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Comment by 79637

8.59m Health in 10man.

Comment by 629339

Is this mob bugged for some people? Seen videos where the mobs don't fixate anyone and are tauntable.

Comment by RolandDeschain

As of last night, 12/29/10, the Prime Subjects are not tauntable; at least, they weren't for me, and I was the off-tank. (Warrior, 10-man regular) They also Fixated randomly on people for what seemed like years, (my UI said it was a channel/cast that had 187 hours remaining) and no amount of threat was pulling them off. One of them Fixated on the main tank, and we wiped because of it. I tried regular taunt several times, always immune, and he was specifically avoiding AoE except for an occasional Blood Boil (DK tank) for the debuff. I was whacking away with Revenge, Shield Slam, Heroic Strike, etc.; all to no avail. It was getting frustrating. I think they either changed them to be immune to taunt recently, or there is something that controls it that isn't widely known. Are they perhaps not immune to taunt before they start to cast Fixate?

Anyone have any suggestions? Do you have to pick them up within X seconds of them coming out or they start Fixating, or something?

Comment by 629339

Yeah, This might be Late but... They arent Tauntable but if you managed to get aggro on them as fast as you can when they jump down, then they will stick of you for the whole fiight(off tank)

And try having the Boss standing far away from where the Prime Subjects fall down, To reduce the chance of them fixating on the MainTank

Comment by Nogrid

I was tanking the adds on this fight and when the two Prime Subjects came out I got aggro on both and they fixated on me. That is until about 20 seconds later when one of them decided to fixate on one melee after another and kill them. After two of them died it fixated back on me again and we killed the boss. Neither of the two melee did any damage to them so was this just a bug?

Comment by rhesje

I've had the same thing happen several times while off tanking this fight. After getting aggro on both subjects, they will randomly (so it seems) fixate on another raid member and then i'm stuck chasing them around for the rest of the fight. One of the only fights i've ever used Intervene on with any decent results.

Comment by Aulwynd

This mob is bugged like hell. I can confirm that some times it will just leave the fixated tank and attack other players at random. Other thing that I noticed is that Shaman Earth Elemental can also break the fixate.

Comment by freestone

Same thing happened to me. Downed Maloriak a number of times already and the adds always stuck on me like glue. This time, they're running all over smashing random people in the face. It seemed like they were tauntable, though.

Comment by 788158

4.1 hit this week and, while the notes mentioned no change to the Prime Subjects, I found them to be much easier to work with this week than I have in the past.

One change we made, however, was to have the entire raid (except the add tank) move toward the cauldron just before pushing Maloriak into phase 2. This gives the add tank a lot of room in which to grab the Prime Subjects before they can latch onto anyone else.

During previous encounters, I'd look at the combat logs after the fight and see that, between the two Prime Subjects, Fixate was being cast 14+ times in a single fight. Last night, it was cast just twice, once by each Prime Subject.

As I said, I don't know if this was a change from the patch or from the change in strategy (moving everyone to the cauldron), but it worked like a charm on a segment we'd really been struggling with in the past.

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This NPC can be found in Blackwing Descent .

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