For high-damage groups, the fight is made even easier because you can safely ignore the clones. Comparing the logs from the premade group and the random group, the premade group's damage was 3.7x higher, but the fight went 14.3x faster-this is what I mean by the difficulty scaling non-linearly with damage output. The boss died before it could split a second time. My most recent kill of this boss with a (healerless) premade group of endgame players took a mere 45 seconds. And the difficulty scales non-linearly with damage output in the sense that having twice as much damage output makes the fight way more than twice as easy. And with some groups, the damage is so low that it's literally impossible to clear, since they can't even clear the clones each round. My most recent kill of this boss, as a tank in a random group, took 10:45 minutes. I've gotten this dungeon a number of times as a random vet when I queue with my tank, and I've seen groups take up to 12 minutes to kill this boss. For groups with low damage, they will expend all that damage on dispatching the clones and have little or no opportunity to actually damage the boss. What makes this fight difficult is that mechanics happen on a timer. These are both hints for how the mechanics of that fight works. There's a reason that Tharayya calls "Help me!" to the players, and there's even an achievement for never letting Quintus subdue Tharayya. And the only way you can help Tharayya as she battles Quintus is to keep her healed with AoE heals. If Tharayya is subdued by Quintus, he will debuff all of the players with two effects: Extreme Defile, reducing the healing received by players and Extreme Maim, reducing the damage output done by the players. It actually has implications for the boss fight. The duel between Quintus and Tharayya during the fight is not just some background show. If you do have a healer, the healer should be healing Tharayya, not the players. What it requires is situational awareness. The King Narilmor fight is one of the few dungeon bosses in the entire game that requires an experienced healer.
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