The One-Armed Bandit is an tongue-in-cheek play on rigged gambling as a fight more scripted than most. We pick up reel tokens and insert them into the slot machine to pick our own prizes and dealing with the consequences of our own actions. When he hits 30% health he fully rigs the game, rolling progressively more dangerous rewards before finally exploding, killing us all if we don't kill him first.
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#Link to this headingPhase One Mechanics
The One-Armed Bandit spins its reels, summoning three "Reel Assistants" each with one of 4 unique symbols above their heads representing a Shock Token, Flame Token, Bomb Token, or Coin Token. Killing the attendants drops their token which can be picked up by walking over it. These coined-up players can then deposit their tokens using their Extra Action Button to form one of the 6 unique possible combinations and win a fabulous prize.
- Reward: Shock and Flame creates a Superheated Coil that creates slow-moving Traveling Flames that deal large damage and knock players back.
- Reward: Shock and Bomb creates a Dynamite-Laden Coil that summons 4 (?) small Dynamite Booty adds, chasing a random player with Explosive Gaze that deals large damage and applies a dot to the entire raid if they reach their target.
- Reward: Flame and Bomb summons 3 (?) large Fiery Dynamite Booty adds that fixate players with Explosive Gaze and unleash Burning Blast when they die, doing large damage within 15 yards of them and spawning Traveling Flames.
- Reward: Flame and Coin causes the One-Armed Bandit to rapidly apply a stacking dot on the raid, dealing heavy rot damage.
- Reward: Coin and Shock creates a Premium Currency Coil that attracts the gold in players bags, pulling them towards the coil, inflicting physical damage.
- Reward: Coin and Bomb summons 6 (?) small Premium Dynamite Booty adds that fixate a player with Explosive Gaze, but are "premium", and have 100% increased health, 50% increased damage, and are immune to crowd-control.
If the boss isn't given a unique combination of tokens, either by not doing the mechanic or giving him an already seen combination, he chooses for us and gives himself a 500% permanent damage buff.
Each time the One-Armed Bandit casts Spin To Win! he gains 5% attack speed.
The One-Armed Bandit rolls a coin at the raid telegraphed by a beam coming off of the boss. If a player is hit by the coin they are Crushed!, taking massive damage and stunning them for 8 seconds.
The coin continues to roll until it hits a wall of the room, at which point it falls over, doing large damage to anyone nearby and additional damage to the raid. Players can interact with the fallen coin to aim and roll them one more time, destroying them when they hit a wall a second time.
If you are Skinny 💅 and stand next to the coin as it rolls past the concept of your waist, you get High Roller!, a 10% damage, 10% healing, and 30% movement speed buff for 15 seconds.
The boss gets a 5% stacking buff, Up The Ante for however many coins are in play, even if they're lying on their side in the back of the room.
The One-Armed Bandit covers the raid in exhaust every 0.5 seconds for 1.5 seconds applying a stacking healing absorb. So long as the absorb persists it does mild shadow damage and reduced movement speed by 10% per application.
The One-Armed Bandit does a massive amount of physical damage to its current target and applies a vulnerability increasing damage taken by this ability by 150% for 30 seconds, stacking.
This also leaves behind Shocking Field miasma, dealing moderate nature damage and increasing damage taken by 100% to players within it.
The 3 different coils that can spawn from Spin To Win! can be interacted with, causing massive physical damage to the player, triggering the coil's spawning effect, and drawing in and clearing the 2 nearest Shocking Fields.
As a reminder of what the coils do:
- "Superheated Coil" creates slow-moving Traveling Flames.
- "Dynamite-Laden Coil" summons 5 small "Dynamite Booty" adds that chase down players with Explosive Gaze.
- "Premium Currency Coil" pulls players towards it.
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The assistants have three mechanics of middling importance.
An interruptible 10 second cast that deals damage to the raid and knocks all players back.
The Reel Assistants put a moderate dot on players that lasts for 30 seconds. However, each tick reduces the player's maximum health by 2%. This can be dispelled but Traveling Flames spawn from the player.
The Reel Assistant deals large nature damage to a random player every 2 seconds for 6 seconds with a portion of the damage arcing off to hit the entire raid, stacking.
#Link to this headingPhase Two Mechanics
At 30% health the boss begins a 1 minute 40 second hard enrage and replaces Spin to Win! with Cheat To Win!, picking their own choice of symbols. These abilities remain until the end of the fight once activated.
The One-Armed Bandit rolls three shock symbols, now periodically spawning a Hyper Coil, knocking back players when it spawns and tethering to the boss with Voltaic Streak, a beam that deals massive damage every 0.3 seconds.
Like the phase 1 coils, the Hyper Coils can also be reactivated, knocking back the raid again and casting Explosive Shrapnel on the tank.
The One-Armed Bandit rolls three flame symbols, now causing several players to periodically be marked with a chevron for 5 seconds. The boss will then shoot a fire beam towards them dealing large damage to anyone struck. The afflicted players cannot dodge their own beams as they are fixated throughout.
The One-Armed Bandit rolls three coin symbols, causing him to fire gold coins at the raid dealing large damage to everyone every 2 seconds, perpetually.
The One-Armed Bandit rolls 3 Bomb symbols causing him to explode. We all die!
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#Link to this headingPhase One Strategy
The above RaidPlan shows all of the spatial abilities in phase 1. I'll briefly share tips on them before discussing Spin To Win!.
- The Big Hit tank swap that spawns the Shocking Field should be done with the idea of keeping it in the northern half of the platform. On the PTR some tanks were overlapping the puddles, but I'm not sure what the tuning is like on this now. It was also not worth using Explosive Shrapnel to clear any of them because the boss would enrage before running out of room. Having a coil recast its ability is also super cringe.
- The Withering Flames debuff is probably the most likely thing to kill someone aside from the coins. It's highly recommended you use coms when you're reasonably out of the group instead of making healers crane our tired necks to find your ass. We might use WeakAura communication for this.
- The Traveling Flames are somewhat slow kinda very slow 🐢.
- I'm not going to recommend we try to send the coins back towards the raid for the buffs, but if you want to have some weird spot on the sides of the room in phase 1 to try it out I'll look the other way unless you or someone else die.
Spin To Win! reportedly spawns two waves of Reel Assistants with a consistent coin pattern. The third wave provides the tokens necessary to make a combination you haven't made before. Of which, there are lights behind where the boss spawns indicating which token combinations we have not made before. A WeakAura will track the order for us also. Here is a PTR kill order and the reasoning behind it:
- Reward: Flame and Coin which does the massive raid damage is easier to handle earlier in the fight with less mechanics out and doesn't distract your DPS.
- Reward: Coin and Bomb summons the Premium Dynamite Booty adds which fixate and cannot be crowd controlled. The adds themselves require immediate DPS attention but there are no other lingering mechanics.
The next three are the ones that use any of the Shock tokens. These are annoying because for whatever reason they trigger on each Spin To Win! cast.
- Reward: Shock and Flame is the least annoying coil. It spawns the Traveling Flames which need to be dodged.
- Reward: Shock and Bomb summons the the coil which summons the unshielded Dynamite Booty adds.
- Reward: Coin and Shock summons the coil that pulls players towards it.
The last combination, Reward: Flame and Bomb is maybe the most annoying combination that spawns adds since they have 100% more health, explode when they die, and spawn fire from their corpse. This explosion and fire spawning is also probably going to happen in the group.
You're not expected to get every single combination before you phase, with reports of skipping two during testing. If we order the rewards by least to most annoying we can hopefully brush them under the rug and forget about them.
#Link to this headingPhase Two Strategy
In the videos I've watched the Hyper Coils seemed to spawn anywhere in a ~25 yard orbit of the boss. The RaidPlan I've shown is unrealistically clean, but I wanted to illustrate that the goal is to rotate around the inner circle such that we keep the beams behind us. This allows players with Hot Hot Heat to move their beams to the side of the boss and keep the raid safe.
The rest of the raid needs to focus on burning the boss down as fast as possible. Aside from someone needing to break the Pay-Line coins, the remaining mechanics do nothing but progressively strain the healers until we explode. I also recommend trying to give the beams a respectful amount of space; remember that the Hyper Coils do a knockback every time they spawn.