Finally cleared H Gundrak!

[heffner]

/Facepalm, Fade!! Lol, I don't know why I forgot about that, I used to play a priest as a main way back when too. Thanks for the tip! Hard to become proficient at five different classes at the same time =)

[Greythan]

Well, back to the drawing board. Moorabi ate me up for my three tries I had time for last night.

I struggled hard with keeping my tank alive and being able to cast enough AE healing so that a second stomp doesn't kill my entire crew.

Have to work on timing, use of healthstones/pots, and getting my shaman to help out with a chain heal (?) after a stomp to keep toons above 8k.

Fun fun!

[Dorffo]

I believe you can out-range the stomp with your casters (been a bit, so maybe i am recalling that incorrectly).

[Greythan]

THought I'd read that you can't outrange the stomp. Anyone else have a definitive on this?

[Greythan]

Okay, hit a new wall today.

Cleared all four bosses prior to Gundrak on the first try. (Also was my first attempt period on Eck.)

So, feeling confident I took a run at Gundrak, and another, and another..... well, you know how the story ends.

Rhino form simply kicks my arse. Followed Hachoo's positioning from his video. Largely avoided the troll form's weapon spin, things going just fine. Bigwigs tells me transformation is coming so I move over closer to my group. Simply, can't keep my tank alive. On the last attempt, I stopped my shaman from DPS'ing and had him add heals with my priest. Still, couldn't keep tank alive.

My tank, while still early in gear, has improved lately: 22.3HP, 23859 armor, 20.05% dodge, 16.07% parry, 12.95% block, block stops 954 damage, defense is 553.

Any thoughts?

[Hachoo]

Blow all your cooldowns during rhino form... what exactly are you having issues with?

If your defense truly is 553 (your actual defense not your defense rating) you shouldn't have any issues - if you get crit you can basically be one shotted when hes in rhino form and enraged.

When I was first trying the encounter I finally beat the boss by not doing anything during rhino form except heal. It doesn't last a terribly long time. I just sat and spammed 4x lesser healing waves over and over again until rhino form ended then went back to my normal DPS - would usually kill him back then before another rhino form. Now I can kill him before he turns into a rhino the first time

I would say when he transforms into a rhino just spam heals over and over - use all of your tank cooldowns (if you have any - for my DK I would use icebound fort and re-use bone shield if it was up, plus my dodge trinket, etc).

[Dominian]

Okay, hit a new wall today.

Cleared all four bosses prior to Gundrak on the first try. (Also was my first attempt period on Eck.)

So, feeling confident I took a run at Gundrak, and another, and another..... well, you know how the story ends.

Rhino form simply kicks my arse. Followed Hachoo's positioning from his video. Largely avoided the troll form's weapon spin, things going just fine. Bigwigs tells me transformation is coming so I move over closer to my group. Simply, can't keep my tank alive. On the last attempt, I stopped my shaman from DPS'ing and had him add heals with my priest. Still, couldn't keep tank alive.

My tank, while still early in gear, has improved lately: 22.3HP, 23859 armor, 20.05% dodge, 16.07% parry, 12.95% block, block stops 954 damage, defense is 553.

Any thoughts?

Defence is a lost cause when you pass 540, socket/enchant stamina/avoidance and always try to balance it at 540.

[Greythan]

Yeah, my defense is 553. Just got a few item upgrades and haven't explored rebalancing the handful of gems/enchants I have.

Problem is pretty straight forward, I can't keep the tank upright. In fairness, I've only tried the encounter a half dozen times and it took more a lot more than that to get the Collussus figured out. Was just wondering if there was anything obvious I was missing.

How long does the rhino form last? Seemed an eternity to me.

[Hachoo]

Yeah, my defense is 553. Just got a few item upgrades and haven't explored rebalancing the handful of gems/enchants I have.

Problem is pretty straight forward, I can't keep the tank upright. In fairness, I've only tried the encounter a half dozen times and it took more a lot more than that to get the Collussus figured out. Was just wondering if there was anything obvious I was missing.

How long does the rhino form last? Seemed an eternity to me.

It lasts a little while - not sure the exact amount of time but < 30 seconds I'm guessing. You shouldn't run out of mana or anything. I believe he hits for like what, 6-9k when hes enraged? I was able to spam 1.5s heals enough to cover the damage when I first started the encounter - I had to do nothing but heal really. Have you done the encounter yet where you do nothing but spam your heal and tank macro when hes in rhino form? You want to keep aggro on your paladin of course so you should keep smacking the boss with the tank, but then with your healer just spam your fastest most efficient heal as fast as you can and hope it keeps up You could probably heal with your paladin also if you had to.

[Simulacra]

I would like to announce that on Saturday morning I cleared Heroic Grundrak and got the plate gloves for my pally - WOO HOO!!!!!!!!!!!
Changes made that made this possible:
Changed my Shaman DPS macro to not cast chain lightning as I noticed with recount data that it wasn't causing a whole bunch of damage whereas LB was.
Gave 3 of my shaman a +40 hit potion.
The final boss went down like a ton of bricks - mwahahahahaha

edit: forgot to say, the shammies finished the fight with full health and 3/4 mana the pally on was still pretty healthy with 50% health, I had to use 1 mana pot for the pally