Elements of War: Decorin Bonewing

Is anyone actually clearing the challenge mode on a regular basis? The second name in particular seems way out of whack. The swarm birds just start spawning quicker and quicker it seems. We actually had 2 sets spawning at once at some points. The amount of healing required on any tank except a brawler is ridiculous also. We had 7k inc on monk 23k inc on SK both fully hardmode geared.

Novusod wrote:

I'm just curious. Was the same loot in both chests?

Haciv wrote:

Actually those particular chests were loaded, 2 belts and 2 charms between them.

Edit: after reading the question again, the legs were different in each chest, they were not the same.

This isn't an exploit or a bug, it is the 'challenge mode' of this encounter. Defeat it and you get more reward...

And it has to be initiated by using very specific war rune or ability choices? That's incredibly opaque.

Also don't forget, there is already a "challenge version" of this encounter if you select "challenge mode" when choose which version of the zone you enter.

Novusod wrote:

Nope, this is just you being alarmist about nothing. Almost no one could probably even kill it with twice the mobs up (seriously you'd have 5 bonewings up at some point during that fight, ouch)...maybe some hm raid geared group with a brawler tank. I sure couldn't kill it with double the mobs up, ouch. This bug was posted on the forums days after the zone was released and many of us have bugged it since then...no one was hiding this, you're kidding yourself if you think anyone who could do the zone with double the bonewings up needed the loot off the final boss (maybe charms?).