Apollux
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Jason, Meaghan, Neil, and I ran Heroic HoL last night and had a wee bit of trouble (ok - lots) with our buddy Loken. Loken has the notoriety of earning a Blizzard "Blue Post" (moderator) due to his level of difficulty. Also, by checking out Wowhead's linky: http://www.wowhead.com/?npc=28923#comments you can see that 95 folks have felt his wrath. Just a few useful tips that I have learned from reading up on the fight:
STACK-N-STAY VERSION (Heroic Mode):
"We stayed clumped up in a nice, neat little bunch the entire fight and here is how we killed him:
We had a hunter with Aspect of the Wild activated to reduce damage. Since we were stacked, we only took 800 damage/tick
Our shaman healer, with +2000 bonus heal, maxed out everyone's health when Loken started to cast his nova.
Once nova hit, our health was all around 20 - 35%, and healer quickly AoE healed back up.
We only took 2 novas and finished in under 2 minutes, granting us the Timely Death achievement."
The other key, regardless of Fight vs. Flight strategy is to spread out around Loken like evenly spaced spokes on a wheel to avoid the dreaded Arc Lightning leaping from the de-buffed player to another.
Hope this helps and any other tips would be appreciated!
- Aspect of the Wild and Totem of Nature Resistance, Nether Protection, etc. are your friend (reduce Lightning damage considerably).
- Two main tactics - Tank & Stay or "Run Away Bravely" (more later on that).
- Arc Lightning will jump from one player to another (bad). Stay 5 yards apart.
STACK-N-STAY VERSION (Heroic Mode):
"We stayed clumped up in a nice, neat little bunch the entire fight and here is how we killed him:
We had a hunter with Aspect of the Wild activated to reduce damage. Since we were stacked, we only took 800 damage/tick
Our shaman healer, with +2000 bonus heal, maxed out everyone's health when Loken started to cast his nova.
Once nova hit, our health was all around 20 - 35%, and healer quickly AoE healed back up.
We only took 2 novas and finished in under 2 minutes, granting us the Timely Death achievement."
The other key, regardless of Fight vs. Flight strategy is to spread out around Loken like evenly spaced spokes on a wheel to avoid the dreaded Arc Lightning leaping from the de-buffed player to another.
Hope this helps and any other tips would be appreciated!