Who has accurate information about the Tyrant Fight?

Yeah, I have no clue why the Magisterium trial is the only one where we didn't get an official overview like we did for the others. Every single one of the previous trials had theirs posted before they went live, so why not this one?

Does anyone understand how the lights are supposed to work? The way I understand it, killing the lights is supposed to give out a temporary level shift, so that you can get up to +9 like Tyrant is. I ran my third failed Magisterium trial tonight, but this was the first one where I was monitoring my level shift to see what it was doing. I had heard someone say the level shifts from the lights were team based, so I had 2 people on each team on light duty. They were doing a great job too. The lights would go down within just a couple of seconds of spawning. However I was almost never getting any level shifts from them dying. My level shift stayed pretty constant at +3 for the majority of the trial. Every once in a while (as in 4-5 times in the entire 20 minute fight) I saw it go up to +8 or +9 for a few seconds. The only pattern I could discern was that it seemed to go up most frequently when I had just come back from the hospital.

I don't know if it's a bug, or if there's just some mechanic to it that I'm missing. Anyone know more about them?

You want accurate information - I can only tell you what was told to me by a player who had, I presume, used Surveillance on Tyrant.

His base regen is 470 hp.

His regen debuff resistance is 80%.


For those that don't know - after you put the lights out, you are supposed to get a level shift for each light you have out.
You can monitor your level shift via combat attributes.

However, this hasn't worked as intended each and every time. When it does work - that rough patch when he's between 30-40%, lore pets and call to justice can really help -- and once he's down to like 18% or so, he's on his last legs and the well takes his favor away and you've pretty much won it.

Snow Globe, with one of his posts, shows how after 13 seconds that there are no lights, but there are no level shifts either.

Sadly, we are left to wonder if the level shifts only last for 10-12 seconds, or is the trial indeed bugged in some instances? We don't get to see the code, so we've no idea.

For the most part, I suggest trying it anyway - it's a short trial, and it is fun, dodging all that lightning.

Not sure if that helps anyone or not - but I suspect that they need to do some fine tuning - to make the shifts more consistent.

54+5 and some Olympians vs. a lot of 50+3's --well, I sure didn't have any problem with Cole's personal story.

A few points:

1. Every kill Tyrant makes will allow the Favor of the Well to decrease and grant him a health boost. His health is inversely proportional to the Well, so having the well to a 100 is ideal to kill Tyrant.

2. The Lightning AoE attack of his covers a large area, and also targets random characters. Only way to escape is to either jump outside of the crater, or keep moving around.

3. Extinguishing the Lights of the Well will grant a level shift to a RANDOM character, not everyone will get it. Timing for putting them out has to be right, otherwise, putting out the last Well just as the timer resets them all back is a waste.

The thing with his regen is that his Favor of the Well doesn't just randomly grant him any extra for nothing, it's only if he shows he is worthy, i.e, kills anything or anyone. Avoid having MMs summon pets and avoid using Lores to ensure he gets nothing to kill cause EVERY KILL COUNTS, with the assumption that you WILL run when you see 'The air around Tyrant crackles!'. Completed it twice yesterday with no problems at all, it's so much fun to get him down to 10 and then watch the -8 kick in...A beautiful sight to see.

Switched to farming for the ixp.

Not bothering with Tyrant anymore.

So... load a league up with high-defense twitchy types, and avoid squishies who can't move quickly out of the AoE Lightning or (actually worse) Hammer attack?

That might be more successful. And also more irritating to the squishies.

I do like the trial, overall. My main complaints are in the severe LACK of CLUES, where other trials have explained even briefly the general things you're supposed to be doing to succeed, and the potentially-bugged level shift mechanic.

Difficulty through obscurity is not good design. When you have a trial that most people prefer to farm instead of actual run full-out? That's a fail.

Notice of the Well is a spherical effect with radius of 5,000 feet. It has a 16 target cap.

I haven't read all the posts in the thread, but one stated that you should Hosp immediately. This runs contrary to the impression I was under based on a recent Dev diary-type article on Massively. Since Tyrant is empowered via Tartarus during the final battle he essentially controls your Soul. This is why you have to fight your way out of the hosp.

Mechanically, once Tyrant is below 50% the amount of Favor gives him +Regen. His Favor is buffed by those folks who choose to Hosp. So, a far better way than rushing to Hosp, would be to have a couple folks with Barrier or Howling Twilight rezzing people so they can avoid buffing Favor by using the Hosp.