Finally cleared H Gundrak!

[Hachoo]

Yep, or spend about 5k gearing him up with every BoE epic and the best gems/enchants you can buy if you want to turbo boost your way into overgeared tank.

[heffner]

I just tried this as my first heroic. I quickly realized how bad I am at multiboxing :P

I managed to actually kill the first boss (the guy near the pit of small snakes - guess first boss depends on where you enter??). I wiped a couple of times though. The AOE got my slaves. I never bothered going to the colossus.

My current problem is my paladin tank losing aggro. I need to calm down on button smashing or something.

[Dorffo]

Any refined tips for handling the collosus, and more specifically the elemental? I'm flat out a newb when it comes to boss fights that require movement. As I stated above, I haven't yet tried simple positioning changes on this fight (i.e., my wipes yesterday were all with my pack of four gobbed together).

spread out in a cross with all toons facing the middle (I believe thats how hachoo's video has them placed).

when the boss does his spit thing calmly strafe everyone one step to the left or right and continue killing. repeat stepping hte other direction. all the while keep tank and mob in the middle - be ready to use both taunts on the pali.

What this does is steps you all out of th epool but keeps the boss in LOS of everyone without having to rotate any toons. takes some practice but that worked fairly well for me.

[Tizer]

I stick my shaman around to the right as you enter the room, up out of the pit, not in LoS of the boss. I totem up then pull with my pally, run back to the group, drop fresh magma totems, consecrate, pop bloodlust and hammer "Q" like a crazy fool and hitting TS if i see any adds. (this is my dps key on pally and shaman) i get him to about 1/3 health before the aoe hits, as he casts it, i fire off a chain heal, i spam "Q", till hes dead. (Sometimes i'll do another chain heal, sometimes i dont.) My pally never needs healing, the boss does hardly any damage and the chain heals top him up. Boss is dead in about 20 seconds. Job done. Move on.

Next boss just do as hanchoo does in his video, spread appart, nature res totem, 4 healing streams, then just....kill him. Chain heal if needed. My pally only needed 1 heal last night when i did it. I find the odd taunt is needed to keep agro, i "think" threat resets when he transforms. You should never have any threat generation issues if you have Righteous Fury active.

[olipcs]

What I have been doing with my team, to fight the colossus in his elemental phase is the following:

1. Position all 3 dpser on the walls of the circled room (the one befor the boss, where the elementals and the 2 'statues' were), with a little bit room between them, but not as much.
(the 'on the walls' is, so that the elemental stays before them, when it charges arround and the ppols don't add up)
2. position the priest before the dpsers so, that a 'holy nova' heals all dps (and the tank)
3. position the tank infront of the priest
4. use an nature-resitance thing ( for me its my hunter, for you your shaman)

with this constelation, in the elemental phase, i simply stay where i'am, tank with my paly, and dps with my toons, while my disc-priest spams holy-nova like he's crazy :)

[Greythan]

Thanks O.

I'm just not sure that my priest has enough SP and mana pool/regen to spam ae heals for this entire fight. I think I'm just suffering from the typical, just-hit-80-not-yet-geared blues and need to win a few and/or do some instancing with my guild.

May be trying this fight again tonight. I'm getting the first boss down pat a bit (although even he's a wipe 2/3 of the time still).

[Gomotron]

Keep plugging away and you'll develop your own strats for the fight based on your own gear and group composition.

And when that fails, check out the movies on this forum and just ask questions. I know that I had all kinds of problems with my team and usually, I'd search the forums here and find an answer, although maybe not the exact answer I was looking for.

I, for one, have decided to get better Def gear on my tank and that has made the fights a lot easier. My main problem has been positioning, which I seem to be getting better on.

[Stealthy]

[quote='Hachoo',index.php?page=Thread&postID=188176 #post188176]Yep, or spend about 5k gearing him up with every BoE epic and the best gems/enchants you can buy if you want to turbo boost your way into overgeared tank.[/quote][url='http://www.wowarmory.com/character-sheet.xml?r=Magtheridon&n=De%C3%A2thgrip']My Armory.
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I made my tank BS/JC and made them myself :P

The extra sockets, prismatic gems and monarch crab figurine were just gravy.

Cheers,

S.

[Greythan]

Killed the Collosus on my third attempt last night.

Refined my tactics a bit. Realized I was engaging DPS a bit too early after the transformation. Gave my pally time to get aggro and it went better. Did it in Hachoo's "cross" formation wiith strafe buttons mapped for slaves.

Far from ezmode, but took him down. Of course, he drops a piece of leather rogue gear for my party. (Hello DE shard)

[Hachoo]

Killed the Collosus on my third attempt last night.

Refined my tactics a bit. Realized I was engaging DPS a bit too early after the transformation. Gave my pally time to get aggro and it went better. Did it in Hachoo's "cross" formation wiith strafe buttons mapped for slaves.

Far from ezmode, but took him down. Of course, he drops a piece of leather rogue gear for my party. (Hello DE shard)

Congrats! Once you get used to the encounter and get some serious DPS going you'll find that you can utilize taunts + super high DPS to nail him without having to build threat.

Basically for my DK when he transforms I can hit him with so much DPS that I just use 1 taunt and within the 3-5 seconds when it ends he's already transforming back into another form