[Study Guide] Algalon the Observer

[gezus]

Btw, you're a little misinformed about what ensidia did...

The flowerpower "exploit" was in fact used at Hodir hardmode, which had been buffed (went from 3 min to make the achievement to 2 minutes), after 1 guild already killed hodir hardmode, ensidia came there a little later, facing an encounter that was then mathematically impossible without stacking mages with the so called "flowerpower" buff. Hodirs hardmode was immediatly nerfed again to 3 minutes to complete it after ensidia barely made it (They were at about 2:20 without the flower buff, 1:59.5 with it)

Concerning the more then 1 hour / lockout, i haven't heard of that. Only thing i heard about was a bug that prevented Algalon from resetting, and thus the bridge that leads to his room from respawning. Ensidia managed to circumvent this bug by having Munken disengage out in the void and arcane shot the boss, making him reset the encounter and allowing more tries. However they lost around 20 minutes on this bug, and they were in fact the only guild affected by it, as it was hotfixed before any other guild reached him.

So, i dunno, but i never heard about any exploits other then the flowepower trick, which was more of a clever use of game mechanics then it was an exploit, really.

Thank you for clearing this up, I think I will just remove the text from the guide. I did a bit of research and you are correct. Also .. I would like to clarify however that I fully agree that "Flowerpower" is more of a clever use of game mechanics rather than an exploit.

To me Exploiting is causing the game to "bug" or error. ie:Evade bugs and such..

[Chuck12345]

+rep cause I know it took a lot of time to write this, but let's be honest lol, 99% of the people here won't be facing Algalon till lvl100

[gezus]

Found another great 25man video. This time from a Prot warrior Pov.

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**Update**
We had our first 1 hour go at Algalon this week, and I must say it's not as crazy as Blizzard made it out to be. Although we only got him to 65%, and considering we only had 1 hour to learn him and make some good honest attempts I feel this is very good progress.

Here are some tips from those attempts.

Black Holes- BE CAREFUL when you come OUT of the black hole phase, it is VERY VERY easy to accidentally step into another one. and wipe the crew. Try to be aware at ALL times where they are.

Big Bang - As we got close to the timer expiry we decided to do some experimenting.

Our MT is a Pally with just under 50k Hps. and our Healers are 1xDisc priest(me), 1xResto Druid, and 1xHoly Pally. The original plan was to use Cool downs, and things like Pain Suppression to mitigate the damage buring Big Bang. HOWEVER, We tried Rolling Hots on the tank ie: Renew, Druid hots, PW:S, and a POM. and have him ONLY use his Paladin Cd's. He was hit for aprox 75% of his health. and immediately the hots started pushing him back up. Also the SPLIT SECOND Big Bang fires, ALL players from the black hole are ported back into the play area, this means I was able to fire a fresh PoM. PW:S, Renew, and Penance the very second the damage was dealt. (However keep in mind there is alot of things going on and being clutch at this is not 100%). I just wanted to point out that on 10man .. you "Shouldn't" need a bunch of fancy tricks up your sleeves, and just a decent group with 50% brainpower should be okay.

More to come. :P

[gezus]

More Algalon discussion from a Search Results for "maintankadin.com" thread

Mostly just minor Q&A, however.. with the lack of knowledge currently out that (regarding Algalon). Every little big helps.

Maintankadin &bull; View topic - Algalon

[gezus]

Not much however.. adds to the guide.

Algalon Screenshots by Ensidia (Not much help, but sure is pretty >.<)

http://www.************/forum/world-...n-ensidia.html

**Got a couple days off next week will try to clean up the OP, and include some of the other random crap I have been finding.