So our guild downed Lurker for the first time last night, and I thought he was really easy from a tank point of view (although he hits quite hard) when you know the tricks. This has probably been said somewhere on strategy guides, but I thought I'd give it a shot.
So, the basics of tanking Lurker are:
1. While your guildies are fishing, you just spam auto attack button. This will allow you to get the first hit on him very early, and it might seem negligible, but every little bit helps.
2. When he spouts, you can jump in the inside pool (strange pool), it's really convenient because you can jump out much faster and don't have to run back to him. You need to keep in mind that as soon as you're not in melee range of Lurker, one of the melee DPS will die (unless you have a feral offtank that's right behind you in threat, which should be your safety net).
3. The whirlwind, the most annoying part. It's quite easy to deal with it. If you place yourself on the edge of the strange pool (very very close to Lurker), when the Whirlwind hits you will get knocked back but still be in melee range since you started so close to him. That works well and prevents any DPS from dying while you run back.
That's how I did it, and it was very convenient and easy. Of course, there might be other ways of doing it, maybe even better ways, so any comments will be greatly appreciated!
2 comments:
When I tank him I just chill in the water the entire time. Whirl will knock you up onto the inner edge of the platform, and then you just drop right back into the water. The 500 damage every couple seconds is nothing compared to the incoming heal spam, and you never even have to move during spout at all.
I found it a lot less risky than standing on the platform, where sometimes a whirl would indeed kill someone when I couldn't get back inside his aggro range in time. This pretty removes the only variable in tanking this fight and makes it just like every other boss.
Interesting. Not a big fan of the extra 500 dmg each couple of seconds, but it's defenetly worth a try.
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