Comments on: Calzowned downs Hydross

By: Radu

Radu — Wed, 06 Feb 2008 23:56:13 +0000

I believe Hydros does do a full agro wipe. The reason he agro’s after the transition is that anyone who even farts before the warrior gets agro will pull him. When learnign the fight we had a pally pull agro from a buff and a druid who swears all he did was bandage himself.

Generally as the Nature Tank for this I simply target Hydros, stay in front of him at the transition phase and slowly walk backwards when we do the swap.
When he is around the area where he normally changes I start spamming shield bash. I rarely miss or loose agro at the transition doing this.

By: Bizzam

Bizzam — Wed, 30 Jan 2008 21:56:26 +0000

Actually I’ve already gotten a couple of messages saying that it IS a total aggro wipe, so the jury is still out.
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On the attempt that basically convinced me it wasn’t complete, we asked EVERYONE to completely stop DPS well before the transition and yet Hydross STILL ran back across and smacked a lock who claimed to have not cast a single dot.
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So who knows… at any rate, with me staying on the boss, generating aggro before the transition, we had no problems with him peeling off and going to smack someone else…

By: Rochelle

Rochelle — Wed, 30 Jan 2008 21:37:21 +0000

That’s news to me. I have seen, on several occasions, Hydross cross the line an go tearing after druids or priests because one of their hots ticked at the wrong time. If it is less than a total threat wipe then there is no reason Hydross would go after a healer, he would go after a dps class or more likely, the tank from the previous phase.
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I am usually the frost phase tank and during nature I run around debuffing the adds and chasing down anything that gets loose and /dancing with people and doing just about everything you can think of besides generating threat. Then when we transition back to frost I slap him with a shield slam and he is on me like a fat kid on a cupcake.
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One of the things our tanks do to make life easier for each other is that at the moment of the transition the old tank will drop a Tclap and a devastate so that just in case the new tank misses with his shield slam, the boss will at least stick to the old tank instead of running off and punching someone else in the face. And since there aren’t any stacks of his debuff yet, he won’t be hitting hard at all so it doesn’t matter that you will have the wrong type of resistance on.
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Bosses HATE searing totems. Its just one of those quirks that have been around forever. If you use it right, it can actually help you out a lot. Have one of your shaman cross the line early and drop a searing totem where the boss will be tanked in the next phase. That way, if the new tank misses, then the boss will charge the searing totem instead of some squishy. Searing totems are clutch on Leotheras too.
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If you are having issues with people pulling aggro during the transition (usually warlocks that can’t control their dots), then make sure the entire raid moves across the line right before the transition. That way, even if someone does pull aggro at the moment of the phase change and Hydross runs off to punch that person in the face, it won’t wipe the raid because Hydross won’t have to cross the line to punch the warlock.