Finally cleared H Gundrak!

[Greythan]

Learn something everyday:

So, if you continue to burn down the collosus while he's spitting out the elemental (i.e., transforming) you reduce the amount of time you face the elemental? Did I get that right?

My DPS is no where near what it should be so this is a way off, but worth knowing.

Oh, one addendum. It was late for me after downing him, but also the first time I could move into the cavern beyond him. So, I thought I'd kill a few more. There's the one roamer that I downed and then the first group of four humanoids. So, having not yet macro'd Hex I went ahead and set it up.

Feeling invincible, I set my mage's focus on one target, my shaman on another and pull. I hit my sheep/hex macro, and of course I had focused my shaman on a ranged mob. It doesn't get within range, aggro bounces to my priest, and I wipe. Laughed pretty hard. A bit of humble pie after my boss victory. Good stuff.

[Hachoo]

Learn something everyday:

So, if you continue to burn down the collosus while he's spitting out the elemental (i.e., transforming) you reduce the amount of time you face the elemental? Did I get that right?

My DPS is no where near what it should be so this is a way off, but worth knowing.

Oh, one addendum. It was late for me after downing him, but also the first time I could move into the cavern beyond him. So, I thought I'd kill a few more. There's the one roamer that I downed and then the first group of four humanoids. So, having not yet macro'd Hex I went ahead and set it up.

Feeling invincible, I set my mage's focus on one target, my shaman on another and pull. I hit my sheep/hex macro, and of course I had focused my shaman on a ranged mob. It doesn't get within range, aggro bounces to my priest, and I wipe. Laughed pretty hard. A bit of humble pie after my boss victory. Good stuff.

Not quite exactly what I meant. Basically, you only have to do something like 75k damage to him each time for him to switch forms. I can do 75k damage in just a few seconds (maybe 4-5, FS+LvB+LB is something like 60-70k damage for me, plus my DKs damage), so when he changes forms I hit him with an icy touch to grab aggro, FS to set up the LvB, then when I cast the LvB I hit either dark command or death grip and thats enough to hold aggro through LvB + LB (+ LB if I need a 3rd spell) - Death grip is usually wearing off about that point but I did so much damage hes changing forms already anyway

[Xinxo]

It's a funny feeling when you go from just killing a boss to the point where you get achievements for killing it so quickly. Yesterday I got Consumption Junction with out even trying :S No LOS used, just burnt him quickly enough. Had 15k over all dps >.>

[Dorffo]

Oh, one addendum. It was late for me after downing him, but also the first time I could move into the cavern beyond him. So, I thought I'd kill a few more. There's the one roamer that I downed and then the first group of four humanoids. So, having not yet macro'd Hex I went ahead and set it up.

Are you talking about the troll area that leads down to Moorabi?

If so, after killing the elemental (coming from snake side), you can jump into the water and swim over to the ramp next to Moorabi/Eck's room - no need to kill Trolls/hulk things. After killing Eck and Moorabi (reverse that order), just jump off the ledge where the crystal you have to click is, and swim over to the middle and proceed to the last boss. Shaves a few minutes and you don't have to deal with the 4packs of trolls.

[Greythan]

Are you talking about the troll area that leads down to Moorabi?

If so, after killing the elemental (coming from snake side), you can jump into the water and swim over to the ramp next to Moorabi/Eck's room - no need to kill Trolls/hulk things. After killing Eck and Moorabi (reverse that order), just jump off the ledge where the crystal you have to click is, and swim over to the middle and proceed to the last boss. Shaves a few minutes and you don't have to deal with the 4packs of trolls.

Yes, that's exactly what I'm talking about so I learned more than one "something" today.

Thanks for the tip.

Hachoo, thanks for the clarification. That makes sense. I've determined that my aggro management on this fight needs some serious work. I've had a few runs now where I get the elemental focused on the tank only to see it run after and kill a dps. I need to stop mashing the dps button after each transformation for a second to let the pally build up threat. I'm just so damn nervous about survivability that I'm mashing buttons like crazy trying to burn him down.

[Gomotron]

Greythan

A good boss fight to try to learn controlled DPS is the Vexallus fight in Heroic Magister's Terrace. In that particular fight, if you DPS too quickly without killing adds, you'll end up wiping as the adds have a pretty mean AE.

On normal mode, you can DPS so quickly that it doesn't matter, but on Heroic, you either need huge DPS or you need to control the encounter. Anyways, it's a fun fight and may help you get a little more comfortable with controlling DPS.

I'm not one to really talk, though, as I get spastic on Heroic Boss fights as well!

[Greythan]

I'm not one to really talk, though, as I get spastic on Heroic Boss fights as well!

At this risk of not being politically correct, I'm a total spaz atm on these fights.

Heart beat increases. Hands are shaking. Its really fun.

Its also really frustrating when you realize you aren't playing smart. However, that's all part of why we took up this multi-boxing mantle, huh?

On the positive side, I've never played a tank class in any game (former longtime EQ player here). My guild needed an offtank for a 10 man OS and I performed quite well. It was clear my guild outgeared the content, but I followed directions pretty well and held aggro on the adds, went through the portal on the dragon fights, etc. I think the multi-boxing really makes you a better all around player.

Back on the topic of spastic play, I really need to work on my keybinds. I notice that I have certain functions set to keybinds that require both hands and I've stubbonrly resisted changing. For example, my fire elemental totem is alt-7 and my bloodlust is alt-8. I've died a couple times by taking my hand off my numpad (all my healer binds are there) to try and set those off. Silly stuff like that.

[Greythan]

Just took the Collusus down on my first attempt tonight. A huge upgrade to my warlock running Nax10 with guild last night helped dps. That said, my tactics are MUCH better.

Key I'm finding on that fight is aggro management. Staying calm enough to get and hold aggro after each transformation makes a big difference. Oh, and even one healing stream totem is highly helpful. A few AE heals from my priest and everyone survived. A first.

Great to have this community. Thanks to everyone for the contributions.

[heffner]

I finally cleared this as well =). My first heroic.

The colossus was a colossal pain in the but. I wiped about 7 times. I am having serious issues with my paladin regaining aggro after the transformations. Almost all wipes were due to my priest getting owned right after the switch. My shaman got owned a couple times when I managed to save my priest, but that was bad too - bye bye nature resist. I tried again tonight and failed 3 attempts. Gave up and went through the other entrance to do Moorabi and Eck instead.

This has so far been a common theme for me. My priest keeps getting owned. I had problems with Novos (read: wiped 10 times) due to my priest dying (mostly from the adds). Positioning in the fight makes a huge difference too. I tried a different spot than what was in Hachoo's video, OMG LOL, what a mistake. I got overwhelmed with adds.

Similar problem with King Dred. I can get him down to about 50k most of the time but my priest eventually gets owned by the added raptor. I haven't tried fighting up the stairs yet though.

Well, at least I got some gear I needed after my 1k in repair bills (20g X 5toons X 10 wipes = OUCH!).

[Gomotron]

Heffner,



I am sure that it is a coded thing, because when I was running a 4 hunter + priest team, whenever we were running along and something would aggro, the priest ALWAYS caught aggro first, even when she was standing right on top of three other hunters.

I am not sure but you may wanna try Fading immediately on the change and also try to keep Avenger's Shield up until the transformation. This will at least get you through the first tranformation to the elemental.