Drak'Tharon Keep

[Ken]

Did this place get buffed up 3.1? I've ran this dungeon before, but for whatever reason, the Risen Drakkari Soulmages now seem to always drop the shadow well (1000 dmg/second) on my groups. How do you guys combat this?

I was lucky to have no shadow wells at all in my heroic run last weekend. I always attack them first and stun them as much as possible with my tank.

[Dominian]

Its actual quite easy once you realise that the soulwell range isnt unlimited.

[Taliesin]

I've never actually thought to test the range on the soulmages, but wouldn't be surprised if they are limited to 30 yards, while most DPS have 36 yard ranges (with talents). Good thought.

As always, strategies depend on group configurations. I just spread my toons out about 10 yards each (so the two outside toons are against each wall), use shadow resist aura (pali tank), and keep an eye out if any of them get hit by the spell and throw a big heal or two at them. Also with pali tank, I just hammer stun any soulmage after a few seconds to prevent casting (they never cast right away, usually about 5-6 seconds into the fight), so I only tend to get hit at all if there's two of them in one pack, which is pretty rare.

But now with our new shield silence, I can just throw the shield to silence both at the same time, then hammer the second soulmage once I kill the first one. DPS just needs to be fairly decent to kill them fast enough (1700+ DPS average across all 3 DPS, at a guess) before silence/stun wears off.

[Rin]

Wewt. Thanks for all of the replies. I still shake my head when I see two of those soulmages up together, but I've at least managed to farm this place now without dying. I like the idea of testing the ranges on the soulmages; I may try that this evening. I too use the "spread-out" method now, Taliesin, so at least only one character will die if I mess up now .



Cheers!!

[wowphreak]

according to wowhead.com there spell has a 30 yard range ? If thats true then it would be fairly easy to avoid
http://www.wowhead.com/?spell=55847

[Dominian]

Ive actually included the soulmages in my drak'thalon movie but i forgot to upload it, i will try to do it later today.

The range part ive already figured out on normal so i managed to avoid thoose painful and costy heroic wipes!

[Taliesin]

Speaking of ranges, I just confirmed last night that Eck and his little buddies in Gundrak are indeed range-limited as well. Killed them all without a single jump. I'm guessing they are limited to only 30 yards as well.