Glory of the Hero - Red Proto Completed

[Fuzzyboy]

3 ruby 2 emerald will pack a bit more punch, 4 ruby with taunt/immune on round robin with 1emerald for heals was my favorite lineup outside of 5 amber.

I was never comfortable with the 3 healer / 2 dps split.

I'll give it a shot with 4 ruby + 1 emerald - what's your setup/rotation? Any special macros? I find it ironic that "Make it count" was easier than amber void :P

[Ridere]

They're making the Oculus easier, too. Increasing the cooldowns monsters/bosses have on certain moves, as well as increasing the bonus your drakes receive from gear. So hopefully this stuff will be easier to obtain.

I still need to gear up a tank before I even attempt it, but that won't be for awhile, as I want to do it with a Paly tank, I guess, and I'm going to get my remaining teams up to 60 first, and palies to 80.

[Dorffo]

I'll give it a shot with 4 ruby + 1 emerald - what's your setup/rotation? Any special macros? I find it ironic that "Make it count" was easier than amber void :P

I run the healer drake as my "main" so I can health funnel as needed quickly.

special setup:
for the Rubies you want to setup your nuke key or targeting macro so that it targets whelps first than Eregos since their beams hit harder after each jump.

Basically its very similar to the 5x amber strat:

1. optionally open up with the emerald's dmg reduction thingy with the emerald; start nuking with the rubies and spamming poison with the emerald
2. as soon as the first set of whelps pop out hit taunt on *1* of your rubies followed by evasion as soon as hes got enough charges. I tend to also to mash evasion on the others to help mitigate splash dmg from the arcane stuff.
3. keep mashing nuke button!
4. rinse-repeat cycling through your taunts.

I'd say: think of taunt/evasion as equivalent to timestop rotation and I think you'll be set, the emerald is just there to provide the dmg reduction and occasional spot healing as needed (but its difficult to funnel and do the dmg reduction both).

[Fuzzyboy]

I run the healer drake as my "main" so I can health funnel as needed quickly.

special setup:
for the Rubies you want to setup your nuke key or targeting macro so that it targets whelps first than Eregos since their beams hit harder after each jump.

Basically its very similar to the 5x amber strat:

1. optionally open up with the emerald's dmg reduction thingy with the emerald; start nuking with the rubies and spamming poison with the emerald
2. as soon as the first set of whelps pop out hit taunt on *1* of your rubies followed by evasion as soon as hes got enough charges. I tend to also to mash evasion on the others to help mitigate splash dmg from the arcane stuff.
3. keep mashing nuke button!
4. rinse-repeat cycling through your taunts.

I'd say: think of taunt/evasion as equivalent to timestop rotation and I think you'll be set, the emerald is just there to provide the dmg reduction and occasional spot healing as needed (but its difficult to funnel and do the dmg reduction both).

Thanks much - I'll give it a shot :-)

[Fuzzyboy]

I run the healer drake as my "main" so I can health funnel as needed quickly.

special setup:
for the Rubies you want to setup your nuke key or targeting macro so that it targets whelps first than Eregos since their beams hit harder after each jump.

Basically its very similar to the 5x amber strat:

1. optionally open up with the emerald's dmg reduction thingy with the emerald; start nuking with the rubies and spamming poison with the emerald
2. as soon as the first set of whelps pop out hit taunt on *1* of your rubies followed by evasion as soon as hes got enough charges. I tend to also to mash evasion on the others to help mitigate splash dmg from the arcane stuff.
3. keep mashing nuke button!
4. rinse-repeat cycling through your taunts.

I'd say: think of taunt/evasion as equivalent to timestop rotation and I think you'll be set, the emerald is just there to provide the dmg reduction and occasional spot healing as needed (but its difficult to funnel and do the dmg reduction both).

Ok, in the process of testing at the moment. One question though - if one drake has cast Martyr (directing all spells to himself), what use is casting evasive on all the others, since they shouldn't be attacked? Is there any reason not to keep evasive up all the time?

[Dorffo]

Is there any reason not to keep evasive up all the time?

You're right keep it up as much as ya can - poorly worded on my part.

I should note that I didn't actually setup a martyr "rotation" so much as just clicking it on the highest-health drake as needed.

[Fuzzyboy]

You're right keep it up as much as ya can - poorly worded on my part.

I should note that I didn't actually setup a martyr "rotation" so much as just clicking it on the highest-health drake as needed.

Great thanks :-) One more question - how did you handle the healing? I tried with a [nochanneling] macro, but it doesn't seem to register dream funnel as a channeled spell, because leech will break it with or without the [nochanneling]?

[Dorffo]

Great thanks :-) One more question - how did you handle the healing? I tried with a [nochanneling] macro, but it doesn't seem to register dream funnel as a channeled spell, because leech will break it with or without the [nochanneling]?

Oh ho! Now that you mention it, I did do not-very-tricky rebinds for the dream funnel - just unbound the key[s] on my main actionbar and clicked it as needed on a couple runs.

Edit: It might be easier to just un-link the emerald drake from passed keystrokes for this fight?

[Fuzzyboy]

Oh ho! Now that you mention it, I did do not-very-tricky rebinds for the dream funnel - just unbound the key[s] on my main actionbar and clicked it as needed on a couple runs.

Edit: It might be easier to just un-link the emerald drake from passed keystrokes for this fight?

I find it a bit comical how much trouble I seem to have with this fight, so I hope you don't mind helping out a bit more.

First of all, I can't seem to keep up with the heals. Even with 3 stacks of poison, once I heal up one drake, another is at like 30% health.

Another thing is my macro. For some reason it doesn't always target Eregos. It looks like this:

/target Ley-Guard
/target Greater
/cast Fiery Wrath

The idea is to target the drakes when theyre up and ley-guardian when they're not (strategy), but for some reason it doesn't seem to work. What macro did you use?