WotLK - Slave Pens - (SP) - Midsummer Icelord: 2010

[jinkobi]

Well thought I'd start a thread for this years Midsummer Festival- looks like there's a new pet and decent casters staff!

Anyway this is my first year to try and multibox Ahune and I'm about my 3rd wipe right now. :( My guys are getting tossed around like ragdolls making it rough... Any good strategies out there?

[ghonosyph]

Back against wall?

[jinkobi]

Back against wall?

Not really any good walls around Ahune- or structures to even get hung up on. There's a cage behind him that I tried to use but didn't seem to work. Tried spreading my guys out which helped some but still by the second time he emerged they were flung all over the place. 5 wipes and have only got him down to 50%.

I'm going to keep trying since this is the last world event that I need for my violet proto...

[Velassra]

I just tried this on my solo raiding charcter. The first half thge fight, the healer thought it was easy mode tank and spank, then he realized he had to heal. Tank just kept the adds busy, I burned the boss. I think I'd find this hard to deal w/ the adds and the boss multiboxing. I'm probably going to solo queue w/ each tonight for the acheivemnt. Ya I'm being cheap, but I'm tired of some of these fights just flinging toons everywhere.

[drevil]

i tried several things but found no tricks to prevent movement.

aoe tank and all chars on follow (not to close to the boss),
move if ice spot shows up,
recollect chars if they got kicked away.
on boss message move to boss and do your burst.

[Whitz]

If your running with shammys its pretty faceroll, currently using a pala tank 3 shamans and a shadowpriest - fire elementals make p1 a doddle and if your t9 geared and running 4 dps you should only get one p1. It seems nearly impossible to avoid the throwing, i just chain heal every now and again to keep them topped up.

It seems going near ahune in p1 makes you take alot of damage. Keep away from him if you can.

2 caster cloaks down, 2 to go :D.

[jinkobi]

Yeah my guys have good gear 5200-5600 GSish. My team is a Paladin tank, 3 Boomkins, and 1 Resto Druid.

When I try to use their AOE/Hurricane they have to keep moving because of the spikes making it impossible to channel All the flinging around is my main problem because they are getting flung very far.. I found 2 of them later all the way down the first hall, lol.

I'll get it eventually- if I have to spend all my gold on repairs I'll do it :P Wasn't expecting such a challenge. Kind of the same deal with the Apothecary Trio from Love Is in the Air. That was a challenge and eventually got good at the thing. The new system is great at least I can try as much as I want.

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[Whitz]

Ah I dont have any moonkins so cant really give much advice on that regard. I reckon a quick wrath or two combined with round robin starfalls would keep them all under control.

[Shodokan]

not an easy fight for dk/rets it seems

[warbringer]

After 3 wipes I suddenly facerolled it.
I ran in circles backwards with my shamans on follow. Dropped all the usual totems and kept renewing the magma totems when they expired. Every time I dragged all the adds past the fire totems, I would hit fire nova. Once Ahune retreated to his frozen core I'd hit a spread-out macro on my shamans so that they would break follow and face Ahune. My pally would then run up to the frozen core and DPS the core along with the shamans. Together with the bloodlust, I did about 6-8kl DPS per shaman so I got him down in 1 core-phase.

After that it was loot and done.

[Toned]

Is it just me or is this years bag kinda lame?

[Whitz]

good for normal people, not so good for boxers :D.

[Littleburst]

After 3 wipes I suddenly facerolled it.
I ran in circles backwards with my shamans on follow. Dropped all the usual totems and kept renewing the magma totems when they expired. Every time I dragged all the adds past the fire totems, I would hit fire nova. Once Ahune retreated to his frozen core I'd hit a spread-out macro on my shamans so that they would break follow and face Ahune. My pally would then run up to the frozen core and DPS the core along with the shamans. Together with the bloodlust, I did about 6-8kl DPS per shaman so I got him down in 1 core-phase.

After that it was loot and done.

This

I had a second player playing the tank, so that makes it a lot easier. + 6k GS in pvpgear= 28k hp. so A LOT of room for error :P

I popped BL on pull and nuked the crap out of Ahune while frosted. Threw a CL on the adds once in a while and just dpsed Ahune. Once he dropped his frost armor stuff he only had like 60% hp left or so, so he died quite easily.

PS: the BL on the pull was clueless, better don't copy that. :D Just figured i'd nuke him down, then i noticed the buff and remembered the fight.

[Nolife]

You don't even need to be lvl 80 to farm this boss. I killed him several times with my lvl 79 shamans and lvl 80 bear. Shamans have terrible gear.

I'll try to upload video asap. Who knows, it might even help someone...

[angeldeelite]

On my 4th (or 5th) attempt i facerolled the shxx out of this guy sooo easy :P Would have been sooner but i was being dumb ;P
Parked my shamans about 10 yards from ware Ahune spawns had my druid start the event then run over to
Shamans as they dropped totems, soon as Ahune was out, quick flame shock and instant lavaburst then popped
fire ele's and nuked Ahune stood my druid just infront of the shamans to pick up adds and used strafe to
avoid the spikes, altho still got thrown once or twice. soon as i spotted the frozen core, lusted and trinketed
And was a very fast kill from there on :)
Besides being thrown once or twice (think just my tank) this was a flawless tactic and didnt even have to heal like crazy
Healing totem (the healers and 1 dps) was sufficiant with the odd riptide here and there.
I think with your set up just place them same as i did then concentrate on moving out of spikes keep your tank hotted and
go nuts on the boss asap with your gs i'd expect you to burn through him no probs aslong as you get out of spikes

[Nolife]

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[Svpernova09]

I'm still using i200-i226 cloaks on my shaman cause I'm a lazy bastard. Luckily I got a cloak to drop the first time. I wiped once because I got thrown into the water -.- My strat was to keep moving and nuking. I feel dumb now for not using magma totems, oh well.

[emps]

real messy but i got it the first try.. i was just really...well..running around the place regrouping more than anything (from being flung up).. so i guess my strat was just to grab all the adds with dps mostly from pally and totems and run around until the core.. during core, just dps'd it down. I missed the first core and just got a few seconds of it. so I had A LOT of adds during the second core. i kept my es and riptide out. had pally tank, destro lock, 2 ele shams, 1 resto sham.. not too bad. need to polish it though. i'm off to do the chain to resummon him.. :(

edit: i guess you don't need any prequest to resummon him..? im able to summon him again after going out and back into the instance.

[TheShox]

emps - You can just queue for Lord Ahune again using the Dungeon Finder and re-summon him again.. no need for quests or chains, etc.

[ghonosyph]

I did this on my 5 pally team pretty easily once i figured out what the heck was going on, used my half dmg bubble on the first big elite add that spawns so i dont get owned by the aura dmg then just run around in circles using seal of wisdom and spamming consecrate and divine storm and follow

its pretty easy, just let the npcs knock down ahune till his "core" comes out then finish off whatever adds with your aoe while you run to the core and dps it down fast, usually takes 2 rounds of phase one to do it :)

[emps]

emps - You can just queue for Lord Ahune again using the Dungeon Finder and re-summon him again.. no need for quests or chains, etc.

thanks! that's what i figured when i already was in darnassus and looked at the queue.. :)

[emps]

really big tip.. least for me i discovered this painfully after wiping several times post my initial successful attempt. kill the Ahunite Hailstone (big elemental) asap. it was killing me on the second phase as I was just running around not paying too much attention to it. didn't know it was the culprit and was hitting me for 3500 a tick.. just an fyi for those that already don't know.

[Ughmahedhurtz]

Surprisingly, I managed to brute force it on my paladins with seal of light and click to move spam.

[edit] For pally or dk+pally groups just starting this or low on gear, here's my strat:
1) DPS seal (i.e.: not seal of light/wisdom) + Wings + kill the hailstone.
2) Switch to SoLight and run in circles around the edge of your consecrates smacking the bad guys as often as possible. Less important to kill than to keep moving to avoid spikes.
3) Switch to SoCorruption and DPS the core when it pops. ignore adds.
4) When core stops, wings and kill hailstone #2.
5) Switch back to SoLight and run in circles again, smacking the nearest ones and dropping aoe when available.
6) When core pops again, continue DPS on core.
7) ???
8) PROFIT!

For higher gearing or after you've done it a couple times, put up SoCommand or some other DPS seal and kill the first hailstone. Then go SoLight for adds. Then back to SoCorruption + wings when the core pops and it'll probably be dead before the second phase 1 starts. GL!

[TheShox]

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Sweet, thanks. I was going to try this method before seeing the video, but after watching, it is definitely the easier way to do it. The first kill I got was walking backward and dropping magma totems and the occasional Nova. There are many ways to screw that method up. Straffing is by far the easiest. Even if you get hit, you can IWT/pick up your guys, bring them back to the center and start the straffing again.

Start out by dropping the elite fast. Most of the time you can have it killed before the first frost patch shows up. As long as the adds are controlled and slowly killed, there isn't much damage. Used FR gear (same that is used in PoS) on the tank just in case and a FR totem.

[Nitro]

On my 4th (or 5th) attempt i facerolled the shxx out of this guy sooo easy :P Would have been sooner but i was being dumb ;P
Parked my shamans about 10 yards from ware Ahune spawns had my druid start the event then run over to
Shamans as they dropped totems, soon as Ahune was out, quick flame shock and instant lavaburst then popped
fire ele's and nuked Ahune stood my druid just infront of the shamans to pick up adds and used strafe to
avoid the spikes, altho still got thrown once or twice. soon as i spotted the frozen core, lusted and trinketed
And was a very fast kill from there on :)
Besides being thrown once or twice (think just my tank) this was a flawless tactic and didnt even have to heal like crazy
Healing totem (the healers and 1 dps) was sufficiant with the odd riptide here and there.
I think with your set up just place them same as i did then concentrate on moving out of spikes keep your tank hotted and
go nuts on the boss asap with your gs i'd expect you to burn through him no probs aslong as you get out of spikes

Thanks, that worked great for me.

[Ughmahedhurtz]

Just a tidbit to remember: if you're a melee team spamming follow/IWT, be careful not to have your DPS runaway and fall into the water. The wind adds will chain yank your tank back up onto high ground so they won't be able to follow you back up the ramp. :P

[EaTCarbS]

I move my guys out of the spike. faceroll every time.

[Sbrowne55]

By far the most annoying boss ever to box. I honestly think they specifically made this a pain for us. After seing this boss, I get the feeling cata is just going to be worse. I really hate this dance dance dance wow game.

The constant flying, and the chain death grip crap, makethis encounter a quick wipe. Anyoone find a easy way let me know, i really hate this game lol. Every encounters gotta be some retarded dance class fight like this one.

[ghonosyph]

Personally I like the challenge. It would bore the shit outta me if all we had to do was stand and mash one button for our loot and the sense of accomplishment wouldn't be there anymore. I mean holy crap how excited I was to get glory of the hero by myself! As a single toon player the wow gods are going to ask us to do much more and as players we have to acknowledge that challenge and overcome it. Look at necha getting kingslayer lol I can't even get 3 of my toons in icc! Lol time for work! Will finish my rant later lol

[Klesh]

Can't speak for melee groups, but for casters + pally tank it's free frost emblems. Frost resistance aura. Split up casters. Kill Hailstone (his aura hurts). Consecrate to gather the small adds. Casters dps Ahune. Run random caster back in range in case a spike pushes him too far away. Profit. Even with a group containing 2 frost mages (no dual spec, so they have to cast slow ass fireballs cause of his stupid immunity) it's pretty easy.

[jinkobi]

By far the most annoying boss ever to box. I honestly think they specifically made this a pain for us. After seing this boss, I get the feeling cata is just going to be worse. I really hate this dance dance dance wow game.

The constant flying, and the chain death grip crap, makethis encounter a quick wipe. Anyoone find a easy way let me know, i really hate this game lol. Every encounters gotta be some retarded dance class fight like this one.


Rofl... We think alike because I was thinking the same thing the entire time... Is this what to expect from Cataclysm? Noticed one of the dungeons to come has a light square puzzle game ala Dragon Age. You know where you have to move onto the correct lit squares or it's a wipe.

The difficulty of this fight seems to have 2 factors. Your group composition and how unlucky you are when you get flung around. Some of my guys were flung so far away- into the water, behind Ahune, or the other side of the elevated land so regrouping is a pain. If you get lucky though you won't get flung too badly. It's all about luck...

I've got much further. Gave up for a while to do the other Midsummer achievements then went back last night and almost got him on the first try then. 50k hp left on him then my healer got flung to China and wiped. Once the servers come up i'm confident I'll get the bastid down today.

Thanks for all the tips they've helped! I was also making some stupid mistakes as well... First one was I didn't know you could damage Ahune UNTIL he went into ice-core form.:eek: So uhh yeah you can imagine...lol. You should see how many adds are in phase 3, lol. The second one is the elites that do the major debuff- I've been letting them just run wild and not taking them down as a priority.

UGH- Just saw that patch 3.5 goes in today :( Hope my addons don't get too blasted...

[ghonosyph]

I'm not sure what advice I can give for a caster team but this: stay toward the left most side and burn adds, cast once strafe right cast strafe cast strafe. When I did it on my pallys this is all I did pretty much just spamming my divine storms and consecrates nuking the big add as fast as possible while strafe1 casting1 the ice circles that knock you back have a 2 second timer when they land and when they spike. You should be able to strafe out of every one without ever gettin knocked around lol. If you can't manage that try running with follow and casting aoes to take out the adds and ONLY stop to nuke the big add and boss shard.

Good luck all you casters :) don't give up!

[Svpernova09]

For the couple of people who are saying Ahune is difficult to box and think Blizzard specifically made him hard to box....


There is nothing new about his mechanics, he works the exact same way he always has. The only thing different is how you get to him (LFD), his level, and the loot he drops.

Cataclysm is going to bring big changes, just like wrath did, just like BC did. People will overcome the changes.

[jinkobi]

For the couple of people who are saying Ahune is difficult to box and think Blizzard specifically made him hard to box....


There is nothing new about his mechanics, he works the exact same way he always has. The only thing different is how you get to him (LFD), his level, and the loot he drops.

Cataclysm is going to bring big changes, just like wrath did, just like BC did. People will overcome the changes.

Well that's good to know. Yeah this is my first year to even be around in July- had to pull some strings to be here for the midsummer event lol. Just the way things have been going Blizz does seem to be straying from the tank n spank model. Wasn't sure if Ahune was the same as before- good to know.

If you notice when you zone in to the fight before the ice structures around Ahune spawn. They are actually covering those little lamp things which would have been great to nullify the flinging thing. Looks like they were thinking ahead.

Even if every dungeon boss turned out to be like the new ICC's- like you said we've conquered those battles. I'm buying Cataclysm the first day you know it! Trying to reserve all my negativity until i've actually played the expansion, lol.

[Andreauk]

Maybe wear some of the frost resist gear? may try that as it works good for Garfrost..

[emps]

Maybe wear some of the frost resist gear? may try that as it works good for Garfrost..

as long as you kill the hailstones that spawns once prior to ahune surfacing you should be clear of any damaging auras. when killing them, you need to have your guys away from the tank so they don't tick dmg, unless you have an all-melee team. the goal is to kill the hailstones as fast as possible then its your call whether to strafe or run around. When running around, DO NOT run within the frosted ground around Ahune - painful. maintain distance. i've done both but there's more management on strafing than running around - and i'm lazy.. :D either way, should be a win.

my magma and nova are on castsequence macro keybound to same as consecrate on my pally and rejuv/wildgrowth on druid. run with mouse w/ follow strobe on and one key spammed while waiting for the core.

[Toned]

Should only have to do phase 1 once...

Got lucky and my g/f who is a pet whore got the ice chip out of her bag on the first kill /yay done with this event for the year.

[jinkobi]

I have been foaming at the mouth all day to try it again and the servers are still down... Bet all my addons got knocked out too- lol. So guess I'll be spending tonight updating addons if the servers make it up.

Frost gear won't help me much. My team is pretty durable and has quite a bit of survivability and I've conquered POS, FoS, etc.. With the help from you guys I believe I've identified my problems to finallly pul it off.

[Sbrowne55]

Well I figured out a simple way of doing, that works for me.

Burned down the large add, and gathered all the little ones while doing no dps and dodging that godforsaken bounceback thing, then I just waited till be burrowed and left adds up and burned him down in 30 seconds. The adds disapear after lol. He doesnt do any bounceback when hes defending from the firetotem guys.

[jinkobi]

WOOOOOOOOOOOOHOOOOOOOO!! Finally pulled it off!

3rd time was the charm today... Like Ick and Krick I just took my time and tried to keep as much control as possible and allow my Starfall's and Treants to come off CD. The double SF+Treants helped tremendously!

That's what I love about multiboxing. If you just keep trying an encounter you will eventually conquer it and get a bit better each time. So pretty happy now that I got this done for my team :D

Oh and anyone else getting more lag after the patch? Had a few addon casualties- my Carbonite is working but erroring had to disable it- my favorite!

[emps]

Should only have to do phase 1 once...


With my method and 3 new scrub 80s in my team, unfortunately sometimes it takes me 2 cores to finish ahune. :(

[BrothelMeister]

wait, what do you mean farm? This is a once a day deal right??

[modhackmaster]

You can do it more than once a day, and kind of like "Random", but you don't get extra token from doing it more than once tho.

[Dorffo]

as others have posted, if you've got mostly ranged - it's a very easy fight. Kill the first add, strafe out of spikes and burn... basically looks like nuke nuke, strafe, nuke nuke, strafe, nuke nuke, strafe etc. collect loots

[Ughmahedhurtz]

wait, what do you mean farm? This is a once a day deal right??

Once a day for the bag with two frost badges and a possible Scythe drop. You can still farm him for snowballs (lol) or i232 cloaks. The snowballs show up when you get hit by the spike/slap thingy. He drops one cloak per run. Took me about 19 runs to get the 5 cloak upgrades on my paladins.

[ghonosyph]

i've found that the cloak, while nice for what it is, was just a downgrade to the wrathful glad cloak, lol and the wrathful cloak was much easier to get imo :) less farming after all lol

[Sbrowne55]

Absolute nightmare on my war tank team. Pally just cleans this place up np.

[BrothelMeister]

Idk, I had a seperate player tank it for my shamans, he seemed about as hard as the boss that knocks u in the air in the Nexus. Just have to move off the spikes, and keep dpsing. 1 try.

[crowdx]

So I did this on the 3rd try last night, the successful try I just stuck everyone on follow and had them stay with my tank, team was bear, 3 shammies and Disc priest, all about 5kGS so that made it a little easier. First try got him to 25% and wiped, second try was wiped VERY fast no idea why.
A note on the front page video, what resolution is being used for the game? I use 1920 X 1600 on a 25" screen and cannot get the camaera view as far back from my guys as this video shows? Is it running a higher res?
Overall this fight is a fast 2 Frost Badges, cloaks might be cool for my hunters, total downgrade for the team last night though :(

[jimbobobb]

This fight is really nothing new. Pick up some adds, avoid an aoe with a very generous warning (if you don't have strafe and individual movement keys for your group, you should), and nuke a boss. I could see how melee teams might have to throw out a few new tricks, but for holy trinity caster groups it is fairly straightforward. Honestly it's just Anub, but with ice =P

[Multibocks]

My melée team has the easiest time with this, turn on jamba follow strobe and run around like a retard until the core shows up. I then pop all cooldowns and kill him right as he retreats. My warrior, Mage, lock, shaman, priest team takes two retreats and the tank comes very close to death at the end due to sheer amount of adds on him and the inability of my priests instant heals to keep up with incoming damage. Thanks to this thread I haven't wiped yet!

[jinkobi]

Now that I got the hang of it I'm downing him every day now :) No scythe or pet though on any of my toons. that's like 15 bags lol.

Really nice the extra Frost badges!

Pretty much the best strategy for me is try and avoid as many spikes as possible- even if you miss a few they won't get too far. It's the continual spiking that starts to get your slaves way off. Popping cooldowns at the right time is also a big plus.

Been bored so I spent an hour or so looking for places to get hung up near Ahune. There's one little structure near the ice stone - if you have a smaller toon they have a roof. Too bad my moonkins are too fat :P

[ghonosyph]

To scroll back farther used this command

/console cameraDistanceMaxFactor 5. 4 or 3 will work too but 5 is the farthest that I know of

Good luck!

[crowdx]

To scroll back farther used this command

/console cameraDistanceMaxFactor 5. 4 or 3 will work too but 5 is the farthest that I know of

Good luck!

That worked perfect, thanks for the info :)

[Ughmahedhurtz]

Now that I got the hang of it I'm downing him every day now :) No scythe or pet though on any of my toons. that's like 15 bags lol.Got one scythe on a paladin but that's it so far.

[jinkobi]

It's funny how hard I first thought this fight was and now I 1 shot it every day now :)

Same thing up to like 25 bags now and got 1 Scythe on my paladin :( At least my main got the pet/enchant formula. Just was really hoping to have all my druids with Scythe's because it'd look awesome.

[Malekyth]

Sorry, I'm missing something -- people are nuking the boss while he's up, or waiting 'til he submerges?

[Ughmahedhurtz]

Sorry, I'm missing something -- people are nuking the boss while he's up, or waiting 'til he submerges?

While that's possible, it takes forEVER with teh 75% damage debuff and spikes flinging you all over the place.

[Malekyth]

While that's possible, it takes forEVER with teh 75% damage debuff and spikes flinging you all over the place.

Thought so. I might've misunderstood some other posts.

I've killed him once with warlocks and pally, running around in a pack and DoTting the adds, then firing off triple SoC after every few spikes. My newer warrior/mage/shaman group needs the drops more, but has a lot of trouble with no pally AOE and lower damage overall. I'm going to try throwing the mages and shaman in with the pally tonight and stack frost resistance spells/gear, and see if I can get through it.

[jinkobi]

Yeah was probably my post that confused you as I was learning the fight. I do throw a little DPS Ahune's way though just to shave a little off. If you blow your cooldowns you should be able to get him down in 2 phases.

The main thing is the big elemental guys that spawn the beginning of every phase. Once they are down you can take your time until the core appears- then it's throw as much DPS on the core as you can. Then get out of there before he emerges.

My team is all casters+pally tank and I just keep them on follow now.too. If they get spiked I spam follow and in phase 2 the little tornados are actually helpful because they can pull in any stray slaves.