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These are also names I'm called.

>>532738490
No, we like contrast here.

>>532739141
Okay so actually, it's been really rewarding from my cursory look into it. As usual, there's untapped potential with this old content. People say just beat the DPS check prior to caloric, but most people who are doing this content for a mount are not strong players. WHICH IS FINE! Because people like me are interested in pushing boundaries for their sake.

Caloric was the cut off point previously, because if she started casting the mechanic, you had to survive through it to get the clear. People considered this too difficult to learn for most parties and impossible to circumvent. However, you can circumvent this pretty easily. As long as one player lives to the end of caloric, you effectively get an extra 20 seconds of party DPS.

You can do this by just mitigating like a mother fucker on one tank and saccing the entire party at the expiration of the first fire debuffs. That tank gets an extra 60 seconds to DPS as well because Ekpyrosis is an easy mechanic that can be solo'd. You can even have two tanks mit through Caloric as well if they know what they're doing to survive a second round of invuln piercing explosions. So this takes like -12% off what is a pretty restrictive DPS check otherwise. My party wasn't phenomenal but they also weren't bad, and on a clean run, we still narrowly missed the DPS check.

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