02-08-2006, 07:51 AM
I just killed him tonight after two wipes, and my general review: Thumbs up! Most of the things I said above were right. The fight is much more about dealing damage yourself rather than having Hakkar kill himself. Here are some details:
- Definitely use two tanks who keep a high amount of aggro on Hakkar. When a tank gets mind controled, sheep the tank both to keep the tank from dealing damage and also as a cheap heal on the tank.<>
- The poison from the Sons of Hakkar now lasts a full two minutes. This might cause you to be tempted to kill sons and keep the poison on you all the time, but the poison now does 100 damage every 3 seconds, which will quickly sap your healers' mana bars. So, don't do this.<>
- Hakkar seems to life drain about every 1 1/2 minutes (One person claims that that it's exactly every 1:25). What you want to do is fight Hakkar, including melee attacks. Then, a hunter brings a Son of Hakkar over about 15 seconds before the life drain and everyone kills it and gets poisoned before the life drain. After the life drain, the poison should be automatically cured by Hakkar, but if anyone still has it on them, it should get cleansed.<>
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All in all, it's a much more fun and engaging fight. We wiped the first time due to general cluelessness and stupidity. The second time, we died at 5% when he went berserk at the 10 minute mark. The third time, we were much more mechanical about everything and killed him without trouble.