Rallos Zek the Warlord  

Ancient Dominion downed Rallos tonight on our first raid. First attempt we wiped at 5% because the kite team went down early. Having tried other people's strats and had them fail, we decided to jury-rig our own. It worked, Rallos dead on second attempt. Since this isn't exactly new content I figured I might post it here to see if anyone finds it of use. Don't think I've seen this one before.

Ok, I just want to brag that we made a new strat...

Ancient Dominion Kite Strat

This is based on the fact that the port-out from the pit will gate you under RZ if you use it when he is up. We used a train chain with knights.

Everyone needs a bow and non-magic damage arrows for this.

Buffs will be all HP buffs for knights, one spellshield, and runes to fill up all other available spaces.

Kite team composition
Team One: 3 paladins, 3 SK's in one group, in that order.
Team Two: Rangers / Monks in another group.

On Rallos pull
Kite team all attacks green corpse mobs around raid and kills them. First paladin in knight team watches for adds. Rangers blow Trueshot on Rallos engage. SK's blow HT on Rallos as the Paladins start kite

First wave adds spawn
First paladin runs to pick up adds, trains them clockwise around the pit until he reaches port out in the NE. At port out he will use DA for 18 seconds. As it is about to fade, he calls for the next person on chain and clicks port. Next paladin picks up the train and does same thing.

Second wave adds spawn
AS SOON as these adds spawn, the next person in chain will kite them out and use DA at port as the previous people. SK's then pick up kite, do the same thing and use Harmshield.

Third wave adds spawn
Same as above, etc.

IF any knights survive this process and the port back to Rallos, then they rejoin the chain, or use HT if they have not done so. If not, don't worry about it.

6 knights x minimum 18 seconds DA (not including time they spend kiting around pit) means we are a MINIMUM 2 minutes into the fight now.

Knight chain dead
If the knight chain has all died the first time around, the LAST knight to die will call the ranger group. Rangers now pick up the kite (Trueshot has expired) and use Weaponshield instead of DA to do the same thing. 4 Rangers or so gives us another 1 minute.

We are now a MINIMUM 3 minutes into the fight. Rallos is most likely already dead.

Rangers down
If the rangers are down and Rallos is still up, they call to the monks. The monks run to aggro the kite, and FD in the Northwest corner of the raid. They then bounce aggro from the kite by standing/FDing for the few seconds longer it takes for Rallos to die.

Worst Case Disaster
If the whole kite team is dead and Rallos is still alive, 4 minutes into the fight, then the Kite Leader or last monk alive CALLS 'Kite Team Down' and any available Warriors run near the kite and AE taunt. They run it off as far as possible and die. We are now a good 5 minutes into the fight at a minimum, and if Rallos isn't already dead, then we are clearly tickling him with feathers and deserve to die. The End.

Notes
Once you have ported back to Rallos, the kite will still have aggro on you. Keep at the back of the chain so the people at the front have a decent chance at grabbing it off you, with any luck they should already be kiting them by the time you pop at Rallos. Just be aware that you can steal aggro in this way.

If SK's are worried about stealing aggro with early HT's, then they run their kite with DA, and on clicking back to Rallos they target and immediately HT. If this gets them aggro and they die, they've done their job. If not, back to the train chain.

Hope you might find this helpful.

Hunter Orientis
<Ancient Dominion>
Venril Sathir

Edited, Fri Apr 16 22:13:51 2004