[WTLK] - A noobs tale of normal Nexus and Azjol-Nerub

[Seldum]

If you are bored you can read my little story.

Last night I had a few hours for some gaming, and wanted to try out the random dungeon tool.

I'm still lvl 72 and still a n00b I found out.

First I tweaked my healing setup, formations etc. and hit the Random Dungeon tool. Kewl I got Azjol-Nerub.

I know this instance is short and I have seen Nolife aka The Moo's doing this, so I was fairly confident it should work out well for me.

The first mob pull got pwned. Okey now to the first "boss" I think. I start out by pulling some of the mobs to the left.

I goes okey, and bahm I loose aggro on one of the mobs and in 2 sec my healer is dead. Okey - again.

This time I keep an eye on omen and on the mobs. Again one mob rushes my healer, I taunt, nothing happens. Before im able to use my Growl or whatever the ability is called which taunts all mobs to hit me, my healer is dead again. The figh goes on and eventually I wipe.

Okey wtf? - Again.

This time one of my dps dies and my tank also dies because I screw up on the healing.

Again. - im starting to get annoyed. Because, normally I NEVER loose aggro on mobs when my tank is pounding on them and when I do I can taunt them back.

The same happens as in the beginning. My healer gets hit so hard I can't save him. I also find out my battlerez macro dosen't work like I want it. /Cast [combat,target=vuhdo] Rebirth; [nocombat] Revive on my healer, on the others I have the same but with [combat, target=vuhdo, Barnweed (my healer) = dead]. I dunno if I can do this lol, but it was worth a try. Anyway.

My gear is now beginning to get yellow. Okey one more try. Again I wipe. Almost on the brink of nerdrage, I exit the instance. I repair and hit the random dungeon finder again and gets the nexus. Kewl. This instance is also new to me.

I have seen one video on this instance, and have no clue what I should do or where I should go. So I start out with clearing the halls and the room with the big dragon. Then I go right and into the "frozen druid land lol" I meet the first boss. And kill him with ease. Really - I even mock his corpse with a /lol

Okey on the the next. This is the boss on next to the "nexus rift". Don't remember his name. The big energy thing. I wipe on the first try due to absolute chaos and me spending alot of mana on the boss when I need to kill the Chaos whatever which spawns. Second try I down him.

Okey, I complete the quest with the interdimentional thing, and go to the next boss. This turns out to be Grand Magus Telestra.
Uhh I wipe so hard. Seriously. I knew she would fling my group around in the room, but I haden't really giving it a seriously thought. First time I just hit "follow" and my group went up to the tank thus receiving a firebomb and another firebomb before i'm able to stop follow and move em away.

I go to the left this time to clear a quick way to her. Killing all the mobs which is frozen in place and completing the other quest I got for the nexus.

To spare you of my humiliations in the rooms, let me just say I wipe another 5-7 times on Magus Telestra. I stop, and go and make me some dinner. Btw. I can't really stop laughing while im flying around in the room in a total mess lol. This fight is epic.

I find a video on the web and study a fight with her. Go back into the nexus and straight to Grand Magus Telestra.

I find out the hard way that I can't keep my toons up close to magus telestra since she just AOE more than I can heal. So I guess the way to beat her would be to keep my toons on the distance and spank her with my tank. I make some adjustments to the way I turn of Followstrobing etc.

I finally get her down. The fight where I succeed, is a fight where all my dps is dead actually. But my tank and my healer takes care of her. Its a slow process but my healer dosen't run out of mana, and I spank her until she is dead.

I was quite pleased with myself. I'm probably going to back since I had to log after I killed her, so I diden't even finish the instance. And I haven't fought the dragon yet. I actually don't know how to free it, but I will read up on that.

I had a blast in The Nexus, and the fight with Magus Telestra was very difficult for me and fun. I guess I was lucky to kill her, but i'm definitely going back to try again.

It's clear to me that I'm able to lvl way faster doing quests than doing instances, but its fun and more challenging and therefore rewarding to do instances atm. I guess its also a good idear for me to learn my way around before I go and do them at heroic at lvl 80.

[Cesare]

The mob in AN going for your healer is the Skirmisher, and he's basically untankable (aggrowise). Stun him and burst him down first.

[Seldum]

Ahh nice to know. Ill get back into that instance and i'm gonna try kicking some Skirmisher butt then. Apparently I was not fast enough to do this the first time I was there. I could also root the mob.

[zenga]

Ahh nice to know. Ill get back into that instance and i'm gonna try kicking some Skirmisher butt then. Apparently I was not fast enough to do this the first time I was there. I could also root the mob.

Killing that one first turned out to be crucial for me. Also i have a macro ready to protect my healer with taunts in case i screw up.

[dougie700]

Yeah Skirmishers are a pain, tankwise anyway, that one gets the Skull every time, then the warrior then the watcher, as soon as the watcher is down prepare for the next set (3 in total) if you kill the watcher first then the next watcher comes into the fray so better off to kill em last in ur group of 3. also when the first watcher is down don't taunt the next group wait for them to come to you. I have a couple of times tried to second guess wich watcher is coming next and got it wrong, then you end up with 2 skirmers, 2 warriors and 2 watchers at the same time.

Hope that is usefull and good luck :P

[Jubber]

Once you kill the 3 bosses in the nexus you can release the dragon. Easy way to remove the debuff stacks is cast, wait for 2 stacks then jump, cast wait for 2 stacks then jump.. she is really easy otherwise. One of the easiest heroic bosses.

[wonz]

Noone said Multiboxing is easy, except those who hate multiboxing in nerdrage.

You are no noob Just keep on trying, Azjol Nerub is one of the hardest Instances to go, in special for melees, if you got blue / green equip. Go Utgard Keep and Nexus. First. Then Drak Tharon. Be sure to focus the small mages on your way to the first boss

[jimbobobb]

I highly recommend looking up fights and strategies and such both on www.wowwiki.com and here, in our dungeon and mob forum. Lots of stuff has been figured out, and especially here you will find strategies tailor made for boxers. For instance on the Grand Magus, you can actually just sit all of your guys outside her little bubble against the wall. Then just kinda pull her a bit towards them, and they can dps/heal from there, and not get tossed about really, or hit much with bombs.

If you're all about figuring stuff out on your own, then by all means go nuts, but there is a real wealth of knowledge here that I would recommend you take advantage of!

[Starbuck_Jones]

That caster lady in nexus is a biotch. There is a screenshot in the sticky thread for WOTLK heroics were to park your toons behind the 'glass' so they dont get tossed around but facehump the glass instead. Its a 4-5 min fight for me on her as I just beat her silly with the tank and run back for new set of HOT's and heals every 30 seconds or so. When she splits then usealy she is in range to get pounded by the group in the window. In the end its an easy fight if you use that gimmic for a gimmic boss. Ive even had her a few times toss them up on top of the glass and can run around up there and cast down on her.

Dont worry, I wasnt able to clear a single normal instance till 76 so getting roflstomped shouldnt get you down.

[Seldum]

Thanks for all the comments and tips.

The harder the work the better that taste of victory Theres nothing like clearing an instance completely, especially when everything is new for me.

And considering the advice to read up on the instances - this has been noted.... well I actually tend to do this, but I haden't paid enough attention reading up on Azol Nerub. Ohh well, you live and learn.

Most of the times I use Wowhead, and read the comments, thus it dosen't state anything directed at boxers and often they hype the battles alot, but it might be due to the comments being old and therefore the gear "back then" wasen't as good as today or the bosses have been nerfed.