WotLK - Vault of Archavon (VoA) - Toravon the ice watcher

[jimbobobb]

Did this again the other day and figured out something that we should have figured out the first time. Apologies if this is completely obvious but we didn't figure it out until my /tar [nodead] frozen orb stuff got messed up and we had to manually target.


The frozen orbs are tauntable.

So basically just whichever tank is not tanking atm, taunts the orbs, burn burn burn, back to boss, tank switch, other tank taunts the orb, burn burn burn, back to boss, repeat, free loot.

[Altsoba]

Did this again the other day and figured out something that we should have figured out the first time. Apologies if this is completely obvious but we didn't figure it out until my /tar [nodead] frozen orb stuff got messed up and we had to manually target.


The frozen orbs are tauntable.

So basically just whichever tank is not tanking atm, taunts the orbs, burn burn burn, back to boss, tank switch, other tank taunts the orb, burn burn burn, back to boss, repeat, free loot.

The way we did, me and Sideways was that his team (3 dpsers) took care of the orbs while mine was just nuking the boss. So basically it means that one team is enough to handle without "tanking it".
This is strongly reccomended to any 2*5 boxers, we did it with just one healer, two tanks and 7 dpsers.

[Lyonheart]

Did this again the other day and figured out something that we should have figured out the first time. Apologies if this is completely obvious but we didn't figure it out until my /tar [nodead] frozen orb stuff got messed up and we had to manually target.


The frozen orbs are tauntable.

So basically just whichever tank is not tanking atm, taunts the orbs, burn burn burn, back to boss, tank switch, other tank taunts the orb, burn burn burn, back to boss, repeat, free loot.

are you saying the /tar [nodead] was not working right?

I got him down to 23% 10 boxing today. I'm having issues switching to adds and switching tanks/heals. a few more trys and i think ill work it out. time ran out or i would still be trying. The idea of getting every drop is too tempting..i MUST kill him!

[jimbobobb]

Basically, after we killed the first frozen orb, my guys all got stuck targeting it, even though there was a [nodead] modifier. Dunno why this happened.

So we just manually assisted. And here is what we decided on next time, since we know you can taunt the orbs now.

Basically I play my five guys, and he plays his five guys. We have 2 healers, and each just focuses their respective tanks, and does their aoe heals on cooldowns to negate incidental damage/whiteouts.

We will switch tanks at 4 stacks of frostbite. Whichever tank is NOT tanking currently, will target the frozen orb, and taunt it - not tank it, just taunt it so it starts running toward the tank. He will target it, and his team will kill it. They only have 130k hps so they usually die before they even reach the tank. Basically I would suggest doing it this way.

And if you were ten boxing, to simply pay attention to your two tanks, and have half of your guys assist one tank, and half the other. One healer per tank, and also does aoe heals to keep everyone topped off. One tank is always tanking, and the other when an orb pops taunts it towards him, and the three dps assisting him target it and kill it.

[Lyonheart]

i need to get my 2nd healer a bit more geared i think.. also its two shaman healers.. but my DPS is high.. about 4.5=7 K, so around 5.5k across the team. I got him to 17% before giving up.

Ill try your tips, Jimbo, next time, that sounds like it should work.