Who are the PVE 10Boxers? - Call to arms :) - 3 Bosses Down

[Bigfish]

Off the top of my head, I want to say 15k on a Heroic training dummy, but those never seem that accurate in a real situation due to factors the training dummy has difficulty representings, such as life percentages, armor values, rage generation, etc.

On Archavon himself, it varies widely at the moment because, naturally, things are a bit chaotic.

[Bigfish]

Anyway, I'm going to make some more attempts either tonight or tomorow. I'm thinking I may have to just take the first 30 seconds and fan my ranged DPS out in a Hezagon/circle around the boss and memorize their location to reduce my reaction time. Also need to reglyph my tanks, and see about a bit of aggro-management on my lock.

[Deekhay]

And the Vault is down! I'm soooo happy ^^.

7 attempts mostly because I never did the fight even single boxing.

here and here
Strategy:
My OT, the Paladin has no bindings on movement, it makes things much easier as he'll always follow no matter what happens.
His tanking macros are based on assist with the name of the MT.

All totems placed including Nature Resistance. Paladin Aura is devotion since damage done by the AOEs seemed(?) to be mitigated by armor too.
The whole group is packed because it makes much easier aggro gain after charges and grabs (tried to spread them and it's chaotic!).
Never moved for any reason, just spammed chain heal*5 and a random of priest aoe healing everytime the clouds or spikes were there.
Group stays at third step of the stairs, dk moves in with paladin following, pulls comes back tanks very close to the group. Got a key binded only to both tanks to gain aggro. Did lilke 30k before starting to dps.
It seemed (next time i'll FRAPs it promise :/) that there is aggro wipe after grabbing so I just redo the tank only aggro gain. Got two healers they both heal both tanks.
I also have one key binded to both tanks taunt and spam it during the grab. Sometimes did some "manual" tuning to OT positioning.

The down was far from perfect. Got one dead (damn Mages!) and several wild aggros.

It'll get better (I hope).

For the anecdote, I forgot to remove instance difficulty from Heroic and I was really worried. I downed the adds but damn they were hard to kill and really hurt!
When I saw a 9.900k Boss I told to my self smart person something was wrong...

[Bigfish]

Good job.

Edit: Interesting stuff. I might have to try out this clumped up method. Maybe I'll leave my priest out of Shadow Form and have him spam Prayer of Mending and Prayer of Healing. What were some of your initial attempts like?

[Souca]

And the Vault is down! I'm soooo happy ^^.

7 attempts mostly because I never did the fight even single boxing.

Awesome!

I'm not where I want to be in comp yet, but 10 boxing has been the goal for a while. I'm planning to do a large chunk of RaF boosting in a couple weeks to get a nice selection of classes to work with as I play around with comps in the raids. I'm leaning toward tailoring the group to the encounter instead of trying to find a single comp I stick with for everything. That said, I might change this strat and just run 10 blood DKs. Either way, I think having a good selection of characters will give me the flexibility to try things, and thats the fun for me.

- Souca -

[Deekhay]

Good job.

Edit: Interesting stuff. I might have to try out this clumped up method. Maybe I'll leave my priest out of Shadow Form and have him spam Prayer of Mending and Prayer of Healing. What were some of your initial attempts like?

The best try before the down was 23% and already using the clumped method. All tries spread out were simply awfull and messy.

[blast3r]

I plan on 10 boxing but not sure exactly what I want to do yet. Still need to level a lot of teams up. One team I know I want is 5 rogues and 5 druids for pvp fun. I have to figure which toons to move to new accounts and which to keep in place.

[Bigfish]

Well, Just killed Archavon. He dropped 2 Priest pants. The same pants. Only one priest. /sigh. Oh Well. Dropped Archavon.

HELL YEAH!

As it turns out, clumping does work best as long as you tank him close enough to the group that he doesn't jump. Turns out it functions like any other random charge: He doesn't do it if you are too close. So for future reference, stay close, keep your clump healed, and Archavon is cake.

[Souca]

Well, Just killed Archavon. He dropped 2 Priest pants. The same pants. Only one priest. /sigh. Oh Well. Dropped Archavon.

HELL YEAH!

As it turns out, clumping does work best as long as you tank him close enough to the group that he doesn't jump. Turns out it functions like any other random charge: He doesn't do it if you are too close. So for future reference, stay close, keep your clump healed, and Archavon is cake.

Awesome!

The info about the jump is good to know as well. I assume if he never jumps, he never creates clouds? Then the only raid damage you need to handle is the spikes, right?

- Souca -

[Bunny]

Great news
Graz to you guys and thanks for all the valuable tips. Cannot wait to try it myself.
Keep them strats coming.
Bunny