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Hi guys/gals,
OK so I have ran through AK a few times now however despite completing AK I still have a hard time with the demon wall.
I have no problem at all healing until the bee's come, at that point it becomes crazy as I AOE heal > get aggro > die...
I was just wondering if anyone has any tips for the second half of the fight?
Cheers!
During his cast time where he is about to push the group back take that time to cast stoneskin on yourself and as soon as you see the bees aggro you cast Shroud of Saints.
Also your tank should be tanking the bees, and at least one bee should die within 5 seconds.
Try and figure out whether or not your tank will be able to keep the bees off of you beforehand. If you think they'll have things under control, you can be a little less liberal with your heals for the first few seconds of the bee phase while the tank grabs them. If you're not confident in their ability to pull them away from you, resign yourself to the fact that you're the new tank.
What I liked to do when I was starting AK and knew I was going to tank the bees was to pop Divine Seal and Medica II right before the second Repel. Then, as I was running back out of the poison after the repel, toss a Regen on myself. The Medica II + Regen heals a decent amount per tick when augmented by Divine Seal, and then it's a matter of spamming Cure on yourself as soon as the bees decide that you'd make a delicious treat.
Cool good feed back! I will put this into practice soon!
Cheers ppl
AK is my favorite dungeon to run as whm. I just strafe left then strafe right and keep the heals going. During bee phase i just keep strafing rotation rotating SS/cure1/cure2/medica2/regen, and pop shroud of saints. I do not know if this is the best way, but it works for me.
Consider a Medica2 early; you get two repetitions of the pattern before bees come. As you hit the end of the second pattern, start using single target Cure spells, if you can. That will allow others to pick up initial threat. Move into Medica (no regen ticks) and use Shroud to lower threat.
Beyond that, Medica or Medica 2 every time you move back to center; you should be fine.
Also, check the Healer section - we have a thread or two devoted to AK.
Or you can just go with people who are geared and kill the wall before the bees even spawn ;)
When i first ran this dungeon i was having similar problems. When the bees spawned i started to panic and forget where i should be standing and well it never ended well. The other party members will normally be able to pick up the bees even if they initially aggro on you. I normally pop a medica II and then hide from the bees on the side where the bee will be LB'd and killed fast. The other bee has to move quite a bit to get to me so i have time to notice it if it does come for me. After that just the odd cure and regen when needed and watch the floor.
I agree with the precedent comments, and I add one advice:
I've been running quite a lot AK recently, and the only issue in that dungeon for whms is aggro during bosses.
For every single health point you heal, you get 1 aggro "point". The tank gets aggro only by attacking a mob, the new adds are not hating him, but the whm gets aggro from all the mobs by healing anyone, so a new add will aggro whm if he heals, but won't aggro the tank if the tank doesn't hurt him.
When the bees spawn, don't spam Medica-Medica II, just go on healing with Cure, using Cure II as few times as possible, just when you can Freecure.
Don't overheal (don't heal when HP is full) and don't use Regen. Regen is the most useless whm skill, I've never used it, not even with Garuda HM.
When an adds spawns, try not to heal until the tank gets to hit him a few times, unless he is under 50% HP.