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

[thedreameater]

[QUOTE=Fuzzyboy;251872]

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).

Thanks for the advice, will try tonight.. Man, I was fuming after this fight. I can kill the golem boss from gundrak without a care, but could not stay up during this.

[Fuzzyboy]

No problem - if you have a paladin/dk + 4 shaman team, have all the shamams cast a nature resist totem (that way you're sure noone is out of range) and make a macro like this: /cast [@player] Lesser Healing Wave to use while he's dispersed. Sometimes the lightning bolts will eat your nature resist totem, so have a hotkey to recast if you want to be on the safe side

[Fuzzyboy]

Oh, and be sure that your characters are spaced wide enough apart - _I cannot stress this enough_. I remember once I got a little lazy on the spacing and he wiped me in like five seconds

[crowdx]

So on regular on Ionar I spaced all my guys in the area at the bottom of the steps, one basically in each corner, all within healing range. I then tanked him and during the spider things I just healed the group, it was close but no deaths. How much harder does the spider guys hit in heroic?
I need to finish HoL and wondering now should I do it all in heroic or do it regular first, i downed all the bosses 5 boxing regular excpet Loken who I had to leave for RL stuff before I got to him. :-(

[offive]

Ionar got the nerf bat a bit, a hotfix is supposed to have gone in to limit him to only one dispersion. Same thing with the last boss in Drak Theron. I have not done either since the supposed hotfix.

Ionar, in the Halls of Lightning, will now only disperse once during the course of the fight.
Prophet Tharon’Ja of Drak'Tharon will now only steal your flesh one time during the encounter.

[Iceorbz]

Ionar got the nerf bat a bit, a hotfix is supposed to have gone in to limit him to only one dispersion. Same thing with the last boss in Drak Theron. I have not done either since the supposed hotfix.

Ionar, in the Halls of Lightning, will now only disperse once during the course of the fight.
Prophet Tharon’Ja of Drak'Tharon will now only steal your flesh one time during the encounter.

Never found prophet hard in the least lol.

[daviddoran]

Never found prophet hard in the least lol.

No, but all the zombie modes just slowed things down immensely... IMO they could have just shortened the subsequent de-fleshing emotes, or make it instant... having to have 4 seconds of nothing to do got kinda boring....

[thinus]

Priest vs Loken = easy mode

My Loken fights at the moment go like this:
- Pull (everyone on follow behind the tank)
- DPS Key till boss dead.

My "dps" macro on the priest looks like this:

/castsequence [@Player] ,,,,,,,,Prayer of Healing
/cast [@Player] Prayer of Mending

Prayer of Mending whenever it is off cooldown and Prayer of Healing every now and then, adjust commas to suit your button press rate. The Prayer of Mending will jump around so I just cast it on the priest, you can target your tank instead if it will make you more comfortable.

Loken hits for so little on my tank (not uber geared 1x T9) that the PoM and PoH easily keep the tank topped up as well as the group.


PS: I have a Disc Priest but I think Holy would work just as well.

[aaarn]

Ionar got the nerf bat a bit, a hotfix is supposed to have gone in to limit him to only one dispersion. Same thing with the last boss in Drak Theron. I have not done either since the supposed hotfix.

Ionar, in the Halls of Lightning, will now only disperse once during the course of the fight.
Prophet Tharon’Ja of Drak'Tharon will now only steal your flesh one time during the encounter.

The hotfix completely trivialized this encounter. Just spread your toons to the 4 corners of the room you pull him too. Once he disperses, have each toon spam heal themselves.

[crowdx]

As an update I finished HoL yesterday. I did Loken with my toons at the pillars and tanked him in the circle, just healed through the AoE and nuked him. Was surprised how easy it was :P