Kalecgos

Just list of palatank tips/questions (PTR version of boss from Feb-19)

- You can't taunt demon out of Kalecgos human form. However if you spam taunt macro while targeting Sathrovarr the Corruptor you actually taunt him when he turns to random person(I think it's CoA casting). Spamming is important as you hardly can react in that split second because of lag.
Save all cooldowns(Exorcism and JoR) to moment after taunt as Kalec can overaggro you pretty easy. If he do so, you have to wait for Taunt CD and another CoA cast which could be lethal for both of you.

- I've tried tanking him with mixed Arcane resist gear. It *seems* it *could* reduce number of arcane buffets stacked. But avoidance was gimped too much so I swapped back to normal gear. He hits pretty hard considering only 2-3 healers are on you.

I still don't know if AR has any effect on debuffs, because combat log is showing me miss and resist next to that spell. I've tried that during one attempt only so that could be just randomness.

I would like to hear other's experiences with AR gear or any other gimmicks :)

Edit: oh lawl,
Righteous Defense: This spell will now always be castable on friendly npcs.
Seems they noticed bug suggestion spam, hope this will work.
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So forgive me for the question, but how important is tanking the demon? I mean, do we have to try to hold aggro on him for as much as possible, or we are just trying to hold him for those additional 5-6 seconds before Kalecgos will overaggro us?

Edit: that means we CAN taunt mobs in hyjal? \o/
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Tried pugging him on the PvE EU Realm... it went... erm well 70% before it went bad (co'ordination went bad, and i got left with just a druid healing me while i tanked him.)

He hit me pretty hard but he's tankable in my gear (might cause problems later into the fight...?)

The taunt fix rocks, finally i can stop those annoying taurens stunning my ghouls and keeping them :p
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Stats shown are unbuffed as of 28.04.08

Hmm, so are we allowed to start discussing strategies or are we sticking to the Gurgthock suggestion of not posting strats?

I am still trying to figure out whether a forced rotation or a random rotation is better, and the right number of groups, and so forth. Right now I prefer the random, where it could be any one of 4 groups that goes first, anyone of the 3 remaining groups goes next, etc, based on the random port.
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What is that "Gurgthock suggestion of not posting strats" ?
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No no, let's talk about color of the boss in Strats&Info forum.

Is he blue, azure or more like deep ultramarine?

The problem we had with random groups heading in was that it left squishies out in the AR debuff taking a load of damage only to zone in and eat a 5k shadowbolt to the face from Sathrovarr. That part though is pretty flexible, the reason we went to 5 groups on him however was to spread out the debuff stacks more evenly on the raid, so that with 5 groups you have say 5 people at a time taking 5k+ arcane ticks rather than 6 people with 4 groups. May not sound like much, but this fight is pretty healing dependant, so spreading it out after the initial 5 portals for us made a difference.

As for AR, we've been wearing our Kara AR trinkets since the kill night and we've seen fewer stacks on the raid as a whole because of it. To test it we just had one of our old AR Solarian tanks suit up and head in for one attempt, he resisted everything so we slapped on the old trinkets.
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Yeah a little AR can go a long way, you can resist ticks of the debuff as well as resist (at least partially) the AOE pulse he does. Both result in less damage taken.
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Are you guys 100% sure with those resists? I've tried AR gear, but difference was meh... Also when debuff is applied and it's resisted I think it was showing me "miss" in combat log. So you say AoE pulse it could be partially resisted?

The question is, is resisting part of the debuffs/pulses worth the loss of DPS/healing power for the raid, or just tanks should wear a little AR (100ish) to just soften the work of healers in the dragon part?
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Atreides' suggestion of just wearing the Kara trinket is a good one. You don't have to fully resist everything, but resisting a tick or two of the debuff and getting a partial resist or two on the AOE pulse is a huge help if you've been up top for a while. One trinket isn't going to break anyone.

The new combat log is somewhat silly and confusing still but I'm pretty sure it's just showing full resists as misses.
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The danger must be growing, for the rowers keep on rowing!