NiM Huntmaster

Eggs Spawn, Raid lead calls out their location and marks the Egg to be CC'd, and the Magic player calls out which direction the fire grenade goes to.

In the pictured example here, I would call out 1 and 4, to let the sage healer CC'ing the bird where the eggs have spawned at.

I also like to mark a far (from lake) egg to help point it out to the CC'ing player.  Note that the maker will not carry over to the bird once it hatches.

I find this easy do do as the Guardian tank as I stand back and wait to jump in for Power Shot Volley.  Eggs spawn immediately after the boss is pulled.

The call out for the first fire grenade placement is made here as a reference to the above quadrant system.  We find it helpful to place a marker down where we want the grenade to go.

Tip: Watch the direction that the light circle is moving.  Whichever direction it moves to when it first spawns in is the safe direction to take the fire grenade to.  Move it as far as you can get it.  If you find yourself running out of the circle, you are probably going against the movement of the circle and the wrong direction.

Boss channels Power Shot Volley

Guardian's need to leap in (using the utility point into unremitting) as he starts his channel or about 1.0" into the cast so that our 4" of immunity does not wear off early, that and the damage from this does not start until 3" into the channel, so do not leap in immediately.

Use Saber reflect (and your DPS adrenal if you like DPS) while standing 0.0m on the boss.  You will likely get knocked down by the last shot from the channel.  As the Guardian Tank, I stayed back and waited for power shot volley, while my shadow cotank and the rest of the raid engaged the boss.

Commandos - Use Hold the Line and Echoing Deterrence and stand 0.0m on the boss to intercept and reflect the hits

Not reflecting this?  Well, I do not recommend it, but basically the player targeted by the channel needs to hide in the back of the group while everyone else takes the hit.  One player taking multiple hits from this will die.

Note: If a player dies, Huntmaster will re-channel and do Power Shot Volley a second time.  This will tend to change the flow of the fight.

Next Fire Grenade goes on a "random" Target, yes he will pick on people.  "(There is some demonic "magic" at work with calling where the first fire grenades should go.  I believe this to be largely based off of witchcraft and animal sacrifice.)"  Make sure that the grenade goes toward the designated direction.

MISSION CRITICAL: The Fire Grenade can NEVER be placed in such a way that it will clip/hit the green egg spawn areas.  The fire Grenade will Kill the Eggs

This Forces a Tank Swap, is a beam attack that will cleave the group and break any eggs in its path.  The tank should stand apart from the group (I find it helpful to mark tanks and for tanks to announced which direction they are standing as the fight progresses).  Any players hit with this will take high damage and have an armor debuff.

In this example, my coTank calls out Apex, indicating that he is taking the shot toward the Apex Door, so that everyone else stands clear of it.

90 degree cleave centered onto a randomly targeted player.  The targeted player has a short amount of time to move out of the group to prevent the entire group from being hit by it.

Scatter blast has a range of 70 meters and we believe it too can break eggs, though we have not seen it happen, we try to aim it away from eggs just to be safe.

Again, we find it best to call out which direction they are heading.  Here the targeted healer can respond with entrance, to let the raid know they have seen they are targeted and are destacking.

Right after Scatter Blast, Huntmaster will Holotraverse to the light point.  The raid needs to be stacked on the light point right after Scatter Blast goes off.

Be certain to pad the sides of the circle facing eggs with extra players just to be safe.

This is a new mechanic for Master Mode, and is critical to clearing the fight.

The boss will target the eggs that have spawned around the room and attempt to snipe them.  If he is successful he will lose 4 stacks of master of the hunt as well as kill the egg and thus the bird that would have hatched from it.  This will compromise our strategy for the fight, and will require extra effort to pull off a clear.  Players need to body block the shots, intercepting the damage as well as a debuff that will last the rest of the fight.  

The debuff reduces maximum HP by about 50k HP.  A second hit from Egg snipe is fatal.  If you have been hit by egg snipe, stand further back in the group to allow other players to take the hit.  If you have not been hit by egg snipe stand on the boss, or between him and an egg.  There are 2 eggs in phase 1 and thus, 2 channels of egg snipe.

This channel debuffs the adds damage output by 70%.  When primal fear goes off, the shadow tank and vanguard (or other combinations of players capable of pulling off the mechanics leave the safety of the circle and head to the lake.

Away Team: Shadow Tank and Vanguard leave the flare and head to the lake (see rest below).

Note that the adds will enrage if they are damaged.  An enraged add will deal 70% increased damage.  The main damage from the adds come from their leap in, so run your defensive accordingly.

The flare is at its smallest by this point.  The team needs to be very careful to stay inside of it while the away team is out, or they may redirect adds to them instead.

Away Team: Knock in adds wave one - The shadow tank moves to the very edge of the lake.  The adds should jump to you.  As you see them coming, use Deflection to prevent the knock down and soak the damage.  You can either stun and knock in the adds yourself, or have a player follow you out to assist with the stunning.  We have our Vanguard follow and AoE stun the adds so that the Shadow tank can come around and knock them in.  As soon as that is accomplished, get back into the light.  You need to be back around the time that Penetrating Shot is channeling on the other tank, as you will need to taunt the boss back.

2nd Power Shot Volley

The next player tasked to dealing with this mechanic is up.  It is a bit more difficult for a guardian to pull off, and can be better handled by a raid aware commando.  The second Power shot Volley signals the end of phase 1.