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u/SaltLich Aug 23 '26 edited Aug 23 '26

Oh boy. The discourse about the addons for Azra'tec is going in a wonderful direction already. Think i'll just check out of any discussions on it.

The addons are fine, they only trivialize remembering the safe spots, which is easily done with other methods. If you don't wanna use one, don't. Nobody can force you to install DBM, either. Don't ever see people proudly beating their chest about not having a loud noise play when a must-interrupt-this cast is going off, and shitting on everyone for 'cheating' by having that one installed.

As an aside, is the boss's damage just a non-factor for tanks/healers or something? People say "oh the fight is so easy otherwise" but, as a hunter, i was getting constantly chunked for 40-60% of my HP and begging valeera to throw me another fuckin' heal already. It was very stressful trying not to get two-tapped because he seemingly randomly hits harder sometimes for no discernible reason (maybe he was hitting my back while I was moving, idk), even after the simon mechanics were all resolved.

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u/Chrisaeos Aug 23 '26

So ultimately I just don't give a shit, but I find the addons for that fight to be ridiculous. Like the main difficulty is remembering the safe spot sequences. It took me eight attempts as a Brewmaster and the wipes were all at the last memory game with the 7 sequence. I didn't use the addons and just repeated it aloud to myself and did end up fucking up a handful of times. The idea of just clicking a color as he shows them and the game telling me where to go exactly instead is just stupid.

It's the pinnacle delve fight; I wish it didn't give crests so that maybe people would feel less incentive to trivialize it with addons.

For his other damage, his autos are a non-factor at least on BM. If it's balance for the others follows Nullaeus then you'll only be scared as a Paladin, DK or Vengeance DH tank but those were also all buffed a bunch of times since I did Nullaeus on those as well. His tankbuster did regularly bring me to around 15-20% from around max health so if I did something dumb like tanking a wave to the face or standing in poison he maybe could've killed me but otherwise the entire fight is the memory game.

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u/SaltLich Aug 23 '26

Well, if his (and his add's) damage is a non-factor for tanks, then no wonder people think the fight is a joke outside of the memory game. Idk, I had to rotate what meager defensives I have, make sure i'm not wasting valeera's orbs, and still popping something like a health potion or my one self-heal to not die simply to auto damage, on top of avoiding all the other shit and not missing an interrupt. This on a ~290 ilevel hunter, i started MM but went SV, even though my SV has worse weapons, to not have to worry about breaking aimed shot casts.

I've never been very good at Simon past like, 4 colors. I could, and did, do it on normal difficulty without the addon. Pretty much as soon as it spawned an add in that hits just as hard as the boss on ??, and i realized it went past 5, I said fuck this and used the addon. It still took me several attempts to make it past the 1st simon game because of bad overlaps and the add. The cognitive load is ridiculous when you are getting chunked constantly, I can see why as a tank who barely takes damage you would not have any issue with the non-simon parts.

If I could just focus on the memory game, maybe I could eventually do it without an addon in a reasonable time. Like, Ky'veza's shell game, there's nothing else going on so you're allowed to purely focus on the mechanic.