a) wait for boss to arrive and kill it, then proceed elevator
b) enter elevator and fight twins+earlier boss+new horde (with elites)
People seem to mostly prefer option b. Of course twins is no guarantee, but weirdly, it has now happened twice in a row for me and i really don’t know what to do about it.
Shall i be the “griefer” who blocks elevator and force the team to wait for the boss?
Or do i defer to the majority decision and go with the flow, knowing that we just passed up a significant opportunity to divide and conquer our enemies?
Did you really ask if you should grief your team by not allowing the elevator to close so that they can fight the boss and whatever enemies are behind them when they’re already in a tiny box, while calling other people the problem?
No, they literally ask whether they should fight the boss before the elevator or get in the elevator so they can fight that boss and everything ahead of them (new boss, new horde, etc.) at the same time.
It’s a good question. If the team can handle everything while still making steady progress, then getting into the elevator doesn’t hurt. If the team struggles to kill a boss, then killing the lone boss first makes sense.
At no point should anyone stay in the tiny box longer than necessary, and if they do stay in one to the point a boss walks in, then it’s that player’s (poor) decision.
randoms or “familiar players”(not premade but you played with em a few times)
cause a) below havoc I value the pace higher than the “non-threat” of a boss that drops upstairs as well as down, with the usual premise of upstairs being able to continue said momentum instead of stall it in the elevator.
b) a bit “see above”, I dont trust the actions of randoms.
while the boss itself ain’t much of a threat in auric maelstrom, indecisive players causing a dead end are.
hence I prefer the open road to my back in case of kiting to a closed box with adds on the way.
havoc I pick the pace of the overall team, usually before the elevator as to not stack what’s “to come”
stack what’s “to come”