Agreed.

Note for the support guy in the pit. Stormcaller is fantastic during the taken phase. Chaining and extending the stormcaller length helps a lot here.

The idea of fighting that boss without having you running around the pit electrocuting everything makes me scared :D

Note for the support guy in the pit. Stormcaller is fantastic during the taken phase. Chaining and extending the stormcaller length helps a lot here.

Also note that the armor abilities that pick up orbs to regen your grenades or melee work against you here as you want to hit stormcaller and still have a lot of orbs available for pickup from the guys DPSing the boss down hard. Otherwise the taken can be harder to deal with and interrupt the DPSers.

I mainly recommend the Front-to-Back just because this puts a lot of responsibility on the gaze-holders. If they're good enough though this is definitely the fastest, cleanest way to beat him.

This method rules because:

1) The players in the pit can focus 100% of their attention on damaging the boss and managing thrall. No need to worry about hitting the orbs as they rotate around.

2) The 2 players up top rotate in such a way that they are already in position when they take Golgoroth's gaze, meaning the players down low don't need to wait for the gaze holder to steer the boss towards the puddle.

This really is so much smoother and more effective than any other method I've seen so far :)

We did the Left and Right method for both times I've done it, and it works well. The first time we were obviously still figuring out the encounter, but the second time went really smoothly.

We only used three damage dealers in the pit. Our extra man stayed up on the platform with the gaze holders to help pop bubbles and to keep overwatch on Cursed Thrall for the damage dealers. It allowed the three of us to stay in the pit for all six bubbles with only occasionally having to divert focus from Golgoroth to kill a thrall. Granted two of us had 310 Black Spindles which helps immensely.

That encounter was a real bitch for us to figure out, but when we faced him the next week, it is an incredibly fun encounter.

But yeah, you've mentioned these guys before. They sound... fun?

we downed him in 4 total gazes with a strong DPS team. Very, very easy.

Then it should be even easier doing it Front-to-Back.

One-gaze might work well for you, but there's no advantage to it over Front-to-Back.

The advantage is I raid with three (THREE) guys who are just awful at anything more complicated than "shoot that guy." Even "Shoot that guy in the belly took several hours before one of them announced, proudly "Guys, I do way more damage if I shoot him in the glowing spot on his belly!" cue the /picardfacepalm ascii art.

it took these guys 3 hours to clear the first jumping puzzle.

So for us, the simplest strategy is always the best. We can have, at most, 3 guys doing anything remotely involved in understanding fight mechanics, and then the other 3 guys just stand around shooting stuff. Our oryx fight strategy is to take so long with endless wipes that the three Tacos sign off to sleep, and then we go on LFG and down Oryx on the very next try.

we downed him in 4 total gazes with a strong DPS team. Very, very easy.

Then it should be even easier doing it Front-to-Back.

One-gaze might work well for you, but there's no advantage to it over Front-to-Back.

You could totally stay in the pit though.

That said, it would still be safer, faster and require less work from your Gaze-holder to do it Front-to-Back.

- The tablet fills in 3 deaths (or instantly if anyone dies, but I hate insta-wipes, so I'm hoping that's not the case).

I was thinking that losing his gaze would activate a tablet rune...

But yeah, we had a high-DPS team do the one-gaze method and it worked exceptionally well.