Wee, naxx cleared! with minimum of 3 ele shammies present.

[Ellay]

Huge grats on that!
I find Thaddius more difficult than Grobbulus though. Thought it becomes insanely harder the more you add since the time frame is so small. Unless there is a larger time frame on heroic mode, it felt too fast to be able to move all 4 before doing damage to other members.

[Kaynin]

It migth well be easier on ten man. Ticks only do 4500 damage as well. That said, I was able to avoid that fairly good, getting no ticks at all.

Well, on Thaddius.. Ehm, I basicly do this.


(not sure if this works, might need to edit.)

 ... O     
 ^      ^

^ = characters and facing, left side +, right side -

Not too far apart, but obviously not too close together either. I star in center and strafe left with + and right with -. Having individual strafe buttons for all four on my keyboard in the same layout as my screens help loads.

Basicly, when some change, I immidiatly strafe with the chars that got changed. And if I'm not too close to be a prob for the tank, nor to far away, I can swap over with strafe without getting the ticks. Now we downed him on our first try so I didn't have much practice on him. We had some slight probs halfway with some melee screwing up a bit but we survived that. But as far as my position goes, it went pretty smoothly. Just the first secs to position was hectic and I did get a tick there.

Anyhow, as long as I strafed nearly instantly after a change, it seemed to go fine.

Grobbulus more easy? :P Mmh, upto 30% it is pretty easy, but even running 10 yards and dispelling myself, getting three gens in a row when Grob is on low health is very, and I mean very tricky. Much more so then Thaddius was for me, where the movement is very static. Whilest on Grob you need to put focus and thought everytime you move a char. I guess Grob is easier on 25 man tho. :P

[Ellay]

I did Grobbulus on normal and Thaddius on heroic (not with 4 here).
I think it really relies on RNG and if the rest of your team has done a good job placing the poison clouds.

[Crucial]

Huge grats on that!
I find Thaddius more difficult than Grobbulus though. Thought it becomes insanely harder the more you add since the time frame is so small. Unless there is a larger time frame on heroic mode, it felt too fast to be able to move all 4 before doing damage to other members.

I haven't been in Naxx since wotlk was released but when I used to 5 shaman box it, I'd leave them on the platforms above and just shoot down, no moving around. For example a couple on the left platform, a couple on the right platform far enough away from each other.

[Ellay]

I was thinking of applying this strategy with half and half, meaning leave 1 shaman on each platform and then rotate 2 on the bottom. The main problem that exists but I assume will go away in time is that your raid needs a lot of DPS to kill Thaddius at least in Heroic, and the main way to gain that is through postivie and negative charges. The more people bunched up together the more damage everyone is producing. I'm not sure if leaving them up there would allow for enough DPS before he enrages.

[Nejcha]

Grobbulus has been making all my shamans cry on normal.

I miss Teron, that was fun to box. This jumping at the poison clouds makes me wanna yell.

Is it any easier to four box the heroic versions? cause right now my raids thinking of doing it heroic style vs 4/10 of the raid being me.

[Ellay]

Heroic just means there will be 25, so you'll end up with 24~ ish players having a chance to receive the debuff. It'll be a little easier.

[Kaynin]

Ofcourse even in 25 you could still get unlucky. In my experience, anything more then two gens in a row can be a real problem(In terms of keeping up with the tank, thus keeping up dps, as well as moving away from earlier globs on your team, whilest moving the gen'd ones to place they can glob.).

Our guild has a new new for the boss. Globbulus!

as far as heroic, I'll probably never do them myself. Unless we find an equal-ish guild and do joint raids. But don't see it happening anytime soon. But I do think, though some mechanics like the gen on Grobbulus, will be easier to handle on heroic for multiboxers, at the same time you have some less lenience on some other bosses. Thaddius for example, the charges do a lot more damage on heroic, as well as more people means more chars crossing over at any one charge change. Which would defi make it harder as a multiboxer as opposed to ten man.

Then again, in 25 man on many fights, you don't play such a large integral part of the raid. So overall you do get more lenience in most boss fights.

I'd say, Grob is harder ten man, Thaddius harder 25 man, and the rest it doesn't really matter.

[Ellay]

Agreed on the Grobb / Thaddius piece. The charge on Thaddius is 4500 per person. So it's usually a death for yourself if your in the wrong section, and the charge buffs are required to keep it going smoothly and maintain ample dps before enrage timers.
I did a few fight last night on heroic and enjoyed less focus on me playing 100% for us to win the fight.