Wotlk - ICC - Pit of Saron (PoS) - Forgemaster Garfrost

[crowdx]

I had a weird run with this guy last night, downed him twice (was on normal mode farming the staff) and then on 3rd run through he nukied me 3 times in a row, just crazy crits etc, no idea what happened. I finally went to bed but it did seem like something changed on the third run making him do a lot more damage. I wonder is there something built into the code to stop peopl farming him?
Cost me 200g on repairs lol.

[Malekyth]

AND the warning stays on the screen long after the rock has landed, so I'm glancing around on all screens looking for an alert, and sometimes I can't tell if its a "pre" or "post" rock alert, so I end up over moving and getting all screwed up.

I have the same problem with that fight. It would be nice if the notification could disappear a couple seconds after Garfrost's cast bar has finished, or as soon as anyone takes damage from the boulder, whichever comes first. Unfortunately my .lua is not up to the task.

[BobGnarly]

RE: the saronite boulder.

Seems a lot of people are struggling with this. Here's what I do.

I run 4 shaman. I group all 4 at the bottom of the stairs all the way to the right (as you are facing the stairs). Pull Garfrost and tank at top of stairs, so he is NOT facing the shaman (or he will do a cone AOE that hits them). In fact, I back my paladin up against the side of the top of the staircase on the left side (as you are looking at the stairs from the bottom) for reasons described below.

DBM will make a sound when he is casting the boulder. When that sounds comes out, I look at the screen and see who it's being cast on (or you can look at Garfrost's target). There are only two choices for me.

1) he's casting it on my tank, which I completely ignore because the tank is already backed up against the side of the staircase and can't be knocked back so I don't care, or

2) he's casting it on one of my shaman. Since they are all grouped up together, at this time I just move the about 1/4 of the width of the stairs to the left and keep on trucking.

Rinse and repeat, never fails to work unless I screw up.

[thedreameater]

RE: the saronite boulder.

Seems a lot of people are struggling with this. Here's what I do.

I run 4 shaman. I group all 4 at the bottom of the stairs all the way to the right (as you are facing the stairs). Pull Garfrost and tank at top of stairs, so he is NOT facing the shaman (or he will do a cone AOE that hits them). In fact, I back my paladin up against the side of the top of the staircase on the left side (as you are looking at the stairs from the bottom) for reasons described below.

DBM will make a sound when he is casting the boulder. When that sounds comes out, I look at the screen and see who it's being cast on (or you can look at Garfrost's target). There are only two choices for me.

1) he's casting it on my tank, which I completely ignore because the tank is already backed up against the side of the staircase and can't be knocked back so I don't care, or

2) he's casting it on one of my shaman. Since they are all grouped up together, at this time I just move the about 1/4 of the width of the stairs to the left and keep on trucking.

Rinse and repeat, never fails to work unless I screw up.

It was frost presence vs the totems. The totems get wiped by the rock. This is a great method. I am losing toons at the very end, but I got him.

THANKS!

[Selz]

Are any of you in full t9?

I am with my 4rets x1DK :P 1day 17hours playedtime on 80 and almost full epic gotta love this setup

[Dorffo]

It was frost presence vs the totems. The totems get wiped by the rock. This is a great method. I am losing toons at the very end, but I got him.

THANKS!

This saved me some headache last night, thanks for the observation - was late and couldn't figure out why my totems kept getting ate

[KAC]

I got him to 50% by brute forcing him on heroic, but as I didn't kill him, it wasn't very viable. I just ran around in circles trying to avoid boulders. I think not clearing the debuff did me in.

I was drunk when I did this guy on normal the first time and I wasnt sure he even did anything really to damage me. I constantly hit my follow key and just basically stood there until he moved to another spot while i dpsed him. Heoric pretty much the same way. What type of gear/group makeup are you all using these fights are pretty dam trivial if you ask me. why is everyone wiping? You can do this hilt quest on normal form what I have read but dont quote me.

[crowdx]

Something I have noticed with the PoS bosses in general is that the faster you can burn them down the less you have to deal with inexpected boss moves. Last night I tried a few different tactics with Garfrost and finally the tactic which worked best and seems like it might be one of the better ways to do this guy was to park my team on the right hand side of the steps but facing to the left and not the steps and actually moved over so that I could tank him at the bottom of the steps. This allowed me a bit better movement than at the bottom of the steps and the big advantage I found was that he needed to go further back each time and allowed me more time to heal and also it broke line of sight and so removed his buff.
UPDATE: I downed Garfrost again last night and the above strategy does work pretty well, it allows time to regroup if the rocks have knocked toons out of formation and also for everyone to heal up if needed.

[Dor]

If you stand on the steps and look left, youll see a ledge with a sharp 90 degree corner.. I stick all my dps and healer on that ledge/corner with the tank out front a bit and tank and spank him (just heal thru the rock with grp heals).

pally/priest/3 shammy grp

[crowdx]

What do you do for the frost buff stacking? I am thinking you are geared enough to nuke him down fast enough to make the buff a none issue? Otherwise it would become real hard with no LoS to break the buff?