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EQ2 Mob:Switchmaster Zaxlyz  

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I like to call this, the pick your own poison fight, you have a number of choices for this fight and depending on your raid set up you can taylor the encounter to your liking. By selecting the various protector or sentinel mobs that surround the chamber you decide which powers switchmaster ends up with in the final fight. Here is a hint don't choose Voidstorm.

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Known Info Melee Abilities Healing Abilities Non Melee Abilities Recommended Potions Strategy Overview Heal Strategy Tank Strategy DPS Strategy Special Team Strategy Encounter Diagram Encounter Video Raid Groups Conclusion

Known Info

Switchmaster Zaxlyz (SWZ) is a Shadowed Man, who is responsible for guarding the gates to the other areas in Palace of the Ancient One (POA). He has a number of henchmen that you must pick to fight prior to fighting SWZ. Heat resists are crutial for this fight and everyone must be on their toes because he will cast chaotic infusion on random targets during the fight. This gives that target sonic vision and that player must run to the south west portal way jump in and out of it to remove this effect if you do not it wipes the raid.

Melee Abilities

• Crushing 100%

Healing Abilities

• Consume Soul 100%

Non Melee Abilities

• Enthralling Flames (19 second timer)
• Damage Type: Heat

Stun stifle can be elemental cured by healers. Cannot be cured with potions.

• Exothermic Explosion (35 second timer)
• Damage Type: Heat

Zone wide AE knock back with a nasty dot. Can and must be elemental cured by healers or potions. This is the most important AE to watch during this fight.

• Chaotic Infusion (no timer needed)
• Damage Type: Magic

You get sonic vision and must run in the the SW portal to strip the effect if you do not it kills the raid instantly on termination

• Unstable Feedback (no timer needed)
• Damage Type: Magic

reactive that hits anyone who is hitting SMZ or whos pet is hitting him.

• Void Strike (no timer needed)
• Damage Type: Magic

Frontal attack. Basically stay out from in front of SMZ if your not the tank.

All Abilities information pulled from parsing data.

Recommended Potions

• Cure Elemental

Strategy Overview

The encounter begins when one player activates a script by selecting a target choice from the dialog with Switchmaster Zaxlyz (SWZ). There are four choices to make, when you select the choice the sentinels or protectors associated with the choice become active. If you fail to make a choice within a certain period of time SMZ will choose for you, this is not recommended.

The order that we have had success with is Voidfield, Stalwart and Unstable, then Agile and Offensive. Once the first mod is active the MT should grab the Sentinel of the Voidfield and drag it to the west portal entrance. The raid follows and dps this mob down, it's pretty much rinse and repeat for the next pair. On the final set the MT should pull off the Offensive void protector to the tank spot while the OT pulls the Agile void protector off to the side. Once the offensive is dead the OT pulls the agile into the tank spot. This allows the MT time to set up on SMZ. At 50% on the agile, the healers should be called out to set up just under the lip off to the left side. At 30% health on the agile DPS should be called out to the rear of the ramp. Tortoise Shell and Blade dance should be called for to shiled the raid from any initial AEs that SMZ throws out as the MT drags SMZ into place in the tank spot shown in the diagram below. This is pretty much where the real fight begins.

Once SMZ is in place DPS is held out for the first Exothermic Explosion (EE) to hit. After the first EE hits the DPS is called in and the burn on SMZ begins. The rest of the fight is just rinse and repeat DPS called out for EE then back in watch positioning on SMZ, do not get in front of him or unnecessary deaths and health loss occur. Burn burn burn and pretty soon you will have a treasure chest to rummage through.

Note: When you get the timing on the initial EE, you can joust in to start for to get some DPS on SMZ prior to the first EE hitting.

Dealing with Chaotic Infusion: You should remember a couple of things. Periodically as mentioned above a couple players with get Chaotic Infusion on them and they must get to the south west portal to strip it off so they don't wipe the raid. When a MT healer has this effect on them it is recommended to jesters cap the other healer in the MT group while that healer runs to strip the effect. The MT will get this as well, the thing to remember here is DPS should step back and disengage while the MT drags SMZ with them to the portal. You can also have OT snap aggro, but we have found just dragging him is more reliable.

Heal Strategy

Tank Strategy

DPS Strategy

Special Team Strategy

Encounter Diagram

Encounter Video

Raid Groups

NOTE: All of our strategies are written up with the group setups we used to beat these encounters and while the specific classes used are not required the general roles that they fill are.

Main Tank	Off Tank	DPS One	DPS Two
Berserker	Guardian	Ranger	Shadow Knight
Dirge	Dirge	Dirge	Assassin
Coercer	Coercer	Troubador	Wizard
Warden	Brigand	Warlock	Illusionist
Templar	Defiler	Mystic	Inquisitor
Defiler	Templar	Brigand	Troubadour

Conclusion

	ZAM credits Ghosts of the Jaggedpine & MMO-Strategist for the original information in this guide.