The Itraer Vius  

Hi All - In case any progression guilds are in Akheva, here is a rundown of our recent encounter:

Anima of Test killed IV on 11/1/13.

Upon entering IVs room, there are adds lining both walls and also adds surrounding IV. We cleared both walls (which might be unnecessary) and then positioned in the middle of the room just outside of IV aggro range. Since IV is perma-rooted we pulled the adds surrounding him and put the MT on him.

There is a lot of talk about positioning and his AE blind, but for some reason this caused no issues for us in two encounters. We had the MT rotate him to face away from the raid, and everything else was business as usual.

He hits for around 250 Ave, had 500K HP and seemed to single target rampage.

This encounter seemed easier than Va'Dyn overall.

Happy Hunting.

Solo'd. Adds are annoying.
Radiant Cure kills the blind. I'm 4/9 RC.

Just soloed this guy with my 85 cleric and his warr merc. Took a min but we made it. Drops were lame, hoping to twink my mage. :(

This mob is a ROYAL pain in the butt to kill solo... just a forewarning. One of his procs is a blind that lasts for upwards of around 4 minutes. If that isn't enough, he also procs a knockback that sends you flying across the room into the, by now, respawned enemies, laying down the grounds for a big ol' train. Included in this train can be healers and what not. Chances are, you are still blind by the time this train is there pounding the snot out of you, and you basically start getting confused and don't know what to do...

There is a strategy though.

First off, IV is perma-rooted, so he cant move or chase after you, even if you have agro on him. So, feel free to go ahead and clear all the mobs out of the room before you engage him. Next, when all is said and done and all mobs are dead, take a look behind him and you will see a broken wall. You want to line up directly between him and that broken wall, so when he flings you, you don't go anywhere but into the wall. From that point, when you finally get him down to 98% or so, he will start summoning you. This actually makes it a lot easier... Just make sure you stay between him and the wall, and when he summons you, take about two to three steps backwards till you see your attack text start back up. Rinse and repeat the process till he is dead.

Just a side note... dont bother curing the blind and what not unless you need to see to adjust your position, he will just do it again about 10 seconds later. I recommend making friends with your map though.

Trio'd last night with me (75 necro) and a guy 2 boxing an 80 shm and 80 rng. Extremely fun.

It was a rough start: ranger kept getting blinded and knocked back, so I took over tanking until he started summoning. Had a lot of adds during the fight, being blind and flying around and all, but overall went really well. I got down to 1% once or twice, but shm heals, pots, and lifetaps kept me up. Ranger did the blunt of the work, tanking lots of adds while I just shot off DoTs. Was drained of mana before mob hit 50%, so I spent a lot of time meddin after that.

Dropped Crown, Sunbeam Staff, Glowing Orb, and 3 spells, one of which was Zevfeer's Theft of Vitae.

Orb went to ranger since it was his idea.

He also uses the effect "Claw of Khati Sha"

For 14.5/3.2k unbuffed SK. Just has a lot of hp.

75 ranger soloed, blind suxs so i just killed him blind, set it where KB was into wall. then summoned bck bck up a few steps and continued fighting. nuked a cple times mostly heal when i got below 30%. 2hnb, range orb and some spells.

75 Cleric- 13.6/2700ish

Like the below cleric said, trivial at best. Stand behind him so the knockback will not throw you back into the respawns. Vow of valor + Ward of reprisal, never nuked once, didn't use any mana other than refreshing Ward of reprisal every 3.5 minutes. 30 to 45 minute fight still though, tons of hp for cleric dps.

Downed before patch hit today.
Today he is easily 1 grouped by lvl 70 ies. heck dont even need 1 group. Me a paladin and a druid and shaman did him and teh rock guy.

he parsed out at 527k Hp and change.
Suceptible to fire and my ancient magic dot.
Main issue is just to take him down before the sodding
adds repop. During the fight he got 9 max hits at 580 dmg.

No need to clear mobs along the walls but really should take the others around him.

This is an interesting fight for a hydra team since it isn't a straight-out melee/heal/dps endurance contest. The big problem for a hydra is that the mobs on the walls repop ridiculously fast, like 5 minutes. I was getting repops and they were so quick at first I thought we had somehow aggro'd mobs elsewhere in the zone while running to IV's room.

Still working on placement of my team to do this without needless adds. Some good ideas here I will try and post results.

shammy 9.2k mana buffed
war 15k buffed
ranger SICK dps

boxed
unbuffed statts on characters

shammy 8200 mana
cleic 7600 mana
warior 10.900 hp
ranger 8200 hp

Seen a BL/Cleric (being boxed) Duo this guy on Lanys!! Crazyness...