Dragonking Thordan

This is partly a spillover effect from Alternative End, because depending on whether the party has a SCH or a SGE, the H2 may or may not have their 120s mitigation (Expedient versus Holos) available.

SCH and SGE also have different preferences when it comes to their shielding 120s (Consolation versus Panhaima)- in particular, SGE would want to use Panhaima to mitigate Akh Morn's Edge, while the ability to Summon Seraph well in advance of applying Consolation makes it well suited for Gigaflare's Edge.

Notationally, I also don't have a good way to separate the "shield" H2 120s (Consolation versus Panhaima) from the "mitigation" H2 120s (Expedient versus Holos) which would add to the confusion. As a result, I would prefer to just leave it up to the player to determine how to best supplement the provided framework.

There are also differences with the tank mitigations- the "shield" 90s mitigations (Shake It Off versus Divine Veil) are particularly nice at Gigaflare's Edge (also for their added bonus heal), while the "mitigation" 90s (Dark Missionary and Heart of Light) shine against Akh Morn's Edge.

The 90s cooldown also means that timed correctly, you can get a third use out of the tank mitigations for the second and third Akh Morn's Edge.

There's also the fine print on Shake It Off which would dispel a WAR's mitigations if used in the wrong order. Since Vengeance use isn't specified, nor whether the WAR would be MT or ST, it is left to the player to determine when best to use Shake It Off.

1-1-6 at Akh Morn's Edge is easier to heal compared to 3-3-2, but it does not come for free.

The biggest obstacle to 1-1-6 is having to mitigate Wyrmsbreath 2 and Cauterize with the same 30% at the end of P6.

• The tank with a single-target tankbuster needs to time their 30% mitigation at the last second before Wyrmsbreath 2.
• The healers need to top up the tanks (and potentially give targeted mitigation)- remember, the tanks are on the other side of the arena during Wyrmsbreath.

While this is doable, it's much tighter in execution than simply invulning Cauterize, and makes P6 even less forgiving.

Prog groups especially should aim to get more practice at P7, and it's difficult to justify potentially spending more time in P6 for both tanks to consistently (and independently!) get the timing down.

Even if Cauterize is properly mitigated, executing 1-1-6 still has some intangible tradeoffs. While it is easier to mitigate and heal through, you open up different lines of error:

• Either H2, D2, or D4 forgets and goes to the wrong tower at the wrong Akh Morn's Edge.
• The wrong tank goes to the wrong tower at the wrong Akh Morn's Edge.
• "Less healing" does not mean "no healing", especially given 1-1-6's reputation of "letting healers parse". It's also easy for healers to forget that the tank in the DPS tower at Akh Morn's Edge 2 does not have all their cooldowns available because something was used for Akh Morn's Edge 1.

Gigaflare's Edge is actually proximity-based, but the falloff is very steep, making it act like an AoE.

Here's a graph plotting the damage vs distance (in centiyalms).

Pairing D1 with D4 is something I considered, but decided against as "D2 Feint first" breaks the usual pattern of D1 > D2.

That being said, the important part of the mitigation plan is establishing the baseline for where D4 uses their Addle. That way, the second caster knows where not to Addle (regardless of whether they're D2 or D1).

The same reasoning applies to double-ranged parties.

Check that the WAR did not use Shake It Off after Vengeance, as Shake It Off removes a WAR's buffs (except for Rampart) if used later.

This is something to pay attention to in the second Akh Morn's Edge in particular, as Shake It Off comes back off cooldown there after using it at Alternative End.