11-04-2005, 04:22 PM
Just an update. At Revered, you do not get any reputation for the raid bosses.
We did three summons last night, ending up with Whirlaxes twice and Baron Kazum once.
Kazum (an earth giant) is a straightforward melee boss fight. He hits like a ton of bricks (and resembles one), and does have a Mortal Strike. Simply build aggro on a MT and then jump in with DPS once the MT calls for it. Down he goes. He dropped his shield which found a good home on the warrior who had been tanking him.
Whirlaxes was a different story. It seems he wipes his hate list clean when he does his knock back/up. This makes him similar to the Azuregos fight where people will want to hold back a few seconds after each one of these knockbacks so a warrior can get him angry, then go nuts. It's a zerging dps fight. We got him twice and unfortunately he only dropped his cloak once.
We did it with 30 people, but I'd not say 20 would be much harder. We downed Onyxia and then flew down to Silithus while people kept asking "what are you guys doing?!" (Our response was that we were going to have a company picnic). It takes between 30-45 minutes to ride the raid from one Greater Windstone to another, summoning and killing. The stones take 3 hours to respawn after they've been used.
All in all, once you've raised your rep and gathered the materials for summoning, it's a fairly easy way to get some epics.
We did three summons last night, ending up with Whirlaxes twice and Baron Kazum once.
Kazum (an earth giant) is a straightforward melee boss fight. He hits like a ton of bricks (and resembles one), and does have a Mortal Strike. Simply build aggro on a MT and then jump in with DPS once the MT calls for it. Down he goes. He dropped his shield which found a good home on the warrior who had been tanking him.
Whirlaxes was a different story. It seems he wipes his hate list clean when he does his knock back/up. This makes him similar to the Azuregos fight where people will want to hold back a few seconds after each one of these knockbacks so a warrior can get him angry, then go nuts. It's a zerging dps fight. We got him twice and unfortunately he only dropped his cloak once.
We did it with 30 people, but I'd not say 20 would be much harder. We downed Onyxia and then flew down to Silithus while people kept asking "what are you guys doing?!" (Our response was that we were going to have a company picnic). It takes between 30-45 minutes to ride the raid from one Greater Windstone to another, summoning and killing. The stones take 3 hours to respawn after they've been used.
All in all, once you've raised your rep and gathered the materials for summoning, it's a fairly easy way to get some epics.
See you in Town,
-Z
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