Last edited by hackerlol; 11-24-2013 at 11:14 PM.
Well, I was the lock who did it (video in the first post). There are few things i want to say:
1. I personally don't think it is an exploit. Every boss with similar mechanics would behave yourself the same way. The core is the pet takes 0% damage from AVOIDABLE aoe and 10% from unavoidable aoe. That aoe is avoidable, so pet doesn't take damage from it. As for "don't stay closer to the boss then your imp" thing, every similar boss (alakir, sinestra, KJ, etc) tries to attack closest target when nobody is in melee, so that's it.
2. Enrage thing. It's very simple, only autoattacks, corrosive blasts and sha sears are buffed with enrage. BUT there are one tricky thing. The boss has to be on p1 when enrage is applying, or you will get raped when sha oozes will merge with the boss.
3. Heroic mode. I really don't think it is possible now, but I have a few ideas, need to check it next week.
Seems like this was fixed - Corrosive Blast has been cast on me every time I engaged the boss while staying far behind my imp. I've went as far as attempting to just let him attack for a minute to build a lot of initial threat, and Soulshattering, and I still got hit by 3 Corrosive Blasts.
This is deff possible but my lowly geared lock could not do this. I will try on my geared frost mage or hunter later.
You need to be somewhat at an angle from your imp. You cannot just stand immediately behind, since your imp will have aggro and the boss will cast corrosive blast on him. If you are standing within the radius of the blast, you'll get hit by it as well. That's how alot of nooby DKs die while doing it normally. The fact that the boss did not immediately 1 hit you means it is still working somewhat.
Nice ^^ gonna try to do this on my hunter.
Could this be used on a regular normal or heroic run? Using a pet to "tank" the boss and having the whole raid dps him?
Read the title of this post and no HC got adds that kills you
This still works. I tried doing it with my frost mage and it works like the OP said. The problem though for frost mages is we dont have enough self heals for the pools that spawn on us... If anyone got a suggestion Im all ears.
It still works with heroic, just that you'd take maybe 10 hours to kill the boss on your mage.
The adds don't hurt that much as long as you don't spam spells on it. Your water elemental hitting the boss won't spawn adds, so you just need to handle the adds 1 or 2 at a time. Slowly whittle the boss's hp down.
Use greater invisibility with temporal shield for the end part of phase 2, together with IB you should be able to survive quite well.
nice boi. +rep
i have a feeling they hotfixed this because ive been trying for the last 6hrs. keeping my pet on an angle but outside of melee range. while keeping myself far enough to not get hit by the blast and he eats both me and my pet in the first 1min of the fight im IL 551