Battle of Ilum

[Masterkiller]

Level: 50
Location:
Encounters:
Commander Folex
Crystal Cutter Droid
Darth Serevin
Drinda-Zel
Gark the Indomitable
Guid Patriarch
Krel Thak
Velasu Graege


Please use this thread to discuss this flashpoint.

[dulfy]

TL : DR version

Gark the Indomitable: tank and spank, turn boss away from the rest of the party as he have a conal attack. Grab adds as they pop and blow them up. Mini boss.


Velasu Graege & Drinda-Zel: 1st real boss. Velasu is ranged and Drinda is melee and will randomly leap to people and smack them. Kill Drinda first, and then kill Velasu. Once Velasu gets below 50% he will spawn 4 turrets. This can be healed through. Simply burn the boss and kill the turrets after. This is especally important in hardmode with the enrage timer.

Krel Thak
Probably the toughest boss in this flashpoint. Having 2 ranged dps make this fight alot easier. Boss has something called defense screen and proximity probe. He usually does this right after he stun you and spawn the adds. Defense screen makes him immune to all damage (can be interrupted) and proximity probe will blow up anyone nearby that tries to melee him (hits for ~ 7K). Sniper with their orbital strike and mercenry with their death from above can finish off the adds quick and meet the enrage timer on hardmode.

Darth Serevin
Comes with one add, damage random party members by throwing crystals at them. Occasionally he will go invis and pop up beside someone and stun someone with lighting. Tank need to try to grab aggro again when this happens. Easy fight otherwise.

Crystal cutter droid and commander folex are mini bossses and really just tank and spank. You can CC one of the droids and all of the adds with Folex.

Full guide with pictures/videos - normal and hardmode
Link: http://dulfyforce.wordpress.com/2012/01/...-hardmode/
Alternate link:http://feature.mmosite.com/swtor/flashpoint_battle_of_ilum_guide.shtml

[Saeria]

Guid Patriach is the bonus boss.

Mostly tank and spank. Does a knockback and an aoe-melee range stun.

[Unicorn]

Don't know why not that many people run it on my server, run it four or five times and every time I am the only one who knows the fights, but its easy to learn. Only thing to say is at first its hard to heal the last boss, because of the random damage, but with gear its very very easy. The stun that the final boss gives isn't even a huge deal, with a reasonably geared group even the healer can take it for max length and then come out and put everyone to full rather quickly.

Overall, pretty easy FP and drops Mainhand (i believe? or Offhand) Columi token.

[Antario]

its because of krel thak

seriously...fuck that guy

[Poksu]

try Krel Thak with only melee dps. Do it, I dare ya.

[Bane]

Did battle for ilum with me (marauder) and assassin dps. If you get your interrupts there isn't much of an issue apart from enrage timer. Time your cooldowns so you can use them inbetween the melee shield phases. Took us about 3 attempts of <10% enrages to get him, but it's definitely able to be done. Although, take 2 ranged DPS in there and the fight becomes a joke (as long as your tank can avoid hitting the boss while the shield is up)

[dulfy]

Apparently Krel Thak can be skipped if you are melee DPS heavy and don't want the hassle of wiping to him a couple times Most people are after the Columi offhand anyways

[loves2spooge]

Been running quick runs of this one for alloys, a lot of it can be skipped (including krel) leaving easy boss fights.

[Antario]

how do you skip him?

just run past and die?