Quick question on H Old Kingdom

[Guyte]

I ran (tried to) old kingdom the other night and is seems I was taking some HUGE hits from the casters in the instance, and I am wondering if everyone has had the same problem?

I am geared enough that it should not be a problem, or so I thought. Was it possibly just a poor healer or am I missing something?

I am guessing a druid may help to bring along for the resist buff and some more cc may help. Is there an ideal group you all bring along to make this instance less of a pain?

Thanks in advance

[Treck]

Yea, there is one "Shadowcaster" or smth dont remember the name of the spider, however it does a 20k shadowblast or smth.
Just mark it skull and make sure to interrupt them.
HoJ and Holy wrath should both work if the dps are lasy interrupting.

[Snake-Aes]

Shadow blast. Hit for 9k regular, 20k or so heroic. 5 seconds cast time. Have people interrupt it or kill it first.

[Kracus]

Always kill the spell slinger first

Always watch out for the worshipers casting that mage flame ae ability.

Always kill the Bone Mages first.

[Zeels]

Look on the addon forums. Install TJH (That just happened)

There is one there for warning when shadownova or whatever the name is called is cast.

[Danth]

If you don't have a group that can reliably interrupt the Spell-Flingers, you can LOS it, too.

Danth

[phaqueue]

spell flingers are easy if you have a compotent group... run in - wait till they are towards the end of cast... HoJ them... make sure DPS is burning them first... and you should have at least 1 other person who can stun or interrupt... but it really shouldn't matter that much...

[Levantine]

We had a little bit of trouble with those the other day.

I was along as dps, but I was bored so I wanted to see how little damage I could take from them....turns out I can keep myself alive almost indefinately against them (Interrupt -> Silence -> Interrupt -> AMS -> Interrupt.7)

The moral of this story is if you have a competant and bored deathknight make them tank the spell flingers. :3

[Othersider]

spell flingers have a ridiculously long cast that deals a set percentage of your total health pool. On heroic I believe it's 80%.

[Belloc]

Spellflingers are just another mob that makes me happy I glyphed for the exorcism interrupt.

Holy wrath, exorcism, hammer of justice, exorcism, and possibly another holy wrath.

[Mex]

Yeah as others have said, it's a really long cast time (4 seconds, maybe even 6), and if you mark it to be killed first, you can HoJ -> holy wrath and it'll be dead before it can get a cast off. Bone mages are only nasty cause they come in pairs, along with the shades. Holy wrath to interrupt their early damage while your healer gets in position, then again, HoJ should keep one locked down long enough for it to die. Once one's dead the rest are easy.

Worshippers are a real pain though, mostly cause it's hard to convince people to move out of flame strike. As soon as I see em cast it, I drag them away.

On another note, has anyone noticed that those mobs that come with Worshippers (not darkcasters, acolytes I think they're called), have a heal that seems to be bugged? It heals them for about 4% of their max health. Not even worth interrupting.

[Belloc]

Yeah as others have said, it's a really long cast time (4 seconds, maybe even 6), and if you mark it to be killed first, you can HoJ -> holy wrath and it'll be dead before it can get a cast off. Bone mages are only nasty cause they come in pairs, along with the shades. Holy wrath to interrupt their early damage while your healer gets in position, then again, HoJ should keep one locked down long enough for it to die. Once one's dead the rest are easy.

Worshippers are a real pain though, mostly cause it's hard to convince people to move out of flame strike. As soon as I see em cast it, I drag them away.

On another note, has anyone noticed that those mobs that come with Worshippers (not darkcasters, acolytes I think they're called), have a heal that seems to be bugged? It heals them for about 4% of their max health. Not even worth interrupting.

For bone mages, just put on frost aura. For worshippers, have them be the first kill target and HoJ them.

If there are two worshippers, CC (lol) one.