H Gundrak: Drakkari colossus

[Fef]

Congratulations. It will only get easier. Now that pressure of the first kill is down, you will take him in a more relaxed manner, and everything will go smooth next times.

Well done !

[Schwarz]

Does popping your mirror image help a lot? The last video it looked like you just got unlucky having the healer draw agro. Good job and congrats.

[daviddoran]

I did it successfully with my mages before i switched to a 5 class team, so it is possible.

For your mages,
First, just do 4x Arcane Blasts and 1 Arcane Missiles, Barrage doesn't do as much damage any more.
You need to reglyph. There's a Glyph of Arcane Blast which adds 3% more dps. You can keep glyph of mirror image if you like. Ditch the glyph of Ice armor, arcane mages should either be using Mage armor, or Molten armor. Mage armor gives you more resists, and more mana regen. My dps macro pops Icy Veins, Arcane Power, and presence of mind whenever they are up, and I manually do my mana gem and mirror image. Popping all the cooldowns at the beginning of the fight helps enormously, all of those CDs add a lot of DPS, and mirror image makes the mages not do any threat until the images die. I wasnt using icy veins on every pull for a while cause i wanted to "save it" but its on such a short CD, popping it every time its up just makes everything go that much quicker. Your dps will skyrocket once you start popping CDs.... on target dummies, at the beginning of the fight (i cheat and use heroism, and totem of wrath, which gives me a shit ton more dps but still) i see 6k dps on my mage, and it usually ends up at 4.5-5k.

Don't forget Ice block either. If the mages are about to die to the goo, iceblock, then you should have time to get some heals on them.

BTW, your mage spec looks identical to mine... did you copy mine?

Edit: I should really read all pages before posting.... Grats on getting him down. I had to spam a lot more healing when i was first starting out, but now that I do 3x more dps, its a totally different fight.

[abodeofravens]

Gitcho-

I had the same problem that you had. my team was paladin tank, Disc Priest, 2x Destrolock, 1x Demolock. The priest just kinda sucks when it comes to group aoe healing (worse at raid level). anyways, I wanted to offer you some points that I have gotten down because the colossus is just the first encounter like this that is going to be a pain in your rear (halls of lightning ionar and loken come to mind also).

1. there is no reason to keep the colossus at that range from the rest of your team. as far as i have seen he has no cleave or AOE abilities of consequence. Keep your team lined up against that far wall as you are but when you pull with your tank pull all the way back until you are 5-10 yards out from your other toons then turn him around facing away. This gives you time to help start your aggro before you even get to your team. I typically pull with hand, then avengers, then judge, at at that point your are in position and can start the dps burn. This allows you to keep all your movement to a minimum during the encounter and keep the colossus in your consecrate no matter where he surges or turns.

2. when you line your group up you can keep them pretty tight like fursphere suggests... the objective is you only want them far enough so they are not sharing puddles. You can do this easily with everyone in range of your holy nova whcih is good for getting Divine Aegis procs on your team. If you prefer to use divine shield make sure you create a click macro so that after you cast PW:S you immediately cast your AOE prayer of healing to take advange of your Borrowed Time proc or by the time you get to casting the final shield your will be in danger of losing folks due to all the global cooldowns you have to go through.. I would also recommend for now at least getting Glyph of Prayer of Healing to get the 20% HoT.

3. If you are having issus with your Paladin and threat you may want to consider changing your build slightly. Mine is :

http://www.wowarmory.com/character-s...mrage&n=Limper

Reckoning becomes less and less effective as you go and would probably be better off with Conviction or Seals of the Pure. With your current weapons speed you are never going to get 4 swings out of it and while the white damage is definite good you might be better otherwise. I would also consider changing one or two glyphs.

I know all too well that feeling of success and I know the road you have been leading to this without nature resists. I spent a couple weeks trying to get past that encounter and when i did i went to HoL to punish myself there .

hope maybe some of this helps. Ionar really blows. I don' care what the sites all say, the lightning spiders NEVER follow me up the stairs. hehehe.

[Bloodcloud]

SUCCESS! Was finally able to beat him today by standing still. There was a few things that made the difference without any nature resist:

- stand still and spread out
- power word:shield the whole party before the elemental spawns
- SPAM prayer of healing (better range than holy nova, and hits tank as well)
- make sure to pick up the elemental aggro
- make sure to pick up the colossus aggro after the merge

That being said, I lost my healer way before the elemental merged back to the colossus for the first time. I have no idea how I was able to last the rest of the fight without dying, but I just barely got him down. Better strategy would make this much smoother.

I went on to take Gal'darah down first time with everyone still alive - and got my first heroic down!! Feels so good. Thanks for all the tips.

For those that don't use shamans, this is how I did it (a very lucky kill given that my healer went down early): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CVHMf2Dne5M (video just uploaded - may still be blurry)

WHOOW great.

This is very much inspiring to try it with my Huntard again instead of levelling my Shammy.

will try it on normal again first a couple of times.