Why did you leave Al'Akir for the end?

[Azerate]

This made me curious enough to post here :) Was it beacuse of the difficulty/loot/lore? Or maybe the other endinstance bosses being better achievement?

[Farnion]

Al'Akir is roughly equal to facing Cho'gall, Nefarian, Sinestra, Maloriak and a few Ozruks at the same time.

No-one has really figured him out in 25-mans. It just seems fairly unkillable in that mode. It could be though that everyone who's tried is just lacking tactics.

http://www.paragon.fi/news/sinestra-slain#comment-1051

[zYN]

Pretty much because all of the things you listed.

Going to resume the work on him soon, though. For now, I'm going to be enjoying the off-days.

[sketola]

Al'Akir has now been killed 25 man HC. better start working on the fight soon to get world second kill.

Sami

[sketola]

Sorry my bad. It was world first Al'Akir 10man HC that was claimed by the chinese team "Dream". 25man HC kill is still up for grabs.

Sami

[zYN]

Yeah, we congratulated Dream for their kill already.

The encounter is still pretty brutal in 25s. We'll keep throwing ourselves at it and hope for the best.

[Kepi]

Sorry my bad. It was world first Al'Akir 10man HC that was claimed by the chinese team "Dream". 25man HC kill is still up for grabs.

Sami

from everywhere i've read is that 25M HC Al'Akir is a perfect example how 25M Heroic encounters are in many way much more difficult than their 10M counterparts. Others are saying its like fighting Heroic Lich King with TOC Gear.

[zYN]

Disclaimer: This is not to knock off on Dream's kill at all.

After grinding the encounter for a couple of days now, I can say that the 25-man version is quite retarded. The DPS requirements are pretty massive. The incoming damage to raid is even more so. Our green/blue/few epic geared alts were doing the 10-man HC just fine, even getting to later phases to test out stuff. 25 just seems close to impossible.

Even after the hotfixes it's just absolutely horrible. 8[

[nightindeuce]

A question Synti - what hotfixes are you talking about to Al'Akir?

Also, would you guys ever kill a boss in 10s if you knew you couldn't do it that reset in 25?

[zYN]

There were some hotfixes to reduce the lightning damage. Dream noticed it when they went for Al'akir. It's been applied to 25-man mode as well, but the scaling is still (imo) probably a bit off.

And yes, we would. It just wouldn't be on the front page, nor would it be advertised anywhere else for that matter. Not by us anyway. For now we're a 25-man guild competing in the 25-man bracket and we're doing good, no reason to change.