Darathar 2.3

[Meeb]

<div></div><div>hello there has any one raided <span><span><span>Darathar </span></span></span>for the prsmatics since the changes went through the ior when we did it I could not use pets or dots as these made the tank lose aggro and casued a wipe so can we use our full range of spells now or am i going to be using word of force over and over and over and over and over again <img src="/smilies/3b63d1616c5dfcf29f8a7a031aaa7cad.gif" border="0" alt="SMILEY" /></div><div>any addvice would be good</div>

[Magu]

I highly doubt that pets would cause a memwipe.<div></div>

[Meeb]

<div></div><p>yeah they did, scout and mage pet  ae attacks the big guy didn't like them so they were a no no</p><p>so i take it no one has done this yet has done new and improved darathar yet then ???</p>

[Ganlu]

Darathar has a timed mem wipe now, as long as you time it carefully you can still pull off your pets/dots and such if you need to.<div></div>

[Jor]

<div></div><p>Tried last night...</p><p> </p><p>And yes conju is quite useless now. For god knows which reason my pet refused to engage at first.</p><p>Then I closed in.. very closed in and as my stone skin was being eaten, it eventually engaged (protect ?) and got aggro from tank (????)</p><p> </p><p>We redid it 4 times. Mini pets get wiped ; main pet has a strange behaviour...</p><p> </p><p>So Yes ! Conjurer is a one spell class now : Word of Force. Well it's really a marketing plot to have you buy new expension.</p><p> </p><p>Now I'm serious, we are next to useless in this situation.. Pathetic one spell (close range) caster... Eventually I was ordered to not send the pet by guild master and utterly disgusted...</p><p> </p><p>How in hell can a pet (tried the 3 of them) draw aggro from a good tank in a 4 full group raid ? I'm only 55 by the way, in a mostluy 60 guild.</p>

[Jeradim]

<div><p>When we did him recently we -thought- we noticed something strange with pets.  We kept getting aggro after he flew off and came back.  The tank/raid leader explicitly stated for no one to have him targetted and I think we were pretty good about that.  After the penultimate fight (where you get him down to 25%) someone said that the pets were following him after he flew off and that's why we got aggro.  Since it was our last fight though (no fly aways after that) we didn't have a chance to test that theory.</p><p>Though I didn't actually witness the pets following him I did get aggro somehow and died rather quickly after one of his fly-backs.  Not sure if it's relevant but just in case here is how we fought him (we are not a raiding guild so no making fun of our strat if it's not the best :smileywink<img src="/smilies/3b63d1616c5dfcf29f8a7a031aaa7cad.gif" border="0" alt="SMILEY" />:</p><p>--We would all assemble on the little isle/rock facing the piece of land Darathar was on.--Tank would charge and engage to turn him then the rest followed and assembled under his belly (to try to avoid AE)--When Darathar flew off the tank called a disengage and we ran back to our rock.--Darathar would come back and settle for an instant, but then aggro again so we had to fight him again right away before we were ready.--we pretty much took the wipe when this happened so we could engage again from scratch with no aggro when we were ready.--rinse and repeat until he was deadLuckily even with the wipes we won out in the end, but it was really strange how we kept getting aggro and the pets following him theory kind of made sense.  I had my air pet out for the first couple fights but he kept dying on me so I may not have even had a pet out when Darathar flew off.  After that I used the tank pet and it was after the fight to get him to 25% that I drew aggro - I wasn't the first to die but close.</p><p>Anyway, as I stated this is only a theory we had so take it with a grain of salt since we couldn't really test it.  I just thought I'd add our experience with him.</p></div>

[Meeb]

<div></div><p>thx to everone thats posted so far, however what im getting at is since they changed the big D so that he does not fly off anymore just sits still.  Do dots and pets still cause him to to go ape **** and wipe the raid when we did him it was before the changes went through and that was with big D 2.2 now they have changed the way he fights so no flying away just one big fight from start to finish hence the 2.3 in the title of the post.  So if anyone has done the big fella since patch 19 pls post.  IF dots and pets don't make him nuts anymore then its advantidge conjuror/necro as the raid will probibly have to stand on the far shore down from the arch or indeed on the island where everone would rebuff after rezzing... btw you now have to fight all the way to him as all the mobs can see invis then if u wipe u respawn in the tower and have to fight back again, nice that makes u really feel you have been in a fight :smileyhappy:</p>

[StaticLex]

<div>Another classic stupid broken encounter.  Park the pet and use it for Sacrifice while pecking the Snapping Mandibles key until out of power.  Such an anticlimatic end to such an epic quest series.</div>

[Snaka]

<div></div><p>I am the highest level 60 Conjuror on ALL servers and I can tell you that is not true.</p><p> </p><p> </p>