How do you guys handle the Tribunal on Heroic?

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03-21-2009, 01:41 AM
Hachoo

How do you guys handle the Tribunal on Heroic?

Went into HoS today trying to make a video (only HoS and Oculus to go...)

Anyway, Nailed Krystallus and Maiden like a hot knife through butter... the tribunal is giving me some issues. Honestly my biggest issue isn't wiping, its keeping Brann alive.

Seems like even when I think he isn't being attacked, he is. I did the event about 6 times tonight and honestly two of the times no one on my team even died - it got to the point where about 10 mobs were in the room and next thing I know Brann is dead. The issue seems to stem from the fact that by the time we get to that phase, I have to move around a lot with my guys on follow to avoid the huge beams. Would it be better to just spread my guys out and leave them stationary? Is it possible to survive a blast by the super thick beam with healing stream totems? Its hard to tell whether it would completely kill one of my guys. If I could keep my team still I could focus on picking up the adds better.

Anyway, tips on this would be appreciated - I've found that 4x earth elementals gives a little bit of reprieve when things get bad, but they only last about 10 seconds if that.
03-21-2009, 03:01 AM
Gares

I stole this from another post that Alemi posted but here is what he did:

Ok, first of all - sorry for the triple post. I should have put all my replies in one, but I'm posting from the airport and keep loosing the dang WiFi.

Bronzebeard - I guess I need to say, this only works for heavy AOE multiboxing teams. I tried MULTIPLE strategies, spreading them out on the east and west walls, lining up in the middle so I could move them forward on dark matters/searing gazes. None of this worked for me, it ACTUALLY made it more difficult - for me at least.

What I do now, is at the bottom of the stairs do my normal totem drops (4x Healing Streams instead of my standard 4x Mana Springs, and Fire Resistance Totem for the Searing Gazes), and start the event. During Phase 1 it's just 3 melee dwarves. Make sure your tank is in front and they'll always charge the tank. I keep a Death and Decay down (Concecrate works well, Druid tanks can swipe or mangle or Demo Roar, Warriors can Thunderclap etc.) and just tank them. I stopped using chain lightnings during phase 1 to help with mana and just keep 4x magma totems down and let them slowly but surely eat through each wave, and do the occasional Tstorm. During Phase 2, the stormcallers are your biggest threat, the melee dwarves are just an annoyance. Keep your aoe aggro ability down and make sure you refresh magmas constantly and I keep groundings down to help with the damage. I only use single target damage (LB and LvB) on the stormcallers to maintain mana. Heal when needed obviously.

This part is key - keep an eye on the right head in the room, when you ee the shadow beams come out, move down the stairs towards the middle of the room with everyone on follow. Drag any mobs you have with you. Wait for the Dark Matter ball to spawn and start flying at you and then move back up to the middel of the stairs and continue the aoe/etc. DO NOT LET DARK MATTER HIT YOU DURING PHASE 2. You take 100% damage and the movement debuff is awful. Phase 2 continues, keep killing the casters and let the magmas take care of the melees.

Phase 3 - Is chaos. You have to constantly keep moving. At this point, I don't even worry about killing shit. I drop my Death and Decay, groundings, and magmas. When the waves really start I'll alternate between stoneclaws and earthbinds (stoneclaws are awesome here) - If you have any stun abilities they're very useful for this phase - i.e. Fire Nova Stun, Dragon's Breaths, etc. Golem Custodians have an AOE stun that is particularly bad if a searing gaze (fire lazers) hit. My basic goal is to just survive this phase. I'll bloodlust/em and burn down the first custudian, beyond that it's just a race to stay alive. Keepp moving in a little circle from the stairs to the front of each of the right and left heads just kiting the mobs. It's important not to get too close to Bronzebeard or he'll eat damage from the dark matters/searing gazes and that'll mess up the achievement and likely kill him. If you get caught in a dark matter the damage debuff pretty much makes it so a searing gaze will kill you before you can move. I only heal when a searing gaze is pounding a section of the floor (so I know it won't come down on the shamans while i'm chain healing everyone). As I'm doing my little kite, I try to keep the custodians rooted so they can't stun me.
03-21-2009, 11:50 AM
Hachoo

Hmm that helps some - I forgot about stoneclaws and fire nova stun (I have it on guy but have never used it lol) - will also put earthbinds on round robin and try this again today maybe. At least since I already got video of maiden/krystallus I can go straight to the Tribunal without having to redo those bosses.
03-21-2009, 04:34 PM
Hachoo

Managed to complete this today on video... will be making the HoS video today and uploading it... now the question is where I want to even set up the macros to try oculus or not.
03-21-2009, 05:29 PM
Alemi

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Originally Posted by 'Hachoo',index.php?page=Thread&postID=188184#post1 88184

Managed to complete this today on video... will be making the HoS video today and uploading it... now the question is where I want to even set up the macros to try oculus or not.

Occulus macros are ez - and I'm happy my HoS strategies helped, as Bronzebeard was 10x harder than occulus.

I've begun running my guildmates through Occulus since, on my server, no one runs it because most of the horde there are special (read short bus special).

When I was getting my last Glory of the Hero I was running 1 amber, 2 ruby, 2 emerald because you pretty much need a time stop to get through the azure drakes when you're killing the constructs in time, but if you just want to complete the instance... take 3 emerald, 2 ruby. It's ridiculously easy. I posted my macro setup in the stickied thread and when I run people through I just have them play tank ruby with my ruby only focusing on whelps.

Keep up a Touch the Nightmare, Evasive when the tank drake gets low, heal and keep up leeching poison and it takes about 5 minutes, but it's pretty stupidly easy and you get your amber drake achievement. I just added the drake abilities to my 1-4 keys and haven't taken them out so I don't have to worry about adjusting them when I want to go to occulus.

i.e. Chain heal is on my 1 key so now it reads

/assist [target=Shaggirr, nodead, exists] [target=Shaggir, nodead, exists] etc.
/cast Leeching Poison
/cast [target=player] Chain Heal

Just make sure you put the drake ability first and you won't have to worry about setting up and turn that bar to "Show when possessing."