In many parts of the world, summer wildfires are a common occurrence, a part of the annual cycle of the ecosystem as it trundles forward in its complex web of interactions. Australia is one such location, with its wildlife evolving to take advantage burnings in the hot dry months. Its human inhabitants, likewise, adapt to the phenomenon, attempting to strike that balance between allowing the cycle to continue uninterrupted, and ensuring that the conflagration does not prove too destructive to the human settlements of the continent.
The summer of 2019-2020 was one such summer that proved too destructive, with almost 186,000 square kilometers of land burnt, 6,000 buildings destroyed, and at least 34 deaths directly attributed to the event. All across the country, communities banded together to rebuild and recover from the devastating event, hoping and praying that it would never happen again.
So, of course, it happened again less than five years later.
Some fierce lightning storms in early January, 2024, set the stage for our current tragedy. Carving a path across the southern coastline, fueled by warm ocean currents bringing stark humidity to a rain-parched New South Wales, the conditions could not have been more perfect. The first smolders were detected within hours, but within days the strikes were too numerous to combat, and so the fires were allowed to grow, despite the best efforts of firefighters scrambling from all across eastern Australia. Soon enough, the battle lines were drawn, as the brave soldiers dug in on the eastern front, doing everything they could to keep Canberra from being cut off from the rest of the country. On the western and northern front, evacuation protocols were brought across broad swathes of land, as letting it run its course was deemed the only viable strategy.
Eventually, after almost two whole months of fierce fighting, the tide began to turn, as the dry spell broke and the conflagrations ran out of fuel to burn. The complexes in the stretch between Melbourne and Canberra were extinguished, and the various other hotspots across Victoria and New South Wales were being contained and put out. The toll on the country had been catastrophic, and there was no way the citizens of Australia would allow it to happen again. But for now, with people returning to the burnt out shells of former homes and scraping together a sense of normalcy in the aftermath,
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I'm trying to understand how Capernian's conflag work because we've been having issues with her, particularly in P3. How do you guys handle her?
More particularly I'm wondering:
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how do people handle the staff bug issue? We had multiple people with the buff on them still get disoriented
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what happens if there is no one in conflag range (30y I believe)? Sometimes she moves somewhat randomly (without threat issue), I'm wondering if that's why
Edit: we tank her with a warlock
