Comments on: Hey, Watch that Shadow Crash! Thinking through General Vezax.

By: Averna

Averna — Tue, 12 May 2009 22:00:23 +0000

Thanks for this write up!

We haven’t gotten to GenVez yet, but when we do you can be certain I’ll be rereading this post =D

By: whitehigh

whitehigh — Tue, 12 May 2009 11:56:36 +0000

Congratulation for all the hard work!

By: Beruthiel

Beruthiel — Tue, 12 May 2009 04:39:47 +0000

Just for anyone that may be curious. . .

The two camp strategy worked well for us tonight =) After a few heartbreaking wipes between 3% and 15% we managed to pull it together and get him down. /cheer!!! We also got to go in and get a few Yoggy wipes under us.

Once our ranged got their grove, we did well. We did stick with 7 healers and pushed through before the enrage timer. However, a few missed interrupts at the end of the fight meant we lost some DPS late…which made it a very close shave (I think 12 seconds left on the enrage timer) and an exciting win!

So to sum it up, while it makes you push closer to the enrage timer, the two ranged camp strategy is definately a safer method, at least for us. (Just as a side note, our 3% wipe the previous pull had almost 2 full minutes left on the timer when we fell apart, and I suspect that as we get a few more kills under our belt, and some gear upgrades, we will see ourselves further and further out from that timer).

By: whitehigh

whitehigh — Mon, 11 May 2009 20:05:52 +0000

Wish you and your guild luck tonight!

By: Kae

Kae — Mon, 11 May 2009 19:43:34 +0000

After-thought: yes, it required people to be very aware of who they were around and who was getting shadow crashed/leeched. We left it to an individual basis and relied on everyone to pay attention themselves and those around them, with the help of DBM’s warnings and auto-marks.

By: Kae

Kae — Mon, 11 May 2009 19:39:36 +0000

My guild favors the no-kiting strategy as well, and we did it with a prot pally. As for spreading out, we had 6 people, so it was a good bit easier! I imagine it gets more complicated trying to shift 15+ players around to keep them from banging into each other, hehe.

But, I think the overall idea may still work: we split into “3 groups,” coupling a healer and a ranged dps, and each took up a side of an imaginary triangle centered on the boss. We’d share the puddles that were closest to our half of the room, and sometimes cross over to the other half as needed if the puddles in one side were sparse. Having a set 1/3 of the room as our individual “reset position” helped to keep us spread from leeches.

*shrug* I haven’t seen the 25-man version myself, but maybe this 10-man strat will help?