Emlar

We have been struggling on Anashti for a few weeks.
Despite tens of pulls a couple of nights per week, there are a 2 things that sound strange and keep us wondering what mistake we kept doing.

Tonight after trying various options to decrease the number of eso dots Anashti put on our heads (varsoon reward, nexo crystals...), we tried casting a void crystal on her (harvested from add death). I worked though it didn't produce any benefit.
But, from this moment, we kept having adds poping from the right portal (from the entrance) though we never got any for the previous 12 or 13 pulls.
Of course, we still have adds poping from the left portal that our OT group is taking care off, but having to manage 2 parallel pops was probably too much for us. Of course, we checked that none of us went below 60% mana and we never got a red message mentionning the mana issue. Still adds pop like hell.
We tried to close the portals again with a void crystal, but on every subsequent pulls we kept having pops from the right portal as well as left one.
I'm afraid we will have to reset the zone though we still have 5 days left on this one just to redo the ring before anashti and close all 3 portals.

Is there something we missed in order to reduce the number of eso dots we're franctically getting from anashti ?
Is there a way to reset the portals so only one will have to be managed during her fight after we messed up with the void crystal ?

keldo

Well, I don't even know what you mean by 'eso' dots, but nothing you can do will reduce the number you get (other than hexation for a little while on some of them, and curing every chance you get).

The portals themselves are easy. Kill the first add, harvest the crystal, right click the portal to close it. When the portal respawns again, have that same person close it again immediately. As long as you keep closing it you should only get 1 add every 30 seconds or so. Note that you do not have to cast or 'use' the void crystal like you do on the void ray, all you have to do in order to close the portal is have one in your inventory.

Even if 3 portals do open for some reason, close them after you wipe and then pull again. The only reason more than one will ever spawn is if you do not close the first one that spawns immediately.

Emlar

I knew I wasn't whiping my guildies strong enough
My OT group is so much focused on geting the add down that they probably defer the portal closure after the add is killed. A bit too late
Thanks Keldo for the advise.

Emlar

After 10 mins and 11 secs of fight, the lady went back to the void...
It went really tough after 8'30" when we got the debuff
Thanks again

Azarath

You lasted ten min and then she 'went back to the void'?

Never had the fight go that long, but I'd suggest having some DPS classes assigned to anashti full time, as it sounds like you're keeping all four groups together and using all your DPS on adds.

Deathnight

I'm guessing by "back to the void" means they killed her, meaning they sent her home.

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Emlar

Sorry, I should have been more straightforward.
That's right : She's down

About the timing, after a few downs, our fastest (ok, I admit it's not that fast ) success was achieved in 9min05. Which is 58K/s dmg from the three groups devoted to Anashti. Our OT group is away managing adds pop.
We could gain a little bit more dps by replacing one healer with a dps, but managing the curse with only 4 healers (the 2 on the OT cannot help since they are too far) proved to be an issue for us.

headbusta

We generally run 8 healers for the fight just due to the number of dots that need to be managed. Never tried it with less but we've only been killing it for maybe a month or a little more and our dps is usually in the 65-75k range with 8 healers. Think more cures might be greater than another dps class.

I'm sure someone will post they do it with 5 healers and do 150k just to counterpoint this soon tho

keldo

If you are just killing it now, 9 min isn't bad - you don't have top end players so you aren't going to get top end DPS. Eventually you will get it down under 8.5 minutes and not have to deal with the Battle Fatigue. It really doesn't change the fight a whole ton when it is up, as you may have noticed.

You could also try putting the entire raid in one spot, which will get more DPS on the adds and as a result more DPS on the named, but if you can kill it I would just stick with what works until you run into a situation where you need to switch things up (lose an experienced OT, less DPS than normal, etc).