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Hey guys, Hows it going
My guild just owned aq20 last night, got moam down first try but, thats not what im here to talk about =P.
When we got to ossy, we were like. Damn this guy is hard, the fight has gotta be the most unique fight ive had yet.
I understand your supposed to kite him around but i do have a few questions which shouldnt be too much trouble to answer
When you pull him with a hunter pet or whatever you want lol, your supposed to active the first pylon when he leaves stairs so he wont 1-2hit your tanks right?
Also no dps untill the tanks can pull eneough aggro, since its hard to gain aggro, right?? (I heard by the time u get to the second pylon they should have enuff)
Say im a warlock (Which i am), and shadowvuln comes back, should i seriously hold back on my dps even after tank has aggro? (Constant 2k shadowbolts like to get ossirians attention.
Say you get to a pylon e arly and you know next location, do u sit there and dps him till 15 seconds-till alert comes up?
As a warlock, you shouldn't be doing anything except spamming your dots. It doesn't matter what spec you are; I'm conflag spec, and I still keep up the dots. You should always, ALWAYS be on the move for this boss, so you don't really have time to stop and cast a shadowbolt.
This boss is all about patience. You need to whittle Ossirian down little by little. Ossirian is immune to taunts, from what my tanks tell me, and since the tanks often have to make a mad run for the next pylon it's hard to keep aggro up. So sustained, minimal dps is what you want. Not big bursty dps, which shadowbolt covers pretty well.
As a warlock, I usually start DPS after we down the third pylon. By sometime around the ninth or tenth pylon, I'm having to watch my aggro or I'll pull it, even with only using dots.
Don't worry too much about shadow vulnerabilty, unless it's one of the first ones that pops up. If you stick with just your dots, then you shouldn't worry too much about aggro, as the tanks should have Ossy under control. Enjoy your 500+ corruption ticks
I'd suggest also using his Shadow Vulnerable stages to use Deathcoil and Drain Life, the added hp is huge and will top you off again after LT.
As for the Ossirian fight itself, we wait with proper dps until 3 crystals, and then still take it easy. It's not a dps heavy fight, if we do wipe, it's purely because of an unfortunate, far away crystal spawn. It's an amusing encounter, but a bit too luck based for my taste.
I'd suggest also using his Shadow Vulnerable stages to use Deathcoil and Drain Life, the added hp is huge and will top you off again after LT.
As for the Ossirian fight itself, we wait with proper dps until 3 crystals, and then still take it easy. It's not a dps heavy fight, if we do wipe, it's purely because of an unfortunate, far away crystal spawn. It's an amusing encounter, but a bit too luck based for my taste.
Pretty much agree with everyone here. Wait for any DPS until the 3rd crystal. I can't speak to the Warlocks as I'm a Fire/Arcane mage but I'm usually pretty busy scaning for tornado's and decursing the healers so I don't have a lot of time to dps up on him when he's arcane or fire vulnerable.
When he's down to >100k I will try to position myself on short pylon pulls to all out DPS if Arcane or Fire comes up. The last thing you want to do on Ossy is pull aggro away from your tanks. The fight is a tactical fight, it's not about DPS. As other people have said, whittle him down take your time. It's more about tank rotation and pick up, then leading him quickly to the next pylon. Stay in the center (avoid the outer wall as most of the tornados are pathing there.) and don't go around the outside pillars if you can help it. Make sure one player is mounted and pinging on the closest pylon that is up and that he dosen't stop pinging that pylon until Ossy is there. The last thing you want to do is have the tank get turned around and have half the raid go one way and the other half in a different direction.
If you follow the simple rules, and have everyone focus. (mages/priests/tanks) Then it should be fairly easy for you to one shot him when you get it down.
I wouldn't have dots on him at all times, instead just save mana for when he is vuln. Switching wands for each vuln will give you great dps, no matter how ****ty the wand is. I usually go full out when I can, but watching the threat meters and TA totem ><.
Make sure you change debuffs (coe/cos) for appropiate vulnerbilities. The hardest part of this enounter is that the tanks need to live and for that to happen, you can't have slow healers, tornados in the way, or a supreme ossy.. If you can keep aggro under control, (just wait a while, healers shouldn't worry) then your job is set.
Your Shamans actually put down totems during the Ossirian fight?
The nature of the encounter is so mobile that totems tend to be a waste of mana as you barely have enough time to get use out of the buffs.
Secondly, your Shamans actually use TA? Pretty much 99% of my raiding time there simply aren't enough Shamans to give casters TA, those that we do have along are in either tank or Rogue/Hunter groups, using WF or GoA.
I've been toying with the idea of "Sacrificial 'Locks". Basically, you have all your 'locks SS themselves then, when Shadow Vulnerability crops up, one 'lock goes full-out dps. CoS, shadowbolts, deathcoil, shadowburn, lifedrain - the whole nine yards. If he doesn't pull agro before shadow vulnerability ends, great. If he does then he dies and the tanks regain agro as they should still be next on the threat list. Use the SS and you're back up and in the fight. Obviously you can only do this a few times per fight or you will run out of 'locks but it should provide a relatively safe increase to dps and make the fight go that little bit quicker.
I hasten to add that I have not tried this yet so I am NOT recommending it as a tactic at this point.
You forget that there is a buffer between MT threat and caster threat of 30% (you have to do 130% of MT threat to gain aggro), in between which other players could potentially be.
If you rip aggro off the MT and get killed, Ossirian will proceed to first kill all other players that are in that 30% buffer.
Secondly, you getting aggro means Ossirian could move where the tanks don't want him, possibly pulling him out of crystal range.
I strongly recommend against pissing off your fellow raid members by doing this.
If you do insist on trying this for some reason, Hellfire suicide after massive dps but before getting aggro.
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