He's beatable on normal because the clones hit for like 1-200, so you can just heal your way out of it (self heal works if all your slaves can heal). Then just take a high dps char and start blasting while hitting your self-heal macro once in a while. On heroic, I think you'll need to severely outgear the instance before it's doable without the LOS "exploit".
Thanks for the responses.
My group is now 77-76 so I'm sure this will be much easier. I'll try the strategy where those that can heal will heal themselves and my mage will nuke folks.
question, since I have only done this on heroic and in a PUG. Do people that die in insanity stay dead? Or do they "die" only if your groups wipes? Reason I ask is that I could just keep my tank or healer alive until the event is over (it seems to last 3 mins). I was tanking and couldnt kill my clones on heroic mode as they simply would heal (so annoying to beat something down and watch it heal to full.) However I was pulled out of insanity after a few minutes of dealing with this, it seemed to me that my group had a few die during insanity but were back up once it ended. Was I imagining things?
People dying during insanity stay dead, but more important people dying before insanity wont be cloned. And insanity phase goes for a max of 3 minutes or so.
I posted that in another thread: do the insanity phase only with 1 tank 1 healer and 1 DD who got CC (Hex eg). Stay alive with healer and tank. DD CCs healer and kills tank and then the healer. After that the DD helps out with another party member.
My tactic with pala tank and 3 ele + 1 resto shaman:
Immediately after getting insanity I thunderstorm. Then I try, (/target macro) to kill my resto shaman. After that I just /targetnextenemy and nuke away.
It helps a lot if one can see all screens at once, so rotating a toon to face his target is not that much of a problem.
It's much faster than just killing clones on one char and self healing the others in the meantime. On normal the clones don't do much damage anyway.
And getting out of insanity faster made it much easier for me.
As a side note, since I sometimes lost a toon due to that, grid is broken and will display health values of clones sometimes instead of the real players :(
kind regards
Hey, I run a 5-man team, pala-tank, 2xbalancedruid, priest-healer and mage setup on one computer with one screen, and the above definitely works on normal. Tried it just after reading your post and that was instant success in first try :) .Quote:
Originally Posted by 'Ellette',index.php?page=Thread&postID=157812#post 157812
Haven't tried on heroic but have some thoughts, I think the best strategy for insanity phase would be this:
1. create specific targeting macros for each slave, that makes sure to target the healer or dps class first, i would go for my priest to begin with and then the mage. Also again have one button to selfheal those that can.
2. arrange each wow window so that all slaves are visible if you need to turn a slave to face target.
3. Again use your best dps class as main and fire away.
4. The pala should just defend and hold out and occassionally heal him/herself.
Mages evocation and mana gem would be crucial, as would druids innervate and priests shadowfiend and palas Divine Plea(should try to position the pala against his own clone-enemy so that Divine Plea keeps refreshing. Maybe setting a macro for /tar mage /cast Hammer of Justice, since Hammer of Justice is a 5 sec stun to mage each 20 sec CD? Of course mana pots would also be good idea.
A bigger concern is my priesthealer, maybe he should just try and heal through?
Hope above is helpful for someone :)
This is one of those fights where you will likely want a specific macro for each toon to last through this phase. And yes, it helps to try to turn your alts slightly so that all clones should be somewhere in front of them, if necessary (mage and priest don't really need this).
Going into the fight, you may find it helps to keep everyone close. The reason I say that is if you have a mage, then cast Arcane Explosion about 6 times to kill most of them (healers may just heal themselves to survive). Priest can use Holy Nova to not only kill the clones, but heal himself at the same time. Shaman can target nearest enemy and chain lightning/lightning bolt. And so on for each class. You only want to use this enough such that most of the clones should get killed, but not run your toon out of mana in the process. If you're lucky, the healer clones may be too slow to heal and you find that your alt ended up clearing out their own clones.
While you are mashing that button, you can control the tank to tear down his own targets. While each alt may not be able to tear down all their clones this way, it will at least leave them in great shape for surviving long enough for the tank to clean his way through each of your alt's clones and pick up more help along the way.
I have not attempted this encounter yet, but its next on my list of things to do. I have a paladin and 4 balance druids as my team. Given the horror stories here, Im thinking at least with my setup that on the first phase. All 4 druids pop a regen/lifebloom followed by a starfall. That should kill them all and pop a regen/lifebloom and treants on the second insanity phase (unless starfalls is off CD). Not to worried about the paladin.