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

[Deekhay]

5 Tries on Anub - Best at 37%.
Even if I dual tank I grab everything with my MT and it just goes smoothly. I spread raid in a semi circle in front of boss and tank everything in the middle.
It's the swarm that kills me due to silence. If I'm not mistaken the DK (nor the Pala) just can't use runes and therefore he has lousy avoidance stats. Aggro isn't a problem, I just die ^^.

5 Tries on Patchwerk - Best at 21%
Extremely easy fight. It just shows I'm not geared for it. I haven't updated my gems and DK is crittable (535 Def). I also do everything without food nor elixir buffs. Just isn't worth it while I learn the fights.
Started by keeping the two tanks alive (I only have two healers) and my best was at 47%.
Put Pala healing (humiliation lesson to a tank!) and just kept DK topped. It went pretty well. Raid is doing around 20k dps on this fight. The shaman are all above 3k (one at almost 4k) but Mage and Moonkin are around 2.5-2.7k.
Another issue I have is that both healers are recent lvl 80 as well as Mage and Moonkin. I have to do more heroics with them to get some gear but I'm pretty happy with the performance so far nevertheless.

As a note, trash is ridiculously easy so far.

[Los]

Watch out though, the thing from anub is also a dot, it tikes for dmg. Just let a (or both) healer(s) spam you with healing, should be fine

[Deekhay]

Watch out though, the thing from anub is also a dot, it tikes for dmg. Just let a (or both) healer(s) spam you with healing, should be fine

Thanks for the tip! Thing is, without aoe tanking I'm not able to take care of the swarm and the occasional corpse scarabs. I also think that an Crypt Guard pops at that time too.
Do you think it'll be better to kite him? Does kitting bring everyone along with tank?

I believe that he won't have time for the second swarm if I manage to survive the first.

Thanks!

[puppychow]

Many can be gimmicked - for example on Gothik you actually can keep everyone on one side (put everyone in the corner near Gothik, top left as you enter room) and everything runs to you from both live and dead. Of course you really need geared tanks, healers, and DPS to do this strat. for 10 man 4h you can make 2 "pits" of bosses instead of 4, one containing the melee bosses and one the caster bosses, and just swap sides that way (still a lot of coordination!).

For Sarth, you can ignore portals on left and top drakes (take more dmg or adds spawn), just the right side one requires you to enter (boss immune to dmg).

I imagine Ulduar however is going to grow the concept of splitting up raids into different tasks, since its a concept Blizzard likes and does make fights more interesting/challenging.

[Bigfish]

Question -

How are you 10 boxers going to handle encounters where the raid gets split? Such as the drakes in obsidian sanctum where 8/10 raid members have to enter the portal and DPS adds while the MT and MH keep the boss at bay?

Or the 2nd boss in the Naxx Military Wing where you need to split the raid in half (live and dead sides). etc?

I was semi-considering moving to a 10 box setup this year - but after reviewing a lot of the current raid encounters, I changed my mind. lol

My raid splits up pretty naturally on its own. Just a matter of swapping a few focuses.

[Zzc2]

5 Tries on Anub - Best at 37%.
Even if I dual tank I grab everything with my MT and it just goes smoothly. I spread raid in a semi circle in front of boss and tank everything in the middle.
It's the swarm that kills me due to silence. If I'm not mistaken the DK (nor the Pala) just can't use runes and therefore he has lousy avoidance stats. Aggro isn't a problem, I just die ^^.

5 Tries on Patchwerk - Best at 21%

For Anub, your dps has to stay at max range so they dont get the silence. I usually tank him at 3'oclock if his starting position is considered 12'oclock. Have the OT tank the add at 12'oclock and have all your dps assist the OT. when there is no add, just have the OT target the boss. Heal through locus and make sure your healers dont get silenced.

Patchwerk, your tanks need to be uncritabble without buffs / relics. tank and spank as normal.

also, you could try noth. he is semi easy if you got fast dps and can beat him before 2nd teleport.

How are you 10 boxers going to handle encounters where the raid gets
split? Such as the drakes in obsidian sanctum where 8/10 raid members
have to enter the portal and DPS adds while the MT and MH keep the boss
at bay?



Or the 2nd boss in the Naxx Military Wing where you need to split the raid in half (live and dead sides). etc?

Obsidian sanct sucks for multiboxers. Its all about macros. Have the dps assist the ot, have the Ot enter first followed by healer + dps. dont clump up around portal entrance or you will get void circles their and is a pain.

as for Gothic, 8 boxing it is easy because i just have 3 dps on live side assisting that tank, while im more focused on dead side. 10 boxing would be harder because if you dont keep up dps on live, you will get over run, and if you dont keep up dps on dead, youll get over run.

[BobGnarly]

Anybody try Thaddius, or have any thoughts?

I can see maybe working out the first phase, and maybe even the jump, but the swithcing...hmmm.

[Souca]

Or the 2nd boss in the Naxx Military Wing where you need to split the raid in half (live and dead sides). etc?

Actually, you don't have to split up. I believe you can all stay on live side and when the gate finally opens, all the undead waves come at once. I think you can also go dead side and teh gate will open so the live side mobs will trickle over to you. I know it has been done single sided, just don't remember which side they chose.

I think the trickier fight will be Four Horsemen, as you have to split up. In theory you could just take the front two bosses to the back, but the marks refresh at slightly different durations between front and back.

Thadius will be very hard if you want to take advantage of the polarity buffs, but he can be done by placing all the dps in a circle so none of them buff or debuff each other. Downside is lower dps and that you need to have mostly ranged. The first half of the fight will also require two groups as both adds much be killed and I believe they need to die very close to each other.

Grobulus will be annoying, but its doable. I think every other fight is pretty much feasible, but will require some initial positioning or creative following.

- Souca -

[Deekhay]

It's a dirty job but somebody's got to do it

Patchwerk has been 10Boxed!

Got some nice tank shoulders ^^

Strat:
Not a real Strat ^^ more of a tank and spank but will nevertheless share my experience. Tried to solo tank it, although I believe it's doable, it isn't with my current gear.
Put both tanks on it with one healer on each. OT died at 23%. Spammed heal till end of fight on MT. Only one dead, the OT.
Most important here is mana regen mainly for healers. The previous try I had him down to 6% so I decided to go for food and flask. Good decision .

[Deekhay]

Noth has been 10Boxed!

Druid 's happy not me...

Strat:
I think I made the fight more complicated than it actually is...
I tanked him around 20y away from group. Group stood packed. Everytime the adds popped I just taunted them with MT, both PH1 and PH2 adds. Be sure to get PH2 adds to you asap, I didn't and they do bad things to your group. Fortunately having 5 shaman is a real luxury for Raid Healing. I got two teleports but I think I'll be able to do just in one. Adds aren't tough, Boss neither. 3 Dead. main healer died really early...