Wind Lord Mel'jarak (32 replies to this topic)

Rafikiooha, on 15 November 2012 - 06:53 PM, said:

That's so cool! Thanks.

Auracle, on 12 November 2012 - 05:27 AM, said:

Desecrated Grounds for DK works also

Rain of Blades is cast every 45 secondes and not 60
http://www.worldoflo.../?s=9459&e=9948 > Buff gained = 11 Rain of Blades in 489 sec of fight = 45 secondes.

Rorick, on 16 December 2012 - 06:43 PM, said:

The guide is accurate in stating that it occurs every 60 seconds or so. I've been clearing it for weeks, and am able to put down my Light's Hammer (1 min CD) for every single one without issue. I believe I read somewhere that the timer is variable between 45 and 64 seconds (might have been here), but in practice I've seldom see it occur <1 min. You must have just had some terrible luck there

Downed this on heroic this past weekend, some observations:

Comp
1 tank
3 heals
6 DPS

Of note: 2 priests, 1 shaman for dispels/purges.

Strat
As commonly found about the web, we CC'd the 3 amber trappers, stacked the rest and nuked away.
Of the two packs (menders and blademasters), we killed the menders first, then the blademasters.
Kor'thik strikes - easily handled via use of a personal CD by the targeted player, or an external. We made aggressive use of Hand of Protection and Life Coccoon.
Our Spriest was mass dispelling more or less on CD (15 secs) to stay ahead of the Quickening buff applied by the Menders. Holy Priest was backing up now and again.
Enhance Shaman was put on Mel'jarak directly and instructed to purge him whenever the buff popped up.
With the above, we found that the RNG globals on our tank disappeared and we could complete the 'first phase' of 7 mobs active consistently.

The trickiest part of the fight (once we nailed down the way to handle the quickening buff) was managing the fresh wave of Menders. Each mender needs an interrupter assigned to it, and consequently needs to be marked when it comes flying in. I think this is fairly simple, but in the comparative chaos of learning the entire fight, this part was the scariest and caused a couple of wipes while we learned.

Healer note: Once you move beyond the initial group of 6 mobs + boss, the inc tank damage goes from sketchy to managable. If you are finding lots of RNG tank deaths, look to the quickening buff as the most likely culprit. During that first phase, dont be shy burning mana and personal CDs to keep the tank up. Raid healing is very low throughout the fight and you should easily be able to save raid CDs for any Rain of Blades that occurs during his Recklessness phase. I think this fight is quite 2-healable, but it's worth noting that you shouldn't face any difficulties with the enrage timer and thus if you're having trouble, a 3rd healer is an easily afforded safety net.

DPS note: As you learn the fight, you'll want to tweak your DPS assignments so that you kill the Menders (or whichever group of mobs u pick to kill first) around 30 - 40% ahead of the Blademasters (or whichever 2nd). In practice this should work out to you having almost two back to back Recklessness phases unimpeded by many mobs.

General: I think our maiden kill was quite slow at 6:25, as I see a great many logs well under 6 mins, and some well under 5. Whatever your kill time though, it looks as though at worst you will need to kill 4 packs of mobs, while an average AoE-style DPS comp in 490+ gear should be able to kill him after downing only 3 packs of mobs.

This was a fair bit easier for us than Garalon was, and I think it's a good contender for easiest heroic in HoF.

Good luck!

BM Hunter's Bestial Wrath also breaks you from the Amber Prison, but the prison stays there still clickable, doing nothing.
Not very practical though, since BW is used on cooldown as main dps cooldown. Unless they line up.

We killed this boss on heroic last night with 6 healers, 2 tanks and 17 DPS.  It was the first night we attempted him, which was also the same night we killed Garalon.  We had 2 main issues

• Someone kept CC'ing a 4th add somehow and causes all our amber trappers to break free. (We now think it was engineering rockets or something)
  
  
• People hit wind bombs.

Aside form those two things, the fight was really easy. When the blade masters targeted you, make sure you pop a personal CD. (It was your responsibility).  As a healer, the fight is not very healing intensive what-so ever.  Even during Rain of Blades, it didn't seem like it did much.  Just normal AoE healing during it provided enough.  When a rain of blades did align with a recklessness, then we had to pop CD's.  But that only happened once, maybe twice per attempt.

Just keep interrupts on the menders, Hero the first recklessness and keep alternating killing menders and blade masters between recklessness.

Edited by krazyito65, 17 January 2013 - 05:05 PM.

Does anyone have some tricks to remove the quickening buff without having a priest for Mass Dispel in your 10 man raid comp?

Roxstar, on 24 February 2013 - 09:33 AM, said:

If you have a boomkin they can symbiosis a priest to cast mass dispel as well, though it is on a longer CD.

The only other thing you can do is have people who can dispel the effects (preist, shaman, maybe mage, etc) off of each add, which is time consuming and a loss of DPS.

Hunters can also Tranquilizing Shot it off.

Hi. I was trying this boss last night and my group found something very strange: something about 10 seconds after tanks pulled adds and boss, crowd-controled adds (2 menders, 1 amber, 1 blade) simultaneously released themselves from CC. Suddenly. Out of nothing... Since Icy-veins guide says that inderect stun or damage does not release them from CC, we've discarded players' rotation. Can anyone try to help solve this situation?

Anyone an engineer using the cobalt bombs? That caused us some problems.

Krazyito, on 11 March 2013 - 06:08 AM, said:

Yes, frag belts are a no no when the adds are up.