(H)Gundrak: anyone done this with something besides 4 shamans?

[Greythan]

Probably done this fight 25 times.

Was the hardest to get a repetitive strategy for me.

That said, my keys:

1) Nature resistance
2) AE healing of priest (although not required as I think any multi-toon healing strat can work)
3) Aggro management (transition through phases)

Number three was my toughest issue. Once I got that down, I might lose one DPS in the fight. Once you get geared in a bunch of level 200 blues from Gundrak and other heroics, this gets pretty trivial (in my experience).

[jimbobobb]

I think most of you make this fight way harder than it is. The puddles do not do enough damage that they require moving out of. Simply spread your guys out a bit, and put their backs against the wall opposite the boss. I'm not sure how you have your druids set up, but speccing one into wild growth makes this fight a joke. Alternatively, having the druids simply rotate tranquility through the two elemental phases would be more than enough. (have two cast it during the first phase and 2 during the second phase)

My group:
Prot Pally
Resto Druid
2 X arcane mage
elemental shaman

I don't even bother with nature resist totem here. I simply put wild growth into my normal healing rotation so that my druid casts it whenever it is up. That alone keeps all of my guys alive. Perhaps if your guys have a bit of a problem with gear, that plus rejuv would be more than enough. Don't bother moving them - just heal through the puddles. Non-stop DPS and ensure that you smack the elemental the moment it gets spit out.

[Ughmahedhurtz]

I don't even bother with nature resist totem here. I simply put wild growth into my normal healing rotation so that my druid casts it whenever it is up. That alone keeps all of my guys alive. Perhaps if your guys have a bit of a problem with gear, that plus rejuv would be more than enough. Don't bother moving them - just heal through the puddles. Non-stop DPS and ensure that you smack the elemental the moment it gets spit out.

Thanks. After reading this I got to looking at the combat logs. With tauren resist nature plus GotW resists, the puddle was only ticking for about 380 a second, which is less than wild growth by a fair bit. After switching my macros on the bear a bit to control the added wild growth aggro from spamming it and adding WG to the standard rotation so it's up every time the timer is up, I finally managed to down it. Only took one try after switching the strategery. (Note the skeletons in the background.) Woot!


Thanks again.

[edit] Gundrak Heroic cleared.

[Stealthy]

I have two manned every boss with a Paladin and a Resto Shaman. So... ya.

Just curious, what spec was your pally when you did this? The boss fights must have taken forever with just two people...

I remember watching a holy paly solo Sarathstra one time...took him about 10 minutes, but he did it easily....

Cheers,

S.

[Zappy]

I recently started farming this on my 5 druids in trinity form (feral, tree, 3xboomkin). The key is to space your toons out far enough from each other to where the puddles don't overlap, then you can simply heal through it. The first half the fight, i use the occassional wild growth, then I found that dropping my treants during the second half of the fight made it extremely easy, and I just dps like normal. I don't even use wild growth til the very end. When my dps and tree starts to get low on health, I cast Tranquility, and that's usually more than enough heals for the fight.

Currently, I can farm heroic UT Keep, Gundrak, and Drak'tharon by skipping the second boss. If anybody has any good strategies for this one with 5 druids, I'd love to hear that one.

I'm guessing Nexus should be pretty easy as well, i just haven't got around to trying it yet.

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[Tdog]

Protection. Yes, it takes freaking forever - I highly recommend keeping your DPS toons alive to avoid this method. lol (bad pulls before bosses, dps dies and I pull the boss anyway type of thing). I like to do speed runs, but sometimes I push too hard.

LoL. Same here, I'm constantly dying on stupid crap, usually pulling too many groups at once but then on the boss fights I one shot em w/o losing anyone.

[jimbobobb]

Currently, I can farm heroic UT Keep, Gundrak, and Drak'tharon by skipping the second boss. If anybody has any good strategies for this one with 5 druids, I'd love to hear that one.

I'm guessing Nexus should be pretty easy as well, i just haven't got around to trying it yet.

Again, I find most people simply overthink this stuff. I just put my guys against the wall opposite the stairs. I put wild growth into my rotation for when he is active, and I strafe my group out of the blizzard (keep them stacked on top of each other and just strafe when he starts casting blizzard - it has a cast time). If you just kept starfall up, would it take care of the tiny adds? I aoe on my mages, but am honestly not sure if just your starfall would be enough, or if you would need to use hurricane or such.

Other stuff I simply brute force with aoe healing:

I just use wild growth to survive the second bosses aoe lightning beams in the occulus. Just sit my guys in one spot, have them all take the aoe when it comes around, and use wild growth whenever it's off cooldown. Never moving your guys and just eating the aoe means he dies super fast.

Same deal with Loken in Halls of Lightning. Take the aoe, just smash on heals on the group, nuke nuke nuke.

This kind of stuff might take a bit of gear, but I was definitely killing all of gundrak and drak'theron when I was newly 80 still wearing greens (WIld growth is stupidly good)

[KvdM]

Again, I find most people simply overthink this stuff. I just put my guys against the wall opposite the stairs. I put wild growth into my rotation for when he is active, and I strafe my group out of the blizzard (keep them stacked on top of each other and just strafe when he starts casting blizzard - it has a cast time). If you just kept starfall up, would it take care of the tiny adds? I aoe on my mages, but am honestly not sure if just your starfall would be enough, or if you would need to use hurricane or such.

Just spread out your group and you don't even have to strafe out of the blizzard. Just heal the one character that ends up in the blizzard.

[thegdr]

Group = protection tank, 3 arcane mages, resto shaman

Gundrak = 4/5 bosses are cake for me, poison spitting elemental causes me fits. I'm probably only successful 30-40% of the time on him. My key is I pass through the backspace key and try and back out of poison. My dps is getting close to the point that I could probably just not move. We just the nature resistance/mage armor I still take a lot of damage from the poison

I have completed Gundrak, Nexus, Drak'Tharan(skip 2nd boss), Utgarde Keep, killed bosses is almost all of the heroics

My quick daily rotation is gunrak 3 bosses(moorabi,eck,snake guy), utgarde all the way through, about an 60 mins total, Once I get this dang fight figured out I would like to make a full clearing of gunrak/uk my rotation.

[DLoweinc]

Mixed group here (disc priest, prot pali, elemental shaman, arcane mage, moonkin)

I just spread them out against the rail in the room before that boss (elemental boss in Gundrak), the one that is the corridor between the rooms prior and the rest of the instance.

Then i just strafe left after the first puddle and strafe right after the second. I have a few aol heals if i need them, but i tend not to need them anymore.