Comments on: Heigan the Unclean

By: Jurakan

Jurakan — Fri, 09 Jul 2010 20:56:39 +0000

Maybe late for the party, and engaging Heigan is definitely more of a novelty than a challenge at this stage of the game: I don’t have a “trick” for the safety dance phase. I dunno, I just memorized a Flash of the patterns on the floor and rehearsed and died a lot. As far as tanking Heigan, a very rude player imparted me his super fun way of tanking Heigan (I’m sorry if I’m repeating myself)

You can easily position all range/heals on the uper left hand corner of the platform and tank him with all the melee facing heigan on the lower right hand corner of the platform. Heigan has to be standing right outside the platform, and the tank right on the dge of the corner, in order for the debuff not to make your heals’ life impossible. And just rip away. if melee stacks on the tank, they should not get any splash damage, and voila. Dead Heigan. Now, I haven’t raided in months, but I’m curious about standing in that corner during the safety dance itself….

By: Tankette

Tankette — Thu, 29 Jan 2009 16:29:14 +0000

I finally completed the dance. I found 4 darker stones in a line that pretty much put you in the 4 zones. Phase 1 is pretty easy since there’s time to get a heal if you screw up a little. Phase 2 has less room for error but even then I don’t have to be perfect with 38K health.

By: Rochelle

Rochelle — Tue, 27 Jan 2009 16:38:10 +0000

Latency can make it difficult, if you are having trouble, run farther than you think is necessary and try not to jump too much. I guess if you jump, the server doesn’t update your position until you land – lots of people had this problem on Kil’jaeden and Malygos where you need to be inside a shield and if you jump across the threshold, you will see yourself inside the shield, but server won’t update right away and you will die.

As for the dance itself, you getting it yourself is only half the battle. Since you are the tank, you have the extra challenge of learning to do it with a partner (in phase1). In the video I posted, you see me running all the way through the safe zones and then coming back towards Heigan. That is because he has a pretty big hit box and if you only go far enough to be in the safe zone yourself, melee will either be forced to dps from the front or they will get hit by the splash.

By: Tankette

Tankette — Tue, 27 Jan 2009 16:31:02 +0000

Had my first night of dance lessons. I think I got it down after about 8 times. About 5 of our group never could. I think lat is the real killer as the best lats were 180 and worst near 1000.

By: Tankette

Tankette — Wed, 21 Jan 2009 19:02:45 +0000

The patch apparently eliminated the exploit. Looks like I’ll be learning to dance.

By: Tankette

Tankette — Mon, 19 Jan 2009 18:53:52 +0000

The exploit works in 10 man and 25 man. I scratch my head as to why Blizz left it in when it was there for the lvl 60 instance.

By: Rochelle

Rochelle — Mon, 19 Jan 2009 16:52:12 +0000

I am pretty sure that isn’t intended though and I’d rather not promote an exploit.

By: Steele

Steele — Mon, 19 Jan 2009 12:49:35 +0000

There is actually a trick. On the right side of the room there is a safe spot where everybody can hang out to regen or during phase 2 instead of running like mad. Im not sure if this goes for both 10 and 25 man version since i only saw it on 25 yet.

By: Random

Random — Mon, 19 Jan 2009 02:37:50 +0000

This fight is more of a test of latency than anything. The dance is really easy enough as the spacing is quite forgiving. Unfortunately, what you see might not be what is actually detected by the server. Depending on how bad the latency is, even if you “see” that you are in the safe zone, you are not. One might argue that one can move slightly ahead to make up for the latency but it gets very confusing after a while, not to mention that fluctuating latency will means that the compensation time will vary. IMO this is a very stupid fight that punishes players with poor latency.