11-14-2006, 12:55 AM
(This post was last modified: 11-14-2006, 01:25 AM by Concillian.)
We have quite a few people up to Lord Valthalak but have never really made a serious attempt on him.
I was thinking tomorrow may be a good time, perhaps Sunday, but with the strong ZG showing lastnight, people will likely prefer to make progress in ZG.
Anyway, I think we're going to plan on an UBRS run Tuesday, and if we get enough of the right people, we should make some serious attempts on Valthalak. I expect to be online around 8pm server, but there's no reason a smaller group can't start clearing to Rend as early as 7-7:30. As long as someone is on who can open the door.
One thing I learned that should help is that you can log out an alt who can res in the room adjacent to the beast's room. This person can logout of the dead toon, then login with the resser and res people. So respawns, soulstones, and ankhs need not be a serious concern. I can use my priest in that role.
If we don't get the right mix of people for Tuesday, please use this thread for alternate proposals on times we could try this
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A quick rundown on Lord V:
Phase 1 - Valthalak spawns shades that will channel a spell on people. If the channel finishes it's insta-death. The shades are killed ASAP with what DPS can be spared going to Val.
Phase 2 (40-50%-ish transition) - Valthalak pulls out a shadow staff that does shadow damage equivalant to 1-2x the physical DPS he's already been doing (and continues to do). This staff can be disarmed.
Phase 3 (20%-ish) - Valthalak adds in AoE shadowbolts, and disarms have probably worn off, so tank is likely taking lots of damage here. Unverified if mana drain has any appreciable impact on shadowbolt ability.
Phase 1 is all about learning to handle the adds quickly. 2 and 3 are a pure DPS race while healing mana is available.
I have read that he will attempt to heal himself ONLY if there are any mana users within "range", dunno what "range" is, but probably 25-30ish yards. He also has a chain lightning effect similar to Venoxis, so either melee range or caster range, nothing in-between.
I was thinking tomorrow may be a good time, perhaps Sunday, but with the strong ZG showing lastnight, people will likely prefer to make progress in ZG.
Anyway, I think we're going to plan on an UBRS run Tuesday, and if we get enough of the right people, we should make some serious attempts on Valthalak. I expect to be online around 8pm server, but there's no reason a smaller group can't start clearing to Rend as early as 7-7:30. As long as someone is on who can open the door.
One thing I learned that should help is that you can log out an alt who can res in the room adjacent to the beast's room. This person can logout of the dead toon, then login with the resser and res people. So respawns, soulstones, and ankhs need not be a serious concern. I can use my priest in that role.
If we don't get the right mix of people for Tuesday, please use this thread for alternate proposals on times we could try this
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A quick rundown on Lord V:
Phase 1 - Valthalak spawns shades that will channel a spell on people. If the channel finishes it's insta-death. The shades are killed ASAP with what DPS can be spared going to Val.
Phase 2 (40-50%-ish transition) - Valthalak pulls out a shadow staff that does shadow damage equivalant to 1-2x the physical DPS he's already been doing (and continues to do). This staff can be disarmed.
Phase 3 (20%-ish) - Valthalak adds in AoE shadowbolts, and disarms have probably worn off, so tank is likely taking lots of damage here. Unverified if mana drain has any appreciable impact on shadowbolt ability.
Phase 1 is all about learning to handle the adds quickly. 2 and 3 are a pure DPS race while healing mana is available.
I have read that he will attempt to heal himself ONLY if there are any mana users within "range", dunno what "range" is, but probably 25-30ish yards. He also has a chain lightning effect similar to Venoxis, so either melee range or caster range, nothing in-between.
Conc / Concillian -- Vintage player of many games. Deadly leader of the All Pally Team (or was it Death leader?)
Terenas WoW player... while we waited for Diablo III.
And it came... and it went... and I played Hearthstone longer than Diablo III.
Terenas WoW player... while we waited for Diablo III.
And it came... and it went... and I played Hearthstone longer than Diablo III.