Quote Originally Posted by 'Multibocks',index.php?page=Thread&postID=163299#p ost163299
tried this again the other day. Water elemental boss, wtf am I doing wrong? I dps him and he disappears, then I cant kill the elementals fast enough and then hes back. I killed him but it took 8 minutes!! When he died there were dragons opening portals already and more adds. I ended up wiping after boss when I had 10 dragonkin on my tank or something like that. At least I looted boss before I got overwhelmed. First boss was corehound and he was cake. Ah damnit, now that I think of it I could have hit the torch to wipe all the extra shit.
As for the water elemental. I've only done him on normal, so I don't know if anything is different on hero. On normal you do not need to damage the boss itself at the beginning. Just hit it 30 times with something and it will explode. After that you just have to kill some of the spawns. The more you kill the less hp the boss will have after he comes back. So, it's not really a race to kill all small ones at once or something like that. If you can heal through the ae dmg you can take him down slowly. Although, as you noticed yourself, you should still be able to down him before the next waves come