HoL Heroic: Loken

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[blizzard]Heroic Loken is hard. He’s the hardest heroic boss. Having a priest may make the encounter easier, but it doesn’t make it tirival and having a paladin doesn’t mean you are almost certainly doomed to fail. Honestly it has a lot more to do with what the rest of the group is doing to minimize the damage they take than what the healer has to do to keep everyone up.
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Blizzard's statistics on its website say that for a few weeks now Loken is the single mob that is killing the most wow players in the game...having said that, here are some suggestions to make it easier - onc you figure out movement on him its really easy.

Have the tank initially grab him and plop him in the middle of the circle on the floor in front of his throne...the tank shouldface him 90 degrees from the throne, so that hes facing the side of the room. ALL dps and the healers need to pile up on the tank, or if yuo need to be behind the boss to attack be right there close to the tank. He does an aura that effects everyone in the group, but gets MORE effective the farther away from him you are, so staying close to loken is KEY.

After a bit, Loken is going to cast a channeled ability that will do a kind of "arcane explosion" type attack - when you see this being channeled, the group needs to run DOWN the lit up flight path on floor to JUST outside of the attacks range, and then AFTER its done casting, they need to run BACK to loken, due to the aura.

Keys to doing this:

- If the tank keeps the boss horizontally set, everyone can use the "Q" and "E" keys to strafe run away from the boss really easily.
- The tank needs to move as well, since after the explosion hell run to the tank, which will shorten the distance between the group and the boss.
- The entire group will be taking damage, so the healer needs to load up on AOE heal spells if they have them, or be prepared to get the group topped if necessary.
- A pally can cast the mini protective damage shield on the healer to help out the healer, since healer death due to aura is a huge cause for failure.
- An off-healer can also heal the healer, while the healer heals everyone else to help the group survive to the next lightning explosion.
- This boss hits really weakly on the MT - it should be okay to focus more on the group then usual (obviously dont ignore the mt's health lol)

The keys to this are movement (in for the aura, out for the explosion, then back in quick) and the healer staying alive and keeping the rest of the group up. Usually Loken drops pretty quickly after 3-4 explosions - the fight doesnt take long at all and the quick kill achievement is usually a given if you beat him.