VON 6 has been changed - Spoiler!

[AestorTheKnight]

A Warning to Everyone about to try VON 6 on any difficulty. VON 6 has been changed.

Got to VON 6 - The Plane of Night on Hard with my lvl 14-16 Raid Group.

I went alone onto the bridge to begin the trip round, right at the crossroads, anticlockwise, to aggro the mobs on the first island so the Tank could follow me and prep the Pillars.

I was the only person on the bridge.

Velah began breathing fire on me on the bridge. Velah also began breathing fire onto the begining island, doing AoE damage to the whole party. 100% new - never ever seen that happen before in over 100 runs.

A list of the changes in VON 6 as I experienced on my first time in this Raid since Update 3.

1: Velah will now randomly and periodically breath fire onto anyone on any bridge or any island, even the start island, regardless of wether they are alone or with others on the bridge or island. Although this only begins once one person has stepped a significant distance onto the bridge.

2: First Base, IE the first island anticlockwise, no longer has Earth Elementals on it. It now contains 4 Fire Elementals. Islands 2 and 3 still contain Air Mephits and Ice Flencers respectively and have not been changed in this respect.

3: It no longer matters if 2 or more people are located on the same part of the bridge or the same island at the same time. Velah will still breath fire on you occasionally or consistantly. And 2 or more people on the Bridge at the same time will not cause it to break.

4: (The DM Text): "The bridge creaks as it adjusts to its load" that used to trigger when 2 or more people were on the same section of th bridge has been removed. So has the (DM Text): "The strain on the bridge eases."

5: The bridge sections are much more resistant to breaking now than they used to be. I saw the bridge get hit with fire breath 5 or 6 times and not break. i do not know if the bridge sections can be broken, as of yet.

6: The Ice Flencers chance to PROC Ice Encasement with melee attacks (immobilised and autocrit) has been noticeably increased.

There may be other changes to VON 6 that I have not yet encountered. But with my first unsuccessful attempt to complete this raid since Update 3, these are the changes i have noticed.

Advvice for those about to attempt VON6: There is a Safespot behind a rock on the Left forward section of the Start island were the whole party can stand and be safe from the incoming fire breath. Buff everyone fire res there

Slightly different tactics for Destroying the 3 Pillars and dropping the magical barrier in front of Velah may have to be employed by the players.

Just when you thought it was safe to go back into VON6 - the Devs have changed it again (3rd time now I think).

[Samadhi]

Hmm, a couple of us did run this on elite for fun tonight. I noticed the constant fireballs but not much else (although there were only 6 of us I didn't run any bases, and that seems to be where most the changes were). Good to know that bridges won't break now. That will at least make things less time consuming.

[Shade]

Hmm, a couple of us did run this on elite for fun tonight. I noticed the constant fireballs but not much else (although there were only 6 of us I didn't run any bases, and that seems to be where most the changes were). Good to know that bridges won't break now. That will at least make things less time consuming.

The bridges do indeed get destroyed. At least on epic.

[Kriogen]

...New tactics for Destroying the 3 Pillars and dropping the magical barrier in front of Velah will have to be developed by the players.

Go in, buff with anti fire. 1-2 go to earth (now fire), keep mobs busy (CC, tank, whatever), one preps pilar. 1-2 go to ice, keep mobs busy, prep pilar. 1-2 go to mephs, keep mobs busy, one preps pilar. Finish all 3 pilars on command. Go back, join others, finish buffing, slay Velah. Loot.

It's how we did it almost since the beggining. 3 minutes on normal, 4 on elite, all busy doing something. Is there any other way?

[AestorTheKnight]

Yep true Kriogen! =) hehe - it hasnt actually changed that much. The changes just kinda freaked me, i was expecting Earth Eles and got fire Eles instead.

Ok Shade, i will edit the part about Bridges getting destroyed. Thanks!

[Rasczak]

Doesn't make much difference to the raid accept making it a couple seconds faster now that you can run 2 people

[ddoer]

a question about von6. after killed all 3 djinns, the shields of pillars will drop. is there a timer for the djinns and shield to respawn if we don't begin to kill the pillars?

besides, after the first pillar is down, how many seconds we have to kill the other two?

I'm wonder if we should just begin to kill the pillars as fast as we can after dropped the djinns, or we really need to prep the pillars and wait for everybody's confirmation before start killing them.

[Taimasan]

Yes the djinn's will respawn, so the djinn's need to be taken down, the immediately work on the pillars, then ddoor so everyone can get back to the start.

[MarcusCole]

djinn are on about a 40-60 sec timer and pillars are3-7 secs I think

[Paragon]

What is truly fun is getting to this raid on Epic difficulty. The dragon fight becomes a bit more interesting...breath weapon anyone? Not that hard once you figure it out, but it makes for a fun time. I just remember seeing an early run of Epic VoN 6 wipe in about five seconds of charging the dragon....

[xanthus]

Do you guys what alignment the djinn are? Do they have DR? Just trying to figure out a good weapon to use against them.

thanks