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A fight from the CT era that is indeed based on lack of damage is cerberus. If your DPS is trash and they all end up getting killed by the hecteyes because they didn't damage the stomach walls enough, it auto rages.
If that was actually enough of a problem in order to occur continuously with the same group, there's always the solution of... y'know, sending in a tank to hold the hecteyes. If it was really THAT bad you could even send in a healer along with them.
What I tended to encounter though, for the early era of WoD... at that point it was usually accepted practice to send one whole party into Cerberus rather than just send most/all of the DPS across the entire alliance inside. Meaning you had a tank and healers in there. So you usually didn't have the hecteyes running amok and killing people. Hecteyes deaths actually tended to happen more often later on when tanks/healers were getting told not to go in Cerberus in order to leave more room for DPS to get in, but even if this was a recurring problem for a group, most would figure out that the issue would likely be alleviated by sending a tank in.
Basically, CT gave you ways around these sorts of problems. If you're hitting enrage on A1 though (which seems easy enough to do, there is a level of DPS check in the fight that NOTHING in CT approaches), there isn't really a whole lot you can do other than replace the DPS or tell them to "git gud" or something or other.
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The Atomos fight from WoD is also damage based. If you have 1 or 2 alliances not able to get back on the platform, they explode.
That's an "ignoring mechanics" problem, not a DPS problem, though :/
(And that fight will never hold a candle to LotA's Atomos, by the way. LotA Atomos is one of the most baffling things in this game to me, in terms of how many groups flub it somehow despite how absurdly simple the encounter is. It is literally just pulling trash mobs that come at you one at a time; it doesn't get much simpler than that, yet it has to be the one encounter in the entirety of CT that I've wiped at the most.)
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Way back when it was released, I had a significant number of wipes on Behemoth due to low DPS. Some people had their i90 by then, but most folks were still in i50-i70.
Are you sure it was lack of DPS you were wiping to? I didn't know that fight even had an enrage.
I've certainly had wipes there due to people ignoring adds/mechanics, but that's not really the same thing
Edited, Jul 31st 2015 11:46am by Fynlar 
