Sorry for the long post, but it's an explanation on how we came up with our strat.
It all depends on your guild's DPS and raid makeup. My guild beat this before we broke into Crystallos so you can imagine how suck our DPS is compared to other guilds and why we had to do it with the emotes.
Here's our parses from what we logged from the 3 fails before we got our first win. Kills identify when we killed an anuek:
We followed the emotes and had issues with Pets, DoTs on the NPCs, and people trying to finish their discs
Code:
22:08:27 0:00 - zone init
22:13:46 0:00 - anuek spawn
22:14:41 0:55 - mobs NW
22:15:11 1:25 - aged Firiona Vie
22:15:21 1:35 - aged Firiona Vie
22:15:28 1:42 - kill
22:15:41 1:55 - mobs SE
22:16:06 2:20 - aged Laarthik K`Shin
22:16:09 2:23 - kill
22:16:16 2:30 - aged Laarthik K`Shin
22:16:26 2:40 - aged Laarthik K`Shin
22:16:36 2:50 - aged Laarthik K`Shin
22:16:41 2:55 - mobs SW
22:16:46 3:00 - aged Laarthik K`Shin
22:16:56 3:10 - aged Laarthik K`Shin
22:17:06 3:20 - aged Laarthik K`Shin
22:17:11 3:25 - Galeth aged
22:17:16 3:30 - aged Laarthik K`Shin
22:17:18 3:32 - kill
22:17:21 3:35 - Galeth aged
22:17:26 3:40 - aged Laarthik K`Shin
22:17:31 3:45 - Galeth aged
22:17:36 3:50 - aged Laarthik K`Shin
22:17:38 3:52 - fail-light (Laarthik K`Shin dead, Galeth + Firiona finish Lanys)
We followed the emotes but had alot of tanks fighting for aggro on the same NPCs /sigh
Code:
22:35:07 0:00 - zone init
22:46:32 0:00 - anuek spawn
22:47:29 0:57 - mobs NE
22:47:57 1:25 - aged Lanys T`Vyl
22:48:07 1:35 - aged Lanys T`Vyl
22:48:11 1:39 - kill
22:48:29 1:57 - mobs NW
22:48:57 2:25 - aged Firiona Vie
22:49:07 2:35 - aged Firiona Vie
22:49:17 2:45 - aged Firiona Vie
22:49:27 2:55 - aged Firiona Vie
22:49:29 2:57 - mobs SW
22:49:30 2:58 - kill
22:49:57 3:25 - Galeth aged
22:50:07 3:35 - Galeth aged
22:50:17 3:45 - Galeth aged
22:50:27 3:55 - Galeth aged
22:50:37 4:05 - Galeth aged
22:50:38 4:06 - kill
22:50:39 4:07 - mobs NE
22:50:47 4:15 - aged Lanys T`Vyl
22:50:57 4:25 - aged Lanys T`Vyl
22:51:07 4:35 - aged Lanys T`Vyl
22:51:17 4:45 - aged Lanys T`Vyl
22:51:27 4:55 - aged Lanys T`Vyl
22:51:37 5:05 - aged Lanys T`Vyl
22:51:43 5:11 - kill
22:52:39 6:07 - mobs SW
22:52:47 6:15 - Galeth aged
22:52:57 6:25 - Galeth aged
22:53:07 6:35 - Galeth aged
22:53:17 6:45 - Galeth aged
22:53:23 6:51 - fail-dark (Galeth Veredeth dead, Laarthik + Lanys finish Firiona Vie)
We tried engaging all camps at the same time and got straight rickrolled
Code:
00:00:49 0:00 - zone init
00:11:58 0:00 - anuek spawn
00:12:54 0:56 - mobs NE
00:13:24 1:26 - aged Lanys T`Vyl
00:13:33 1:35 - aged Lanys T`Vyl
00:13:39 1:41 - kill
00:13:44 1:46 - aged Lanys T`Vyl
00:13:45 1:47 - kill
00:13:54 1:56 - aged Lanys T`Vyl
00:13:58 2:00 - mobs SW
00:14:03 2:05 - aged Lanys T`Vyl
00:14:14 2:16 - aged Lanys T`Vyl
00:14:23 2:25 - aged Lanys T`Vyl
00:14:23 2:25 - Galeth aged
00:14:34 2:36 - aged Lanys T`Vyl
00:14:34 2:36 - Galeth aged
00:14:44 2:46 - aged Lanys T`Vyl
00:14:44 2:46 - Galeth aged
00:14:54 2:56 - aged Lanys T`Vyl
00:14:54 2:56 - Galeth aged
00:14:57 2:59 - fail-light (Lanys T`Vyl dead, Firiona + Galeth finish Laarthik)
What we learned from these 3 fights:
1) There is an approximately 56 second delay between the anueks spawning and the first direction being called.
2) There is exactly a 30 second buffer between the direction being called and the associated NPC first being aged.
3)
The directional emotes are spaced apart every 1min!
4) All directions emoted are random, but never the same direction twice.
5) The NPCs aged are in relation to the emoted direction. Each direction ages a different NPC.
6) NPCs are aged when the emoted camp is not all aggro'd for the length of time necessary for next emote to be called. When multiple camps engaged, multiple NPCs are aged if aggro is not properly held. Looks to be 10 second increments. One tank cannot keep aggro with FD's, DoTs, and getting beat on.
7) The NPCs do in fact reset aggro when a new direction is called.
How in the hell do you heal vs 13k per tick?
That's the reason for the casters and squishy melee staying by the rock. Shammies have group cure corruption and rk2 cures without any issues and Radiant cure, which refreshes every minute and 8 seconds with proper AAs, cures most of the DoTs.
Oh and ritualists cast the FD (Ritual Sacrifice)...alot.
Seriously though, Showdown at the Crystal Core is much easier than this event and drops much better loot.