Cata - Halls of Origination

[Tyval]

Struggling with the first boss.


I've read the strats but seems there is always something that gets me.


First part of the fight goes without a hitch, but then the first shield comes.

So would make sure at full health, run down stairs, throw switch, run to next throw switch, but snakes seem to really be hurting me. Run up stairs grab team and run to mob and interupt, but so many snakes at this point...and with all the aoe dmg...things don't go well.

So then I tried,

I run my guys towards him , park them, and jump down with the tank, do the first switch, but by the time i get to the second switch so many snakes on me, I usally have to blow a cool down as my health is dropping so fast.

Then I head up the stairs, at this point I'm not clear what to do, should I try and interupt the boss before the tanks gets back up?, this gets rid of the aoe but then the named will be loose. Or do I wait till tank is back up and then do it. I can get interupt off a bit faster this way.

Should I kill the snakes before releasing the named?

It seems by the time I get the named interrupted (now I'm on the center platform) Everyone has taken so much dmg, I can't recover and usually die before the next shield.

I tried taking everyone down to the switches, but that didnt' seem to help all that much.

I guess one thing I could try is take the team in range of the interrupt, leave them there, run the tank down, throw the switches, interrupt , then jump down with team and kill snakes...


My team is pali, disc priest , 2x shaman , mage. gear score is around 324.

any thoughts , tips?

[killkat]

First part of the fight goes without a hitch, but then the first shield comes.

So would make sure at full health, run down stairs, throw switch, run to next throw switch, but snakes seem to really be hurting me. Run up stairs grab team and run to mob and interupt, but so many snakes at this point...and with all the aoe dmg...things don't go well.

I'm using this approach, think you just need to fine tune it a bit. As your pally tank jump down, keep using HoR on the snakes as you doing the switches, and you should be able to get 2 fully charged WoG as well doing decent dmg on the snakes. Also don't be afraid to use your defensive CDs.

As you run up the stairs, you can either drag the snakes to the boss and aoe them down, or leave the boss uninterrupted and finish off the snakes 1st. The snakes don't have much hp, only takes a couple round of aoe to take them down, eg. magma totem+chain lightning+thunderstorm can probably finish them off.

This boss is the hardest in HoO for multiboxers, I'm dreading the Heroic version now that my team is almost ready for H.