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Originally Posted by dyson

Your team is probably not spreading the storm buff around to those that can best use it or using toasty fires to spread the singed debuff onto the boss. You really have to work as a team to push the DPS for a Hodir hardmode kill and what that means (in getting 11k+ dps) is that you need to all be pulling together a strategy. If you just all randomly get buffs and also if you don't break out the NPCs etc then you are losing a lot.

Watch the tankspot or stratfu Hodir hardmode video, and you will get an idea of strats to use to spread buffs around. For example, if melee gets a storm cloud, while it's true that the storm buff will increase melee DPS, Melee DPS has no other buffs to consider for the most part and therefore the storm buff is wasted on melee.

If a Melee has a storm cloud, they should immediately break off the boss and run to caster DPS so that they get the storm buff charges instead of other melee. This is because the DPS casters are more likely to be flexible in getting haste lights and the singed debuff being on the boss increases spell damage, not melee damage. So all 3 buffs are working synergistically to improve caster DPS by an amazing amount in this fight if everyone works together to make this happen.

If you are in an uncoordinated group or a pug, then you kind of have to fend for yourself. In that case, my suggestion is that you look for people with storm cloud and run to them yourself and hope you get the buff and then run back to haste lights (or to the nearest haste light). Also, if given a choice of two haste lights, stand in the one near a toasty fire so you dont have to move.

There is a lot going on in the fight, it's kind of easier when everyone has a role and does it (eg melee or anyone with storm clouds goes to caster DPS rather than caster DPS to them), hunters stand near toasty fires to load the boss with singed debuff, and casters wailing away at the boss in haste lights taking advantage of the teamwork from the others to have 3 buffs working for them.