I am ready for ten boxing raids but I am taking a break from the game for a few weeks.
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I am ready for ten boxing raids but I am taking a break from the game for a few weeks.
Update: Currently have Archavon, Noth, Heigan, and Loatheb down.
Awesome! Gratz! Can you please share Heigan and Loatheb starts on the other post? Thanks a lot!Quote:
Originally Posted by 'Bigfish',index.php?page=Thread&postID=185662#post 185662
Heigan is tricky. I had a disease cleansing totem dropped for one party, and the other I had my priest focusing on casting Renew, PW: Shield, Circle of Healing and Cure Disease for the 5 not covered by the totem. My druid kept hots up.
I kept everyone on the platform for phase one. My caster DPS took a hit, but it saved on the confusion of managing two independant groups, and my Melee DPS didn't notice at all. When Phase two starts, I would run my lead out to the first safe spot with everyone on follow, and used strafe keybinds to keep everyone moving. Took some getting used to, but not too bad once you get the movement down. If you can get everyone through Phase 1 and Phase 2, its just a wash, rinse, repeat. I even managed to get The Safety Dance.
Loatheb isn't nearly as tricky, although will still be bad if you don't do it right. I've found it best to run my tank away from the group and try to avoid getting him the spore "buff" until about a minute in to the fight, at which point I find it shouldn't really matter. I kept PW: Shield up on my tank at all times, and when there were 2 seconds left on Necrotic Aura, I'd cast Wildgrowth and start a Healing Touch on my druid, and start casting Prayer of healing on my priest, and follow with a Circle of Healing and a Holy Nova on my priest. This kept everyone topped off until near the end of the fight. Once Healing and Threat Building are figured out, its just a DPS race to kill him before damage becomes unmanagable.
Going to try Spider Wing tonight. Not sure how I'm going to handle any of these fights, but should be interesting.
i dont box, anymore but im sure you can handel sartharion easy, all you have to do is awoid walls on 9 of your toons it dosent matter if your tank eats the walls, iv 4 manned the instance, so if you bring your 10 toons im sure you can handel him
I tried Sartharian instead of spider wing last night. Got 2 drakes down, but the one that goes immune caused a few problem. I think it's doable, its just a matter of positioning and control.
ah ye i totaly forgot about shadron, he might make give you a ghard time since you must enter the portal there
Arachnid wing down. Will post strategies tomorrow.
I have to say, the difficulty of bosses in some of the wings seems kind of out of whack. Spider wing goes Hard, Easy, Easy, while the plague wing goes Easy, Hard, Easy. Seems kind of weird. Just an observation on my part though.
Anub'Rehkan
The two difficult aspects of this fight are the Crypt Guards and Locust Swarm. I set up my off-tank as the main assist. I positioned my group at the edge of the arena, and pulled the boss tot he green circle in the center, just in range of the casters. With the boss in position, I run my melee up, and we DPS the boss until a crypt guard spawns. The off tank picks it up and all DPS switches to it until it is dead. DPS switch back to the boss. At around 160k left on the boss, the melee pull back to where the casters are in preparation for the incoming locust swarm. When the swarm hits, I spam the Main Tank with heals, while the off tank picks up the simultaneously spawned crypt guard, and the DPS kill it. Locust Swarm has worn off by about the time the guard dies, at which point the fight becomes a rinse and repeat affair.
Grand Widow Faerlina
This fight is a fairly simple tank and spank. She does minimal damage out of enrage, and she and her 4 adds can all be tanked together. A poison cleansing totem helps. When I fought her, her adds died more or less at nice intervals from AOE damage, although the last two died at the same time and she got a few seconds of enrage off just before she died.
Maexna
Another simple fight. Poison cleansing totem on the tank saves a lot of trouble. When someone get's wrapped, I would use a line of "/petattack [target=web wrap]" and just enter-alt up-enter to get the pets to kill it. It wasn't perfect, but with only a little over 2-million HP, the fight doesn't last long regardless. Remember to AOE the spiderlings.
Update: Apparently Maexxna didn't like my strategy. Turns out , Army of the dead REALLY helps out with this encounter, as the zombies help keep your actualy raid members from getting glued to the wall. Also, Ret Aura and Thorns really help during this fight.