The Nexus: The Nexus

Forgot to fraps Ormorok the first two times I did it and when I finally did, the fight was pretty messy, so don't let my mess-up on Ormorok distract you from the fact that he's a pretty easy boss (who can be mined, yay):

http://www.wegame.com/watch/The_Nexus_The_Nexus/

The Keristrasza fight is a lot of fun - best encounter in the instance IMO. I love the freeze-mechanics although I'm a bit worried that encounters so far seem somewhat movement based - I always hated the "disc-of-pain"-type encounters (like that shadow-thing in arcatraz) where you have to move away from a certain area with just one char.

Anyway the tactics in here are pretty simple - other than the mage-boss where I try to keep heals up as much as possible. The chains part of the fight is pretty annoying because it screws up all positioning, but I discovered that after one of the fights my druid was just sort of standing at the start spot (out of moonkin form - I always forget to shapeshift after GotW grr), and my druid is always the one furthest to the back, so I'm wondering if the chains can be outranged or if the chains simply chucked him there by chance. Anyway, fun instance but not too great for xp-grinding.

Hmm, seems theres a problem with the video, i'll try and re-upload

Edit: Fixed

Lol ... your DPS must be insane, you get her to what ... 30%? in the first few seconds. I barely get her to 80% then she starts whirling around my whole group and the shit begins. :/
Mixed setup seems to be more complicated than useful .. once again. :)

Well, my dps is pretty far from insane tbh, given the same level of gear your group setup should actually yield a better dps. Also, my gear isn't really anything special (half blues, half purples), although they're enchanted to the teeth :-) My castsequence is simply a /castrandom lightning bolt, chain lightning, chain lightning, chain lightning on my shammies and for the druid I have a trash mob macro (/castsequence wrath, starfire) and a boss macro (where I time in insect swarm and moonfire) - i rarely even bother with fairy fire although I guess I should for efficiency :-)

What I do is simply pop a heroism + trinkets at the beginning and go to town. Note that it's pretty random when she starts whirling people around, sometimes she'll do it at 60-70% to me as well.In that case I do one of the following: a) if the positioning is right (how she drops you is random) I chain heal, back off and restart DPS b) if the positioning is screwed up, I hit my follow button immediately followed by a movement command so that they face my tank, then I hit the back up button moving out of immediate AE range and chain heal (whatever group heal should work fine) and back to DPS.

Well I guess the problem is my warlock (affliction) which is hard to box with a castsequence macro really effiiciently and then there is my priest healer with his 6500 health (or something) buffed - whirling around will take him to 60% - the ice block AE will take him to almost dead and then the whole thing starts again - I came once to the phase where she splits up. I'll try it again as soon as my gear is better.

Still thinking about swapping the roles, going from my elemental shaman to resto shaman and my holy priest to shadow priest ... maybe :)

Tried again with different specs (mage -> deep arcane => deep fire // warlock -> deep affliction => deep destruction) and got all bosses down in the first try except for the last one - I couldn't kill him (9 tries). :/
The problem here is as soon as one of my toons get trapped in this ice-thing it goes down, I got to heal one of my toons or he will die - in that time I can't cast group heal (sometimes my group is at 95% and this toon nearly dead) and in that time my tank get's smacked in the face ... I guess multiple grounding totems are beautiful. :)

Anyway - thanks for the vid, it was a great help and your interface was also an inspiration.

Xorn

Thank you for the kind words :-)

You have a pally as your tank right?

Download Clique, Bind middle mouse to Cleanse. Watch for the ice chains and then cleanse it. Then just remember to jump :)