We beat Wicked Thunder! On-patch clear! (We’ve done on-tier clears before, but this may be the first on-patch clear.) HGR was right about her not being a door boss. She has a sweet transformation sequence though.
We would’ve cleared yesterday if I hadn’t screwed up Sunrise Sabbath twice. (She’s got Twilight Sabbath, Midnight Sabbath, and Sunrise Sabbath. It’s so Lob-coded.) The mechanic is not that complex. Everyone gets a debuff. Four people have short timers, and four people have long timers. Long timers take towers, while short timers bait cannons, pointing them AWAY from the towers and the other cannoneers. Getting hit by the cannon blast removes the short timer debuffs (which would otherwise explode and kill the party). Then there’s a second round, and everyone swaps roles—short timers take towers, long timers take cannons.
On one pull, I got a long timer. It was my first time being long. I saw the timer, and even thought “I’m long,” and then I automatically went to bait a cannon due to muscle memory. My tower exploded and wiped the party. On another pull, Dante called out “Towers NORTH-SOUTH. Point cannons EAST-WEST.” At that point my brain completely forgot how directions work and I pointed my cannon south, killing the two people at that tower. oops!!!
Today, when we reached Sunrise Sabbath, I made the conscious decision to stop doing my rotation and just hit 1-2-3 so I could devote full attention to the mechanic. It was fine. The dps check is very soft. In fact, we cleared with roughly a minute to spare. However, I got a 14% parse. Oh well! TIER CLEAR
Overall, I had fun this tier, but I didn’t think it was as well put together as usual. Most tiers have at least one really memorable signature mechanic. Shiva’s Light Rampant. Hesperos’ Pinax. Hegemone’s Cachexia, Agdistis’ Purgation, and Hephaistos’ High Concept (that tier was poppin). Athena’s Classical Concepts 2—genuinely the worst mechanic of all time imho tbqh, but at least it was memorable. The closest this tier has to a flagship mechanic is Alarm Pheromones 1 aka variety bees, which is a bit sad.
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