Kuanbyr Hailstorm  

Decided to give this guy a shot with my boxed team: 65 Monk with 700+ AAs, 65 Shaman with 800+ AAs, 65 Ranger with around 30 AAs with Tank, DPS and Healer mercs.

First, I had the shaman throw some slows on Hrani, Iri and Kuanbyr. I killed Leistr (unslowable) first then Hrani. I then starting working on Kuanbyr and kept Iri slowed.

I was doing quite fine but by that point, my healer mercs was already running out of mana even though she was on "efficient" mode. I put her on passive a couple of times so she would stop wasting mana and regen a little bit while the shaman would keep the tank up. The merc healer is good at casting CH but will often panic when the tank gets below a certain level of HP and cancel the CH and cast HoTs and fast heals. I wish I could control that.

Anyways, it wasn't looking too good as I was running out of mana; Kuanbyr was at around 40%. I decided to camp the team out while the mercs kept the boss busy to try again. I know it's kind of cheap but I was able to come back, med, rebuff and finish Kuanbyr and Iri without any issues. The other bees didn't have time to repop. 2 Greater Stormwatcher Horn dropped. Offered to the zone but I'm guessing they rotted.

I'm thinking that maybe next time, I'll kill Leistr first and start working on the boss immediately. With the shaman, I'll pad the tank with heals to keep his HP high enough to prevent the healer merc from interrupting her own CH for faster heals.

Note that I kept Spirit of the Jaguar on all melees at all time which already costs a lot of mana but the DPS boost is simply amazing.

As with other tower bosses I've tried with this team, the issue seems to be lacking mana for heals, other than that, piece of cake.

Edited, Sep 24th 2011 5:46pm by Gastank

Decided to try this today 2boxing my 73 mage (431 aa) with air pet and T1 tank merc. 62 chanter (662 aa) had T1 healer merc.

Entered the tower and killed trash until I got to the boss room. Snuck my toons into the left corner of the boss room and pulled one of the bees to start. Oh em gee... this was a LONG fight. Chanter tashed and slowed mobs (always only "partially successful" with slows) and mage started nuking down the bees one by one. Tank almost ate it a few times, cleric was stuck constantly CH'ing it. Some observations from this fight:

Leistr: lowest HP when compared to the other named bees, immune to slow.
Hrani: medium HP, can be slowed.
Iri: high HP, can be slowed.
Kuanbyr: mountain of HP, can be slowed.

Kept out of Kuanbyr's enrage radius, he enrages constantly. Had to mage heal the air pet a few times since cleric merc didn't have any mana to. Fight ended with mage and cleric OOM, chanter was at 12% mana. Cleric managed to regen enough mana to CH the tank merc every minute or so to keep her up once it was only Kuanbyr up and all the bees dead. It was a great challenge, but nothing I'd want to do again.

Kuanbyr dropped everything that is on his loot table EXCEPT for the rogue and SK weapons.

What is the respawn time for the bees?

We found that if you attempt to FD split these guys they will chain aggro. But if you pull them past the table room and down the steps leading to it (table room would be room before stairs leading to Hailstorms room) you can split without chain aggro. Doing it that way we were able to easily split the bees and kill them individually. On a seperate raid with different people, they did not pull far enough and could not FD split at all. Finally they just pulled everything at once and we wiped.

No, not all giants are on 6 hr timer.....

All giants in towers are on a 6 hours timer.

My guild did this tower a couple nights ago. It went very smooth. The MT pulled Kuanbyr Hailstorm while two other tanks were on Hrani and Leistr. Another chanter and I kept Iri mezzed while the others were killing the guards. after the 2 guards were down we killed Kuanbyr then Iri was killed last. I think we had 27 people in our raid.

Get a good bard and have him gate the bees out.

We tried the FD thing first does not work. Another str. is to kite them into a corner and root them. Do not do more than 3% dmg on them otherwise they will summon.

Folks Our guild kiks his ass : )

Monk clears room

Tank agros him and pulls him into corner exposing his back only tank takes Area effect so there is only 1 target to heal allow the tank to call for attack so that he keeps agro and leaves the giant faceing the corner.

Easy

I resisted one of his AEs; it was called Hail Storm. Checked it out, it's a 400 dd and 0 second stun.

The second AE is the one to worry about; 1500 dd unresistable and 2 second stun.

There are 3 lvl 65 named bees in his room. Will they help Hailstorm during the fight? How do you single-pull him? Where is the best place to finish him? Can he be magic/poison slowed?

Grrr, were having trouble with this tower, that 1500 point ae shreds our raid force quick =/, anyone have any strats they can share here? all of our rogues need an upgrade including myself this would be an ideal upgrade..Aside from the normal CHchain Ive heard people suggesting chain spell-shielding the MT to help with the ae damage and having all melee use ranged attack whil everyone else sends in pets and nukes, would like to hear from some people who have taken him down recently since the charm nerf IE (command of druzzil having a greater chance to break and be resisted) or is CoD charmed giants for sick dps still a viable option?
Thanks for any help will be very much appreciated :)

Shadrok Dos'Dagas
65 Deceiver
Bristlebane server

http://lucy.fnord.net/spell.html?id=1031&source=Live

that's what he uses. very low range