Question - Zlandicar raid

[Creedy]

Anyone give me some ideas on the zlandicar raid? Yall burn him down or kill the spiders then him?

 

[exspes007]

burn

 

[Hylander]

if you are a little too slow, you get dracoliches to off tank. this is manageable.
if you are way too slow, you get rats. rats are really bad. you’ll wipe.

 

[Creedy]

Yes we have gotten him to 25% then wipe lol guess we need more dps

 

[Sum1]

Yes we have gotten him to 25% then wipe lol guess we need more dps

Yup. I haven’t seen rats since beta … you need mo burns.

 

[Eltai86]

Either more burn less lag or smaller burn but pray for a ton of lag

 

[tegas]

Either more burn less lag or smaller burn but pray for a ton of lag

Second this.

 

[q8reflex]

Can you do it with 24 toons CoV T3 group geared? like at least 12 of them zerkers with max AAs.

 

[Eltai86]

Probably closer to 2x that unless you are already heavily optimized custom macs/plugins and sustaining 30+ million DPS burns for 3+ mins.

 

[Hylander]

Our experience has been ...

It is not winnable with 18 COV raid geared toons (boxed between 2 people). we pushed him to 40%ish, so still miles from a win.
It is winnable with 30 COV raid geared toons (boxed between 2 people)

tegas and Eltai86 allude to it above but we've been more successful with lower DPS than super high DPS. we've won putting out anywhere between 14m and 40m DPS

 

[ellsa20]

From My experience, the dracos come regardless, just depends on if they get to you intime to you to kill him. You need atleast 2-3 tanks IE warriors for zlandi for the warp, and the spiders are based off of deaths, get too many deaths get the rats

 

[Eltai86]

One thing to note, low dps only works if the event is lagged to hell and back. The less lag the more dps you need to be cranking out

 

[Many_Whelps]

If you can't just do straight monster deeps and kill him in under 1-2 minutes to avoid mechanics, do the kill the piper strategy. Have your ranged DPS break off and kill the "a piper" mob that spawns in the draco room. It doesn't fight back but it will charm anyone who gets within melee range. Just range it down. If you can kill it before it slow walks to zlandi's room you will not get any rats. Leave the tanks, healers and melee dps on Zlandi. This is a timed spawn starting at about 95%. Take Zlandi down with *normal* dps to roughly 50% while killing any other pipers that might spawn (you'll probably get 1-2 more depending on raid dps). Once the summoners spawn in the draco room, that's your cue to go full burn until dead. Have a knight or 2 ready to kite dracoliches as they spawn so they don't get to your raid.

Yall burn him down or kill the spiders then him?

Spiders are non agro, they only serve to cast a AE root spell on anyone in range and then they bugger off. You don't target/kill them.

 

[Many_Whelps]

From My experience, the dracos come regardless, just depends on if they get to you intime to you to kill him. You need atleast 2-3 tanks IE warriors for zlandi for the warp, and the spiders are based off of deaths, get too many deaths get the rats

The dracos are both time and HP triggered *IF* you don't kill the summoners. In order to do the "No Drachos" achievement, you have to full stop dps on zlandi when summoners are up and kill them within the time limit. You have to do that each time the summoners spawn, which is like 4 times IIRC. Spiders just happen, they're non-agro and cast an AE root if you're standing in the white circle. The rats come if you don't kill the Piper mob before he slow walks to Zlandi's room. Neither the summoners nor the piper fight back, they're just punching bags, but if you can take them down within the time constraints, you can do the entire event without dealing with any actual agro mobs other than Zlandi.

 

[BlankStare]

Dracos are kitable by 1 SK up top.
If you have 30-40mil DPS on Zlandi you will win long before spiders or rats are an issue. We've been 6-player box raiding this for about 6-7 months.

 

[Creedy]

has this raid changed any?

 

[Many_Whelps]

has this raid changed any?

Maybe a few minor bug fixes but no major mechanical changes.

 

[Sum1]

has this raid changed any?

Lag for us hasn't been as bad as before, which has resulted in having to actually consider the mechanics. It's still a /snooze win, but at least its not because we just lag it the f out.