Yeah, I need to do a better job of interrupting while keeping full bore DPS on him. As long as he doesn't run away, we can usually shut him down pretty hard, but once he starts running off, either Seiki or I gets rooted, and can't interrupt. Latency was a bitch last night though. I'd have to start interrupting as soon as he casted, otherwise it'd be too late (there were several spells he casted even though the game said I interrupted them, grrr.) I'm thinking an order of interruption rather then schools of interruption. Tufty's interrupt mod would work wonders with an order. (I can just set it to watch for whoever is in front of me's interrupt, and know I'm next)
He's been running around even though we didn't interrupt *anything*. I know on one attempt last night, we didn't interrupt a single spell (deliberately), and he still started chasing Arathandir and Alamanda around the room. I'm wondering whether it is worth giving those two salvation (no paladin last night) and tranquil air totem to give seiki or me a chance at holding aggro.
If we could ever get to the elementals with all ten people up and no SS/battle rezzes used, I think we'd have him. I think Monday we should go for just burning him down, with Seiki devastate spamming while dual wielding. With enough aggro reduction on our lovable aggro whores, he should be able to hold aggro. <3 to our aggro whores though. Question though: what if he insists on using AM repeatedly? I want to say it was the last attempt last night (or one of the last), where he used about 7-8 AM in a row, burning through his mana like it was nobody's business. We still go for the burn or do we turn it into control at that point? I think he usually goes through 15% mana or so in the elementals phase, so we need to keep his life below his mana for the burn option. The other suggestion I heard was having our paladin heal with righteous fury up during the elemental phase, and getting all the aggro from the elementals.
He's been running around even though we didn't interrupt *anything*. I know on one attempt last night, we didn't interrupt a single spell (deliberately), and he still started chasing Arathandir and Alamanda around the room. I'm wondering whether it is worth giving those two salvation (no paladin last night) and tranquil air totem to give seiki or me a chance at holding aggro.
If we could ever get to the elementals with all ten people up and no SS/battle rezzes used, I think we'd have him. I think Monday we should go for just burning him down, with Seiki devastate spamming while dual wielding. With enough aggro reduction on our lovable aggro whores, he should be able to hold aggro. <3 to our aggro whores though. Question though: what if he insists on using AM repeatedly? I want to say it was the last attempt last night (or one of the last), where he used about 7-8 AM in a row, burning through his mana like it was nobody's business. We still go for the burn or do we turn it into control at that point? I think he usually goes through 15% mana or so in the elementals phase, so we need to keep his life below his mana for the burn option. The other suggestion I heard was having our paladin heal with righteous fury up during the elemental phase, and getting all the aggro from the elementals.