Post by skrallik on Dec 12, 2005 15:07:17 GMT 1
As with the other bosses you need to clear the pathways that lead up to Hakkar's altar. There should be 2 sets of humanoid MOBS patroling the area as well as small packs of Sons of Hakkar and soulflayers. Kill them all and then approach the altar.
Before you can kill Hakkar his 5 High Priests and Priestesses must be killed. They are Jeklik, Venoxis, Mar'li, Thekal and Arlokk.
Abilities
Hakkar has a few abilities that include an AOE debuff that gets on a person, mind control, and a life leaching attack.
Aoe Debuff:
Have the tank, tank Hakkar near his altar turning Hakkar so his back is toward the group.Because of his abilities you should use NO melee dps. If you send in melee they will get feared into the AOE debuff and you will wipe. The tank should be the only one to have the debuff on and you can just chain heal him. *
*has been changes some patches ago
Mind Control:
When someone gets mind controlled you should sheep them. The mind contol is only 10 seconds though so remember to cleanse / decurse them when they are back under player control.
He MCs whoever is on top of his aggro list. Ignore the mind controlled tanks, it doesn't last long enough to be a problem - but have them keep their fears on cooldown.
Life Leach:
This is critical to the fight, every 20 seconds or so Hakkar does his 'life leach' attack which will freeze the the raid for about 5-8 seconds while it drains life and heals Hakkar For about 15%!If you let him do this repeatedly, you will never beat him. How do you beat this? Use his sons poison cloud against him. Whenever you kill a Son a cloud of poison forms that does 100 damage / every 3 seconds for 1 min. Time the killing of the sons and stay in the cload so that when he life drains you as many as possible are in the cload. You can tell it is working when the life drain changes color. Hakkar will take damage instead of healing. I have seen him drop up to 10% health when most of the raid are in the poison cloud. As a very nice bonus, when Hakkar is done with the poisoned life leach you will be cured.
Strategy
Hakkar has two sons that respaw very fast on each of the paths leading up to the altar. You should keep the whole group at the merge point of the path. Pull the first two Sons of Hakkar to you and then sheep them.
Keep one sheeped and kill the other. Make sure everyone gets poisoned. Once everyone is poisoned and then have the tank charge Hakkar. Once the tank has built aggro for 25 seconds or so, start Ranged dps.
While fighting the main fight, you need to have someone pulling the son spawns on each side of the platform. You need to bring the sons up quickly so that whenever Hakkar finishes a life leach, you can kill another son and get poison on the raid.
The fight is scripted and just repeats the sequesce above over and over again. So you need to:
- Do DPS
- Kill a son FAST and get poisoned on as many as possible
- Let Hakkar life leach
- Do rDPS
- Kill a son FAST and get poisoned on as many as possible
- Let Hakkar life leach
- Repeat......
You can miss one or two poison life leaches and still win, but try not to as it makes the fight longer.
It is a very long fight even if you have everything right, so conserve your mana.
It will take a few attempts to get the timing and coordination down
Before you can kill Hakkar his 5 High Priests and Priestesses must be killed. They are Jeklik, Venoxis, Mar'li, Thekal and Arlokk.
Abilities
Hakkar has a few abilities that include an AOE debuff that gets on a person, mind control, and a life leaching attack.
Aoe Debuff:
Have the tank, tank Hakkar near his altar turning Hakkar so his back is toward the group.
*has been changes some patches ago
Mind Control:
He MCs whoever is on top of his aggro list. Ignore the mind controlled tanks, it doesn't last long enough to be a problem - but have them keep their fears on cooldown.
Life Leach:
This is critical to the fight, every 20 seconds or so Hakkar does his 'life leach' attack which will freeze the the raid for about 5-8 seconds while it drains life and heals Hakkar For about 15%!If you let him do this repeatedly, you will never beat him. How do you beat this? Use his sons poison cloud against him. Whenever you kill a Son a cloud of poison forms that does 100 damage / every 3 seconds for 1 min. Time the killing of the sons and stay in the cload so that when he life drains you as many as possible are in the cload. You can tell it is working when the life drain changes color. Hakkar will take damage instead of healing. I have seen him drop up to 10% health when most of the raid are in the poison cloud. As a very nice bonus, when Hakkar is done with the poisoned life leach you will be cured.
Strategy
Hakkar has two sons that respaw very fast on each of the paths leading up to the altar. You should keep the whole group at the merge point of the path. Pull the first two Sons of Hakkar to you and then sheep them.
Keep one sheeped and kill the other. Make sure everyone gets poisoned. Once everyone is poisoned and then have the tank charge Hakkar. Once the tank has built aggro for 25 seconds or so, start Ranged dps.
While fighting the main fight, you need to have someone pulling the son spawns on each side of the platform. You need to bring the sons up quickly so that whenever Hakkar finishes a life leach, you can kill another son and get poison on the raid.
The fight is scripted and just repeats the sequesce above over and over again. So you need to:
- Do DPS
- Kill a son FAST and get poisoned on as many as possible
- Let Hakkar life leach
- Do rDPS
- Kill a son FAST and get poisoned on as many as possible
- Let Hakkar life leach
- Repeat......
You can miss one or two poison life leaches and still win, but try not to as it makes the fight longer.
It is a very long fight even if you have everything right, so conserve your mana.
It will take a few attempts to get the timing and coordination down
