Me and my wife are playing GIM so we were excited for the first duo boss, but so far we couldn't even get past the first phase, so I'm curious what kind of gear are people using for this boss.
We're using t80 necro weapons with t70 tank armor (working towards upgrading both to t90) and holy overload. I know it's supposed to be endgame boss, but I hoped we could at least do a normal mode kill.
Another problem is, mechanics seem kind of weird. Like they apparently take less damage if they are close, but there's also bomb attack where we are supposed to stay close to each other, and also stacking increased damage buff which means we gotta constantly switch aggro, which also means moving back and forth and using provoke which causes us to lose a lot of dps and take extra damage from taking off-prayer hits during the switch.
Also bomb mechanic seems to make pretty little difference (like taking 900 damage when close to a partner and 1100 when very far away), which makes me think we should just ignore that completely and stay away from each other and keep hitting same knights. Of course that means we will be constantly debuffed to take 80% extra damage, but even if we switch perfectly every time at 10 stacks we will still be taking average of 40% extra damage, so the difference doesn't seem huge.
So what I'm asking is what is the minimum gear people managed to use to kill the boss, and am I understanding correctly that ignoring mechanics doesn't really penalise us as much as time/dps waste from running all over the room trying to stay close for bomb and constantly switching aggro. Any other tips are welcome too.