VoA - Beasts' Domain - King of the Beasts

[Furro]

 

Beasts' Domain - King of the Beasts

Image Source: Allakhazam

 
Zone & Instance Info
 
Gather Zone: Beasts' Domain

NPC Name: Kalda Treg
NPC Location: far northwestern part of the zone (loc: 315, 2800, 10)

Keyword to Enter: prepared


Flag & Key Requirements
 

Zone Flag:		None
Event Key:		None
Group Mission:		None
Event Flag:		Record of Lore Level: 3/5
Alaran Language:		None

* Minimum to be Piggy/85'/pushed into raid: Nothing required.



Brief Event Overview and Strat

For this event, King of the Beast has several huge timed AE DDs, Charms and roots and spawns various hard hitting adds.

Every 20% of the Kings HP, adds spawn that we must kill.

Additionally, every three minutes the King spawns more adds.

The King eats any adds not killed fast enough and regens HP as a result.

ENCHANTERS: MEZ GRENDALINS & SELYRAHS until MA gets to them with raid DPS.

PALADINS & ENCHANTERS: BRAXI = Stunnable.

DPS: Due to the huge AE's + Roots, please only RANGE DPS the KING for now, as we need everyone mobile to deal with adds outside AE ranges.

Melee - If you get summoned when our tank is charmed, please DISC DEFENSIVELY to survive until the MT can peel it off you.

Everyone please assist MA when called on as we switch between ADDS and KING.

Any questions, please reply to this thread, and/or ask in the FLRaids:raids channel.  Thanks.


Boss: King of the Beasts

• Hits for 35000
• Various associated AEs and details listed below.

	KING		Call of the Domain - Charm (single-target)
			Entangling Domain Vines - Root (single-target)
			King's Charge -  70k DD PBAE (20' range)
			King's Quake - 34k DD PBAE + Stun (100' range)
			King's Roar - Melee delay + Spell Silence PBAE (100' range)
			King's Slam - 91k DD + Knockback/up (single-target, 75' range)
			King's Toss - 75k DD + Knockback/up (single-target, 75' range)
			Magic of the Domain - 8k DoT, but beneficial SD/ATK Speed + Stats (single-target, Charm recourse on fade)

Adds

• Hit for 21000
• Adds located around the King's area.
• Adds both timed and percent based
• King summons adds every three minutes
• At 20% HP increments
• Various adds susceptible to Stun, Charm, Mez, depending on mob type and/or random.
• King consumes adds not killed fast enough and regenerates health.

 

	BRAXI		Stunnable, Charmable
	GRENDALEAN		Mezzable, Stunnable
	SELYRAH		Mezzable
	a beast		Random CC weakness possibly (test/report)
			* Required Actions
			CC: Lock down what you are able until we can dispatch.
			Raid: Off King, assist MA on adds.

[Ssark]

only hits for 35000!

[Allronn]

Also this is a timed event .. i do not know the verbage but it will be something like King of beasts needs to be killed something about powering up from that point you have 5 Min to make him dead or he powers up and starts hitting for 70k + On a War with 10.7 k AC ( with Bard Boost ) .. in short best course of action if he powers up is to mass X loc and let it reset ..

[Furro]

Also this is a timed event .. i do not know the verbage but it will be something like King of beasts needs to be killed something about powering up from that point you have 5 Min to make him dead or he powers up and starts hitting for 70k + On a War with 10.7 k AC ( with Bard Boost ) .. in short best course of action if he powers up is to mass X loc and let it reset ..

Aye, I've read it had a timer also.  Since I wasn't exactly sure of the details, I left it out of the post.

Either way, good to know bit more now. 

Thanks Allronn.

[Allronn]

The AT does not work with the verbage "you lose yourself to the primal urges"

for being charmed that is Just got charmed by beast on my war and the trigger did not go off ...

Did not get a chance to try the full verbage of "you lose yourself to the primal urges of the domain!"

so Am unsure if this small change will make it work or not Sorry 

[Furro]

The AT does not work with the verbage "you lose yourself to the primal urges"

for being charmed that is Just got charmed by beast on my war and the trigger did not go off ...

Did not get a chance to try the full verbage of "you lose yourself to the primal urges of the domain!"

so Am unsure if this small change will make it work or not Sorry 

The partial pattern should work fine.  If you have logs of your actual charm, copy/paste it here directly.  It could be the in-game version has double whitespace somewhere and that's why it's not firing with the trig.

[Allronn]

Bah of all the times not to turn my /log on

ok next time we do it i will make sure the log is on

I usually do it for the Game Parcer but forgot tonight 

[Furro]

Bah of all the times not to turn my /log on

ok next time we do it i will make sure the log is on

I usually do it for the Game Parcer but forgot tonight 

No worries.

[Buukala]

King summons adds every 3 minutes, not 2 minutes.

[Furro]

King summons adds every 3 minutes, not 2 minutes.

 
Fixed.  Thanks

Other adjusts to follow.

[Furro]

 

Text / Audio Triggers - Mandatory

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Main Tanks

The Kings target gets hit by CHARM every 90 seconds. 

Charm lasts 36 seconds.

We need TANK SWAPS immediately when you become charmed.

This GTT will fire when you are charmed.


Charm Trigger voa_beast_charm.gtt

* Audio File: charmed.wav

Trigger Change - TANKS

Charm is a recourse when Magic of the Domain fades.

Corruption Cure will REMOVE the Magic buff and prevent you from being charmed.

DELETE your OLD charm GTT, and import the NEW one below:

When GTT fires, hit your CURE hotkey to let designated curer in your group know to cure you.

* New: voa_beast_charm.gtt

Audio File: get-cured.wav



Other Adjusts

Some further adjusts to resolve issues experienced previously.  These apply to EVERYONE.  There are no exceptions.  Read and adjust your play as related to your class/role please.

ONLY RANGE DPS KING:

• All of the AEs are avoidable.
• Do not take needless DD damage by going in close to King
• Kings AE ROOT cripples your melee ability to assist MA on adds

BACKUP MAIN TANKS:

• Do not stand in melee range of King.  Stand off to the side, and build your aggro from afar.
• Do not stand at the raid either.  Losing MT when you're at raid, results in King in our camp and AE'ing us all.

ADD TANKS:

• With proper timing, we're dealing with only 2 or 3 adds up at any given time.
• Adds spawned at King, so we just need to peel them off to raid as quickly as possible.
• No adjusts here other than make sure you direct your TANKING Hotkey to /group.  That clues in healers.  Other healers will cover ya via ETW without issue.

Comments:

Our MT on King takes alot of spike damage due to the AEs in play.  It's critical we keep the MT topped off to counter this damage as best possible.  When adds are down, there's no reason every healer should not be focused on the MT.  It's basically a single tank + boss fight at those times.

Adds getting absorbed into King.  I saw no emote of this, but it may have happened.  We'll have to watch for it, and adjust our tactic accordingly.

There is possibly a 15 or so minute hidden timer before King powerup as well. 

Couple other tweaks we can do, but we have to engage boss to flesh out the details next run first.

Overall, good attempts everyone given our setup.  A work in progress!

[Ocsee Clene]

One trick that a local guild uses is to pet tank this guy.

A mage pet, with Enhanced Minion 16 can take this guy; and the pets are all immune to charm.  It kind of trivializes this event by totally sidestepping a lot of the event mechanics.

Unfortunately the only EM 16 items in game are from VoA T4 and the Tower of Frozen Shadow raid event (damn you Kotsukai for taking our only EM16 item ever).  But if any of our mages have gotten an EM 16 item from other raids this would be a nice place for them to step up.

[Kaylaanie]

Well, I don't have EM16 but I do have EM14.  EM14 is a pet power increase of 120, whereas EM16 is 130.  Not a huge difference, but I don't know if that would make or break the potential for pet tanking that event.

[Furro]

One trick that a local guild uses is to pet tank this guy.

A mage pet, with Enhanced Minion 16 can take this guy; and the pets are all immune to charm.  It kind of trivializes this event by totally sidestepping a lot of the event mechanics.

Unfortunately the only EM 16 items in game are from VoA T4 and the Tower of Frozen Shadow raid event (damn you Kotsukai for taking our only EM16 item ever).  But if any of our mages have gotten an EM 16 item from other raids this would be a nice place for them to step up.

 
I'm aware of this tactic.  Unfortunately, it's not something we'll adopt, as pet tanking raid bosses is not intended by the devs.  Not to mention, personally, I think it's total cheese to bypass raid mechanics in this fashion, negating the challenge aspect of actually dealing with them. 

Anyway, it's late, just tossing a reply here so you know your suggestion wasn't overlooked.  Regardless of my stance, I do appreciate your suggestion, as I do everyones.

To handle charm, our tanks are just going to have to be on the ball, as well as healers to /assist and swap without much notice each time our MT gets charmed.  It won't be easy, but that's part of the challenge.  We're up for it.  Several tanks vying for agro may work as well.

Our next run on this event is coming up this week.  After a couple weeks backflagging, we should have appropriate numbers to make a good showing. 

[Ocsee Clene]

PROOF, that Furro uses cheese with no apologies.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=wz3BuYYhnn0#t=01m40s

Don't even try to deny it you charlatan!!!  You know you did it!!!

In honor of Furro, tonight's raiding misadventures will feature both cheese, and a nice wine to go with it.

Possibly chuckling over the cheese and wine as well too.

Oh, and I'm keeping all the pie I made for you.