ZA trash problems

[cordelia]

I looked for a single thread devoted to all ZA trash, and couldn't find one, so figured I'd start one. Any questions about particularly nasty or problematic trash can be posted here.

My biggest question is how people deal with the 1 humanoid + 2 crocs pull right on the shoreline before the Lynx boss, Halazzi? Those two crocs inevitably drop aggro, turn around, and pwn a party member. I RD them back for 1 tick of consecrate, then they turn around again. If we're lucky, we can get HoJ's off, and one of the gators down by then, but occasionally, I've lost about 10-15 seconds or so during the timed event, b/c they pwn a clothie, and we have to rez. Any suggestions?

[jere]

We basically zerg the crocodiles first. We burn them down.

[ulushnar]

We usually stunlock and kill the Troll fast, since he's the one who sends them to their target.

[Invisusira]

We kill crocs first because they're squishy. Just be careful with AoE, Seeds have pulled the neutral crocs for us plenty!

[Sthallas]

We usually stunlock and kill the Troll fast, since he's the one who sends them to their target.

Bonus points for correct answer.

[Jhereg]

You can stunlock one croc into oblivion while sheeping the troll, and taunt fight for second one. Bonus points for skipping the pack entirely with water walk.

[Sthallas]

You can stunlock one croc into oblivion while sheeping the troll, and taunt fight for second one. Bonus points for skipping the pack entirely with water walk.

Doable but kinda depends on the timing, especially since they path up to the invisible lynx pack. Last night we killed the croc pat but skipped the 2 tamer/2 lynx pat and the 1 Flame Caster/1 Handler pat right after Jan'alai. Got the 4th timer done with just under 10 mins left.