Novos The Summoner Heroic Drak'Tharon

[TheBigBB]

Anyone got a good working strategy to beat this guy?

I use the positioning mentioned and easily get through the starter adds. Its not the blizzard the kills me its his steady spam of Frostbolts. It seems he loves to shoot em at my healer to start and then the rest of my DPS crew. I really don't know why he doesn't target my tank barely at all. Anyone have any suggestions?

My tank can never hold proper aggro on him, so he puts on DPS gear.

Even on heroic, I've never seen the frostbolts do more than 40% damage to my shammies, I just heal through it. And make sure you're using Frost Resist totem.

Since the totem and the aura don't stack, if you have a paladin tank then use the Frost Resist aura. The totem takes up a fire totem which will take away too much spell power.

[Crush]

I am only level 73 on my shamen so I have not tried this instance but I have noticed that many leatherworkers are selling their crafted items for a relatively low price compared to the cost of the actual mats. In fact, I have already picked up 3 pieces of the frost resist gear for one of my shaman. I was just curious if anyone has tried frost resist gear on this guy?

[Gares]

I am only level 73 on my shamen so I have not tried this instance but I have noticed that many leatherworkers are selling their crafted items for a relatively low price compared to the cost of the actual mats. In fact, I have already picked up 3 pieces of the frost resist gear for one of my shaman. I was just curious if anyone has tried frost resist gear on this guy?

It would probably work but bevery Overkill just to get it made for this encounter by itself. If the mats were cheap I would probably make it as well, but just to complete this guy seems kinda pointless.

[Crush]

Believe me I did not just get the gear for this guy. I figured I could use it for many of the WotLK bosses considering this continent is quite north of the equator. I hope to eventually take a few of my shamen into some of the 10 or even 25 man dungeons.

[puppychow]

There is no raid boss in the game which requires frost resistance gear. It can kind of help out the first few times you kill Sapphiron in Naxx10, but you generally gimp your DPS too much by wearing it, and really for casters its totally a waste since they have so much range and can move out of Blizzard quickly (the only really deadly frost attack he does). In naxx25 frost resist is a waste, its better just to burn him down fast, especially with more healers.

Some speculate Icecrown may have frost resist bosses but that really is months and months away, and I would guess by that point there is "better" frost resist gear.

For Novos it may be interesting to equip some frost resist gear and try it out, but the gear tends to be stam heavy and not so great on other stats, so I wonder if you would be gimping too much on mana pools and DPS. Be interesting to try anyways!

To be honest my strat with Novos is simple - do him once just for the achievement, then always skip him

[Multibocks]

fo sho