Wotlk - Ulduar - Halls of Lightning (HoL) - Ionar and Loken strat

[thedreameater]

[QUOTE=Fuzzyboy;233395]For Ionar I just stand still (though spread) while he's dispersed and heal through it. Don't attack, don't move, just heal :-) Once he returns, resume DPS'ing. When done that way he's really really easy.QUOTE]

Easy my fucking ass.

Don't try this kids unless you have stupid gear. FUCK Ionar.

[Fuzzyboy]

[QUOTE=thedreameater;251855]

For Ionar I just stand still (though spread) while he's dispersed and heal through it. Don't attack, don't move, just heal :-) Once he returns, resume DPS'ing. When done that way he's really really easy.QUOTE]

Easy my fucking ass.

Don't try this kids unless you have stupid gear. FUCK Ionar.

You don't need especially good gear to do it this way. The trick is to

a) be spaced far enough aparty that the debuff he applies (which does damage to players near the player with the debufff) doesn't reach the next player and

b) to use a nature resistance totem

If your all teammembers can cast heals, use the heals on yourself while he's dispersed, if you have only one healer, you need to be in position to do AE heals (for instance PoH works really well for this encounter).

[thedreameater]

[QUOTE=Fuzzyboy;251872]

You don't need especially good gear to do it this way. The trick is to

a) be spaced far enough aparty that the debuff he applies (which does damage to players near the player with the debufff) doesn't reach the next player and

b) to use a nature resistance totem

If your all teammembers can cast heals, use the heals on yourself while he's dispersed, if you have only one healer, you need to be in position to do AE heals (for instance PoH works really well for this encounter).

Thanks for the advice, will try tonight.. Man, I was fuming after this fight. I can kill the golem boss from gundrak without a care, but could not stay up during this.

[Otlecs]

I always use the balcony at Ionar now. Spread my guys out, go pull with an earthshield up, run like the clappers back to the doorway to the balcony and open up. I just heal through the dispersal.

I still move at Loken, but I'm not sure how useful it is because I still take a whole shed-load of damage. Like the OP, I strafe left/right using a single keybind for all toons.

HoL actually seemed almost impossible when I first tried it. I had a really tough time with both Ionar and Loken, but then I dived into heroics as soon as I hit 80 so that's to be expected I reckon!

Mind you, I thought the same about other heroics - Utgarde Pinnacle and Old Kingdom come immediately to mind - and now they're all easy-mode farming, mostly due to better tactics (often learned right here) than gear!

I really should have a go at Oculus one day. There are some good strategies posted on these forums.

[Psych]

Yeah there's no real point in dismissing a strategy because you're team is fully decked out in amazing gear, you don't need a strategy then, just brute force everything

I have one toon with sub 14k health still, I think. A single nova does more than that, he would immediately be killed no matter how epic my healing was.

I really want to get some info out there for those who don't use shamans in their groups. I friggen love shamen, and wish I could slot one in without paying an acct-acct transfer fee to do it (on my main account, with my 5 box tank...alas). Four healing streams and a resistance totem would trivialize almost all encounters, as one shaman almost trivializes all encounters in a single box mode, hehe

[Fuzzyboy]

You don't need awesome gear, just to have your healing set up correctly. With the right setup, you can focus on healing during the disperse-stage and do so very precisely. I've done this with both a shammie (chain heal) and a priest healer (CoH + PoM + PoH) with a mix of blue and lvl 200 AH epics, so no amazing gear required.

As for Loke I've done him the same way in blue/epics alos, but if I hadn't had the nature res totem, I would have probably needed a nature resist hat or something like that.

Yeah there's no real point in dismissing a strategy because you're team is fully decked out in amazing gear, you don't need a strategy then, just brute force everything

I have one toon with sub 14k health still, I think. A single nova does more than that, he would immediately be killed no matter how epic my healing was.

I really want to get some info out there for those who don't use shamans in their groups. I friggen love shamen, and wish I could slot one in without paying an acct-acct transfer fee to do it (on my main account, with my 5 box tank...alas). Four healing streams and a resistance totem would trivialize almost all encounters, as one shaman almost trivializes all encounters in a single box mode, hehe

[TheBigBB]

This Ionar strategy worked for me on the second try. Thanks! I hadn't tried Heroic HOL before because I was nervous about this boss, but I cleared it in just 45 minutes. The final boss was the easiest one for me, too. I just bunched up and burned him while spamming AOE heals.

UPDATE: I tried it with my B-team, less geared half of my 10 box team, and I one-shotted the whole thing with the crappy team. The Ionar strat is just rock solid.

[thinus]

Priest vs Loken = easy mode

My Loken fights at the moment go like this:
- Pull (everyone on follow behind the tank)
- DPS Key till boss dead.

My "dps" macro on the priest looks like this:

/castsequence [@Player] ,,,,,,,,Prayer of Healing
/cast [@Player] Prayer of Mending

Prayer of Mending whenever it is off cooldown and Prayer of Healing every now and then, adjust commas to suit your button press rate. The Prayer of Mending will jump around so I just cast it on the priest, you can target your tank instead if it will make you more comfortable.

Loken hits for so little on my tank (not uber geared 1x T9) that the PoM and PoH easily keep the tank topped up as well as the group.


PS: I have a Disc Priest but I think Holy would work just as well.

[Marious]

Dang my shaman gear is not half bad and I still get beat up by Ionar I hate that boss. With that said its my own fault I tend to want to heal with only my priest, and then I have them spread out to far for that to be effective when you have to disperse.

[Fuzzyboy]

No problem - if you have a paladin/dk + 4 shaman team, have all the shamams cast a nature resist totem (that way you're sure noone is out of range) and make a macro like this: /cast [@player] Lesser Healing Wave to use while he's dispersed. Sometimes the lightning bolts will eat your nature resist totem, so have a hotkey to recast if you want to be on the safe side