I indeed was at Coblt during OC run last night and can confirm that the latest patch does make TT Wurm easier compared to the last week. BUT, it is still more tough then before the June 23 patch, so we have to remain focussed on doing the right stuff.

I wouldn't say Cobalt was at 50% after the second burn already, but it was nearly ready for decap with 5 min left on the timer, so the burn phase damage has definitely improved with the crit/hitbox patch, as we could see loads of criticals landing when at the DD spot.

Let me also shed some of my ideas on this subject, as well as comment on some of the things already posted here.

Looking back at the runs I have been involved in since the HP buff post-june 23 patch, it does seem that the biggest problem we have to deal with is the amount of damage we can put into the wurms during phase one. However, this is not something that is bothering our runs, but also the the runs of RNG/DV/OC that I have recently started joining. I have a feeling that despite the bosses are able to be "Critted", this extra damage does not live up to the doubling of the bosses HP. We had a discussion on the OC run last night and estimated that when everything is performed at max efficiency, you would end up with about a 40% damage increase from critting, HOWEVER this would be if everybody is maxxing out their critical damage, which is something we are most likely not achieving.

I also have a hunch that also the scaling of the event is messing things up, as it seems that the higher the numbers we have, the harder it is to do decent damage. I find confirmation for this in the last couple of OC runs, where we had fails on the regular spawns, with high numbers from LFGs and then killed it much more easily during the respawns with about 25-30 people for each of the heads. Not sure how big the random players effect this, although TS numbers were generally OK during the regular spawn, so don't know if it's just people on TS that still don't understand what to do.

So what to do to improve on our overall damage during phase 1 (phase 2 doesn't seem that big a problem anymore as the condi stacking seems to kill the heads BIG time)?

Might stacking is more important than ever, as this will bring big improvement in damage put into the wurms. Giving additional attention to might stacking during the dry runs should further improve that, but this means that also experience players that can show how to do this in the right way should come during the dry runs to show this. On the other hand, I have seen runs fail where might stacking was really good with full stacks of might on each burn, so this is not the only issue. We need to make sure that mesmers hold on to their signets of inspiration and time warps until called upon by the Commander.

Consumables, we usally want to hold on to these for phase 2, but giving the observations that in phase 2 the heads seem to die rather quickly compared to before the patch, we may want to start using them for phase 1 when we don't have enough damage after a burn or 2. OK commanders usually tell each other to use consumables when one of the wurms is lagging in dps, but it may be an interesting idea to use them anyhow on the 3 or 4 burn phase. Maybe not all at once, but start with fire ele powder and if still needed a dps boost on the next burn, use Ogre pets whisstle then. This strategy partly saved my Cobalt run on Sunday a week ago, and without consumable, we still melted the wurm head in Phase 2.

With regard to condi teams, I agree that they should remain with their dedicated task of dealing with the Champ Husks, but I think it is good to experiment with looking into condi-ing with lower numbers. We could start by having 1 or 2 of the condies running in the main Zerg and joining the condi team if the are having a hard time. This is also where I see the biggest role for the main Zerg in dealing with Husks, as in my opinion, they should only assist when the condi team is struggling (also from nearby veteran wurms), as most likely the main Zerg will then also be struggling due to the Husks getting into their way. (Don't know if this applies in the same strength to all 3 heads, but is does so on Amber.) This shouldn't take to much of time as the mobs seem to melt easily when the Zerg rushes in.

Egg blocking seems to have become more difficult by the skill/trait changes on guardians, so I would suggest that each Wurm has at least one ele on the egg blocking squad and that we don't run teams of guardians only. Moreover, as timing of the reflect skills is also hampered by the animation lag Kaelik has already mentioned before. For the time being, I think we should also advise player that want to learn Egg blocking to take an ele as the prefered character.

Bringing the Meta build is a nice starting point from a dps output point of view, but this will require that people also know how to play it, and stay alive. I have recently switched to Meta for my main warrior, but find that I like to run it a bit tempered when doing PvE stuff like Teq and Wurm compared to dungeons and fractals. So I think people should bring a build that they feel comfortable with, as participating players are more usefull then people that need to waypoint all the time because they can't stay on their feet. We can however stimulate people to try out meta builds, so they can take what the like to improve their damage.

With regard to the Mesmer time warps, I agree with Red, that for phase 1 you want as many time warps put down when to Commanders calls for them. However, and this is why OC is creating Mesmer rotations, time warps have another interesting feature for phase 2, and this is that they actually slow down the Wurm animations and movement. So the idea is to have one time warp on the wurm head when we start dps, and have the other mesmers wait to put their time warps down, so you can have a time warp active for as long as possilble. This should help people in seeing the charge more easier, but more importantly also make catching up easier when the wurm charges away, so we can keep up the damage. This does imply that we should at least have several mesmers on each of the stacks.

Giving the fact that Teq takes up more of our precious Wurm preparation time, I think we could start to prepare while we wait for Teq to spawn, although I realise that people tend to go AFK while waiting, or only show up after Teq (including myself  ). But we could start by counting the warriors/mesmer that will come to TT Wurm, so we can devide them before hand to the different heads.

With regard to the scaling of the events, I like Gems idea to try and have 2 heads with between 25-30 players on the stack and then having the final wurm go max difficulty. Maybe Amber is the prefered head for this, and giving the time gating for Amber I came up with the following idea; Why not have 2 Commanders running 2 seperate groups to max out the number of potentional burn phases. Why would I go through all this difficulty, well as the Amber burn cycle is the longest on of all 3 heads, you easily run into problems when dps is lacking during the burn phase. However, it is difficult to resolve this issue, due to the fact that you only can get so many burns on Amber, so when you want to go for the next ABOM, you loose 30-35 seconds because of the upset stomach debuff. At that time (or maybe even a little bit sooner), the second group could kill the ABOM and start their burn cycle while the first group goes about killing veteran wurms (and maybe husks?). This way, both groups would cycle making the wurm vunerable in turn, while both participating during the actual burn phase. OK, the main issues with this are off course the increased organising this takes, and also the increased need for people to be on TS and also to hold on to their harpoon until needed because of the lower number of available harpoons. I would be tempted to give a try, maybe not immediately on a regular run, but maybe on a seperate test like we did on the condi only Cobalt head the other week, as this would require less people, and we only need to test it for phase 1.

Another thing in general would be to also discuss our findings with for instance the commanders from OC/RNG/DV and see how they are dealing with these issues. We could also team up together to test some ideas, like the double team-ed Amber wurm to get the needed numbers and TS participation to be able to coordinate these kind of things, although I do like to state that this is just a thought of mine.

New Naked run scheduled for Wednesday June 24:http://psdh.eu/index.php?topic=822

And let's do the Naked World Boss Train tonight to do some advertisement for this event, and get as many people on teamspeak to tag along in the fun. Something like a sneak preview on all the fun we will have at June 24.

If we can manage a suitable time, count me in as well.

Perhaps another interesting idea to put forth on the Thursday rotation; Fractal night. I mentioned this after the Sunday TT Wurm kill and people sounded interested, and giving the responce in the fractal topic, I think this is worth a go. We would need some extra chanels on TS to accomadate the different teams, but that shouldn't be a problem I recon, Dark?

Happy to have you on board.

Somehow (I think Dark may have done so) the poll for next week has been reset and the votes that were already in have been cancelled. Everybody who already voted please do so again.

I would also like to make myself available for mentoring Trainee Commanders at Amber Wurm and Tequatl (all spots, although I know Ranged DPS and Turrets best)

In addition, i would also like to increase my own experience by commanding on other wurm as well, so i can help out when needed (already did Cobalt twice, and think I will be able to do Crimson as well).