Any advice for regular MgT?

[suprafro]

For the worm packs I just drop 5x Novas and 1-2 thunderstorms and they all instantly die, as long as you time the nova drop correctly during the pull you can escape taking minimal damage. If you miss it on a pull you can fallback on using all remaining thunderstorms

Also try hitting up HM if you haven't yet, the difficulty seems to be pretty much on par with normal mode with bosses 1/3/4 being just as easy. Trash is a joke with thunderstorm/groundings, havent even tried it sense the nova stun change but thats a nice buff. Biggest difference is really Vexellus where you can't just zerg him down but you need to kill adds/heal/take it slow

[Schwarz]

I used to use fire eles also. make a macro like "castsequence cooldownfornova firenova totem, magma totem". I lay down healing totems *5 then shoot one worm with 5 lightning bolts switch to another target do 5 chainlightings quick. THen lay down stoneclaw totems followed by fire nova totems. When they explode put down the magma totems. This should finish them off pretty easy. If it doesn't just use a thunderstorm.

[Hachoo]

Good advice, I'll try that tonight probably, and maybe try heroic also (especially since my main can get the exalted SSO shield tonight after 1 set of dailies.

[Hachoo]

Now I'm confused. Maybe it was dumb luck before but I tried killing this boss on normal (vexallus) today and wiped 5 times before giving up.

I tried super nuking him with full bore LB/CL/Bloodlust/EM/Trinket/etc and I started healing when he did the pure energy thing (with lightning shield), and he killed me almost instantly.

I tried going very slowly, hitting him with LBs until he did the pure energy thing, then I sat and healed...it seemed like the pure energy things never went away...

anyway I tried every tactic I could think of until I gave up, he owned me every time. His "normal" hits hit my main shaman for 2300 damage so I can only take 2 hits before I have to start healing him...this is after buying the exalted SSO shield, ~8500 armor not including stoneskin totem. (but i hear his attacks do arcane damage anyway).

Any other advice? Should I be going fast or slow? When should I heal? What should I do with the pure energy? I'm using lightning shield but that doesn't seem to do a damn thing.

[Schwarz]

Vex sucks. What I do is spread everyone out and drop 5 earth eles to take care of the things he poops out. Then I just nuke him down. Try to get some spell damage food that might be enough to take you over the top dps wise. I remember the first time i killed him on heroic I killed him then my whole team died.

[wowphreak]

with vexallus the faster yeh kill em the more damage he those.

here's a decent write up on em
http://www.wowhead.com/?npc=24744#comments:id=261625

basically boils down to dps till the first adds spawn kill em, slow dps till the debuffs drops off, repeat till last 10% then just go all out

I've seen way overgeared groups just try and dps em down as quick as possible get sent the the gravyard in no time flat

[Schwarz]

It is possible just to dps him down if you can get him to spawn his first adds pretty quick then your earth elementals will pick them up and keep them away from your group. This is how I do him every time. Pop all trinkets and clickys he spawns the adds usually by the 2nd cast. If earth eles mess up and don't pick up the adds quick enough (ie adds are close to the group) then it very well could be a wipe.

http://www.gamevee.com/viewVideo/Wor...errace/1013056

that video is pre 3.02 so things have only gotten easier. I suggest buffing up if you are having dps problems. cost of 5 adept elixir's/spell damage food is nothing compared to 25 10% durablitiy losses.

Don't get too down on yourself Vex was what I had problems with when I first started also. It took me several attempts/gear upgrades to finally down him on heroic. I remember wiping at 2% once fully buffed. That really sucked.

[Hachoo]

I did try running Heroic MgT last night also but decided to call it quits after the 3rd pull. The 4 man pulls near the beginning were just too much, required too much effort to complete for not enough reward. (basically had to use EVERY cooldown on each pull, including 5 thunderstorms, etc). I doubt I could have taken down any bosses.

Maybe once I have 4 more of the shields/pendants from SSO exalted which will be in a few days, and enchanta ll my gear that would help. My clones all have the shield from one of the first HFP quests right now which is ~1500 armor less than the SSO exalted shield I think. I have a 375 enchanter but have not enchanted any of my characters' gear except +18 stam to shield on my main

[Hachoo]

Yeah I've given up on ever even attempting heroic MgT...

The ONLY way I can even kill Vexallus on regular MgT is to burn him down as fast as possible and ignore the adds. Something is either bugged with him or all the strategies people are saying are wrong or don't work anymore...

Case in point, tonight I tried him 3 times. I used 2 LBs to bring him down to 83% then started healing. He spawned a pure energy, then another pure energy (I had lightning shield on). They used their thing on me but neither one disappeared even though I had lightning shield on. They just kept doing it forever until all my guys were dead.

So, attempt #2, I set up a castsequence macro on 2 of my shaman:

/target Pure Energy
/castsequence Earth Shock,
/cleartarget

(obviously on shaman #2 earth shock was second). Anyway, Attacked him down to 83% again, he summoned 2 pure energies, killed one then the other (meanwhile I wasn't attack him AT ALL, he was still at 83%). He kept summong them over and over again, I would kill a couple, then he'd summon a couple more. This kept going until again I was dead since my chain heals can't even come close to healing through it.

Last, I just burned him down, bloodlust, ele mastery, trinket, blood fury, spam LB+CL, the first time the pure energies spawned I spammed 2 Chain heals then went back to LB+CL again - killed him with all my guys at around 2k HP. This is how I win every time but I just can't see how the whole "take it slow and easy" thing even comes close to working, the pure energies are never ending.

[Malekyth]

I find regular Vexallus to be pretty easy with my pally - 3x locks - priest combo. Impossible on Heroic. Ack. I started boxing in part due to fascination with MgT multibox vids on youtubem and so am a little frustrated that I'm unable to tackle it on heroic (or even regular, post-Vex). Mebbe it's all about the shamans.