Originally Posted by
Tekki
Originally Posted by
Garret
You do not need to do a double sack pull for the Hydra NM's but the adds have a *VERY* large aggro/link range.
Do not risk it
Sure you CAN do it w/o doing dual sac pull, but why risk it. Especially if you are new to the runs. Double sac pull them. Its consistently safe. If you do that, the regular popped hydras will be of 0 consequence. My glory didnt drop until like kill number 8 or 9, so Im speaking from exstinsive experience with the NM you want to kill. We've done both ways and the headache of having to worry about his 6 just wasn't worth it. Just have one person aggro and die to pre-pop everything. Then just do a normal death pull to bring Gaupofapfapfap to your camp. If you pre-pop and your camp is far enough away from the tower then you will have 0 problems, with 0 risk.
It's really not a risk. I don't see what is that difficult about having your pullers stand back far enough that they are *just* barely able to F8 target the NM, if you at the max targetting range & wait until your sack puller aggros the mob and runs then you will not get hate on the additional Hydras he spawns. We just did an Attestation Run again last night & did Goubal, Velo & Milda & had no problems with any of them doing this strategy, even on Mild who runs at flee speed & can be a real whore sometimes.
As far as avoiding Chainspell Death, you can actually survive it with just one tank but it's somewhat tricky. In my opinion the best way to deal with fighting him is to have whatever tank held him during the dragon pull to stay at near max range, and more importantly, away from the alliance. The Eye is very similar to JoL in staying back to cast at you, this is especially helpful when he casts Graviga before warping each time, it will center on a tank away from the alliance meaning the rest of the alliance will not get gravitied and can get to him faster. In terms of avoiding CS Death, it requires a bit of finesse, but you can get around max spell range for him & he will try to cast Death at you, but if you are careful about it you can still get out of range. This may sound a bit farfetched but we have had 2-3 fights on him where nobody at all died from CS Death, so it does work if you do it properly.
CS Stun on him is probably easier though.