04-18-2006, 08:27 PM
vor_lord,Apr 18 2006, 12:52 PM Wrote:What does this (running him back and forth in a line) help with? I've only faced him once so I'm curious other ways to beat him.
I'm not actually sure but we use a gnome MT, so my thought is that the gnome has trouble seeing around the bug in order to be able to navigate. It also means that the raid can position themselves and do DPS instead of having to constantly move, either out of the way or to get back in range.
If you try to move him in a circle, then the path can be somewhat erratic and the ranged/healer types get 'corralled' in the middle of the circle, instead of being able to spread out on both sides, which means they're more subject to sandtraps.
Quote:(re: waiting some secs before taunting) Ah I see -- if the healers know the switch is coming he can absorb some extra damage and they don't heal him until the debuffs are back off. Is that the reason?
No, the reason is that he's almost certainly not going to hit with another debuff soon. The taunt effect lasts 5 seconds or so for warriors. The idea here is that Rajaxx uses his cleave attacks about every 10 seconds. I'm not sure that it's actually consistent in timing... But either way, the idea is that you want the *next* debuff to miss the MT, then the MT can go back to tanking.
We've never been able to get a second warrior to reliably steal the aggro from the MT, getting 10% more threat is easier said than done after that much threat has been built up by the tank, so our focus has been on temporarily taking the aggro away.
A warrior can blow Mocking Blow (2 min cooldown) to get a full 10 secs of taunt time, too.
Mortal Wound, the debuff he applies, lasts for 15 seconds. Thus, waiting for 5 seconds after a fresh debuff was applied, then applying a taunt, should bridge the middle part where he would reapply it. Using Mocking Blow is just the backup if you're not sure you've got the timing right.
Quote:I'm not sure with our baby alliance we should even try Rajaxx. The one time I tried it, all the NPCs were alive and well (I have a target Lt. General Andorov macro) but the third wave just mauled all the healers.
For the third, fourth, and fifth waves, we recently changed to having the MT run in ahead of the NPCs and tank the captain. That way, the NPCs won't be aggroed by the AOEs as the AOE-heavy captain comes in, and get killed by the third wave's lightning storms.
If you're solid players, which is likely, then there's no reason not to try it. It's a blast!
Once you have Rajaxx down, if you have at least 3 warlocks and 2 priests, then definitely go for Moam next, on the right.