Auchindoun: Mana-Tombs
Tuesday, August 28, 2007
Kathanir (Rogue)
Keceltes (Priest)
Sindral (Paladin)
Skarra (Mage)
Tanthion (Warlock)
This is our second run through the Mana-Tombs. Our first run did not fare as well on Monday. This time though, Skarra has respec himself to Fire so that may change things.
Mana-Tombs is pretty straight forward. In fact, there aren’t any other paths to take. The Instance is filled with humanoids and demons. Just the way I like it. I tried one time just using the imp, however I noticed a trend where we were swarmed with mobs and died. So this time I had my succubus out and was CCing like normal. Every now and then some mobs were in groups of four, so Kat sapped one, Skarra sheeped one, and my succubus would seduce one. It’s a little bit slower and we have a bit more downtime, but at least we’re alive.
The first boss we fought was Pandemonius. He looks like a giant voidwalker. He was a fairly easy fight. He casts a lot of shadow spells that do about 4k pts of damage each wave. He also phases which reflects all attacks and spells used/casted on him for about 5-10 seconds. We just hit him hard when he wasn’t phased. Also we had our Shadow resists up. Piece of cake.
The second boss we fought was Tavarok. He has a PBAoE called Earthquake. It does a lot of damage. Our paladin claims that all he did during the entire fight was heal and he still managed to keep hate. I just walked out of range of his Earthquake and continued to DoT/Nuke him. It was an easy fight that we beat the first time through.
One of the more annoying things were the Mana Leeches. They’re non elite, but when they die, they cast an PBAoE spell that does a good deal of damage. When you kill three of them at one time, it can be quite brutal. I think Kathanir kept dying to those mobs every time we fought them.
The last boss was Nexus-Prince Shaffer. He has a couple of Ethereal Beacons around him. He gave us a bit of trouble. The Beacons were the key. If you left them alone, they would summon other Ethereal mobs to kick our ass (which they often did). On our 3rd attempt we concentrated our firepower on the beacons and wiped them out before attacking the Prince. It was also extremely important to kill the new beacons that would pop up during the fight immediately. That was the trick. After that, the Prince was a fairly easy kill.
Here is a list of drops from Mana-Tombs:
http://www.wowhead.com/?zone=3792#normal-drops
Of these, it seems that only 5 of them were caster specific, and only these interest me:
Ethereal Boots of the Skystrider
Sigil of Shaffar
Staff of Polarities
The bosses drop spirit shards when you have the Blessing of Auchindoun. Here is a list of stuff you can trade the shards for:
http://www.wowhead.com/?item=28558#currency-for
For every full run, you can collect 3 shards. It seems that the only item that’s worth it though is the 50 shard ring. The one for casters is called Seal of the Exorcist. These shards also drop from the Bosses in Auchindoun instances. We’ll probably have enough by the time we hit Shadow Labyrinth.
