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

[Deekhay]

I think it's a good idea to find out who's ten boxing PVE content, who's going to or even just planning. The reason I post in this section of the forum is that we can make this thread the place to share our experiences and tactics.

One step forward the 10 boxers please .

I intend to do my first 10m this weekend. My progress and my fail will be posted in this thread.

[Bunny]

Well
as stated in the other thread here I am. All my toons are on [EU] Thrall - horde.

Group 1 (lvl 80 and geared with heroic stuff):
Protection pala
resto sham
ele sham
Moonkin
Mage

Group 2 (lvl 79 and grinding lvl 80 instances (boooring)):
protection pala
resto druid
lock
shadow priest
ele sham

I'll be starting 10 man content this weekend or next week depending on work and other activities. I will start with the specs mentioned above altough that means i have 2 tanks, 2 healers, 6dps. When 3.1 hits I will respec the mage to frost and the priest to disc to act as a 3rd healer. All those plans may change when I have first experience in 10 man content. One of the paladins collects a healer set so I can switch specs for fights where only 1 tank is necessary.

Thats it for now - I am going to tell more when I actually started.

Bunny

[Coltimar]

I'm at least a week, prolly two, from starting 10 boxing level 70 content. I can 5 box kara with team 1, but I want to go through it with team 2.

Team 1
1 Prot Pally
1 Resto Shaman
1 Elemental Shaman
1 Elemental Shaman
1 Elemental Shaman

Team 2
1 Unholy DK
1 Shadow Priest
1 Balance Druid
1 Destro Lock
1 Frost Mage

[Bigfish]

My group consists of:

Prot Pally
Resto Druid
Shadow Priest
Fire Mage
Affliction Lock

Frost/Unholy DK
Resto Shaman
Fury Warrior
Beast Mastery Hunter
Combat Rogue

I've been trying archavon for about two weeks now, but he keeps stomping me. My best attempt got him down to 500k. I'm noticing a couple of things that I really need to fix, but I'm still trying to figure out how to deal with the random nature of the fight.

[Deekhay]

I've been trying archavon for about two weeks now, but he keeps stomping me. My best attempt got him down to 500k. I'm noticing a couple of things that I really need to fix, but I'm still trying to figure out how to deal with the random nature of the fight.

Please share your thoughts, strats, what is killing you, etc... Btw you're at which server/continent?

Thank you all that answered the "call" so far

[Bigfish]

Oh, right, Shadow Council NA.

Archavon has given me a whole slew of problems, among them:

Effectively managing 6 ranged classes who occasionally get jumped on, knocked back, or end up in clouds.

The tank switch. Not uncommon for Archavon to resist taunts by the off tank. I need to Glyph for that.

Characters that end up facing the wrong direction or out of range due to knockbacks.


My best attempt happened when the group was mostly spread out, so I'm thinking its largely a matter of finding the right positioning and managing the variation of whack-a-mole that involves moving individuals out of clouds.

[Greythan]

Only a lowly five boxer here, but I wonder if creative use of /follow might help with your facing problems? (Having multiple hotkeys to have DPS /follow a close toon to get him/her facing the right way again?)

[Deekhay]

Oh, right, Shadow Council NA.

Archavon has given me a whole slew of problems, among them:

Effectively managing 6 ranged classes who occasionally get jumped on, knocked back, or end up in clouds.

The tank switch. Not uncommon for Archavon to resist taunts by the off tank. I need to Glyph for that.

Characters that end up facing the wrong direction or out of range due to knockbacks.


My best attempt happened when the group was mostly spread out, so I'm thinking its largely a matter of finding the right positioning and managing the variation of whack-a-mole that involves moving individuals out of clouds.

Both my tanks have the +% taunt glyph.
They're jumped on because taunt is resisted? Or is it random?
Can't the ones being aoe spotted be just healed instead moved out of the zone? So they can keep dpsing?
Nature resist totem helps?

Thanks!

[Bigfish]

Both my tanks have the +% taunt glyph.
They're jumped on because taunt is resisted? Or is it random?
Can't the ones being aoe spotted be just healed instead moved out of the zone? So they can keep dpsing?
Nature resist totem helps?

The jumps are random, just like his Spike Shots. It knocks back anyone near where he lands, and leaves the cloud. I'll try a Nature Resist my next attempt, but its still preferable to get out of zone since it also increases cast time by 100%.

Only a lowly five boxer here, but I wonder if creative use of /follow might help with your facing problems? (Having multiple hotkeys to have DPS /follow a close toon to get him/her facing the right way again?)

That has been one thing I've played with just to get them facing the right direction, but I also don't want them close together to avoid the spike shot, and there is also the issue of their follow-lead being behind them, which would turn them in the wrong direction, not to mention they aren't always in range of their target. Not that facing was an ovely large issue, just one of the ones I noticed.

[Deekhay]

I just tested Heroic training Dummy in Orgrimmar. The healers didn't dps oc.

I did a bit over 20k dps and almost 6million damage till near oom (no potions).

Of course it's not the same thing as a real boss fight but do you have any idea on your current dps Bigfish?