Luhai

Actually this is not correct.
I did the trials in floor 3 last weekend and the totem killed my mage pet which was named after me.
I still won the challenge after beating the crap out of the mob.

Azzaroth

Hmm just a guess, maybe it is different on the Localized Server (EU) Ther have been many weird thinks about /target only with English names. And i remeber someone from the french server state if he gives his pet an Name and hails it he would get a hail back with the name translated to french.

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better Scales then Fur...

Azzaroth
80 SK
of Feral Fires
Valor

Hadec

Any defilers try the third floor one yet? I tried but ran out of time with the double up mob at 50% still

zizu

i've seen an inq do ok on the 3rd floor, imo its beatable by a mystic, havn't seen it done, just my prediction.

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yay fae

Nakurus

our defiler got fucked up on 3rd floor..

Vormulac

our fury did 3rd floor and still had over 50% power /shrug

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Ranthor

Our Temp owned 3rd floor, they still won't let the troub fight the damn things... something about not having all weekend to raid a zone.. bla bla...

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Poofe

aww Ranth, have them throw you at easy mode 1st floor. At least there it doesn't matter if you win or lose (unless prince is up)

I'm pulling for this next time

Fatchops

One thing for people new to the trials is that the person doesn't have to be solo. You can be grouped for key buffs, like having a cleric/shaman hp buffs, dirge parry+mana regen etc etc. Just need to make sure there are not groupwide heal or damage proc buffs up, and make especially sure that pets are not set to counter attack on damage.

The first time we tried a trial, I was solo and ran OOM. None of us knew wtf we were doing and were paranoid that being grouped would break the trial.

Next two trials I did while grouped went pretty easy.

Yggdrasil

I have had some success in here, completely destroying some trials and then having trouble with others. I have done this both as a necro and a fury. The fury completed the first floor trial with ease, but I have noticed several issues otherwise. First of all, I took my tank pet (spec'd for Tainted Heals) off of protect so that it wouldn't add in case a mage was not chosen, but then it would not attack the mobs that were attacking me even after I reset the options due to an elevation issue I believe (pet just stood there while I was getting my ass handed to me). Necro down. Fury did the same trial with ease.

I just did the second floor trial for the second time - again, first time I did it with the fury, it was easy. Now, Short Armed Flurry hit me four times for 713-846 power damage every time, had some kind of stun proc, and a stifle which it did not have before. I also looked through ACT and my logs to see that my HoTs were dispelled early and Hibernation with the AAs was also getting dispelled before the duration was up, leading to even more wasted power. I eventually was using more heals than nukes just to keep up with the 500 or so DPS from the mobs. Despite using a tinkered manastone, a heart, grandmaster's power pot, Vessel, both emergencies, etc., power was tight and the event timed out near the time that either the mob or I was going to die.

We were discussing the whole thing in Vent and wondered if anyone can confirm whether or not mana cloak breaks the encounter. Since the mana gained is not attributed directly to the chanter, like stoneskin isn't attributed to a dirge, I would think that there wouldn't be a problem but anyone with some confirmation would be appreciated. The extra power in the event of getting the mana draining/dispelling mobs would be quite nice to have, but not at the cost of the trial.