DK teams!

Very nice! I dont do HoL, that third boss annoys the hell outta me. I did Nexus yesterday as it was the daily and surprisingly I didnt wipe! I remember the last boss being a lot harder in a PuG, but I beat it down easily. Oh, however I did duo that whirlwind jerk (bonus boss) from 30% with my druid as he killed my slaves real quick. It seems there is a bug in his whirlwind though, if you tank him standing on top of the divider between the hallway and the ice area where he spawns, sometimes it will not hit even though he does the animation. (No I didnt dodge it, etc... sorry for the run-on sentence!)

Yeah, that is the one thorn in my side, I hate that boss ever so much. It's a fluke everytime I down him. One time I can have this perfect run on him, and then he gets this crazy ass combo and throws that dot on me that has a push back on it, well, it goes off and throws me right into his little static bawls thing and it kills me (not so much on normal now, but on Heroic, it's pretty bad), some times I live with the force field thing, other times I just used it and Rune tap so I have no way of surviving for the next 30 seconds.

I treat him like the first time with a girl (you have an idea where what is supposed to go where, but it dosen't always seem to go as planned ?(, and with the lights off, you better hope she's understanding 8| ) lol...

That is honestly the hardest boss I have ever faced. I know without any resilience gear, aoe bosses are so hard to do. But any boss that melee beats the piss out of you, I can find out ways to down them quicker than a caster.

Grats man!

- Souca -

Thanks Souca!, now I need to run off and attempt some other places. I assumed that with going backwards in the Heroic dungeons (hardest, or atleast, the hardest 5man) I should be fine in the other dungeons like UK and Nexus. But the second I get all my toons in the 23000+ HP range and with 540 defense, it's open game for me to do whatever, lol.

So after reading your post this morning I took a character to the auction house to pick up the cobalt stuff. It was around 20g each on my server, but sadly I cuoldn't get the entire set or even pieces for all 5. Looks like I might have to contact a BS through trade to get some stuff made. I managed to get 3 boots, 2 chest, 2 shoulders and a helm from the AH. This is why I wanted my own BS ;)

- Souca -

if you guys were on my server I would help ya out, lol. I just spent 5k on leveling JC on all my slaves =(

hehe, the gear will help a lot... What spec are you running?

me?


also, the last 10 points from 290-300 on JC can be as much as 100g per point. Im dead serious. Stupid, just stupid.

Erm, Souca :)

Haven't decided yet. Gonna play around and see what I can get with enough Blood to self sustain. Likely something blood/unholy. Got distracted on the tournament real playing 2s tonight and saw The Watchmen, so no time for DKs.

- Souca -

A little more hope :)

Used Army on this one, had too, lol. I did lose some people on it.
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EASY...
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PAIN IN THE ASS... Died first attempt (got him down to 20% before I died. (used army to get him the second time.)
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Lost 3 people on this fight, for whatever reason it kept screwing up and keeping me in skelly form, or it let me use my normal attacks while in skelly, then he would do his little transform thing and I would get stuck and his poison cloud would kill me because he would not stop with the channel, was kind of off.
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With the last boss of Gundrak do not hit ability buttons during a transition. It seems DKs are especially vulnerable to this as when you do sometimes during skelly mode you will stay in DK form and then you get no lifetap button and your abilities are all wacked out. Basically you will most likely die before you get back to DK form for a group runetap. It's so annoying, but I just wait until my skeleton bar comes up fully before I touch any keys and this seems to help bugging the whole thing. (Also make sure to do the same thing when you transition back.) I dont have problems with weird deaths when I do this.

edit: I mean Draktheron, not Gundrak. Doh.

Well I managed to get some pieces of the cobalt gear off the AH, but only enough for one character. Started playing with trash in UK last night and got to Prince without a death. Died on Prince and it was getting late so I decided to crash. I'll need to get the rest of the cobalt set, but mostly I need to work on the macros and just put some time in on the bosses.

I'll try and write more later, but work is just insane lately.

- Souca -

Another note for you on the bosses you did: Using army of undead on Trollgore is asking to wipe. You will get lucky, sure, but he has an ability that makes him hit harder the more stuff that is in LoS of him. So Army of Undead, blood worms, and your pets will make him hit a % harder. When I finish him off, with just pets and worms, he has a 15 stack of consume going. I can't remember how hard it makes him hit, but it is definitely noticeable. I imagine Army makes him a bloody beast.
With the last boss of Drak, dont use Army on this guy either. It will just mess up the rotation from undead -> live and they all die in the first pool of goo anyways. Really its hard to wipe on him if you use the strat I posted earlier. When undead hit #4 button (lifetap), when you go live, runetap and beat him down. Repeat and loot! :D

edit: Oh btw I just skip the Trex boss. He is the ULTIMATE random boss. You can be fine and then suddenly he uses two of his abilities in a row and your "tank" is dead. I hate this guy.

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Another note for you on the bosses you did: Using army of undead on Trollgore is asking to wipe. You will get lucky, sure, but he has an ability that makes him hit harder the more stuff that is in LoS of him. So Army of Undead, blood worms, and your pets will make him hit a % harder. When I finish him off, with just pets and worms, he has a 15 stack of consume going. I can't remember how hard it makes him hit, but it is definitely noticeable. I imagine Army makes him a bloody beast.
With the last boss of Drak, dont use Army on this guy either. It will just mess up the rotation from undead -> live and they all die in the first pool of goo anyways. Really its hard to wipe on him if you use the strat I posted earlier. When undead hit #4 button (lifetap), when you go live, runetap and beat him down. Repeat and loot! :D

edit: Oh btw I just skip the Trex boss. He is the ULTIMATE random boss. You can be fine and then suddenly he uses two of his abilities in a row and your "tank" is dead. I hate this guy.

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Yeah, I did remember you saying a little while ago about having a hard time with him because of the worms and such.
I've done him once without Army of Undead and I got him pretty low before I die.

Second attempt used AoD and I got him to 30% before all my pets were dead, then I just popped IBF,Vamp then in 10 seconds pop Lichborne and he was dead while I was all still alive and full health.
After that, the next 3 clears of that Dungeon I did it and have not died yet.

Even on Trexx, I did him without Army and I got him in the 20%'s before I died again.
Used AoD and I'vedropped him every time since.

Last boss I don't have because of using it on Trexx, but I still get that bug a lot. Lol.

But then again, with my current gear, I won't need AoD for him anymore, the second boss is a cake walk, AoD on Trexx because of his fear/wtfcrit, and the last boss is all about not bugging yourself.

yeah the fear wtf/crit, lol. I swear hes fine until about 20% and it's like he goes crazy on you. I even run undead DKs so I can negate one fear. I just gave up on him because it was so frustrating to get him low and die consistently. I didnt think of popping AoD on him though!

I really dislike the TRex boss. When I was running Nax 10 and some 25 regularly on my resto druid, I'd watch off tanks that stood up to Patchwerk get gibbed by that boss. He does a fear and by the time I get turned around and am starting to cast the tank would be dead. There are so many line of sight issues in that area too that the AOE fears is just wrong. It's likely easier to DK box since you self heal and if you live through the fear you don't have to worry about LoS.

As for my gals, they are all at least 275 mining and one is 300+. The blacksmith is around 390 and was able to make all the cobalt gear for them. I was having a hell of a time getting it off the AH, so I just blew a ton of gold and leveled BS. I'll need to make other gear evetually, so its worth it. As for the mining, having 5 Titansteel cooldowns will be handy when I start crafting the maces and epic pieces.

Arean tourny has been eating most of my time, so I haven't done much more than the mining and BS leveling. Hoping to get some time in on UK/Nexus this weekend. Even though I out level them a bit at 74, I am going to make myself do them for practice and to get my macros sorted out. I might even go back and do Steamvaults as well for the rep. After Nexus/UK, where should I head next and is there a level I want to be before I move on?

- Souca -