Oh I see it was GM related, yea I'm not gonna bother waiting 6hours for a GM to show up to replace a darkrune quite frankly.


Yea that's exactly why I don't AE the eyes, I got stuck quite often in shadow due to stance cooldown while he was incinerating. If I stay in a corner, I only have to pyro 2 eyes, which doesn't take too long, unless I'm getting these stupid bugs and the eyes are not taking any damage from my pyroblasts, which happens often enough. The event is quite buggy, but well I can't really get over the 1k badge of tenacity ^^

The whole 'eyes --> immo --> incarnate' sequence happends at least once to me usually.

I found that standing inside the transporter is pretty easy aswell, since you often have 0-1 eyes attacking you and his 'beam' spell only moves you a few yards.
(then again, he did reset to 100 once when I got stuck because of his beam once)

My first 2 kills I didn't have to use any chaos strike. The next 2, I died terribly because of shit luck. Since then I consider spending 5-6g to buy 2crystals every 4-5days to do the event is better than losing the rune to shit luck.

Yeah, I got stuck once and he evaded. I could pull him out of evade and get him to ~60% and he would evade again. And I couldn't reset it (If you run past the line 3 or 4 times in a row it resets). I had to log off and wait for it to reset itself.

Reading all those elaborate strategies on how to avoid his Incinerate makes me wonder if I am the only one here not Ice Blocking it. It is alot less hassle to just outrange it and I think the only time I did Ice Block in over 15 kills was because I was explaining a guildie in /p what I was doing and why so he could learn and I was mid sentence when he started casting it (I really hate to stop typing mid-way :P).

Basically I'd start Shartuul in Shadow Form, Shadow Novaing him or Eyes. After that I'd cast Siphon (not as first spell because the first spell cast usually fails - it doesn't show up as resisted in your combat log, it just vanishes as if you never casted it) and go Fire Form to stack Flame Buffet and do the proper DPS. Every 30 secs I swap to Shadow, Nova him or some Eyes, then Deathblast, reapply Siphon, Nova something again and go back to Fire and repeat the steps above. If he starts casting Incinerate I just run from him and don't get hit by it (and if I do, it's not a big deal since you can easily survive 1 Incinerate).

Failing that, there is always Chaos Strike to instantly get you back to 100% health anyway (get the Focii from the AH if you must).

Outranging it seems like an interesting strat, don't you get slowed down by mindflay eyes tho when you run in a place you didn't clear? And don't you take heavy damage from all these mindflays you're forced to take? I think I'll try outranging next time, can't be worse than using chaos strike anyway.

It's not such a big deal to eat the incinerate if you are stuck in shadow form. I just switch to shadow when it's up and I have no debuffs running. The deathblast will heal you about every 30s for 15% so you can easily eat an incinerate sometimes which does about 30-40% of your hp.

Shartuul isn't so hard as long as you keep up on cleansing yourself of debuffs, and shifting back and forth from Fire to Shadow to keep all your debuffs applied. Make sure you properly Siphon him before you switch back to fire, and then open up with a Shadow Nova, then the Shadow blast or whatever it is that heals you. You want to always END the phase with the Siphon Life, that way its ticking the whole time healing you up, basically negligating his shadow bolt damage.

Of course, you can always get *very* unlucky and have tons of resists in a row, and that's when it's fun to get down to 5% health and work your way back up and eventually kill him!

I don't think that's the issue for most of us who uses chaos strike, it's just that if you switch stances a lot, you'll often get caught in a shitty position. Example would be, you get immolated as soon as you switch to shadow and he follows by incinerate, you're then taking some big damage and immolate is ticking, by the time you switch to fire you probably have the shadow debuff too so it takes 6more seconds to clean everything, and you lose a ton of hp in the process. If switching stances wasn't as limited it wouldn't be an issue to nova/devour the syphon/recast syphon every 30secs, but you only need a shitty luck streak to be forced into using chaos strike anyway, and it might be quite early too, which means if you get another bad luck streak during the fight, you're gonna have to chaos strike again.

If you play it safe with 1 chaos strike, you don't need another since you're never taking any damage from the immolate/shadow debuff, always iceblocking the incinerate, and only take a bit of eye damage for a few seconds.

As I said, my 2 first tries went smoothly enough that I didn't have to use chaos strike, switching stances often and all, but after losing to crappy luck on one try and even crappier luck on the next, I just decided it wasn't worth it. I had like 3syphon resists, got caught on frost aspect timer with incinerate 3times, had to chaos strike twice and still died on the really shitty luck try. Everytime I did something he'd counter it pretty much, random timers sure can look not so random sometimes ^^.

Using one chaos strike per kill doesn't cost much anyway, I usually find one focus every darkrune, and buy another from the AH for 3g or so.

Anyway enough shartuul talk, it's a good way to make money on the side, but it's definitely not a great money maker since it's purely based on luck, and limited to 1try every5days, more if you get lucky, but I doubt you'll get more than 1 kill every4days over 2months. The badge sells for a lot, but the rest isn't that great.

Another moneymaker if you're a regular AH player, have access to Miner, BS, Disenchanter and your prices are looking something the following:
7-8g/stack of [Fel Iron Ore]
1.6-2g/arcane dust
6-7g/greater planar essence

Buy the ore, melt it to bars and craft - depending on how much you want to gamble
[Fel Iron Chain Coif] - 2-3 dust/2-3 lesser planar
or
[Fel Iron Breastplate] 2-5dust/1-2 greater planar

Your talking about Zanger Marsh? Where are you talking about exactly? Because your not really making any sense.