Halfus humped

[LexaproL]

My 10m raid group ventured into The Bastion Twilight last night to bang heads with Halfus. We got the following drakes: Storm rider, Slate dragon and of course the welps. Having gone in there earlier in the month we got Strom rider and Time lost what ever drake (which we downed). This make up seemed impossible... Has anyone else gotten this make up? If so could you please give me some incite as to how you defeated the combo? THANK GOOOOOOO!

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What's your raid setup?

[LexaproL]

healers: priest, priest, paladin
tanks: druid, warrior
dps: shaman(ele) 2 boomchickens, warrior, warlock

Its all sorts of messed up =\

[Devlin1991]

Pop storm and the Whelps right at the start have 1 tank have halfus and the whelps and the other one, have the drake. Once the whelps are dead pop the last drake and keep nuking the first drake, its important that you get it down to halfus + last drake(slate) asap, once you are down to this its a walk in the park, just have the tanks swap halfus and the drake once the stacks go to 8. so that the person with the MS is never tanking anything for long periods of time.

With a warrior + warlock(ask him to go Demo for this fight for its overpowered aoe, felstorm+Immoaura+hellfire) + 2x starfall the whelps will fall over extremely fast so don't even count them as part of the encounter, just focus on killing Whelps>storm>slate>boss. in that order popping the slate once the whelps die.

[LexaproL]

Thanks! we'll give it a shot!

[Porra]

healers: priest, priest, paladin
tanks: druid, warrior
dps: shaman(ele) 2 boomchickens, warrior, warlock

Its all sorts of messed up =\

We popped Storm Rider and Slate at the same time and let the MT hold Halfus the WHOLE time. Have you Paladin Hand of Prot the Halfus tank when his stacks get too high, just be sure he knows to taunt and remove his buff. This whole time your raid should have popped BL and burned the Storm Rider, then Slate. Once this happens its GG... MS stacks go VERY slow this phase since his attack speed is reduced, the MT damage is almost laughable... but the real damage comes from the drakes.

Once both Slate and Storm are dead have the tank that took the dragons go an open the whelp cage for another 50% damage boost and just have him tank them on the boss, while your raid ignores them (aside from simple AE like Explosive Trap for increased LnL procs)

Once the whelps are out just zerg him and be sure your Mage Blinks the 3rd Roar and counterspells the boss.... GG on phat lewts, V&T and Ascendant Council are laughable encounters, grats on your loot before cho'gall.

[Devlin1991]

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V&T and Ascendant Council are laughable encounters, grats on your loot before cho'gall.

Guess you have not tried the council with 3 melee + 3 range dps then. We 1 shot every other boss minus RNG wipes but we are yet to kill this encounter due to our melee getting destroyed very quickly into p3 (starting him on 22-24% hp etc) by the chain lightning hitting 3 melee + tank on every tick. From what i've heard Cho'gall is a joke compared to the council.

[Spl4sh3r]

My 10m raid group ventured into The Bastion Twilight last night to bang heads with Halfus. We got the following drakes: Storm rider, Slate dragon and of course the welps. Having gone in there earlier in the month we got Strom rider and Time lost what ever drake (which we downed). This make up seemed impossible... Has anyone else gotten this make up? If so could you please give me some incite as to how you defeated the combo? THANK GOOOOOOO!

This setup seems so easy, pop Storm and Whelps and have someone interrupt each of the AoE's (pref the shaman in your setup) and then AoE whelps and then kill Storm and have tanks taunt of eachother when they reach around 8 stacks and keep taunting of eachother after the Storm is dead also. If you keep taunting of eachother in this way you won't even need to kill the Slate one.

EDIT: Only thing that makes this setup seems hard is because both time and whelps gives an AoE attack so whole raid takes damage. So if you don't interrupt the Shadow AoE it will be heavy on the healers.

[Porra]

Our raid comp for it has been 2 Enhance Shams, 1 Surv Hunter, 2 Mages... P1 and P2 are easy, in P2 we stick the Hunter and Shams on the melee boss and the Mages on the other guy. P3 is sick, we have an Archangel Smiter Priest spamming and a Holy Pally/ Resto Sham keeping the raid up.