WotLK - Slave Pens - (SP) - Midsummer Icelord: 2010

[jinkobi]

By far the most annoying boss ever to box. I honestly think they specifically made this a pain for us. After seing this boss, I get the feeling cata is just going to be worse. I really hate this dance dance dance wow game.

The constant flying, and the chain death grip crap, makethis encounter a quick wipe. Anyoone find a easy way let me know, i really hate this game lol. Every encounters gotta be some retarded dance class fight like this one.

Rofl... We think alike because I was thinking the same thing the entire time... Is this what to expect from Cataclysm? Noticed one of the dungeons to come has a light square puzzle game ala Dragon Age. You know where you have to move onto the correct lit squares or it's a wipe.

The difficulty of this fight seems to have 2 factors. Your group composition and how unlucky you are when you get flung around. Some of my guys were flung so far away- into the water, behind Ahune, or the other side of the elevated land so regrouping is a pain. If you get lucky though you won't get flung too badly. It's all about luck...

I've got much further. Gave up for a while to do the other Midsummer achievements then went back last night and almost got him on the first try then. 50k hp left on him then my healer got flung to China and wiped. Once the servers come up i'm confident I'll get the bastid down today.

Thanks for all the tips they've helped! I was also making some stupid mistakes as well... First one was I didn't know you could damage Ahune UNTIL he went into ice-core form. So uhh yeah you can imagine...lol. You should see how many adds are in phase 3, lol. The second one is the elites that do the major debuff- I've been letting them just run wild and not taking them down as a priority.

UGH- Just saw that patch 3.5 goes in today Hope my addons don't get too blasted...

[ghonosyph]

I'm not sure what advice I can give for a caster team but this: stay toward the left most side and burn adds, cast once strafe right cast strafe cast strafe. When I did it on my pallys this is all I did pretty much just spamming my divine storms and consecrates nuking the big add as fast as possible while strafe1 casting1 the ice circles that knock you back have a 2 second timer when they land and when they spike. You should be able to strafe out of every one without ever gettin knocked around lol. If you can't manage that try running with follow and casting aoes to take out the adds and ONLY stop to nuke the big add and boss shard.

Good luck all you casters don't give up!

[Svpernova09]

For the couple of people who are saying Ahune is difficult to box and think Blizzard specifically made him hard to box....


There is nothing new about his mechanics, he works the exact same way he always has. The only thing different is how you get to him (LFD), his level, and the loot he drops.

Cataclysm is going to bring big changes, just like wrath did, just like BC did. People will overcome the changes.

[jinkobi]

For the couple of people who are saying Ahune is difficult to box and think Blizzard specifically made him hard to box....


There is nothing new about his mechanics, he works the exact same way he always has. The only thing different is how you get to him (LFD), his level, and the loot he drops.

Cataclysm is going to bring big changes, just like wrath did, just like BC did. People will overcome the changes.

Well that's good to know. Yeah this is my first year to even be around in July- had to pull some strings to be here for the midsummer event lol. Just the way things have been going Blizz does seem to be straying from the tank n spank model. Wasn't sure if Ahune was the same as before- good to know.

If you notice when you zone in to the fight before the ice structures around Ahune spawn. They are actually covering those little lamp things which would have been great to nullify the flinging thing. Looks like they were thinking ahead.

Even if every dungeon boss turned out to be like the new ICC's- like you said we've conquered those battles. I'm buying Cataclysm the first day you know it! Trying to reserve all my negativity until i've actually played the expansion, lol.

[Andreauk]

Maybe wear some of the frost resist gear? may try that as it works good for Garfrost..

[emps]

Maybe wear some of the frost resist gear? may try that as it works good for Garfrost..

as long as you kill the hailstones that spawns once prior to ahune surfacing you should be clear of any damaging auras. when killing them, you need to have your guys away from the tank so they don't tick dmg, unless you have an all-melee team. the goal is to kill the hailstones as fast as possible then its your call whether to strafe or run around. When running around, DO NOT run within the frosted ground around Ahune - painful. maintain distance. i've done both but there's more management on strafing than running around - and i'm lazy.. either way, should be a win.

my magma and nova are on castsequence macro keybound to same as consecrate on my pally and rejuv/wildgrowth on druid. run with mouse w/ follow strobe on and one key spammed while waiting for the core.

[Toned]

Should only have to do phase 1 once...

Got lucky and my g/f who is a pet whore got the ice chip out of her bag on the first kill /yay done with this event for the year.

[jinkobi]

I have been foaming at the mouth all day to try it again and the servers are still down... Bet all my addons got knocked out too- lol. So guess I'll be spending tonight updating addons if the servers make it up.

Frost gear won't help me much. My team is pretty durable and has quite a bit of survivability and I've conquered POS, FoS, etc.. With the help from you guys I believe I've identified my problems to finallly pul it off.

[Sbrowne55]

Well I figured out a simple way of doing, that works for me.

Burned down the large add, and gathered all the little ones while doing no dps and dodging that godforsaken bounceback thing, then I just waited till be burrowed and left adds up and burned him down in 30 seconds. The adds disapear after lol. He doesnt do any bounceback when hes defending from the firetotem guys.

[jinkobi]

WOOOOOOOOOOOOHOOOOOOOO!! Finally pulled it off!

3rd time was the charm today... Like Ick and Krick I just took my time and tried to keep as much control as possible and allow my Starfall's and Treants to come off CD. The double SF+Treants helped tremendously!

That's what I love about multiboxing. If you just keep trying an encounter you will eventually conquer it and get a bit better each time. So pretty happy now that I got this done for my team

Oh and anyone else getting more lag after the patch? Had a few addon casualties- my Carbonite is working but erroring had to disable it- my favorite!