Headed South: avoid any damage while tanking the adds

[gerstenmalz]

Hi guys,

this is my first contribution in the exploits forum so please be gentle!

So while tanking the Siamat encounter during the Headed South achievement I found this bug and exploitet it to make the encounter trivial and now I want to share it with you guys who cant wait to get their dragon achievement.

The usual tactic to beat this encounter is to tank the 3 melee adds and pound on the boss while he has 90% dmg absorb. This takes a while and puts a lot of pressure on your healer. When the boss reaches 30% or lower you usually want to start focusiing down the adds and kill the boss afterwards to get the achievement.

However the tankdmg in the first phase can be completly avoided by doing this:
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Just hop over the ledge thats on the ground and the adds have to walk all the way around it.
Before they reach you hop over again.
rinse and repeat and they wont ever hit you till boss gets low hp and burn the adds and the boss afterwards.

[yousefak]

Huge lol at those pictures. +rep

[jackie1337]

Nice find =) + rep

And for the once that didnt know. So can u attack the boss and reset him so it gives 2-10 sec to attack him without the 90% dmg reduce at the start.
How to:
1. 4 is standing down so the boss cant aggro.
2. 1 is pulling the boss and just jump down.
3. Get out of combat.
4. Go up to the boss again and wait for him to respawn.'

I dont take any credit for it. Saw it on a guide or if it was on a wowhead comment. Just wanted to share it for the ppl that havent find it yet =)
And sry for the bad grammer.

[Rosulm]

Can you mount on top? If so, i could see that mount while you pets waterbolt/firebolt is in the air trick working.

[gerstenmalz]

Rosulm what has that to do with this thread? Obviously the only encounter i know of where that trick is working is conclave of winds because their hp wont reset. However the Pet attack/mount up bug has nothing in common with the bug discussed in this thread

[ALIASDEVIL]

Don't you think the boss will reset if he target the tank with a casting attack while you are on the ground ?

[strec021]

I found this out while tanking a fail heroic group that couldn't kill adds fast enough. Thanks for letting everyone know, though. It's good for getting the achieve.

[Mr.JellyBelly]

I can easily confirm this, as i did it myself on my warrior yesterday, (before finding this thread).

[403Forbidden]

Just wanted to say

You dont need to dps boss with 3 adds alive...

Just mark the adds as they spawn. The boss transitions when the THIRD add is dead (not all 3, but third that spawns). So essentially you keep two first adds alive and kill third. Then you dps the boss, and you kill 2nd add before you lose debuff. Then same with third - and by this time boss is usually dead.

But yes, pathing is extremely ****ed up at that platform. Thing is, that the damage from melee adds is the lowest threatening damage during that encounter.
Good try tho.

[Oneshotxn]

I tried this so many times last night and couldn't get it to work... 99% Sure I was doing it wrong though.. can anyone link a screenshot of the ledge? The epic Paint pictures aren't doin it for me :P + rep still tho

[gerstenmalz]

@ anakonda
We tried that achievement a lot and found out that it is way more easier with dpsing boss till 30% and bugging the adds. its basically a no brainer with this way.
when you do the way with killing the 3rd add first and attack the boss -> kill add before buff runs out -> attack boss and so on
there is a tremendous amount of grp damage to deal with while the boss is active and the party has the debuff on them

@ all others: I appreciate the love for my superior ms paint skills xD made the pictures in like 2 minutes.
At first I thought about doing the achievement again and get screenshots but my guildies said "lets never do this fkn instance again" XD

[sol82]

+Rep for the HD pics.

[Snowee]

your painting skillz are huge