04-19-2005, 10:50 PM
DarkCrown,Apr 11 2005, 08:20 PM Wrote:I'm not sure this would work well in a 5-man Strat or Scholo, but lots more is possible in this game than many people seem to think.
I actually had some first hand experience of this during the weekend. We went with a 5-man party to the scarlet side of Stratholme, to hunt down the Archivist and Balnazzar. The group setup was mage (me! :lol:), warlock, warrior, paladin, rogue, with the paladin as the designated healer.
In the fights leading up to the scarlet area, the warrior charged into a group of mobs, holding as much aggro as he could. The warlock, I and the rogue took out the non-elite casters first, and then the non-elite melee mobs. Then we could focus on the elite ghouls. This way, the paladin only had to focus on healing our warrior, which worked really well. In fact, we only had one death on the way there. (me, getting a little trigger happy with the Arcane Explosions too soon :P )
Once among our humanoid friends, the class specific skills started to shine.
Sap, polymorph and charm, and suddenly you only have to fight one or two mobs. The paladin once again did a splendid job, and we didn't really get into any trouble before pulling extras from a side corridor. That was our only wipe on the whole run, and we couldn't really blame our healer for that one. :)
The archivist was pretty easy, sap and polymorph his guards, and once again we had the target all by himself. Everyone but the warrior stayed out of his blast wave-range, and the paladin could focus his healing.
During the big final brawl against Balnazzar, we actually were on the verge of collapsing, when our tank got killed. He didn't have that much health left though, so a final "max your DPS NOW!"-burst did the trick. ;)
That being said, I really wouldn't want to face the Baron in a 5-man group without a priest. It probably isn't an impossible task though, with good group communication and tactics. :)