H Gundrak: Drakkari colossus

[Queshank]

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

I think you're boxing yourself in too much.

I made it a point to pull the colossus and fight him still in the other room. That way I had more visibility to all the slaves.

Then I would fight the elemental dude as far away from my toons as I could. And do exactly like others have suggested. Just step forward a few.

I think your arcane missile spec might be hurting you on that fight too. My 2 mages are both frost (just too easy with quick alttabs and blizzards). Having to channel thru the full cast time for maximum dps is really hurting I think.

But the main thing is I think I would try to tank the colossus and the elementals farther away, so your slaves have room to step forward several times. Then it's clear behind you and you can start walking backwards.

[Schwarz]

Watching your video helps

You need to work on healing better. I see the priest draw agro get smacked around a couple times then try to heal someone before they heal themselves.

If you use focus you can make us a macro to heal the target of your focus (ie who the boss is hitting). This might make healing who the boss is after a little easier.

Maybe get ahold of him in that phase and just try to see if your healer can keep people up by standing in the pools.

Can you easily heal anyone of your team while still doing dps/tanking a mob?

Take your time and watch wants happening, don't make panic moves.

This is key I don't know how many times I end up doing stupid crap b/c I panic. For example pull like 4 extra guys on a pull do you
a) drop everything AOE and chain lightning away
b) treat it as the same just more healing needed.

I have gone from almost wipping to beating bosses by being cool headed (sometimes)

[jimbobobb]

Stop moving. It's an awful tactic and not needed at all. The puddle does like 500 damage per second to people with zero resistance. toons with even just 15k life should be fine.

Across from where the colossus spawns, put your guys with their backs against the wall, spread out. With their backs against the wall, when the elemental surges them, they won't get knocked around. If you get multiple puddles on top of each other is when the problems start. That's why you never move your guys and start them spread out.

Pull the colossus. Tank him a bit away from your group. Make sure he is facing away so that as soon as he spits out the guy, you have a second to pick him up. Save a taunt or something for this.

During the puddle phase, simply HIT YOUR AOE HEAL ON EVERY SINGLE COOLDOWN. EVERY single one. Put it on a button next to your spam button or in your healing rotation and smash it. I only say every cooldown because you're new to this, and keeping your guys topped off will make you less likely to lose your mind and do something silly. I personally hit wild growth once now, and then forget about it.

In short, stop moving. It's silly. You are taking so much damage because you seem to have tank aggro problems to start, so work on that. Also make sure your toons have their back against that railing/wall and that they are a bit spread out. Do not make this fight more difficult than it is. It is simply a tank and spank with a completely negligible aoe and some aggro wipes. Concentrate on your tanking.

[Simulacra]

I park my guys in a star formation at pillars of the circle with their backs to the pillars, each has a healing totem and their all within reach of a chain heal. Just eat up the damage and be aware of the timing of the transformation/surges as it seems to be an aggo wipe. I postion the camera of the tank really high up in the ceiling so I can keep track of everything and grab aggo with hand of reckoning - works everytime. Agree with jimbob above, moving will kill you.

[Schwarz]

21 more idea

go try the boss on normal. Should be less HP and allow you to learn to heal threw the puddles.

[gitcho]

Thanks for the tips ... tried the strategy of pulling to another room so I could have more space to move forward. It does not work. As you can see by the video below, it is not possible to continually move out of the puddles - the puddles are dropped way too often.

Watching your video helps ....

drop everything AOE and chain lightning away

Not sure what video you were watching ... unless I just haven't trained healing stream and nature resist totems on my MAGES. I don't have shamans. I also am not using shamans on my team. To further add to the difficulties I'm facing, there are currently no shamans in my comp.

Attempt # 2: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TNdzwq6ZgJ8

Going to try jimbob's idea and figure out a way to heal through it while trying to manage the aggro better.

[Feider]

I had not thought of it until now (and I run a mage also) but are the puddles magic or a kind of poison effect? If they are not magic there may be no magic in the fight. Amplify Magic would certainly help on heals.

Any thoughts?

[Fef]

What Jimbobobb said. I never could beat that boss until I stopped moving. This colossus has been my bottleneck in this instance for weeks.

Dead simple : I couldn't deal with moving my team and re-grabbing aggro fast enough. That was just too much for my brain. As soon as I tryied healing through the puddles, the fight became almost trivial.

[Feider]

The healing is cake. I'm having a hard time with the aggro dump though. I need to go into that fight with a calmer head. Good point.

[gitcho]

The healing is cake.

?? i'm gonna have to try spamming heals through it ... certainly don't remember it being "cake" - maybe it's because I wasn't managing aggro properly .. I'm using mage armor for the minor resistance - is there ANYTHING available to mages that will up nature resistance?