Al'ar QuestionFollow

Our guild has prorgressed into farming Gruul weekly and working on VR in TK. We are getting much much better handling the trash as our gear upgrades, but we can usually only get in a couple attempts before the Al'ar trash has started to respawn, thus needing warlock summons which takes time and then the VR trash starts.

My question is to all you raiders out there, is Al'ar that hard? I know it is a coordination fight over a gear fight, and our guild has been raiding together very well. I am asking in the mage forum, because I am a mage and I was also wondering if you "need" to respec for the fight? Is he 100% immune to fire? Can I stay fire specced and just use arcane spells since the spellfire set buffs arcane as well? Or would it be best just to drop a few gold and spec arcane/fire for that fight? The couple strats I read said to spec frost, but I don't have an extra 500 gold lying around, sorry.

Edited, Mar 20th 2008 11:08am by compgenius

I would either spec arcane or frost, even if you don't have special gear for it, the damage buffs make up for it. When he is on farm you can go in fire and just use either arcane/frost spells (and hit a whopping 600 dps like I do).

Until you get to that point, respec and go in there and take him down.

The gist of the fight:

Phase 1: All out from ranged, a single ranged can assist the melee with adds that come down (that are offtanked)

Phase 2: Melee on A'lar, Ranged on his adds (until like 2% then you can do one or the other)


Idiot Check --

Phase 1: Tanks need to drop from the top when fire quill is going off (and making sure to not blow up an add when he is doing it)

Phase 2: Move when he is coming down from meteor and do not stand next to the adds when they are going to blow up (keep your off tanks [2] against a wall). The tanks need to be able to taunt off each other when they are melted.


Overall, he is a pretty easy fight when you get down the rhythm. Solarion is also pretty easy.