Emalon the Storm Watcher

I finally got a chance to check out the new wing inside the Vault of Archavon late last week. For those of you that don’t know or haven’t had a chance to try to take out the newest boss, named Emalon the Storm Watcher, I thought I’d write up some of my thoughts.

No More Loot Pinata

Emalon makes the original boss in this zone, Archavon the Stone Watcher, look like an even bigger joke than we thought he was before the release of the 3.1 patch. While Archie can easily be taken down by any PUG with even half-talented players the fight against Emalon requires enough coordination and communication that it’s going to be tough for unprepared groups to beat him.

Ch-ch-ch-chain Lightning

For starters, Emalon has a wicked nasty Chain Lightning spell that requires everyone in the Raid to be evenly spread out. A player in our PUG had the nice tip to type “/range 10″ to get a small information window that will show you any players you are standing too close to during the fight. Even with that help I still found people standing on top of each other. During our first attempt, most of us lasted about 20 seconds before we were one-shot by the lightning.

Elemental Friends

The other big problem with Emalon is that he has friends. There are four elemental adds in the room with him. At certain intervals one of the four adds gets an enrage buff and begins to grow in size. If the Raid doesn’t communicate which of the four adds has the buff and then quickly kills that add the whole Raid will wipe when the elemental explodes.

A Challenge Is Good

I think VoA desperately needed a boss encounter like this one. Archavon is basically a weekly joke for most people but now, with the addition of Emalon to the zone, players have a new challenge to look forward. And since he drops the new Emblems of Conquest in the 25-man mode as well as Tier 8 gear I’m glad to see the difficulty being ramped up.

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2 Comments

Maebius on April 22nd, 2009

I love this guy. I have never raided beyond 2 quarters of NAXX, but helped my comparitively overgeared guildmates in regular VoA quite a few times. We were surprised by this boss showing up this week and attempted him “blind”. Three wipes and someone looked him up, then 3 more wipes and we got him down!
It was amazing, seeing how everyone learned and we got closer each attempt. Felt good to be part of “progression” with some amazing people!