Wotlk - Ulduar - Halls of Lightning (HoL) - Ionar and Loken strat

[Marious]

Dang my shaman gear is not half bad and I still get beat up by Ionar I hate that boss. With that said its my own fault I tend to want to heal with only my priest, and then I have them spread out to far for that to be effective when you have to disperse.

[Niley]

You must have some nice gear! My DPS chars are usually at around 4-4.5k dps and he usually starts casting the second nova before he is down, which is like 30 seconds. To kill him 10s before the first nova, that means you're killing him in about 10 seconds, which puts you at at around 50k DPS (he has 512k hp in heroic). That's over 10k dps per char for all in the group including tank and healer - impressive ;-)

http://img2.imageshack.us/img2/8709/...0609004428.jpg

that's pretty old ss before gear upgrades. 11s is my record now, but dbm rounds it up so who knows what it is exactly.
edit.btw i don't use a tank on some encounters anymore, loken is one example, old kingdom last boss is another(dies before insanity) etc

[Fuzzyboy]

That's pretty sick! :-)

I rarely get my shaman above 6k even with heroism, and you have 7.5k with three of the. 25-man gear helps, of course, but still.

http://img2.imageshack.us/img2/8709/...0609004428.jpg

that's pretty old ss before gear upgrades. 11s is my record now, but dbm rounds it up so who knows what it is exactly.
edit.btw i don't use a tank on some encounters anymore, loken is one example, old kingdom last boss is another(dies before insanity) etc

[Niley]

That's pretty sick! :-)

I rarely get my shaman above 6k even with heroism, and you have 7.5k with three of the. 25-man gear helps, of course, but still.

Look:
http://www.wowarmory.com/character-s...mreaver&n=Ishv

This is the 2nd shaman with 7.4k, she has all badges gear/ToC H other than a ring from naxx 25, and next patch everyone will be swimming in t9.
Shaman that did least amount dps is actually the best geared one, got to love rng, and warlock was still wearing some greens :P
Doing good dps these day is all in click macros, and timing them properly.

[Fuzzyboy]

Look:
http://www.wowarmory.com/character-s...mreaver&n=Ishv

This is the 2nd shaman with 7.4k, she has all badges gear/ToC H other than a ring from naxx 25, and next patch everyone will be swimming in t9.
Shaman that did least amount dps is actually the best geared one, got to love rng, and warlock was still wearing some greens :P
Doing good dps these day is all in click macros, and timing them properly.

Yeah, I use click macros as well, but I'm not hitting 7.5k even if I do a manual rotation - I still have a lot of lvl 200 epics though, but I doubt thats a 1.5k difference. I may need to review my macros :P

[Niley]

Yeah, I use click macros as well, but I'm not hitting 7.5k even if I do a manual rotation - I still have a lot of lvl 200 epics though, but I doubt thats a 1.5k difference. I may need to review my macros :P

come see us in IRC if you have any questions

[TheBigBB]

This Ionar strategy worked for me on the second try. Thanks! I hadn't tried Heroic HOL before because I was nervous about this boss, but I cleared it in just 45 minutes. The final boss was the easiest one for me, too. I just bunched up and burned him while spamming AOE heals.

UPDATE: I tried it with my B-team, less geared half of my 10 box team, and I one-shotted the whole thing with the crappy team. The Ionar strat is just rock solid.

[Meshuggenah]

For Ionar, spread out your shamans in a square with the tank in the middle. When you chain heal (if you get the spacing right) the heal will bounce between your shamans/tank and keep everyone full. The sparks also trigger water shield, so mana isn't a problem for this fight. Spam that chain heal ^^

I think the only limiting factor for Loken is you need 15(?)k hp per DPS. When you see him start casting nova, wait till it's at about 2 seconds then start casting chain heal. As soon as nova hits, your chain heal will go off and you'll be nearly full again. It's not a hard fight as long as you have enough HP to soak up the nova.

Look:
http://www.wowarmory.com/character-s...mreaver&n=Ishv

This is the 2nd shaman with 7.4k, she has all badges gear/ToC H other than a ring from naxx 25, and next patch everyone will be swimming in t9.
Shaman that did least amount dps is actually the best geared one, got to love rng, and warlock was still wearing some greens :P
Doing good dps these day is all in click macros, and timing them properly.

I really don't see how the hell you manage 7k, even with cooldowns. That's pretty nuts. My shamans are actually better geared than yours (full t9, with i232 and 245 weapons/shields) and they rarely top 5-6k even raid buffed. More often is around 4k raid damage in movement fights, which they almost all are now. The warlocks curse would up your damage, but certainly not enough to account for 2,000DPS. Infact I don't even think I've seen solo BiS geared ele shamans pull that kind of single target DPS. I'd really like to see what your click macro setup is like.

[thedreameater]

[QUOTE=Fuzzyboy;233395]For Ionar I just stand still (though spread) while he's dispersed and heal through it. Don't attack, don't move, just heal :-) Once he returns, resume DPS'ing. When done that way he's really really easy.QUOTE]

Easy my fucking ass.

Don't try this kids unless you have stupid gear. FUCK Ionar.

[Fuzzyboy]

[QUOTE=thedreameater;251855]

For Ionar I just stand still (though spread) while he's dispersed and heal through it. Don't attack, don't move, just heal :-) Once he returns, resume DPS'ing. When done that way he's really really easy.QUOTE]

Easy my fucking ass.

Don't try this kids unless you have stupid gear. FUCK Ionar.

You don't need especially good gear to do it this way. The trick is to

a) be spaced far enough aparty that the debuff he applies (which does damage to players near the player with the debufff) doesn't reach the next player and

b) to use a nature resistance totem

If your all teammembers can cast heals, use the heals on yourself while he's dispersed, if you have only one healer, you need to be in position to do AE heals (for instance PoH works really well for this encounter).