HK : Vladmal Prime
Message #3 le 2011-8-1 @ 1:49:42 par Eloctinar:
http://www.riftstrats.com/hammerknell-fortress/vladmal-prime/
Vladmal Prime is a mini-boss after Zilas on the way to Grugonim. The fights enrage timer is actually a bit difficult, but if you execute the fight properly and don't waste too much DPS swapping to adds you will score a kill fairly quick. The only reason guilds spent a decent amount of time on this boss is due to figuring out the mechanics.
Difficulty Level: 6 (Medium)
Health: 6.8 million
Hard Enrage Timer: 11 minutes
3 Tanks (Two traditional tanks and one who can kite)
5 Healers (2x Senticar, 2x Chloro, 1x Single target)
2 Support (Archon, Bard)
10 DPS
Phase 1: Incoming Adds
There is only one phase to this fight really. Just at one point during the fight the boss will start casting a new ability to make the fight a little more difficult.
The most important part of this fight is understanding the adds and what gimmick is attached to them.
Boundless Delver, 126k HP - Have a buff called Heart of the Forge. Causes nearby enemies to take increased damage from Vladmal Prime.
Boundless Excavator, 658k HP - Have a buff called Grinding Servos. Deal major melee damage, do not cleave, and will die over time as long as they have a snare on them (kite).
Boundless Tunneler, 252k HP - Have a buff called Unstable Morphic Field. Tooltip says "this construct's morphic field has become severely unstable." Pretty much means keep away from raid members at all times. Can be crowd controlled and after they break out of the sheep they explode in a 5 meter radius for 80% of the players health.
The aggro radius on this boss is about 75% of his platform and he moves very, very quick. To start the fight the tank wants to aggro first and drag him back to his original position and tank him there the whole fight. The raid should spread out in a half circle around the boss, but should only cover about 1/3rd of the room as the other 2/3rd will be used for the adds.
Shortly after the fight starts a Tunneler will spawn. You should have a mage sitting at the top of the ramp ready to sheep the Tunneler as soon as it spawns. After the sheep breaks the Tunneler will explode in a radius around him for 80% of the players health.
A Delver will spawn second. You want the Delvers to be tanked towards the left side of the room and stick your two senticars on them. Senticars can sit on the Delvers the whole fight and provide massive AoE healing. You may want to sit one pure DPS on them so you never have more than 3, though. They throw spears at random raid members so having too many can cause RNG deaths.
An Excavator will spawn after a Delver. The Excavator's must be kited by a rogue tank spec'd for slows, or a tank and one dedicated slower. The adds take damage and die over time if they are slowed, and their health pool is too high for DPS to swap to due to the enrage timer. They have no cleave so you can kite the adds wherever you want on the platform.
Starting at 60% the boss will begin to cast Boundless Minions which provides all the adds with a temporary buff for 5 seconds. The Delver's cause you to take even more damage from Vladmal Prime, Excavators cannot be snared, and Tunnelers cannot be sheeped. This is the main reason you use 1/3rd of the room for the raid and 2/3rd for the people dealing with adds.
If you are positioned properly no one will have to worry about Tunneler's being sheeped too late, because the buff will run out long before the Tunneler reaches the raid. Only person who needs to worry about them is the tank kiting. The tank who is kiting needs to watch out for Tunnelers and make sure his range/positioning from the current Excavators is large enough where they can reapply snares before they reach them. Players tanking or DPS'ing the Delvers do not have to worry about anything.
Throughout the fight the boss will cast a debuff on three targets called Ancient Flames. This debuff has a very small radius and causes nearby players to take 1000 damage a second. Make sure your raid is spread out and if it is on melee they need to get out until the debuff is gone.
Also, the boss will cast an ability called Soot Cloud which grants him a 10 second buff that reduces damage taken from ranged and spell attacks. It also fears so melee need to run out every time or they risk getting feared into cleave range. Main tank may need to re-position two or three times during the fight.
The adds begin to spawn faster over time, but you should only ever have 1-3 Excavators and 1-4 Delvers up at any time. If you have more than that then your kiting is off on the Excavator's or the DPS is slow on Delvers. This fight is all about control.
Ancient Flames – Cast on three raid members at a time. Deals 1000 damage per second to players around the affected target.
Boundless Minions – Causes the adds to be immune to crowd control effects for 5 seconds.
Soot Cloud - Buff on boss which reduces damage taken from ranged and spell attacks. Also fears nearby enemies.
Spawned Adds:
Boundless Delver – Have a buff called Heart of the Forge which causes nearby enemies to take more damage from Vladmal Prime. Also randomly target raid members and throw spears at them for ~1.5k single target damage.
Boundless Excavator – Have a buff called Grinding Servos which causes them to take damage when snared.
Boundless Tunneler – Have a buff called Unstable Morphic Field which says the add is unstable (keep away from raid members). Blows up after sheep ends.
Vladmal Prime is a mini-boss after Zilas on the way to Grugonim. The fights enrage timer is actually a bit difficult, but if you execute the fight properly and don't waste too much DPS swapping to adds you will score a kill fairly quick. The only reason guilds spent a decent amount of time on this boss is due to figuring out the mechanics.
Difficulty Level: 6 (Medium)
Health: 6.8 million
Hard Enrage Timer: 11 minutes
3 Tanks (Two traditional tanks and one who can kite)
5 Healers (2x Senticar, 2x Chloro, 1x Single target)
2 Support (Archon, Bard)
10 DPS
Phase 1: Incoming Adds
There is only one phase to this fight really. Just at one point during the fight the boss will start casting a new ability to make the fight a little more difficult.
The most important part of this fight is understanding the adds and what gimmick is attached to them.
Boundless Delver, 126k HP - Have a buff called Heart of the Forge. Causes nearby enemies to take increased damage from Vladmal Prime.
Boundless Excavator, 658k HP - Have a buff called Grinding Servos. Deal major melee damage, do not cleave, and will die over time as long as they have a snare on them (kite).
Boundless Tunneler, 252k HP - Have a buff called Unstable Morphic Field. Tooltip says "this construct's morphic field has become severely unstable." Pretty much means keep away from raid members at all times. Can be crowd controlled and after they break out of the sheep they explode in a 5 meter radius for 80% of the players health.
The aggro radius on this boss is about 75% of his platform and he moves very, very quick. To start the fight the tank wants to aggro first and drag him back to his original position and tank him there the whole fight. The raid should spread out in a half circle around the boss, but should only cover about 1/3rd of the room as the other 2/3rd will be used for the adds.
Shortly after the fight starts a Tunneler will spawn. You should have a mage sitting at the top of the ramp ready to sheep the Tunneler as soon as it spawns. After the sheep breaks the Tunneler will explode in a radius around him for 80% of the players health.
A Delver will spawn second. You want the Delvers to be tanked towards the left side of the room and stick your two senticars on them. Senticars can sit on the Delvers the whole fight and provide massive AoE healing. You may want to sit one pure DPS on them so you never have more than 3, though. They throw spears at random raid members so having too many can cause RNG deaths.
An Excavator will spawn after a Delver. The Excavator's must be kited by a rogue tank spec'd for slows, or a tank and one dedicated slower. The adds take damage and die over time if they are slowed, and their health pool is too high for DPS to swap to due to the enrage timer. They have no cleave so you can kite the adds wherever you want on the platform.
Starting at 60% the boss will begin to cast Boundless Minions which provides all the adds with a temporary buff for 5 seconds. The Delver's cause you to take even more damage from Vladmal Prime, Excavators cannot be snared, and Tunnelers cannot be sheeped. This is the main reason you use 1/3rd of the room for the raid and 2/3rd for the people dealing with adds.
If you are positioned properly no one will have to worry about Tunneler's being sheeped too late, because the buff will run out long before the Tunneler reaches the raid. Only person who needs to worry about them is the tank kiting. The tank who is kiting needs to watch out for Tunnelers and make sure his range/positioning from the current Excavators is large enough where they can reapply snares before they reach them. Players tanking or DPS'ing the Delvers do not have to worry about anything.
Throughout the fight the boss will cast a debuff on three targets called Ancient Flames. This debuff has a very small radius and causes nearby players to take 1000 damage a second. Make sure your raid is spread out and if it is on melee they need to get out until the debuff is gone.
Also, the boss will cast an ability called Soot Cloud which grants him a 10 second buff that reduces damage taken from ranged and spell attacks. It also fears so melee need to run out every time or they risk getting feared into cleave range. Main tank may need to re-position two or three times during the fight.
The adds begin to spawn faster over time, but you should only ever have 1-3 Excavators and 1-4 Delvers up at any time. If you have more than that then your kiting is off on the Excavator's or the DPS is slow on Delvers. This fight is all about control.
Ancient Flames – Cast on three raid members at a time. Deals 1000 damage per second to players around the affected target.
Boundless Minions – Causes the adds to be immune to crowd control effects for 5 seconds.
Soot Cloud - Buff on boss which reduces damage taken from ranged and spell attacks. Also fears nearby enemies.
Spawned Adds:
Boundless Delver – Have a buff called Heart of the Forge which causes nearby enemies to take more damage from Vladmal Prime. Also randomly target raid members and throw spears at them for ~1.5k single target damage.
Boundless Excavator – Have a buff called Grinding Servos which causes them to take damage when snared.
Boundless Tunneler – Have a buff called Unstable Morphic Field which says the add is unstable (keep away from raid members). Blows up after sheep ends.