Mac
07-03-2008, 07:33 PM
I know this is lowbie stuff, and I'm now 36 and will soon be out leveled this, but this one was troublesome for me and want to learn how to improve for later.
Its been a LONG time since I ran SM as a group at that level, I had gone in there with my 70 and killed him easy so I have basically forgot all his skills.
I saw that I was in range of Herod on the platform at the top of the stairs, just inside the door. So I decided to drop my 5 shaman totems there and pew pew. I got off a couple LB and Flameshockx5 before he ran up the stairs and got to my group, he whirlwinded and I couldn't heal out of it fast enough or react fast enough to get out of the way so I wiped. Reincarnated, and set up again.
This time, I figured when he whirlwinded I would jump down and reset totems on the floor level. This is where a common problem comes up that I don't know how to resolve. Did the same thing again, this time when he started to WW, I hit follow key and jumped down. Two of the toons remaned and took damage while I smashed the follow key to get them down to the group, but they died before I could get them to come down. For some reason, when the toons are in combat, I have a hell of a time getting them to drop combat and follow the main toon, they just stand there auto swinging on melee. I need to find a way to fix that or I won't be able to kite if I have to.
I got him Herod down, but lost the main toon when the ads showed up, I was oom and the inital blast from the fire nova totems wasnt enough to kill them so they ended up wiping us again. This is where the second problem comes in.
I assume I'm not doing something right in my macros, im at work so I can't put them here yet, ill edit later. But, I can press the button for LB and they will all start to cast, but for CL, if its a new target, when I press the modifier, they just stand there and don't go into combat, I have to press LB and have them cast that first, then they realize they are in combat and can cast CL.. Problem was, I wanted to cast CL to see if I could take down a bunch of the adds with it, but in order to do that I would have to cast CL first, when i casted CL, they would die before I could get off CL, so I was having to one shot them, which wasn't very efficent and I died.
The bitch was, I went down before I could loot him, and I was downstairs with all those adds lined up around the dead boss, I coudln't reincarnate because I would agro them, so I released to run back. Yep, you guessed it, the whole freakin instance had respawned. By the time I fought ALL the way back, the boss and the adds had despawned :(
Any suggestions on how do deal with those issues?
Its been a LONG time since I ran SM as a group at that level, I had gone in there with my 70 and killed him easy so I have basically forgot all his skills.
I saw that I was in range of Herod on the platform at the top of the stairs, just inside the door. So I decided to drop my 5 shaman totems there and pew pew. I got off a couple LB and Flameshockx5 before he ran up the stairs and got to my group, he whirlwinded and I couldn't heal out of it fast enough or react fast enough to get out of the way so I wiped. Reincarnated, and set up again.
This time, I figured when he whirlwinded I would jump down and reset totems on the floor level. This is where a common problem comes up that I don't know how to resolve. Did the same thing again, this time when he started to WW, I hit follow key and jumped down. Two of the toons remaned and took damage while I smashed the follow key to get them down to the group, but they died before I could get them to come down. For some reason, when the toons are in combat, I have a hell of a time getting them to drop combat and follow the main toon, they just stand there auto swinging on melee. I need to find a way to fix that or I won't be able to kite if I have to.
I got him Herod down, but lost the main toon when the ads showed up, I was oom and the inital blast from the fire nova totems wasnt enough to kill them so they ended up wiping us again. This is where the second problem comes in.
I assume I'm not doing something right in my macros, im at work so I can't put them here yet, ill edit later. But, I can press the button for LB and they will all start to cast, but for CL, if its a new target, when I press the modifier, they just stand there and don't go into combat, I have to press LB and have them cast that first, then they realize they are in combat and can cast CL.. Problem was, I wanted to cast CL to see if I could take down a bunch of the adds with it, but in order to do that I would have to cast CL first, when i casted CL, they would die before I could get off CL, so I was having to one shot them, which wasn't very efficent and I died.
The bitch was, I went down before I could loot him, and I was downstairs with all those adds lined up around the dead boss, I coudln't reincarnate because I would agro them, so I released to run back. Yep, you guessed it, the whole freakin instance had respawned. By the time I fought ALL the way back, the boss and the adds had despawned :(
Any suggestions on how do deal with those issues?