[WoW] Mana Tombs (normal)

[aetherg]

With four shammies, the fight becomes completely trivial. Almost all the damage in the fight comes from direct-damage spells that can be absorbed by grounding totems. If you spam grounding totems whenever they're off cooldown, the only damage you'll ever take is ~900 from his frost nova occasionally, and ~400 from his sissy melee.

[thinus]

I went back to Mana Tombs at 69 and it is pretty trivial now. I also played some more with my Shaffar targeting macros, discovered a flaw and fixed it. Shaffar was so easy this time around it was comical.

So...

This was my initial macro:

/target focus
/stopmacro [target=focus, exists, nodead]
/target Ethereal Beacon
/stopmacro [exists, nodead]
/assist party1

The problem is with line 3 and 4. After each DPS killed its focus it would get to line 3 and target the Ethereal Beacon, but due to the targeting lag the /stopmacro on line 4 does not seem to work and the DPS ends up assisting the tank.

I came up with a new approach to deal with this:

/stopmacro [target=focus, exists. nodead]
/assist party1
/targetenemy

So each DPS focuses a beacon and the above is the assist macro that is triggered all the time.
The 1st line will "stick" the DPS to its focused target until it is dead.
The 2nd line will assist the tank which is permanently on Shaffar.
The 3rd line simulates a TAB target, so if there are any additional mobs (beacons) they will be targeted and the main target will only be DPSed when all other targets are dead.

I also noticed someone posted a macro very similiar to this recently, without the focus part, to use against any bosses with adds that need to be killed asap for instance the 1st boss in MT (yes, it works against totems!), Shaffar and a few others.

The escort was pretty trivial at 69 as well. I had problems dealing with 2x Nexus Terrors before but this time with Shadow Protection, a Fear Ward and a HoJ or two it was fairly easy. The last guy was actually an anti-climax.

[tommyg]

I just ran tombs with my group (same composition as yours) at 65 a couple days ago. It was extremely rough. Reminded me of the first time I walked into Ramparts with level 40 gear. The first two bosses weren't too bad, but some of the trash and the last boss were sickening. Actually, I didn't ever have any particular problems on trash groups, it's just that those scavengers had a habit of killing my priest rather often. Sometimes I could recover, sometimes I couldn't, but I never wiped twice to a single trash pull.

For the first boss, I had both shadow aura and shadow protection up. (What's this? It doesn't stack? Well, I guess I won't do that again. :P ) I think I had reckoning up when he shelled once, and my tank bit it hard before I turned off attack. I was pretty good about not attacking after that, though.

I one-shot the second boss. No big deal. Keep the heals up, maybe even a prayer of healing or two, and he'll go down.

The third boss took many, many attempts. I had to actually go repair and come back and keep trying, but I finally got him down. :thumbsup: I used the "focus fire the beacons at the beginning" strategy that you laughed so hard about in your write-up. I'm not sure why it worked so much better for me. Maybe my tank has more health? I'm running close to 9000. Sadly, it's not "over 9000" yet. :thumbdown: Anyway, my problems during this fight didn't normally happen at the beginning. Most of the time, my healer would run out of mana at around 30 or 40%, then my tank would die, and the rest of the group quickly followed. This guy hits reeeeeeeally hard, and having all dps cease to kill the adds drug the fight out longer than it should have. Even when I got him down, I was tankless for the last 10 or 15%.

If you've read my other threads, you know how well Blizzard insists my hunter must be geared, for almost every boss I meet drops exclusively melee/hunter gear. Anyway, I was browsing through AtlasLoot before I stepped inside Mana Tombs and noticed a nice bow that drops from the Nexus-Prince. I took a long, hard look at it, compared it to my current crossbow (from slave pens, I think?), and said to myself, "Wow, I really do not want that bow. My hunter is fine. She does not need a new weapon. The bow is the last thing I want to get from this boss." Wouldn't you know it, I got the bow. :cursing:

On the bright side, my hunter tops the damage charts. :|

[Slats]

I had a really good run where I got Nexus to 20% a few times, all very messy. Still havn't killed him yet. I am 67. My priests ran out of mana at about 30% and I hadn't setup my new Shadowfiend Macros.

BTW those little things hit bloody hard and return almost a 3/4 mana bar to the priests, its fantastic.

After doing RoB I now have 40,000 pots so I've started using them all and I'm going to look into making one of the girls a alchemist simple for making pots.

[thinus]

I used the "focus fire the beacons at the beginning" strategy that you laughed so hard about in your write-up. I'm not sure why it worked so much better for me. Maybe my tank has more health? I'm running close to 9000. Sadly, it's not "over 9000" yet. :thumbdown:

My tank had 9K health back then as well I think, fully buffed and with warlock imp. Maybe I just got unlucky spikes. Running my tank in alone and getting aggro from Shaffar and all 3 beacons made my tank go down in seconds.

[Mac]

I can't believe I beat this guy on the first try at 65! Yay! :thumbsup: Horde capped the spirit tower after I killed him Oh well, got many more runs to go for rep...

Edit; ya, killed the prince many times, apparently he REALLY likes bows, that is what I got every time

[Flight]

This was one of the smoothest instances for me running 5 x elem shaman - a combination of grounding totem, chain lightning and max dps worked well.