[Ding... Heng Dao is using the summon stone to call you, do you agree? Agree to be teleported, agree to cancel this summon!]
"Agree!" Chu Tian confirmed directly.
His body felt as if it were being ionized, and with a flash of white light, he vanished from his spot.
In the blink of an eye, he saw the scene before him.
"Eh, you guys are actually fighting the Burning Throne, I bet you're stuck at the second boss, right?"
Looking at the scenery around him, Chu Tian recognized the instance.
He hadn't expected them to be tackling a level 110 dungeon.
He checked the levels of the players in the party.
The average level was around 103.
The highest leveled player was Zhao Lei's Grandmaster, who had reached level 105.
Was this kid that amazing?
Another tank, whom Chu Tian didn't recognize, was level 103.
From their party composition, it was clear they were stuck on the second boss.
This boss consisted of two dogs.
One was a fire-elemental Hellhound.
The other was a shadow-elemental Hellhound.
The two tanks needed to kite these two bosses in a Tai Chi formation.
This meant moving slowly and in parallel along the outermost edge of the arena.
They couldn't move too fast, nor too slow.
If they moved too fast, the boss's ground-targeted abilities would cover the entire arena, leaving no safe space.
If they moved too slowly, the tanks would likely step into the boss's ground abilities.
The mechanic was that these two bosses would apply corresponding vulnerability debuffs to the tanks holding them.
This debuff had an infinite duration.
It would only be removed by being hit by the other boss.
Therefore, the tanks needed to swap bosses periodically.
This was the critical point of the fight.
Because the tanks had to swap bosses, they would inevitably pass each other.
However, as they ran towards each other,
The two bosses would follow closely behind their respective tanks.
The two dogs would enrage when they got close to each other.
They would stop enraging when they were spread apart.
But even that moment of enrage required the two tanks to activate their damage reduction abilities with extreme precision to survive that single attack.
Healers also needed to react instantly.
A slight delay,
Or if the two tanks were a little slow in taking over the other's boss,
They would die instantly upon taking the second hit.
Considering their levels, Chu Tian was certain they wouldn't be able to kill these two Hellhounds quickly.
They would definitely have to swap bosses more than 10 times.
Each tank swap was a potential wipe.
Furthermore, there were other wipe points throughout the entire fight.
The two Hellhounds would, on a fixed timeline,
Simultaneously cast two debuffs on everyone in the arena.
When cast, everyone except the tanks would be affected.
They would intelligently target half of the players present.
The two debuffs were fire and shadow.
When these two debuffs appeared, there was a one-second window for reaction.
If a player with the fire debuff was near someone with the shadow debuff,
These two individuals would simultaneously explode.
The explosion radius covered the entire raid.
The explosion damage was an instant kill.
This meant that if even one person was slow to react, it would result in a wipe.
Additionally, players with the fire debuff would deal no damage to the Hellfire Hellhound.
The reverse was also true: players with the shadow debuff would deal no damage to the Shadow Hellhound.
Therefore, everyone needed to reposition as quickly as possible.
Players with the shadow debuff had to attack the Hellfire Hellhound,
And players with the fire debuff had to attack the Shadow Hellhound.
The positioning requirement was to stay behind the bosses.
The tanks would kite the bosses in a large circle around the arena, and DPS and healers had to follow.
This meant that casting classes couldn't afford to greedily cast their spells.
If movement was required, they had to move, even if it meant interrupting an incoming spell.
Healers, because of this, faced a significant healing deficit.
The higher the stacks of the vulnerability debuff on the tanks, the more damage they took.
This required intensive healing from the healers.
However, many high-healing abilities required long cast times.
Therefore, the only solution was to increase the number of healers.
Moreover, melee DPS players also had a difficult time.
Both bosses would cast numerous ground-targeted abilities beneath them.
The tanks had to constantly move the bosses.
As the bosses moved, melee DPS players could easily step into a ground effect with just one forward step, causing them to be instantly killed by the skill.
This tested the positioning skills of melee players.
Earlier, it was mentioned that the team increased the number of healers for healing throughput.
This, in turn, reduced the number of DPS players.
With less DPS, the fight duration would increase.
A longer fight duration would mean more boss swaps.
Thus, a vicious cycle was created.
Although Gao Kai's team members were all top-tier players in the entire Tiandao World,
Attempting to clear the Burning Throne while underleveled was not a wise choice.
The first boss of this instance was a free pass.
As long as the team had sufficient DPS, there were no complex mechanics.
Players just needed to stand and deal damage, dodging ground mechanics.
However, this second boss acted as a gatekeeper.
If they couldn't defeat these two Hellhounds,
They wouldn't be able to reach the portal behind them.
To progress further into the dungeon, they had to defeat them.
Otherwise, it was impossible to bypass them.
The best way to defeat these two bosses was within the first 1 minute and 20 seconds after combat initiation.
During this period, the two dogs would only apply vulnerability debuffs to the tanks.
Therefore, in these 1 minute and 20 seconds, everyone had to unleash their full firepower to shave off more than 20% of their health.
And these two monsters had another extremely annoying mechanic.
It was that the two Hellhounds almost required simultaneous death.
If one died and the other wasn't killed within 30 seconds,
The dead Hellhound would instantly resurrect.
And it would resurrect at full health.
This also involved situations where, when targeted by debuffs, if a group of people with the same debuff had many high-output players,
They would need to slow down their output and wait for the other group.
He honestly didn't know what Gao Kai and the others were thinking, deciding to tackle the Burning Throne at this time.
However, since they were here,
Chu Tian didn't say anything else.
It was just a matter of fighting, after all. With his godly equipment and his level advantage over these bosses, what was there to fear?
"Boss, do you have any tactics?"
Zhao Lei, wielding his iron bar, came over cheerfully and asked.
This was because he knew that in the early days of Tiandao World, Chu Tian had released a lot of dungeon guides.
After Chu Tian stopped selling guides, the guides for various dungeons became exclusive to the Reverse God Alliance.
As a result, most of the first raid clears in the Northern War Zone were achieved by the Reverse God Alliance.
Consequently, the Reverse God Alliance had obtained a lot of prize money and rewards.
Perhaps Chu Tian had some simple strategies for this dungeon as well.
"Tactics? What's the furthest you've gotten?" Chu Tian tilted his head and asked.
"At most, we got them down to 89% health! Then there was a problem during the tank swap, and the timeline seemed to get messed up," Zhao Lei replied.
"89%? Only 11% left. Not bad! Hmm... can you two tanks switch to DPS?" Chu Tian pondered for a moment.
"You want both of us to DPS?" Zhao Lei was surprised, because after they familiarized themselves with the boss's mechanics,
They were very clear that this boss required two tanks, and two tanks who could cooperate with great默契 (mòqì - tacit understanding).
"Yes, you two focus on DPS as much as possible, deal as much as you can. And healers, hmm... switch 5 to DPS and leave just two on healing!"
Chu Tian's suggestion for the tanks to focus on DPS already surprised everyone.
Now he was asking the healers to switch to DPS as well.
With only two healers left, how could the healing output possibly be enough?
"Can that work?" Even Gao Kai asked in a low voice.
"Don't worry, it'll be fine. One attempt clear!"
Gao Kai asked this out of concern that Chu Tian might lose face, but Chu Tian smiled and said this loudly.