Zone Strategy: The Ward of Elements (Dayakara)

Dayakara — Fire Elemental

If you are familiar with the Tairiza fight, this will seem vaguely familiar.

Strategy

Off-tank will pull Dayakara to the alcove to the immediate left when entering the room so that Dayakara is facing away from the raid. High DPS scouts (as chosen by raid leader) will focus on Dayakara during the entire fight). Off-tank (OT) healers will focus on keeping OT alive and group cured.

Adds spawn every 14(?) seconds. MT will be picking up adds right in the center of the room. MT healers will focus on keeping MT alive and group cured.

1-2 Scouts will be chosen by the Raid Leader to focus on killing Dayakara the entire fight. At 30%, 1-2 more folks will be added to DPS on Dayakara. Everyone else should DPS through the Main Assist who will be switching between Adds and Dayakara at his/her discretion. MT can easily handle 3-4 adds and so MA will adjust accordingly.

At 30%, Dayakara increases the number of adds, so at 40%, MA will focus on clearing remaining Adds so there aren’t any up at 30%. Unlike the Tairiza fight, the MA will focus mostly on the Adds for the rest of the fight. Raid Leader will pick 1-3 more high DPS classes to focus on Dayakara for the last 30% down to 0%.

This is an endurance fight although sustained DPS is also very important. If more than 5 adds are up, then MT and MT healers will have difficulty keeping up.

Background

When you first enter the room with Dayakara, there are alcoves to the immediate left and right, a bridge directly in front, and then Dayakara is on the other side of the bridge. Due to line of sight issues, pulling Dayakara or her adds to the bridge or where she stands is problematic. We could not target the adds as they were in the lava or under the bridge.

When OT pulls Dayakara to the alcove, he/she needs to make sure he is not out of line-of-sight of healers and that Dayakara is not inside the wall.

MT should be cautious on AoE taunts so that MT does not taunt Dayakara off of the OT.