AK Starter Guide - for your first trip through

[Faraday8]

Pro-tip for demon wall:

Do not panic. Steadily pump out heals while watching your mana, you don't have to keep everyone at 100%. If people are dodging bad stuff he doesn't have any burst damage.

Your movement pattern should be: side, middle, side, middle, stay, run foward, repeat until dead.

[tab9]

Demon Wall is actually pretty easy as a WHM - you can just forget about being careful with MP and go nuts as it's a DPS race and ignore normal aggro rules. Basically just:
-start at one of the sides, wait for the middle to go purple
-Regen anyone that takes damage
-move in as the purple fades
-back to the side
-back to the middle
-face directly forwards while in the middle and wait for Repel, get back to the side after it hits
-repeat the previous steps
-this time, just before Repel hits, activate Divine Seal, Surecast and Presence of Mind (or even Swiftcast instead of the last two, but I prefer to save it just in case)
-when it hits, sprint to the side of the non-purple area and Medica II->Medica, then Shroud of Saints straight after
-continue to outside->inside->outside->inside->repel->Medica II while Regening everything until it dies.

You'll overheal like crazy doing that, but it doesn't even matter in this fight. You might as well just make sure everyone's topped off to cover for mistakes and let them focus entirely on DPSing.

[dragonflyseksparade]

I use cleric stance and dps until the last knockback. Just b4 knockback, regen everyone, then medica II after knockback followed by shroud. Then you just pray that the dps isn't crap.

[jdnyc]

Do not use this, this is the very definition of an exploit. I can say with almost a 100% guarantee that this was not something that was intended.

It can also get you banned.

[Bridgeburner]

It also didn't seem to work well. I made it up to the branch, but the first Priest's spells reached me perfectly well, as did the Void Fire ground-targeted AOE. Perhaps I was doing it wrong, but as it stands, I can't recommend tree-climbing.

Dodging beside the tree to LOS Mind Melt is still viable, though.

[dragonflyseksparade]

but the first Priest's spells reached me perfectly well

Did the tank just go on vacation or something?

[Bridgeburner]

Did the tank just go on vacation or something?

I heal a lot of DF groups. Tank quality varies substantially.

Top posts updated with tips from Rapture and Raenryong. (Thanks, you two!) LOS'ing Void Thunder 3 is a simple trick tanks can use to skip eating nearly 2k damage on casts from Boss #1 and the Succubi.