The Siege of Ulduar: XT-002 Deconstructor Guide

Posted by admin on 06 12th, 2009

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We’re going to do something a little different today. Instead of looking at class mechanics or specs, we’re going to look at the latest raid available to you guys. Ulduar, as you all probably know, is similar to Naxx in the way that it is divided into four sections. The initial section is called The Siege of Ulduar and is all about breaking into Ulduar where you’ll later face some familiar NPCs (if you’ve done some of the larger quest chains at least). Let’s take a deeper look into how exactly you break into Ulduar. Today, we’ll be focusing on XT-002 Deconstructor. XT-002 Deconstructor Abilities Tympanic Tantrum – Channeled spell that hits everyone for 10% of their maximum HP every second for 12 seconds. Searing Light – Inflicts around 3,000-4,000 damage a second to players within 10 yards for 9 seconds Gravity Bomb – Deals 12,000-15,000 damage to the target and pulls players within 12 yards to the original target, dealing 11,000-15,000 damage to them as well. The Trash For XT, there’s actually two sets of trash right at the front of his room. This is where hunters come through for the raid. That’s right, it’s time to /flex and equip your kiting gear. Get that Distracting Shot ready and when instructed to, shoot the little mechanical gnomes. They use some sort of Defensive Shield at times, but don’t stop moving. I recommend pulling the little gnomes out of the room into the hallway where you can Frost Trap them with ease. Keep the gnome occupied until the raid can come out and kill them and then repeat the same thing for the second trash group. You should have two hunters in the group for these pulls because there are two gnomes in each trash group. XT Phase XT is a fun boss because it requires some coordination. This is the fight that you as a hunter will probably have the most fun doing because it requires you to actually do something other than shoot the boss in the face repeatedly. XT is easiest when tanked between two piles on either the left or right side because he won’t spawn adds from the piles he’s next to. Other than that, your raid should be split in two, one group left, one group right, or you could do one large group right behind him. XT will place Light Bombs and Gravity Bombs on people at random and both require those who have them to move out of the group they are with. Searing Light will explode and cause damage to everyone around them while Gravity Bombs will explode, deal damage, and drag people towards the person who had it. It’s best to get 15 yards away from the group if you have a bomb on you. The first part of this fight is easy for hunters. You DPS the boss until he hits 75% at which point his heart will drop. Heart Phase When the heart drops, all you have to do is DPS it. Don’t kill it unless you want to activate hard mode. The more you burn the heart, the more damage XT takes as well, so the ultimate goal is to burn it down enough to make him get to the next heart phase immediately after. If your raid can’t get the heart that far down (I believe it’s 1%), then getting it to about 40-50% will work just as well and take off about 15-20% of XT’s health. Partway through the heart “phase,” adds will spawn from the scrap piles. You’ll see mini scrap bots, bomb bots and larger versions of the scrap bots called Pummellers. Hunters need to use Volley on the groups of smaller scrap bots because if they get to XT, he will regen about 2% health for each one that gets to him. Bomb bots can be allowed to pass and hit XT because they will damage him but the melee needs to get out before they explode. The larger Pummellers should be picked up by a second tank and then tanked for the remainder of the fight. The fight repeats from there every 25%, so just be sure to Volley. You may also want to stop using Black Arrow when the heart drops so that you can use a Frost Trap to slow down the scrap bots if you’re having trouble DPSing them down fast enough. The Loot 10 Man: Gloves of Taut Grip – Nice mail gloves with some armor penetration Treacherous Shoulderpads – Nice leather shoulders, but let rogues/feral druids have it first if they don’t have them already 25 Man: Twisted Visage – /drool One of the weapons that EVERY hunter wants. There’s two others that are very similar later on in Ulduar, but they don’t have hit rating. This is really good if you aren’t hit capped or want to be above the hit cap in case you have to sacrifice hit later. Brass-lined Boots – These boots are amazing upgrades if you’re still using the old badge boots. Keep them in mind just in case they drop. The Siege After you down XT-002 Deconstructor, a portal opens up behind him. You’ve now officially broken into Ulduar. We’ll start taking a look at The Antechamber of Ulduar in upcoming articles. If you’ve got special tips that your group uses to defeat these bosses, be sure to leave them in the comments! This Post From: The Hunter’s Mark .

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