How to prevent Lady Tenebris from casting massive death AoE?

Question

Today was a Lady Tenebris boosted day and after fighting her twice I noticed that in specific situations she wouldn't cast her massive AoE at all after pulling the team to the center. It was as if she was blocked by one mechanic. Now the trouble is that I was unable to reproduce it voluntarily though I noticed that:

a) it happened in different stages of her hp bar so had nothing to do with its %.
b) whatever is done must be repeated every time she pull us (unless it were a bug but is really unlikely)
c) seems like has nothing to do with the summon quantity neither

That said were amazing if someone knows how to trigger that special condition it is really helpful to avoid teammates from taking extra damage and sometimes dying.

Comments

I actually noticed this for the first time too yesterday. Thought I must of missed it somehow.

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Wild guess but I think that's just a bug. Similarly Outburst sometimes doesn't do his massive damage when teleporting players.

I could never replicate that on purpose but Tenebris' death AoE didn't happen multiple times with me already.

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it happened to me 5 times already, were nice if ppl could get some answer from it, but yeah the outburst one also has happened me at least once.

Answer 1

I've noticed this too since bosstiary came out. Here's my theory:

During the fight she changes form and seconds after uses death AoE attack.

Notice that when she teleports and is preparing to attack, the sprite of Tenebris changes colors, in this second form if your team do a good amount of damage she will come back to her original form without the death AoE attack.

I can't confirm this yet of course, but it happens when I'm in a team with mostly high levels, they don't usually run but stay to do damage.