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

[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.