05-12-2007, 08:21 AM
Quote:I've heard that when he is summoned, all portals stop summoning adds.
This wasn't true the last time I did heroic BM.
You've got the basic strategy correct. You need an Add Handler who's geared enough to do waves 1-5 on their own and 7-11 with only minimal help. Without a doubt, your composition needs to be tank, healer, dps x3 (although you can hand one slot to a well-geared Elemental shaman if you have one). Your most fragile DPS class is on the Rift Lord/Keeper, the toughest one is on add handling. The one left over helps bring down Lords/Keepers quickly, and helps keep the add handler from being overwhelmed. It's important that nothing makes it through from 1-5 and 7-11, because you need to squeeze as much out of that shield as you can get.
On the first boss, ignore adds and bring him down. Once he's down, don't waste a beacon - after every boss there's a long pause of about 5 minutes - far longer than you will need to kill all the adds on the shield, rebuff, resurrect, med up to full, etc. Finish off the adds yourself - they'll be mostly beating on the shield, and you can pick them off a couple at a time in manageable chunks and take them out quick (this is why you save the shield between waves).
Same for 7-11. Have your third DPS class help occasionally, but focus on burning down those Lords/Keepers. Nothing makes it through if you can help it. Again on Temporus, the same as Deja - ignore all adds, finish the boss, and then clear out the mess manually after Temporus is dead (the shield will likely be pretty low at this point, but so long as it's 1% or better when the last add dies here, you should be fine).
Having saved all your beacons to this point, drop one on each of waves 13-17. These waves open subsequent portals after very short intervals, the adds are more numerous and hit harder. Just drop a beacon and trivialize all of them. Then when wave 18 rolls around, it's just you and Aeonus, no adds, nothing else to complicate the fight. He's not too hard on his own.