Crystal Caverns Raid

[Nyte420]

Have been trying this event and feel we are near a win. Know the basics

Fight Coldain named to 90% well fighting off the Geonid / Spider adds that spawn and healing through the AE, seems to be really easy during this phase of the named.

Then during the tentacle phase, main raid avoids the barrels well the casters up top DPS down the orc's quickly and the tank tries to get the named under the boulders that are falling.

My question is, we are a bit light on DPS over all and the orc's are usually up for several minutes before dieing. We haven't gotten the boulders to hit the named before Orc's are down yet, but wondering if you catch every falling boulder and have the 2 or 3 hits needed before the orcs are down does the event progress or do the orcs still have to die 1st?

Thanks for any insight

 

[Scorn]

Requires 2 hits to change her back. You do not have to kill the orcs before that will happen. Just do your best to get them dead as fast as you can to minimize the time raid has to avoid the barrels. In fact, there is an achievement for not killing any orcs. Though dodging barrels for the entire event would kind of suck. =)

 

[Metsman4u]

light on dps moving the entire raid to the orcs? when she goes to tentacle, all should go up cept healers and tanks. Have MA on boulders so the tank can line em up, rinse and repeat.

 

[Nyte420]

sweet, thanks for the help. Our casters last time were a bit slow to figure out were they all were also so I think that was part of the problem. The reason we didn't have the entire raid move up was originally we had the caster group helping DPS the named, but then we had issue with barrels going off on them well they tried to DPS the orcs and we found if they just don't do anything but orcs no bombs spawn. Im sure that will get easier with time though to just dodge any that spawn there.

Was mostly just wondering if when you progress the event and change her back, if the orcs would just de spawn or if you had to deal with bombs the entire raid. And ya, that achievement doesn't sound like much fun

 

[Borneal]

If you dont kill the orcs they will stay up and keep tossing bombs. Best to just put 2 caster groups up top with the main job of killing orcs. Really does not take that much DPS to take her or the adds down. Its a control event not a burn. If done right all the orcs should be dead before the first stone starts to shake on its own. That way you dont have bombs going off near the tanks when they can't dodge.