A Study Of N00bs

[mjdoom]

We slang those as "prox pulls", meaning any pull using indirect aggro to bring fewer mobs than you'd get if you aggroed the mobs directly.
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I misunderstood this to be similar to a "body pull", now I understand what you meant is what I thought was a potential option :)

All of the other minibosses in Strat are fairly trivial encounters, and yet Lord Alexei is arguably more difficult than Gandling if you tackle him with both his adds. That doesn't seem logical, so I think Blizzard left those guards splittable deliberately. It makes the encounter feasible for some oddball groups, and that fits in with their stated plan of having all sorts of groups as viable options.

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I think you meant Scholo :-P

Anyway, the only other boss in Scholo who has any real difficulty IMO is Rattlegore if you don't split him from one buddy. That fight is easily winnable; but can go downhill fast if something goes wrong. Gandling is an absolute joke when compared to Alexei+2. I've seen the MT get ported and the rogue easily tank Gandling. I've been the healer and been ported 5 seconds into the battle (before getting a single spell of) and still win easily.

Too bad the loser has a bad selection of hats. Our last run resulted in the warrior walking away with a Dreadmist mask because all three casters already had one :shuriken: Meanwhile at least 3/5 members in the group still do not have their own hat.

Also, as currently constituted I see nothing wrong with splitting this pull as you have. I do consider it a workaround though; even if it is 100% legit. It's just an intelligent workaround (hence the "kudos" in my last post) :). I had honestly never considered pulling as you did until I went to respond to your last post (you said enough for me to have that realization without realizing that that was exactly what you were doing). That said I'm a glutton for punishment; we'll see how I handle it next time. :D

- mjdoom