The Jade Spider is a 2-stage fight. After you get all the Heroes free (Which is an adventure by itself, fighting the Spider AVs) you get a Cutscene with the
Jade arriving. It's fairly easy to take down in the beginning, but once it gets to 50% it starts to glow purple and dish out a hell of a Psi attack. That
is the only complicating factor, if you can avoid/survive/mitigate the Psi attack it has, it can be dealt with rather easily .
The Jade Spider, as an Elite Boss has a nasty (but not devastating) Cone-AoE attack once it goes Psychic. It's easy enough to avoid with like that. Which
is where the 'Magic Number' comes in. At less than 5 people on a team the Spider (and the rest of the AVs) spawn as EB's making it much easier. As
an AV, however, the Cone becomes a PBAoE, and also a pseudo-DoT (Very fast cycle, always attacking). It's still doable, but having a massive Psi attack
hitting everyone within reasonable range makes it not up to standard tactics. It is possible to beat it with a well picked team of Dark **** power sets, which
give Psi mitigation. You can also use purples to avoid the AoE, witch makes it a rather feeble AV in comparison. You must be sure that all members of your team
can deal with the damage somehow, though, because it's range is as large as most buffs/ranged attack and thus you can't rely on squishies healing you
from safety like the Uberecluse fight in the STF.
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The Master said: "It is all in vain! I have never yet seen a man who can perceive his own faults and bring the charge home against himself."
>Analects: Book V, Chaper XXVI
Jade arriving. It's fairly easy to take down in the beginning, but once it gets to 50% it starts to glow purple and dish out a hell of a Psi attack. That
is the only complicating factor, if you can avoid/survive/mitigate the Psi attack it has, it can be dealt with rather easily .
The Jade Spider, as an Elite Boss has a nasty (but not devastating) Cone-AoE attack once it goes Psychic. It's easy enough to avoid with like that. Which
is where the 'Magic Number' comes in. At less than 5 people on a team the Spider (and the rest of the AVs) spawn as EB's making it much easier. As
an AV, however, the Cone becomes a PBAoE, and also a pseudo-DoT (Very fast cycle, always attacking). It's still doable, but having a massive Psi attack
hitting everyone within reasonable range makes it not up to standard tactics. It is possible to beat it with a well picked team of Dark **** power sets, which
give Psi mitigation. You can also use purples to avoid the AoE, witch makes it a rather feeble AV in comparison. You must be sure that all members of your team
can deal with the damage somehow, though, because it's range is as large as most buffs/ranged attack and thus you can't rely on squishies healing you
from safety like the Uberecluse fight in the STF.
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The Master said: "It is all in vain! I have never yet seen a man who can perceive his own faults and bring the charge home against himself."
>Analects: Book V, Chaper XXVI