| Vemika | #291507 Wednesday March 26, 2008 at 11:54 | |
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Hi folks, Title pretty much says it all - I've been doing the Shartuul event, and have the first four bosses fairly well pegged. Don't need to use a charged crystal foci on anything, and more often than not cruising into Shartuul himself with life in the high 90s. At which point he just... destroys me. I try to heal up with SL / Death Blast and get Immolated. I cleanse the Immolate just in time to get Incinerated. Folks who can do the boss make it look so easy, but I can't find any discernable rhythm or reason to adhere to. Any advice, other than a snarky 'Don't suck'? --
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| StormMaster | #291521 Wednesday March 26, 2008 at 12:19 | |
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As someone who spent a loooooooong time farming Shartuul to get depeleted badges for guild druids, I'd say the biggest trick to the fight is getting used to the timing. There is a basic cycle that Shartuul tends to operate on, and getting a feel for that will allow you to shift forms to counter his abilities with more accuracy. Here's a basic rundown on how I run the fight: Start out in shadow form, should be at full health from draining the doggie. Wait for the first eye stalk spawn, and give it a couple seconds before shadow novaing (they don't 'activate' or become damageable for a couple seconds after spawning/attacking), hit Shartuul with a nova/siphon combo, and go fire. Cleansing is extremely critical, but it's not the immolate that is the major concern, it's shadow resonance, that allows his shadow bolts to hit you for upwards of 3-4% of your health per shot. Bag immolate when it pops up, unless it's been 15+ seconds since the last resonance, then you may want to consider holding it for a moment to see if he throws the debuff up. If he goes for an incinerate, switch to frost immediately (unless you're a second away from cleanse cooldown and need to get a debuff off) and hit ice block as quickly as you can. Ice block's duration is about as long as Shartuul's cast time, but you want it to wear off shortly after he finishes the cast, otherwise he'll close to melee range while you're blocked. Shartuul's melee hits for a significant amount, so you want to time your block to end just after his spell launches, feel free to use the frost nova jump to back away from him if he's come to close. If he doesn't do incinerate in the first cycle, keep the fire up until you see the green orb fly up into the air. That means a new wave of stalks is coming. The stalks replacing the dead ones have the same shortly delay from being attacked that they did originally, so I find the best route is to move to an existing stalk patch so you can blast them immediately. Basically rotating your position back and forth as new waves come. Any time you're in shadow, make sure you get a nova up on Shartuul (it's not alot of health, but it helps) as well as tapping your siphon and replacing it on him. Once he picks a direction, generally you can get a rhythm going. The stalk respawns come roughly every 45-55 seconds, so you can time your return to shadow with the expiration of siphon to make sure you tap it before it falls off. The fight is about prioritizing and countering threats. If you know a stalk respawn is about to come, hang out in shadow a little longer, even if you get an immolate on you, the last thing you want is to switch to fire to cleanse just as the stalks respawn (meaning 20+ seconds of mind flays). Always try and make sure you tap siphon rather then letting it fall off, but if tapping it means that you shift out of fire right before a resonance debuff goes up, then you'll end up losing more health from resonance then you gain from tapping. On that matter, even eating an incinerate can be livable if it means you've countered a larger threat (staying in fire to cleanse a post incin-resonance right before shifting to shadow to stop a stalk respawn). Learn which threats are the biggest, get a feel for the timing and flow of the fight, and you'll get it down before too long :) Keep your drains going at all times, and even getting knocked down to 35-40% after an incinerate can be completely recoverable. Keep stalks supressed and resonance off you and you'd be surprised at how your hp can pick back up. Sorry if this came out as a jumble, it's been a couple months since I've been up to fight him, and everything kind of flows together in recollection when trying to piece out the fight. If you've got any other specific questions, would be glad to offer what advice I can :) --
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| Jairone | #301973 Tuesday May 20, 2008 at 15:02 | |
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Another thing that helps is if you have stacked flame buffet before going to ice. If you combine icy leap with a switch into shadow, then siphon life, pop your special, then death blast you do a ton of damage, and also heal yourself pretty much to full instantly. This can be the key to winning this part of the fight if you make a mistake.
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