A Study Of N00bs

[mjdoom]

I might be misunderstanding, but are you talking about Lord Alexei Barov? Undead dude with an unholy aura that pulses for shadow damage? Has two Risen Warrior-ish bodyguards that come with him? Has The Deed to Caer Darrow sitting on a crypt beside him?

If that's the encounter, it's pretty straightforward with a druid or shammy healer. The guards can be prox pulled, so you get one pull of two Risen Warriors (might be Protectors or Guardians, not sure which) and then a pull of Alexei + one guard. It's a pretty straightforward task to offtank one in each pull. With a priest in the party, the encounter is absolutely trivial: substitute shackle for offtank and voila!
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Yeah; everyone on Stormrage knows how bad my memory is for names. That said I don't understand how you are ever pulling Alexei with only one guard. You can easily single pull your way through that room all the way up to the actual Barov encounter but as far as I know Barov and the two stationary guards to either side of him are linked. I have seen both body pulls and shoot pulls to a single guard bring all 3 mobs. This leaves you two mobs to off tank which is no longer a simple proposition in a 5-man group. We just beat this again this past weekend after failing twice when we decided to just kill Alexei first and even then the guards finished us and we popped up with a soulstone to finish them off. The 5 characters we had there might not be MC equipped but they are all solidly equipped from end game instances and the players are quite competent IMO. Our group was Warrior, Priest, Mage, Rogue, Warlock. We shackled one of the guards each try and still had issues finishing him off.

The only thing that I can think of is that you are somehow pulling the patroller at a specific point in his patrol that is splitting one of Alexei's guards from his pull. If you have found a way to do this then you've found a way around the encounter and kudos; but you are not beating the encounter as the intended tough encounter that I am talking about.

- mjdoom