Gynok Moltor

What the Gynok Encounter Does

* When damaged, Gynok has a chance to proc a knockback / interrupt / crit debuff / small magic hit. (Raiment of the Gnollslayer / Thunderous Bolt)

* Has Touch of Death, single-target de-level (only 1 level) and massive disease nuke / DoT / power drain over time.

* The casting animation for this is unique. He holds his sword out in front of him. The cast is fast, though, maybe 2 seconds.

* Curable curse.

* Timer is 39 seconds. Traumatic Swipe does affect it. However, it must be timed properly, because Nax removes all debuffs regularly.

* Casts Fist of the Norrathian Star. Single-target crushing DoT, placed randomly on people. Duration is 15 seconds. After the 15 seconds runs out, it kills whoever it's on.

* Curable curse.

* Casts Mark of the Gnollslayer randomly on 2 people at once. Turns screen purple. On termination or on player death, it will cast a raid-wiping AoE - unless you are on top of Gynok.

* Uncurable noxious.

* Casts Dusts of Disintegration. It is a group-wide AoE, that targets the group of the person with aggro. Brutal distance-based magic damage.

* Detrimental type unknown.

* Timer unknown.

* Has 4 adds on pull. They appear to be unlinked when you target them, but encounter-wide spells will hit all adds. So they act linked, it seems.

* Nax casts Power Diffusion AoE power drain DoT, a curable arcane. Wards can reduce the power drain amount. Cure with an arcane remedy if you have no power.

* Nax strips your debuffs off of all mobs.

* Vin and Marn cast Undead Diversion, a curable arcane taunt / force-target. Can be self-cured with a remedy potion.

* Adds resurrect after dieing.

o When Zathra dies the first time, he immediately revives. He supposedly rezzes other dead adds when he does this.

o Every time Zathra dies after that, he stays down for a few minutes, but eventually revives.

o When he revives, he will rez either Vin or Marn as well.

o If any of the adds are up after Gynok reaches 30% health, they will get a special attack that 1-shots whoever they attack.



Strat



* 3 tanks possibly useful. 2 for Gynok, 1 for adds. (2 tanks works fine if they are Great Tanks)

* Use an AoE tank to grab Gynok and all adds minus Zathra.

* An offtank will grab Zathra, and the raid will burn him down twice.

* After Zathra dies the second time, kill Nax, Marn, and Vin, in that order. An offtank pulls each one off the MT to burn them down.

* When all adds are down, dps Gynok until Zathra revives with another add.

* Kill Zathra first and then the other add.

* Back on Gynok.

* When Gynok is at about 40%, you have a limited amount of time to burn him down to 0% before the adds resurrect again. Make sure you have recently killed the adds when you get to this point, so you have a large enough burn window. If the window feels small, stop dps on Gynok, wait for the adds to resurrect, kill them again, then burn Gynok down.

* To handle touch of death curse on MT:

o When the MT has his good temp buffs up, he will use them just before it hits, while the MT healers attempt to pre-cast their curse cure based on the casting animation. It must be immediately removed, one way or another.

o When the MT's temp buffs are down, another tank will snap Gynok off of him just before Touch of Death hits. He will try to live long enough to eat the curse. After it hits, the MT will take it back.



* When your screen turns purple, stand on top of Gynok until it goes away. If it terminates or if you die with it, and you're not standing on Gynok, a raid-wiping AoE will be cast, with your name on it.

* While waiting by Gynok, do not use AoEs or attack Gynok. If you do, you can proc a knockback. This could wipe the raid if it hits at the wrong time.

* When the purple screen goes away, stay by Gynok for another 3 seconds or so. Sometimes it looks like it is gone when it's really not.

* Get Fists curse cured immediately. It's a guaranteed death after 15 seconds.

* Self-cure arcanes with remedy potions immediately. It is either a power drain that will completely remove your power on the second tick, or a target-change.

* Pay attention to what you are targeting at all times. If your target is changed, cure your arcane first, then you can retarget the correct mob. If you don't, you'll probably pull aggro because you're on the wrong mob and die.

* During the fight, position yourself so that if you get knocked back by Fists, you won't go far.





Detrimentals

Raiment of the Gnollslayer / Thunderous Bolt

Buff on Gynok and the debuff it causes.

Fist of the Norrathian Star

Curable curse. Duration 15 seconds. Cure it before then or you're guaranteed to die.

Touch of Death

Curable curse. Hits person with aggro on Gynok. Cure it in 3.3 seconds, or tank will probably go bye-bye.

Dusts of Disintegration

Group-wide distanced-based magic DoT, targeted on the group of the person with aggro



Mark of the Gnollslayer

Uncurable noxious. Gives purple vision. Blows up raid on termination, unless you're on top of Gynok. Then it simply goes away on termination.

Sickening Circle

Curable noxious DoT. Typical shadowknight close-range AoE.

Undead Diversion

Curable arcane taunt. Can be self-cured with potion.

Power Diffusion

Curable arcane percent-based power drain over time AoE. Cast by Nax. Use remedy potion to cure it if you have no power. Wards reduce power drain.




Resists Needed: Heat / Magic / Poison