but even with 4 people on it stunning we've been unable to control it. I've polled a few other guilds/people and they feel this encounter should be looked at and tweaked as well. I really like the design of this encounter, and I am glad it is challenging, but I just feel it's too rough for it's tier.
 
We've killed it before. We haven't been able to since multiple changes have been made and I don't think anyone else has either. Faralak has some decent gear for our tier, not to mention a key to get to Ice Lord, and I do grow tired of that gear rotting on him because no one can even kill him. The elemental healing is absolute murder. I suggest their casting speed or resists be toned down, otherwise this mob will just continue to be a waste of pixels along with Derg.
 
We haven't killed giants in awhile, but I do remember after the change, a very decent geared Defiance went and tried Faralak, and the best we could get to was 70%. We even brought along Aalaisia once and he had problems stunning the mobs. We tried bard stuns, paladin stuns, cleric stuns, enc stuns, etc. Unless everyone who has tried the new encounter is missing something, in its current state, Faralak is unable to be defeated.

And while on the subject of Storms Eye mobs, I am wondering if Dergalak ever got retuned. We tried Dergelak with six or so Steel, including Sald, and Empire/random alts and the encounter was absolutely unbalanced for an 18 man raid.
 
TapeinV said:
And while on the subject of Storms Eye mobs, I am wondering if Dergalak ever got retuned. We tried Dergelak with six or so Steel, including Sald, and Empire/random alts and the encounter was absolutely unbalanced for an 18 man raid.
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Have not attempted Derg yet, but I also heard the same, we'll have to test the waters sometime and see.
 
Hasrett said:
IMHO steel should go kill him, just to gauge the difficulty =)
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Honestly I am hoping a higher tier guild could test it out for themselves. I really do think no one can kill it.. and if they can it'll be because of a ton of dps, relic'd out, doing major damage, and everything going right, as fast as possible. We got Faralak to 60% one time I do believe since changes. If things go your way, then you win(I know, a big duh for me but just saying). I still call Faralak a luck fight. Either resists will screw you or they won't. But since we killed it a few times, it's just not a fair fight anymore. Even when we could beat it, stunners would quite often be resisted on stuns. Now? If you get resisted, there is no time for another stun to save the day, that cheal is going off. And even with multiple stunners helping out, it doesn't seem to be doing the trick.
 
i think he is a problem ever since the stun revamp where you cant chain stunn someone. There however is/might be a way you could do faralak. Its something we thought of when we did him LONG ago but it wasnt needed back then. Its also completely not the way it was meant to be done. I think i shouldnt spoil tactics on this forum however (cause i think its illegal). (and the tactic has never been tested)
 
Noktar said:
i think he is a problem ever since the stun revamp where you cant chain stunn someone. There however is/might be a way you could do faralak. Its something we thought of when we did him LONG ago but it wasnt needed back then. Its also completely not the way it was meant to be done. I think i shouldnt spoil tactics on this forum however (cause i think its illegal). (and the tactic has never been tested)
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Oh that sounds fantastic ... an illegal tactic just to win a fight (yes that's sarcasm) ... would rather have it just looked at and fixed the right way, but in the same respect if another guild wants to test it out, I would like to hear their input on it.
 
There is a rather easy way of doing this fight which is the way we used to do it back in Steel and I'm almost positive it can still be done the same way. And I do not believe it is illegal. Of course I will not tell you what it is just giving you the heads up. 8)
 
Same problems..west elemental was not a problem,one bard kept him at bay...the east side seems like a whole different animal in regards to resist.IS there supposed to be a difference between to the two elementals?or are they clones?even with bard/chanter on east keeping him locked down didn't seem doable,he always managed to resist a stun,we were able to stop at most 3or4 of his CH attempts in a row before he would get one off.... :(
 
Thizik said:
There is a rather easy way of doing this fight which is the way we used to do it back in Steel and I'm almost positive it can still be done the same way. And I do not believe it is illegal. Of course I will not tell you what it is just giving you the heads up. 8)
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I know the way you're referring to, and all I can say is go try it.
 
Haven't checked SE lately, curious if anyone else has attempted this encounter and could comment on their findings.

Thanks.
 
I know we haven't tried it after trying many many things, and I'm unsure that it's been looked at since the post has been made.
 
We tried again recently a few times. We got Faralak to 50% before someone goofed up on heals.. the try after we weren't so lucky on resists. We threw two enc two pals and one bard at it for stuns, and still failed. It is probably doable.. but it requires a hell of a lot of luck and stunners, and frankly it's crap if it takes 5 stunners for the encounter.

I wonder if the strat to beat him didn't get changed up when he was changed to a red con, or when cheals were changed. I guess our next try we'll try previous ideas that wouldn't work.
 
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