H Gundrak: Drakkari colossus

[heyaz]

I run shaman so I have NR totems, but I think it's possible without. What I do is spread out the shaman towards the back, one on each pillar. Puddles hit only 1 shaman at a time and I can easily heal through that with chain heal.

Your tank should need very little healing, I believe if you put your priest in the middle and use aoe heals you can heal through the 1-2 dps that are in puddles. Your DPS is a little low for the fight so you may have to deal with more damage from the water elemental but I think it's doable.

The problem with moving out of the puddles constantly is you kill the DPS, even with my shaman doing 3-4k each, it keeps the water elemental up too long and I have to deal with way more damage than I should.

I'd save all your cooldowns for the water elemental, the collosus hits hard but you can take your time with him, the only issue you should have is if he lands a mortal strike, but you can still heal through that.

[Malekyth]

I used to strafe out of the puddles, but decided it was more fun (and less dangerous) to occasionally hit my follow macro, let the tank lead the alts (and boss) around the battle area while parrying and thrusting, then hit the move backward and spread out keys to resume DPSing. Fire off a few shadowbolts, then do the follow thing again. My priest is specced for Holy Nova, which I find to be pretty sufficient for this fight. I do this for the ethereal boss in Violet Hold too. He leads you on a merry chase throughout, so instead of getting tricky with placement, I just indulge him and chase. Nooo problem.

(Mind you, I run warlocks, not mages, so I probably have at least Curse of Agony if not Corruption, and a pet beating the boss down during the follow parts -- you'd be doing less DPS overall, unless you're specced Fire or have your elementals out or somethin')

[Greythan]

Drop arcane blast at the end. Four arcane barrage and arcane missles. Odds are like 90+% you will have proc'd missle barrage each rotation.

Glyphy holy nova on your priest, keep three mages within range of holy nova, keep prayer of mending up and spam holy nova as needed. Your dps will make short work of this boss once you get a rhythm.

I will admit the presence of my shaman makes this trivial now with NR totem and healing stream.

Also, I've learned that taking the transitions slow to ensure you have good aggro on your tank is key.

[Bigfish]

What I do is set my characters up in a line so that none of them are standing on each other, and then watch the elemental for his puddle toss. when he tosses puddles, move everyone up a few steps. I also have to spam prayer of healing when not healing the tank.

[Psych]

What I do is set my characters up in a line so that none of them are standing on each other, and then watch the elemental for his puddle toss. when he tosses puddles, move everyone up a few steps. I also have to spam prayer of healing when not healing the tank.

That's basically what I do as well on my 5 druid group, granted I have Gift of the Wild which gives 75 resistance, but that's minor really.

Space them out (but within Wild Growth distance of each other), when a puddle lands (or when I see a slave taking big damage) I move all of them forward a few paces. By the end of the fight it gets pretty messy on the floor, but strafe around and find a decent spot for each of the transitions to the golem and you're good.

That's with lower gear and dps on my toons.

[LokNarash]

Space them out (but within Wild Growth distance of each other), when a puddle lands (or when I see a slave taking big damage) I move all of them forward a few paces.

This. Never let them on follow to eat 4x more dots.

[Rocky Rhode]

So I went back last night to pay a visit to the Purple People Eater – Set up my girls in the opposite room with their backs to the pillars. I don’t like loosing my Healing Stream totem; I opted to add a change of aspect into the hunter rotation for the phase change.

With Nature at 130 this guy is a joke…Tossed out a few chain heals but never really saw my group drop below 50% at any given time standing in the puddles; they took more damage from the phase change due to the agro dump.

Gundrak went down with a whimper after that; we cleaned up the instance save one wipe on the Snake boss due to an unfortunate wrap around my shaman. Eck was the biggest joke of all; set up the girls in the little alcove at max range; he never once jumped making it a simple tank and spank. Came real close to the “Share the Love” achievement; the Spriest’s dots killed the last boss before he could impale the 5th team member.

[EaTCarbS]

if you don't have nature resist then move out of the puddles.

[bartholomeo]

I wiped good week ago on the drakkari boss aswell, so i ran Toc multiple times to gear up the shamans a bit.

Today i tried it again, one shot the snake boss with ease.

For the colossus i wiped the first time due to my tank not picking up the purple blob fast enough. The shaman's and the dk tank swapped aggro a few times, resulting in 2 dps down, causing a wipe.

The 2nd time I used the same totems as before ( 3x healing, 1x Nature Resist ) and started dps-ing hard.
When the purple bubble maker came out the i picked it up well on time and give myself a few seconds to build threat before nuking it down. I moved my guys twice during the first purple menace. Just hit "W" half a second wich was enough to move them out of the puddle of death. Halfway his health i moved them again just a bit.
When the colossus became active again, dps-ed the hell out of him. Result : 5k health left and another purple bastard. frustrating ....
Again the same tactics were used, dps hard, move once or twice and kill it. I had to use chain lightning once to top off the team once they came below 50%. Healing stream helps alot, but not enough

after the colossus came active again it took 0.1 seconds to kill him permanently.

now i'm off to continue on my first clearing of gundrak

[gitcho]

OK - i've posted a video of my attempt ... don't know if it's just me, but he's dropping puddles really fast ... seems I have to move way too much ... since H Gundrak is today's heroic daily, I would REALLY love to be able to beat this guy and say i have my first heroic down =)

Any strategies would be super helpful. I'm willing to re-record if asked ...

*no editing or sound* = http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-WgU2VxPaZw