Gluth - alliance kiting.

Drauk · 08/21/06, 5:36 PM

My guild have some difficulties working out a successful kiting strategy for Gluth zombies. Basically it all comes to one of the issues - zombies moves too fast, they have initial agro on healers, and the stacking debuff of course.
We tried varios combinations of PH warriors, hunters and mages. The best result we had so far was 2 mages and 1 PH warrior on each spawn point. But with such composition it seems that dps is too low (and i heard he enrages after 3rd decimate).
I've heard some guilds used paladins to kite. That looks interesting, but they dont have any slows and zombies will rape them with debuffs. Would be nice to hear some advices on kiting.

Nurru · 08/21/06, 5:39 PM

We use a strategy involving two mages using blizzard on the middle grating while locks dot zombies to pull them through it. Hunters put down frost traps at their leisure and we basically just hold them there with frostbite and 1 other roaming mage grabbing loose ones.

It's a strange approach but we're probably one of the only guilds who still have a couple frost mages, so it works for us.

Vhad · 08/21/06, 5:41 PM

We've always had 1 mage 1 PH warrior pr grid spawn, so far no problem killing him, except the funny Decimate while in tunnel :/

Elendril · 08/21/06, 5:41 PM

paladins consecrate to get aggro, warriors piercing howl to snare.

Drauk · 08/21/06, 5:45 PM

Originally Posted by Elendril

paladins consecrate to get aggro, warriors piercing howl to snare.

How many paladins/PH warriors ? Also, warriors have issues with PH, since they need rage to use it, and they can't melee zombies (or they get a debuff) - how do you solve that ?

Murgen · 08/21/06, 5:47 PM

Originally Posted by Drauk

Originally Posted by Elendril

paladins consecrate to get aggro, warriors piercing howl to snare.

How many paladins/PH warriors ? Also, warriors have issues with PH, since they need rage to use it, and they can't melee zombies (or they get a debuff) - how do you solve that ?

1 paladin, warrior, mage(novas then goes back to dpsing gluth) per spawn point. I actually do melee the zombies for rage. You wont get the debuff unless you pull aggro from the paladin.

Copernicus · 08/21/06, 5:47 PM

A Mage/Warrior kite team for each grate. One healer assigned to each team. We also have a Druid for innervating between each Decimate on the kiters. Finally, we have a hunter assigned for trapping/recovering any loose ones.

Elendril · 08/21/06, 5:48 PM

Originally Posted by Murgen

Originally Posted by Drauk

Originally Posted by Elendril

paladins consecrate to get aggro, warriors piercing howl to snare.

How many paladins/PH warriors ? Also, warriors have issues with PH, since they need rage to use it, and they can't melee zombies (or they get a debuff) - how do you solve that ?

1 paladin, warrior, mage(novas then goes back to dpsing gluth) per spawn point. I actually do melee the zombies for rage.

murg actually does it while i just shoot the dog - listen to him! :P

our vent groups are 1 priest, paladin, mage, warrior, priest (who only heals that group) - one group per zombie spawn point.

Muir · 08/21/06, 5:50 PM

Originally Posted by Murgen

Originally Posted by Drauk

Originally Posted by Elendril

paladins consecrate to get aggro, warriors piercing howl to snare.

How many paladins/PH warriors ? Also, warriors have issues with PH, since they need rage to use it, and they can't melee zombies (or they get a debuff) - how do you solve that ?

1 paladin, warrior, mage(novas then goes back to dpsing gluth) per spawn point. I actually do melee the zombies for rage.

We use this exact method. Our first attempts were with mage kiting but produced some severe difficulty. It took only one night to adjust to this strategy and get him down.

Wibble · 08/21/06, 5:51 PM

You put priest twice!

I also usually try to shackle the first zombie to pop after a decimate if I'm in a kiting group--the respite often allows the kiting paladin to clear any debuffs he might have.

Crimsonjade · 08/21/06, 6:33 PM

Just have your priests shackle. A few priests can easily keep up the two tanks on Gluth. Make sure the priests shackle in the path of the Paladin. Making him do weird ovals and such can cause a lot of problems.

nurf · 08/21/06, 8:20 PM

Originally Posted by Elendril

paladins consecrate to get aggro, warriors piercing howl to snare.

Bingo. That's what we have done mostly but I (being a warrior with PH) can easily kite most zombies myself with PH + demo shout it just requires having a healer on you since you want to take some hits to generate rage for the PH + Demo spam.

Note: Booming voice does help a bit!

Amera · 08/21/06, 8:37 PM

One paladin can kite it all with 2 snaring people as long as him/her has some healers, and maybe the occassional nova if stuff gets messy.

Pand · 08/21/06, 8:42 PM

http://files.filefront.com/GluthEmin.../fileinfo.html

how to kite as alliance ;)

Ronneh · 08/21/06, 11:07 PM

Horde (Alliance if you want)..FN rotations