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[Abbodon]

is the purpopse simply to hold him in one spot or prevent him from attacking all together?

[Lucid]

Prevent him from attacking altogether. They do a "whirling dervish" which devastates anyone around them, a 360 aoe. Keeping one stun locked while you dps it is the most common way to kill them, kite the 2nd one... then stun lock it once the 1st add is dead.

[Grughar]

Yeah, if the add isn't stunned or moving your party = dead. You cannot block any of the attacks, which makes Chosen the only tank that can stand in front of it and not die. Stuns. I've ran in on Grughar and popped 100% block and I'm dead within seconds. If the Chosen loses its timing and the add breaks free, he's dead... they're beautiful things.

[Abbodon]

what about dps stuns, are they being utilized, or just the tanks?

[Grughar]

Depends on the method you use. Our first few times through we used a combination. We'd get our sorc up to morale 3 have him use his stun and then he'd kite with a zealot following with her stun. Depending on morale she might open up with first stun. Then we tried having the zealot stun and a tank stand on it for knockdowns in between the zealot stun--have that count as quake--and see how that goes. The reason my group went for two independent stun locking people was it made it more consistent. The more people you make essential in keeping something stun-locked when timing is everything, be it due to lag or communication, accidents just kept happening so we decided to control the situation.

[Abbodon]

ok good point, how difficult is the 2 tank stun, are they having to pay close attention to a timer in between stuns or is there a particular ability that they just alternate on that happens after a timer has expired?

[Grughar]

Basically the way our Chosens do it is they open with a quake--providing it doesn't get parried (which happens unfortunately often)--and then when the timer is at, say, 4 seconds they'll use Downfall or Repel, then the other, then quake again, in whichever order meets their cool down timers. They attack a few seconds in advance to try and one-up the lag.

The two tank stun is only difficult if the add A) Parrys B) Bugs out or C) Is magically immune to crowd control effects holding. All of which happen remarkably often, but in the event they work, the single tank controlling the add makes it less stressful and makes stage four much easier.

[Abbodon]

ok well im in a group scheduled to run tonight so when we get to this boss im gonna have to attempt this method