Lord Slaurith with 2 wards

[Griphus]

Last night we brought a group into Bastion in an attempt to take out the first two bosses. Our group composition was:

SM (Tank)
WP (Healer)
AM (Healer)
WL (DPS)
EN (DPS)
BW (DPS)

Most of us have (SM included) have two wards.

Usually we could heal through the AoE damage, but the damage on the tank was too much to heal through. Being he is the second boss, the maximum number of wards one should "need" to do the fight is two (first boss drops two). Based on our experience, if you do not overgear the encounter, I'd recommend bringing two tanks and cross-guarding to make damage more controllable.

[NiXXeD]

Yea, I think the fight is still in the 'broken' state from the other day.

Previous to the change, he didn't do the AOE constantly, and all you had to heal through was the bloodpulse and occasionally a shout or 2.

There was a thread on the WHA forums talking about how the tank is supposed to back the boss into the bloodpulse area because that somehow gives him an aggro bonus and stops the boss from doing a shout, but we did not confirm this.

It was on the PVE forums, and was a fairly large thread I think titled Lord Slaurith super (or something like that).

[Caerrai]

Sorta like Nixxed said.

The ideal group composition in this game is 2 tanks, 2 dps, 2 healers. And the way they have the mechanic is that on the final pulse of the blood pulse, apparently the person in the the Blood pulse gets some sort of buff. Blood something. Slaurith aggros this person wherever they are, running to them (not shouting), and aggro'ing them. He can then be taunted back to the one tank or left on that one.

That is all according to the forums. As Nixxed said, we just power heal through it.

On a side note, I'm not even completley convinced that wards even work in Bastion Stairs and what we think make as wards may just be our certain resists helping out. Like the shout in Slaurith is Corp damage. I happen to stack corp resist as I hate sorcs. The shout only hits me for 250-350.