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Lich King 10 man, need advice on Vile Spirit
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Post by
hawke
Hey wowhead !
Here's the deal, my guild already downed LK 2 times, it wasn't much of a lucky kill, but we ALWAYS struggle at the same part : Vile Spirit. We tried many ways (kitting LK to the opposing side and make the Vile Spirit come to us... they still have time to catch up and explode in your face), we tried to DPS them, some still killed the raid (though the last two time we downed LK, we were DPSing the spirit to death), etc.
What's the 'best' solution against Vile Spirit ? We're having everything else perfectly... but those damn annoying Vile Spirit can make us wipe around 10 times before we get the kill, wich make it annoying since we KNOW we can down him -__-
Post by
fuhrerschein
well you can either soak them using an off-tank as you mentioned
or if you have a ranged heavy group (which you should because its icc....) dps them down. with 30 percent buff its getting silly how quick those things die
that being said... 1 or 2 dps might be getting hit every wave... healers just need to make sure people are topped off... and that people are using the best of their abilities to avoid/mitigate the damage (warlock portal, mage blink, druid barkskin, spriest disperse, anyone can use a healthstone etc. )
Post by
hawke
Yeah, we're ranged heavy (we only have 1 melee DPS).
What we tried yesterday was make the two warlock spam SoC and the hunter user Multi-shot to make the seed explode. It didnt turn out too well, but I don't know if it's because they were too spread when they started to attack (a seed explosing was touching at MAX 3 spirit).
Should we just tell to ALL dps to go on the spirit ?
Btw, we didnt try a tank soaking them up (yet), we just kited the LK around (read : the opposite side of where he summoned the spirits) trying to DPS the spirit when they came, with little to no success.
Post by
Interest
An additional way to help with either strategy fuhrerschein mentioned is to get some Hunters to use their slowing traps. They have a pretty large vertical range and WILL slow the Vile Spirits.
It is actually almost vital in the heroic version of LK to do this, so it should help a ton on normal too.
Post by
hawke
Ahhh, sound's like a plan, I didn't think trap would actually work. We'll try it on Monday :)
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Post by
hawke
We have no Boomkin in our raid comp (sad panda) but here's our setup in case it could help :
Tank :
- Warrior
- Druid
Healer :
- Holy paladin
- Resto druid
- Resto shaman (resto only for fight we need 3 healz, elemental otherwise)
DPS :
- 2 warlock
- 1 ret paladin
- 1 hunter
- 1 arcane mage
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Post by
Fingulfin
On ten man its best just to single target the viles (from my experience anyway). Thats if you choose to go that route, tbh you should all just spread out and eat them. It takes 2 vile spirit explosions to kill a DPS if they don't get any heals, if you spread out and everyone eats 1 with the OT eating 2-3 you should get through it without changing targets at all.
Alternatively, you can rotate CDs to eat them.
A shaman's earth elemental will taunt ALL the viles and they will all harmlessly detonate onto him
DKs can Army of the Dead to eat all the spirits of one wave
A warrior can pop shield wall and then AoE taunt (careful not to taunt LK!) and eat every single spirit
DKs can eat a million of them with Anti Magic Shell
Warlocks can eat three because of shadow ward. Demo locks can eat even more because of Shadow Ward + Soul Link
Your OT can bunny hop around eating them one at a time while the healers top him off
A pally can bubble, stand in the middle and eat all of them
A SPriest can disperse and eat as many as he wants
Hunters can pop Deterrence and eat them
The ways to soak them are endless, you just have to remember to spread out, or have someone designated to eat all of them.
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Post by
HoleofArt
Pally bubble
DK Army
Off-tank soaking
Kiting
In 10m (especially if you're having difficulties) it's a huge waste of time and DPS to attack the spirits. Just play smart.
Post by
hawke
We're not having any difficulties on the DPS, timer, execution or nothing, the only thing $%^&ing us up is the Vile Spirit exploding and melting our face :(.
Since we have two pallys, I think we're gonna try to make the 2 pally bubble and eat the first two waves, and OT eating all the other ones.
Thanks for the tip people :)
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