Hey everyone. Here is my armory.
http://eu.wowarmory.com/character-sh...strom&n=Zuhaha
I want to share with you this movie. Obviously it's an Algalon kill. You can watch it on
>>>>>>>>>>>http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-yjY7...<<<<<<<<<<<<<<
or download the HD version (It's 1440x900)
>>>>>>>>>>>http://www.filefront.com/14481301/Al...0HD%29.avi<<<<
My reasons are following:
1) I feel like there isn't enough movies from hunter's PoV.
2) If you are doing Algalon 10, you only have 1 hour a week to learn so you can use every chance to learn something before you actually engage the encounter (Tho our first kill was also first evening with me in the raid so the fight isn't that hard to learn)
3) I wanted to see other's people opinion on my movie-making style.
To explain number 3. I feel tired of this pattern for making PvE movies, which goes like: Flashy black'n'white intro. Trance music. Credits.
For PvP movies it's basically the same, just more flashes and replace trance with some hard rock. That's why I think it could use something different. Hence the music. I must say there isn't much editing in this movie. That's because it's not meant to be tutorial movie. If you guys think I should make tutorial (aka add comments, highlights and explanations to the events, feel free to say so in this thread.
UI addons: Dominos, Xperl, Sexymap, Forte Xorcist, Prat, Titanpanel, Mik's scrolling battle text.
I can see people asking about the cooldown timer bar. That's one of the Forte Xorcist parts. It's simmilar to Coolline, but you can set your own scale.
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[size=12pt]Now to the fight itself. (I assume you already read up on his abilities)
The start is simple. MD your first tank, nuke Algalon before the stars spawn. You can blow your CD's there, if you are MM (As in RF, trinkets, readiness. You won't need them for new few mins.) If you are SV, you might want to save RF for last 20%. You can also lay a trap before he becomes attackable to proc LnL.
The biggest difference is whether you are killing stars or not.
A) You are not killing stars. In this case, unless you are kiting the constelations (I don't think that is a job that would require hunter), you will have literally THREE things to worry about, besides DPSing the boss.
Cosmic Smashes - Those are the orange circles on the floor, followed by explosion. Much like Mimiron's rocket from below, BUT the damage is lower, the futher you are. Unless you have really low health, you can survive standing few yards away from them, however, if you can, you should move at least 15-20 yards to minimize the damage.
Dying Stars - This is fairly obvious. Don't stand next to the star that's about to die. You'd get phased instantly.
Big bang - Don't mess up on this one. Make sure you know which hole will be available and get there in time. Tips: Disengage is your friend. Use AotViper in the phased realm. Remember to send pet on Algalon again after this phase (Yea I know I forget that a lot)
B) You are killing stars.
Smashes and Bang are still an issue. Dying stars won't really matter as you are the one deciding which one will blow up. See above for these 2 if you skipped that part.
Killing the stars - You will have to keep up steady DPS while switching targets often. When you watch the movie you can see I am at 4-5k DPS while killing stars, and usually have time left.
The important part is to time the death of the star. You can do that easily by slowing / stopping DPS at ~10k and just blowing it up with Killing Shot, when everyone in the raid has enough health to survive it. (It's around 12-15k dmg). Make sure it's in the right position too. You can even stop DPSing one star and switch to another one, if the original star is heading too far to the side / too close to the melee.
- The stars get constant damage, so watch out if you leave star on low health. Make sure it doesn't blow on it's own in bad moment -
Try to kill stars that are far from everyone, but not too far from Algalon.
At 20%, you switch to Algalon and burn him down. As we learned, he will still cast Big Bang in this phase, so be ready for that in case you haven't had 3 of them yet. This is the part where you can use your CD's again. If you are MM, you should now have trinkets, RF and readiness ready. Which means 2 rounds of shots + 30 sec rapidfire.
Enjoy your loot (Which by the way is utter crap in 10-man, from hunter's point of view.)
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So anyway, hope this would help some of you. If you have any questions, ill try answering them.
Check the youtube info section for more... uhm.. info.
If you made it this far without being killed by this wall of text, you deserve a cookie.
Thanks for reading and watching.