TDS Raid 1

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For any that missed it below is info from BETA.

So far we know you fight the west crew. Can mezz one to recover if needed. Kill second group down to 1 soldier. (if you kill the last one Tita goes active).
Attack third group kill 5 then casters. When next soldier dies last group goes active along with Tita.

Event really seems to be about controlling that hit of 16 mobs up plus named.


Raid Launch Details
Zone: KattacastrumB
NPC: Firiona Vie

Prerequisites to Request
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Event Specifics

Set Up
City is full of citizens, who flee when the army of PCs arrive (when they agro or kill any NPC). This needs to happen to spawn the raid.

Start the Raid
Hail Mayor Livio once he arrives. Run through his dialogues to convince him to attack.

The Raid - Overview

Firiona and Her Companions
•Firiona will cast Reverent Light (34163) on Tita's most hated enemy once she enters the fight. She is the only one of the group to arrive yet.
•Firiona, Galeth, Ognit, and Al'Kabor will also cast stuff from a spell list.

•Tita changes tactics when she reaches 45%
•Tita now casts Shield Sweep every 5% health once below 45%. At this time she also locks her HPs for 20 seconds.

Phase 1
This is mostly a setup phase.
•Guards will agro PCs to get handily murdered
•Citizens run away and despawn

Phase 2
Livio and Tita spawn atop the pyramid, along with 4 troops of soldiers and casters (10 warriors, 1 wizard, 1 cleric). These troops fan out and form ranks at the bottom of the pyramid
•The NPCs spawn in 4 groups rather than all at once, to reduce lag

Phase 3
Holding phase to allow players to settle in. Move to phase 4 by talking to Livio and making him angry.

Phase 4
One of the troops will go agro on the raid. The rest remain non-combatable.
The wizards will use the following spells.
•Eldritch Binding, a version of Binding of Itkari Rk. III (melee and movement speed reduction)
•Pillar of Claws, a version of Flamelocked Pillar Rk. III (AoE - damage)
Emote = '{C} feels faint claws scraping skin. It begins to grow stronger.'
•Mind-Numbing Sonics, a version of Perilous Disorientation Rk. III (mez)
•Burning Essence, a version of Splash of Pyroxene Rk. III (AoE - damage)
The cleric will cast
•Primary's Retort, a version of Olsif's Channeled Mark (reverse damage shield)
•Praetor's Contravention, a version of Virtuous Contravention (damages target, heals target's target)
•Purge - A curative that removes poison, curse, disease and corruption from target
•Word of the Citadel, something like Silent Order (PB AoE stun and damage)
When all twelve of them are dead, move to next phase.

•These NPCs will activate 4 at a time, 5 seconds apart. This gives players time to sort each group out.
•When they agro, there is a chance that they will agro one of the companions and rush at them.
•Increased the damage on several of the above spells

Phase 5
Livio shouts incoherently and eventually breaks down, fleeing through the teleporter.
Tita takes charge, orders the soldier to Epsilon formation.
Soldiers form ranks about casters.
Remaining soldiers can now be attacked, but their casters can't.
Soldiers will not move and are immune to range attacks (they have huge shields) and spells at range (the cleric puts up a barrier).
Wizard blasts the PCs with spells (noted above).
If 5 of the soldiers in any group are killed, the formation breaks down and the remainder become mobile and attackable at range. The caster that was defending the group goes offensive, and both casters can now be attacked.

When one troop is completely destroyed or more than half of all the soldiers are dead, move to next phase.

The soldier praetors have an anti-kite mechanism. If their most hated is out of melee range by more than 20, they cast Eldritch Binding on them

•If 10 minutes passes and phase 6 has not started, Phase 6 will start anyway, just with a lot more NPCs activating at once.


Phase 6

Tita gets enraged and enters the battle. She's is a deadly force, with magic and martial skills beyond what seems humanly possible. When she enrages, she grows a bit in size as well.
When she agros, her soldiers break ranks and attack
She will cast 48055 - Tendon Cut when being kited.

She has two phases, for the first one she uses
•Rear Sweep - rear facing cone AoE
•Burning Slap - fire-based DoT, hits second on hate list

The second phase starts when she hits 25% health. She equips a shield and stops casting Burning Slap
•Rear Sweep - rear facing cone AoE
•Shield Bash - Damage and stun
•Also, her avoidance goes up 35%
Once she is agro, if one of her soldiers is killed, she puts that NPC's most hated on the top of her hate list.

Once Tita and all the soldiers are dead, the event is over.

The only reset mechanism is on Tita. If she is agro then left idle for 30 seconds, event resets
 
Well mezzing 5 first wave, 5 second wave and any you can on last works.
 
Kill order should be Magio-Vitali - then 10 soldiers on first set.

When the first set is done, we start south and move counter clokwiase (South - East - North) killing 5 soldiers, mezzing the other 5, and killing the magio and vitali.

While killing north set tita + all the mobs will go live after killing the 2nd soldier, be ready to fort these adds and be ready to pick up tita. We continue killing the magio/vitali as well as killing the 5 soldiers at the north area.

She will be trying to kill the warrior who is tanking these (Ours used fort at first then rolled into last stand+nttb+full aa discing) while tanking the trash + the boss. Once we kill all of the trash on the north phase we then focused on Tita while keeping the other 10 soldiers mezzed and killed them after Tita died.

This raid is mainly about having enough dps to kill all but the last of the magi before the 6 min timer runs out and about having the cc to lock everything down, smart tanks help when the 10 mobs go live.

We pretty much full burned the 6 min phase to get as much possible down as we could before tita spawned and was really active.