Help with Vexallus (2nd boss MgT)

[Stabface]

I'm running this guy on normal, and I just get smoked over and over (100g+ in repairs). I've tried both slow & steady and burn him down and I epic fail at both. My group is 1x prot paladin 1x resto shaman 3x ele shaman.
Best attempt so far got him to around 40% and that was with the slow & steady approach, light DPS keep everyone healed and kill the adds as they spawn then wait for the debuff to drop. What I struggled with is keeping both my tank and whoever has the debuff from the add healed. I also think I would run OOM with this approach as I end up dumping a lot of mana healing everyone.

My gear is not the best so maybe I just need to gear up and come back...
http://armory.worldofwarcraft.com/ch...rage&n=Skidder
http://armory.worldofwarcraft.com/gu...Ten+Ton+Totems


Anyhow any tips are appreciated. Thanks !

[Tdog]

We have a "PvE - Instances and Advanced Tactics" Forum section now I can't comment on this boss personally however as I have yet to multi-box any 70 zones yet

[Tamu]

I run your same setup and had quite a few problems with him as well. I did manage to finally kill him, though, by having each of the shamans toss a quick heal on themselves and then go right back to DPS'ing so that my primary healer didn't go oom. Kill the orbs asap and get back to DPSing the boss. I used mana tide when I got to around 50% mana and popped heroism & fire elementals when the boss got to around 40%. The time I finally killed him, all my shamans had died and I finished him off with my pally (Lay on Hands).

[Boylston]

Vexallus is much easier with some arcane resist, both on the tank and on the DPS crew.

My pally accumulated a set of random green +Arcane Resist gear (from leather through plate) and this fight is now almost trivial.

[Boylston]

300-335 on tank makes fight stupid easier...

200-250 on DPSers helps a bit.

[wowphreak]

Vexallus gets harder the faster yeh dps. slow down let the debuffs drop off takes about 30 seconds then start dpsing again.
Make sure to kill the orbs asap
When the last set of orbs spawn at 25% wait till he gets to 10% and go bonkers on the dps.

[balrog78]

With our group 1x Prot Pally + 1 Frost Mage / 1x Holy Priest + 1 x Frost Mage + 1 Ele Shaman we only wipe seldom. Normally 1 Frost mage uses /tar pure energy macro till he drops to 50% then ice blocks. Other frost mage now uses /tar pure energy. For the last 20% I heal everything but holy priest. For the last 10% I only heal the DPS. Holy priest might be dead at this moment but ofc can still heal. If we wipe he normally got 1-2% life left.

[Sanctume]

A couple of times now, my group wiped but I bubbled and finished him off with Hammer of Wrath with me down to a sliver of life.

[Crucial]

Can't speak for other group makeups but the secret for 5xshammy for normal mode on this guy are the earth elementals.

Drop them out front, hang back a bit, and nuke like crazy. When the orbs spawn the elementals get hit and debuffed, you may or may not need to start a big heal just before 20% , then finish him off. Look at Veronika's movie for Heroic Mgt in the movie forum, similiar idea - it works flawlessly in normal mode but for heroic I can't seem to get it to work like she does. For some reason I take massive damage, while in her video she has 1 person that takes a lot of damage and dies... don't understand how she managed that.

[Biomehanikka]

well i hate to post this, as it might be an exploit and i do love this little bug. i havent done it on my multibox shamans cuz they arent 70 yet, but when im soloing with a group in normal and heroic MgT, we stand under the candlesticks in front of him. doing so doesnt allow u to use bloodlust which sux, but as soon as u hit an add and it dies, u get big then instantly shrink back down and the debuff is gone. this is because blizzards mechanics dont allow u to get bigger and (i dont know the word) "clip" into a piece of gemoetry. u can try this it works everytime