Help me suck less

[Ughmahedhurtz]

Other fights that are tricky - the bloody jousting with ToC normal is kicking my ass. I can take 2 of the 3 but then something happens like - instead of my tab targeting the actual enemy, it targets their horse so for a few seconds my people don't move to attack, and in that time one of the enemy gets back on a mount and by that time my whole team is weak enough that they can then take out at least 1, then 2 people, and at that point I've lost. And it's *really* frustrating to go back because that whole bloody pageant thing has to happen first, so it winds up taking forever to try again, by which point I've decided to do something more fun, like stab my eyes with spoons.

Heh, I hear ya. The easiest way to do this from what I read is to park your alts by one of the spots where you have two horses. Then get aggro on your main and run back and forth in front of your alts. This will trample the bosses with your main and not require movement on your alts, just targeting. Worth a shot at any rate.

With FoS, I can easily take out the first boss, but the Devourer just wrecks my party.

He was a stone bitch for me, too. Just keep after him until you get past it so you can queue PoS. Should be plenty of normal runs going so you can queue normals until you finish the quests.


Regarding yours and other comments on Ahune, I'm fairly surprised you're having trouble with this. Yes, the hailstones are hard but I didn't think THAT hard. I'd record a video of how I do it but my poor laptop would die of heat exhaustion. I'll detail my strat and maybe there will be some small thing you're missing that will help breakover into success.

1. Run straight ahead toward Ahune's spawnpoint and stop about halfway between the keystone frost patch on the left and the spawn point frost patch. Stop your rets here stacked on top of each other.
2. Go click the stone with tank, then run back and stack on top of your rets facing the same way. Move everyone up to the edge of Ahune's frost patch.
3. Put up seal of light if you don't have it on already.
4. About 3 seconds after you go into combat with Ahune, pop Sacred Shield.
5. As soon as the hailstone pops, target him and start DPS. MOVE BACKWARD (Use your "ALL move backward" keybind) and keep moving backward or you'll get knocked down on top of the first spike and can't move off of it in time.
6. Hit your "Flash of Light-->Self target" keybind as needed.
7. As soon as the hailstone dies, start spamming /follow and your assist/attack macro. DO NOT USE IWT DURING THIS PHASE. Trust me.
8. Run your tank in figure 8's between the two frost patches. If you keep spamming follow and DO NOT STOP, you should never hit a spike or maybe only one ret if he melees an add and stops following. Flash of Light should easily keep you healed up from damage.
9. While you're doing figure 8's, just keep targeting adds and try to run the rets over the top of the adds or close enough to get in a swing or two in passing. This will keep SoLight healing you.
10. Also, while doing figure 8's, pop Divine Plea to keep mana topped off. Objective here is to be at full health and more than half mana when the ice core pops.
11. When the ice core pops, switch to Seal of Corruption (or whichever seal you have glyphed for dmg) and DPS the core. Use wings here.
12. When you see the message that he's about to emerge soon, start backing up out of the frost patch. This will avoid the first spike that's hard to see in the ice patch.
13. Switch to Seal of Light again and recast Sacred Shield.
14. WHen the second Hailstone appears, kill him while watching for spikes. You can generally avoid spikes by backing up with the tank in a broad circle and spamming IWT on the rets. Every 4-5 seconds, hit /follow to close up the rets to avoid the spike.
15. Once hailstone dies, switch back to SoLight and repop Divine Plea if it's fallen off.
16. Go back to figure 8's while killing adds. This phase may be more difficult to keep one ret from getting spiked if he gets pulled by one of the wind adds. Just hit your instant flash of light button and have them all cast on the one that got spiked and you should be good.
17. Keep doing figure 8's and wait for the core to pop. You should have enough DPS even in trashy gear to kill the core the second time around.

There are a few assumptions to the above that helps tremendously:

• You have keybinds for "move all toons backward/forward/left/right"
• You have IWT bound to an easy key to spam while spamming follow and attack macros.
• You have flash of light bound to easy-to-reach keys for "heal everyone self-targeting" and "everyone heal toon X"
• You have your Seal of Light/Seal of <dps>" bound to easy-to-reach keybinds.
• You have your "oh shit" buttons on easy-to-reach keys. (Bubble, LoHands, etc.)

Relative to some boss fights, Ahune is not difficult but it does require you to plan your changes in seals ahead of time. Hope this helps.


Oh, and Oz, I'm running two laptops over WiFi on my brother's crappy cable right now, so I average about 190ms pings.