World First Algalon Solo

Caribald/Vandpistol (EU – Tarren Mill) has soloed Algalon the Observer for a world first kill!

I spent nearly two days of doing nothing but Algalon attempts and restocking on consumables, other than sleep and food obviously. The Living Constellations behave in a pretty weird manner; sometimes they fly away and despawn randomly, and other times they don’t. Sometimes you can despawn them with feign (usually if you feign immediately), other times they just go to the pet and keep nuking you with arcane barrages.

The fight is incredibly hard because pet takes insane damage and cooldowns need to be used sparingly, while still enough to keep the pet alive, and intentional overaggroing is actually a must to keep a pet with fresh cooldowns ready for phase 2. On my 7% wipe about a day ago I only had three turtles on me, and pet died about 20 seconds before enrage (I died 13 seconds to enrage), but it didn’t have Last Stand because I had used it earlier. I also tweaked my pet spec a little to not have Guard Dog, Taunt and Thunderstomp, but instead have Silverback, Boar’s Speed and one point in Culling the Herd. I tried macroing Growl into every shot because it doesn’t automatically cast every time it gets off cooldown, but that made the pet attack Algalon, which was NOT desirable when trying to place the pet somewhere to kite Algalon or to place him properly for next Dismiss.

I think Hunters are the only class that can solo Algalon because of his Phase Punch mechanic.

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Read a complete account of Vandpistol/Caribald’s world first Algalon solo and the strategy used in the MMO Champion Hunter Forum.

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