Comments on: Tweaking our LK strats

By: Dwynwen

Dwynwen — Thu, 02 Dec 2010 22:48:59 +0000

(We position in a triangle – DPS only just in the circle, to make their phase transition easier, LK about 10 feet away, OT making the third apex of the triangle sort of halfway between.)

We also just eat the enrage on the Shambling Horros – and had to even back on our serious attempts due to no-one who could tranq. Getting the mechanics down seems to be much more important than minimsing tank damage taken for sure.

By: Dwynwen

Dwynwen — Thu, 02 Dec 2010 22:46:46 +0000

Even before the new talent trees and 30% buff (We first downed LK on 15% buff) we did it this way. We just let the disease bounce as much as possible and had a few comical moments where the cleanser was a bit too trigger happy and bounced it throughout the raid a few times until someone finally got to run it out

The extra damage from LK was a non-issue, and we never at any point had any DPS on any adds, so we had a fast phase 1. The disease we continued to manage throughout the phase transition, with the OT positioned so as to make sure the disease could only bounce among the adds and the OT. I think I had two small ghouls left on one attempt, which I managed to accidentally toss over the edge by only just managing the phase transition in time – sweet!

We’re at the point now where we’ve got him on farm on alts to get alts and friends Kingslayer, with a kill every week, and we’re still doing it this way. The only real difference now is that the tanks care even less about the damage they’re taking.

By: ReversionLFM

ReversionLFM — Thu, 02 Dec 2010 21:46:09 +0000

If we can ever get back in there on one of our lockouts
It actually makes the most sense for your warrior to tank the adds in phase one so you get infinite taunts but Vigilance-ing my bear.

By: repgrind

repgrind — Thu, 02 Dec 2010 20:29:28 +0000

Uhh … am I tanking? On the DK, sure, I can take whatever .. heck, I solo tanked through Soul Reaper. But the warrior … I dunno. Guess we’ll have to see. Maybe it’s not so bad, LK doesn’t seem to hit all that hard in phase one, but … I’m squishier than the DK at the moment.

By: Korenwolf

Korenwolf — Thu, 02 Dec 2010 10:06:51 +0000

Our “proper” 10-man strat (the one which doesn’t rely heavily on a 25-man / part heroic geared LK tank) has LK parked on the glyph square near the first spike facing out to the edge, the OT is on the same line, the Shamblings spawn pretty much in front of the OT with the ranged a little further around the platform. The OT taunts in as many of the ghouls as possible and the MT (and melee) avoids using AoE attacks so the ghouls are easily pulled off onto the OT (misdirect & tricks used to move them where they’re available).

As you say, let the plague do it’s thing, in the transition the OT takes his pack off onto the edge and they’re ignored until the shamblings drop with the MT taking the ragings. Ideally the horrors are down by the time the 3rd raging spawns, OT grabs this and kites onto the main section (watch where it’s pointing) and the MT takes LK to the Stupid Paladin who’s forgotten he can bubble.

All damage is on either LK or the ragings in these two phases, we completely ignore the horrors and ghouls, if they need killing (except the few ghouls on the MT at the transition) then something has gone wrong and we’re into wipe country anyway.

By: slice213

slice213 — Wed, 01 Dec 2010 23:34:30 +0000

Hmm. I forgot about the 2% buff he gets when something dies from the plague and it moves onwards to another target. But as you mentioned as long as MT is geared and your healers are ready the 2% is not all that bad.

For the Shambling Horrors, if you have a hunter available, tranq shot works wonders on their enrage.

Although, we failed to get him down last night (due to my fail internet connection last night), your new plan is very similar to what we used and the strat my alliance guild used. OT gets all the big guys, and gets as many of the ghouls they can.

Letting the plague do the work makes it easy so DPS can focus on the LK. Even if 1-2 are up in transition, the disease will have enough stacks up to kill them. One thing also is blowing Heroism at the beginning speeds up P1, and with the length of the fight it should be back when you may need it later on.

By: Button

Button — Wed, 01 Dec 2010 23:15:27 +0000

That’s what we do!

Also remember that the tranq effect has been shared around a bit, most notably to druids. Makes 2 shamblers a lot easier to deal with than it used to be.