Quote Originally Posted by 'puppychow',index.php?page=Thread&postID=136228#po st136228
How did you do chess? pre 3.0 I tried chess once solo (the group I was with stopped at aran after wiping a lot, so I went in afterwards and solo cleared to chess) and just could not do it. If I controlled the king one one char and the healer on the other, Medivh would "cheat" too much and just burn my chars in fires before I could move em out (ie healers would die and then my king was sol). I didn't have much coordination luck controlling more than 2 chars, would just get crazy tabbing around and clicking stuff, lol
Cleared everything sans dragons and aran on 4 shami + pala team yesterday, and chess is definitely the most difficult boss to box. After about 5 or 6 tries I was successful with the following strategy:

I'd simply move a few pawns one field forward, so I could move the healers in case medivh cheated. I'd then simply hope (yea, rng ftw) for him to bring his king forward a little bit. If he does that you can simply start shooting with your caster figure on the king. I didn't even move my king, only moved a few pawns and the healers. Things do get interesting though, because if you do it like that you'll have to switch figures quite often, and thus cancel buffs / run to the new figure with some chars.

I might just have gotten lucky though, this fight really sucks. After this epic battle prince really was a pushover (pally tanked prince while standing in the hellfire of one daemon, and healing wasn't all that difficult).

I'd love to hear about a good strategy for aran though. I got killed _really_ fast in there. Groundings don't work, and he'd quite often cast 3 times in a row on the same char, which will gib him pretty fast ;(
Also, with just one healer if he gets chain of ice it's pretty much an instant wipe for me (don't have any pvp gear, my chars are all sub 8k health).

Aw, have some fun in there, some fights are really hilarious after 3.0