Question - Argath: Illdaera's Vengeance

[jimmy6154]

lol.. so I figured that I'd take my 110 crew through Argath, do some raids, and try to get some scuffed 32's. OMG is this a F'n mess. Can officially say, I hate these style raids. I have not raiding anything really past POP. So it is pretty new to me but man what a nightmare, Having to do all the quests prior just to get in. Pain in the butt. This raid has you clicking a crossbow to spawn fragments of the larger golem. Then those are used as fuel for 3 different things, One of which is used to make the golem damageable. When I first start this AM. I was like. I'll goin in, swing a few time, done... 6 hours later and a handful of attempts.. lol forget it. Their has got to be a better way to beat this guy.

I'm basically planting tank and cleric on the golem. Then I run my box around doing the island and the two carts after collecting about 15/20 or so of the power sources. the island and the carts take forever to move. SooooOOOoooo sloooOOOOoooowwww.

Anyone got a better way? some tips/tricks that might help speed this along?

 

[TempusX]

VoA Raids in general are fairly technical in nature, such as this one. Those carts can pre-stage, (max of 4 min before they burn down and start over). Then moving the tower to drench the golem so you can DPS it. and if you get both carts and tower in, you have a 3 minute window to burn the mob dead. If you don't you'll be playing with a multitude of adds while farming more shard powersources. It's just a hot mess of a raid. You might be better off looking for a less mechanical raid.

 

[Many_Whelps]

Yeah, you're def doing it bass ackwards. This was a cakewalk when I did it for spell gems awhile back.

Step 1: prefarm all the shards you'll need. have 1 character click crossbows while everyone else stands next to the golem. The shards will auto-agro on the group and they die in like 1 hit. Pick 2 characters to do the carts and load them up with shards. Then have your crossbow clicker grab a few shards for the tower.

Step 2: once your cart clickers have enough shards, run each to their cart and jump on top of it. click your first shard and they start moving. While the carts are moving, run your tower guy to the tower and get on top of it.

Step 3: monitor the carts. when they stop, click another shard. When your guy gets pulled off the cart, just run back and jump on. You'll have to do this a few times.

Step 4: Once both carts are in place, you'll get an emote to that effect. Now go to your tower guy and click shards. The tower guy won't get pulled off, but there are meteors that will stop the tower if they hit it. This is pure RNG if you'll get hit by a meteor so just have a few extra shards just in case.

Step 5: When the tower gets into position, the golem can be damaged. Burn hard. At 110, assuming your group is decent dps, he'll die very quickly.

Don't rely too much on automation macros/plugins for this. Outside of the tank and healer who need to entertain the golem, no one else needs to have kissassist or such running until the very end. Maybe not even that as your tank's autoattack is probably enough to kill the golem.

There's no speedup mechanic for the carts. It's a simple immersion timer, but it shouldn't take you 6 hours.

 

[Xannman]

Pretty much exactly what Many_Whelps said.

I think the key is to get one toon for each of the carts and the tower. After about 5 minutes the carts (and maybe the tower?) will go back to their original positions. If you try to do all the clicking on one toon it will take way too long. I gave 4 shards to each cart toon, and 10 to the tower toon (just in case, only needed maybe 6).

One weird thing I had was when my tower toon started clicking, he got an emote saying, "you pass the shard to..." and it poofed to another toon in the group (my shaman). I then had to run the shaman up to the tower and do the clicking. Not sure if this is something I did or if its an intended mechanic, but something to watch out for.

 

[Sum1]

I do it even easier than the above.

One toon (that can heal himself.. I use a ranger)

Have that toon click EVERYTHING.... all the crossbows.... rest of team is down in the bottom at the golem... EXCEPT.. I put a mage and a healer up at the top where you hop on to activate the golem.

Use the ranger or healing toon to get all the shards.... and you can run that ONE toon to do both the carts by keeping selos on him. He clicks the cart and runs to the other cart, click that one... and repeat back and forth.

Once the carts are in place; coth the ranger up to the top, hop him onto the floaty thing and click. Make sure you nuke/bow the fire balls flowing around because if htey hit your floaty cart it stops it. and keep clicking until the top is in place and the golem is killable. Then burn like a mother fucker because if anything pops out of place the golem can go inactive again.

Selos, cothing mage to the top, and one toon to do the running around. easy peasy.