metao ([info]metao) wrote in [info]worldofwarcraft,
@ 2008-06-21 21:04:00
Previous Entry  Add to memories!  Tell a Friend!  Next Entry
Ahune!
So, Ahune is up. Lets see some tips and tricks?

Lessons Ive learned:

1. The fight is a bit Curatorish. DPS the adds, then the earth elemental guy. Dont rip aggro on the Elemental, or you will die. We found it ideal to have a caster stay on the Elemental, and let the melee take out the adds.

2. You can afford to save up a few waves of Elementals and then burst them down, especially if you have a Paladin tank, but DPS should be faster than that anyway.

3. You dont REALLY need any AOE. Decent DPS can take out the adds pretty quick, but SoC might be nice ;)

4. You dont have to reset the instance to do it a second time! And he CAN drop different loot, even if its the same instance. (Ive seen 2x healing and 1x tank cloak so far)

Still to discover: Is the Heroic loot table any different?

(Post a new comment)


[info]tchernobyl
2008-06-21 01:23 pm UTC (link)
as a melee, DON'T attack him while he's not in his Core form... or you'll be knocked away and take 5k~ ish damage :P

(Reply to this) (Thread)

[info]metao
2008-06-21 01:24 pm UTC (link)
Good point. You CAN cast on him, but he takes like 10% damage only. So theres little point trying to burn him down if you get him to 5% or so.

(Reply to this) (Parent)

[info]queenemu
2008-06-21 01:48 pm UTC (link)
heroic exactly same as normal

(Reply to this) (Thread)

[info]metao
2008-06-21 01:50 pm UTC (link)
You saw the enchant/weapon/neck drop on normal?

(Reply to this) (Parent)(Thread)

[info]queenemu
2008-06-21 01:51 pm UTC (link)
nah we had the tanks neck and enchant on heroic but i assumed it was bad luck on loot. But the fight itself didn't seem any harder on heroic. Could be wrong ;p

(Reply to this) (Parent)

[info]tchernobyl
2008-06-21 01:52 pm UTC (link)
got enchant on normal, as well as consistently epic drops :x

(Reply to this) (Parent)(Thread)

[info]grumblybear
2008-06-21 06:26 pm UTC (link)
Maybe it's bugged?

The official site says this: The loot in Heroic mode is more powerful than on normal mode and includes epic items.

(Reply to this) (Parent)

[info]steppinrazor
2008-06-21 07:49 pm UTC (link)
Always only one per fight?

Man. I want that scythe and pet so bad x.x

(Reply to this) (Parent)(Thread)

[info]chaoswolf1982
2008-06-21 07:59 pm UTC (link)
Forget the scythe. All my Mage wants is the pet.

...too bad he's just 21.

Damn 70's get everything...

/cry
/cry
/cry
/cry

(Reply to this) (Parent)

[info]ghostlight
2008-06-21 07:56 pm UTC (link)
I haven't seen any neck pieces at all in Normal. It was cloaks, the pet and the enchant.

(Reply to this) (Parent)

[info]heinous_bitca
2008-06-21 08:30 pm UTC (link)
Enchant dropped on normal for us, but we only saw cloaks.

(Reply to this) (Parent)

[info]jamese
2008-06-21 01:52 pm UTC (link)
Being a warlock we just did this and it was pretty easy.

Everyone else burns down the elite while I just alternate casting a dot with SoC - the adds die as soon as the spawn... we tended to kill the elite well before he become vunerable and just burned downt he remaining adds spawn manually... if any were left at the point he wetn defenseless our tank mopped them up while the rest of them went for as much dps as possible. We typically did a little over 50% on each one so we didn't need to do it more than twice.

I've done it 4 times now, 3 normal and once heroic. I didn't see a difference in the loot tables we got the same cloak in heroic as we'd already had on normal.

It not difficult for a well geared team - in fact none of us wanted any of the loot that dropped and we were just there for the experience. We think if we bring along one of our warlocks our guild pally tank and a healer we could probably three man it - so tomorrow we are going to give that a go and fill the two spare slots with lower level guildies who can use the loot to help gear them up.

(Reply to this) (Thread)

[info]steppinrazor
2008-06-21 07:44 pm UTC (link)
Our group might've been undergeared. I kept tossing SoC out, but the healer complained he was getting pulverized if he stuck near enough to the elemental for the other adds to get hit with SoC.

4 tries, only killed him once -_-

(Reply to this) (Parent)

[info]xalit
2008-06-21 03:47 pm UTC (link)
How about a video?

http://files.filefront.com/awhotwowmv/;10738059;/fileinfo.html

I don't think it is at all informative. Though, I believe it shows off precisely what *not* to do...

1. Don't bring 4 people
2. Don't have your UI break while the shadow priest is being hit
3. Don't stand on those things that spawn
4. Don't run over ones that spawn near you
5. Don't bring a casual players alt (actually, he did just fine, heh)
6. Don't make this the one day you spec sl/sl
7. Don't be a shaman without a shield while pulling lots of healing aggro

Oh yeah, and...

1. Don't ninja start it with a pack of Bogstrocks up close by.
2. Don't ninja re-start it when its your go without actually clearing the pack.
3. Don't aggro the pack during an attempt :)

(We still won, even when we got the bogstrocks, but that's not the point).

The first attempt took us around 9 minutes to win. Attempts got progressively faster. Our 4th (and final, because we still didn't bother to fill the group) was rather quick.

The one thing that seemed to make things far easier was when the bigger elemental died. I'd certainly recommend beating the everliving snot out of it just to get it out of the picture for a while.

(Reply to this) (Thread)

[info]metao
2008-06-21 04:14 pm UTC (link)
My group got faster as well. Our last attempt we did on the second submerge - and that was with bloodlust on cooldown for the whole fight.

Killing the elemental is definitely a big help. Assigning one person to it does the trick.

(Reply to this) (Parent)

[info]heinous_bitca
2008-06-21 05:11 pm UTC (link)
Don't bring 2 frost mages.

(Reply to this) (Thread)

[info]metao
2008-06-22 12:40 am UTC (link)
Hahaha, good tip!

(Reply to this) (Parent)(Thread)

[info]heinous_bitca
2008-06-22 02:13 am UTC (link)
Yeah, we didn't know what to expect. Got him down twice, but 3 times he owned us. :( So yeah...bring something other than frost mages as your primary DPS.

(Reply to this) (Parent)

[info]ghostlight
2008-06-21 07:59 pm UTC (link)
It is much, much easier if you DPS the earth elemental straight off, as if you leave him to last it is very likely that the tank will go into the next Phase 1 with a full stack of DOT debuffs on him, which is very draining on the healer and generates a lot of healing aggro on the constantly spawning adds.

This fight was honestly a complete cakewalk. The adds are so weak that we even switched the dps straight onto Ahune's crystal and I, as a healer, mopped up the remaining adds.

(Reply to this)

Create an Account
Forgot your login or password?
Login w/ OpenID
English • Español • Deutsch • Русский…