Beating the Zul'Aman gauntlet
by Mike Schramm 
Nov 17th 2007 at 1:10PM
The toughest part so far seems to come right before what most guilds traditionally take on as the second boss-- Akil'zon, the Eagle god. We ran through boss strategy the other day in our Zul'Aman guide, but the problems people are having are coming from the trash mobs before the encounter-- there's a Suppression Room/Gauntlet type of run that some players are having a hard time with.
So far, the strategy seems to be, first of all, to keep moving. Just like in the other gaunlet areas (the aforementioned Suppression Room, the Lyceum, and the Shattered Halls gaunlet), slowing down will get you mobbed to death. Two tanks seems to work well (one to take elites, the others to take Warriors), and a Paladin tank will not only keep mobs off of clothies, but help out with AoE as well. Keep the group together, get those eagles down first and then focus on the other targets together, and it should be a piece of cake.
Have any other good suggestions for people trying to make it through the gauntlet in Zul'Aman?
Filed under: Analysis / Opinion, Tips, Odds and ends, Instances, Raiding, Bosses
Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
Asaemon Nov 17th 2007 1:36PM
1) MT grabs both troll adds.
2) OT stands in the back of the group to gather up Warriors.
3) DPS focus-fires the caster mob.
4) Birds spawn and MT grabs as many as possible while off-tanking the Guardian.
5) Mage frost-novas birds and ranged/aoe DPS them down.
6) Guardian should be dead by AOE damage so MT is moving up to grab the next two packs.
7) OT just off-tanks the adds and shouldn't have more than 6 by the time you reach the top.
Rinse and repeat. If the OT in the back gets overwhelmed, have a lock seed his target and let the seed's explosion handle some of them while ranged/aoe take out a couple. They hit like girls so he/she should be able to handle up to 8 at a time but they die so quickly there shouldn't be more than 6 up. Our Feral druid was solo'ing them down one at a time.
Wiedmaier Nov 17th 2007 2:11PM
I actually did this in a PUG last night. A friend of mine was suffering through the pain of a ZA pug, knew I was a tankadin and enlisted my help. We made it through fine and it actually bugged out on us and reset when we got to the boss.
Consecration picks up all of the eagles quite easilly while the main tank holds the elites. We didn't even need to DPS the birds, they killed themselves on my ret aura.
It's kind of nice to see that Bilz is giving us tankadins a situation in which our ability to AOE tank saves the day.
SbE Nov 17th 2007 2:15PM
Since when is there a suppression room type area before Akil'zon? There wasn't one on wednesday when my group cleared the place. All we saw was normal trash, no trash that spawned fast enough to be considered a suppression room.
robodex Nov 17th 2007 6:30PM
The warriors don't hit hard -- maybe 1000-2000 on leather every few seconds -- do you don't *really* need a tank. an adequately geared rogue and a fury warrior can generally take them down together with about 15-20 seconds to spare before the next one.
I've done it with 2 tanks on the elites. The hardest part is the birds, which are really easy to take care of if you have, say, a pally tank :)
Tridus Nov 18th 2007 7:00AM
"Keep moving" really is the best advice here. You can drag those birds with you as you move up, especially with a Tankadin.
Hopefully we can get one of these type of posts for the Dragonhawk trash too. God I hate that stuff.
Renee.Troughton001 Nov 18th 2007 4:09PM
Tank handles the two at the front.
A hunter can frost trap and pet offtank the two warriors at the back.
Dps priority is
1) Windcaller (healer) at front
2) Any birds
3) Warriors at the back
4) Protector at the front
Drink at any opportunity and keep your aoe'ers up. If you die run back asap, dont wait for a res.
Girl Meets WoW Nov 18th 2007 9:38PM
At the moment, you can keep the lookout incapacitated and avoid the eagles and extra elites, like this: http://girlmeetswow.blogspot.com/2007/11/akilzons-gauntlet-easy-way.html