Doom lord Kazzak

[lexuspartsdude]

Just thought i would share, took me 3 tries to get the strat down. But it was worth it. Hardest part was making sure no one got the debuff that heals him if they get hit. Thanks to all those that helped with spell rotations/strats over the past couple months since ive started my 5-boxing.

http://i287.photobucket.com/albums/ll138/lexuspartsdude/Kazzakdead-1.jpg

[Gares]

I could not for the life of me beat him

[Hachoo]

Is there an achievement for killing him? If so I might try it :)

[Zal]

Is there an achievement for killing him? If so I might try it :)
There might be one. But he's mostly killed just for the gold drop and the epic BoE items.

[lexuspartsdude]

unfortunately no achievement. ANd i cant remember the gold amount, but the 2 BOE epics netted 200g within hours, so i might have priced em too low in the AH. Hes a tough ass fight. I used the AOE macros i use for the snake boss in gundrak to take down his summoned adds (theyre cake, like 6k health) without the tank having to move. One thing i will note that is if you attempt him , keep everyone at MAX range. If he thunderclaps , my UI was showing a magic debuff, and i had to spend seconds searching for the BAD debuff that heals him when that target takes damage, making dispelling retardedly difficult. Once they never got hit with that TC i could easily see and dispell it. IT was my own fault, but never have attempted this fight ever, i figure 3 tries wasnt bad to adapt. Shadow resist helps a lot if your running a pally. His aoe shadowbolts were countered by my druids wild growth with minimal ease. im sure a shammy group's chain heal rotation would make quick work of it, what i would have liked was a priest prayer of healing. Ill be honest though it was tough, shammy had to mana pot, and pally had to use LOH. But man it felt good to accomplish that.

[Hachoo]

How are your guys geared? Just curious if I should even attempt this sometime soon (I don't like wiping on stuff) :)

[lexuspartsdude]

Armory one or two of my guys, im on Uther server. Mostly everything is heroic item level 200 minus a ring or trinket here and there. Tank has 28.5k group-buffed.

[beyond-tec]

holy sh!t!

awesome....

gratz man, this is just BAM!

[GizmoxLoW]

I used the AOE macros i use for the snake boss in gundrak to take down his summoned adds (theyre cake, like 6k health) without the tank having to moveWould you share this macro. or at least the names of the targets- would be awesome to try this when the servers come back up..if he's there

[lexuspartsdude]

i just have one /castrandom macro hotkeyed to a button for warlock/mage/shaman that aoe's when i mash it. Nothing below 10k lives usually. Mash it again if it does.

[jimbobobb]

I tried this guy a bit ago, and my problem was always whatever aoe he does that sends my guys flying across the zone. Does absolute max range keep your guys safe from that? I honestly didn't even know what aoe it was, and just gave up after being unable to avoid it or wedge my guys in any corner so that they wouldn't be sent in completely random directions. Would you mind sharing your positioning/strat for this fight?

[Millz]

I'm sure that's because of a bomb debuff he does.. Spread your toons out away from eachother and it should be fine.

Haven't killed him in like 6months or so though so can't really remember!

[nomenquis]

Not directly related to kazzak, but I wanted to try him and since he was not spawned went and killed doomwalker.

Doomwalker is _really_ easy if you have a pala tank, might be a challenge otherwise. For doomwalker the key to the fight was to get all chars into melee range and simply heal through all the ae that happened once in a while.
If the pally had too many stacks of the armor decreasing buffs (i.e. when you would switch tanks at 70) he would simply bubble to remove it, but for some reason doomwalker did not really apply all too much stacks. And another tip, do not ankh on doomwalker, ever :)


Also tried magtheridon, but gave up pretty soon. The problem one will run into is that with only one tank one has to tank all channellers in one spot. This results in unkillable mobs because of the massive heals flying around. At the time maggi was released I've not even had one of them down :(

While it's possible to heal through 5 channelers + 5 eles + maggi it's not really possible to also heal through the blastwave at the same time, at least for me. Does someone have any alternative strats for him?

kind regards

[lexuspartsdude]

I tried this guy a bit ago, and my problem was always whatever aoe he does that sends my guys flying across the zone. Does absolute max range keep your guys safe from that? I honestly didn't even know what aoe it was, and just gave up after being unable to avoid it or wedge my guys in any corner so that they wouldn't be sent in completely random directions. Would you mind sharing your positioning/strat for this fight?ok, this is countered very easily. I noticed that at 24% one attempt he did his little bomb and threw me madly across the zone. The 3rd attempt i tried something different. there are two columns, one on either side of him(while still being in range of him and the tank). Position your guys with thier backs up against that column, it has sides so even if it isnt perfect they wont move. Now on my 3rd and final attempt he never blew up, this could be because he was dead much quicker than i had gotten him to 24% the last attempt. I cant locate any articles that explain what it takes to trigger that horrible bomb either, but he didnt use it that fight. I can take screenshots later if you like =) Now if i could just kill skadi on heroic, damn gauntlet!