Actually the alpha’s attack mechanic is quite simple and when done right the people in melee can afk and only 1 person (the one at ranged distance) has to worry about certain attacks.
The alpha has 3 aoe attacks
1) ice/earth ring spam attack
2) fire aoe tooth attack
3) the earth line attack
The only attack where people do not understand how the mechanics work is the ice/earth circle spam attack.
The ice/earth spam only exist on p1/p2.
Each time you encounter the alpha in the path he will target 1 person the whole fight with a special ice/earth spam. This person that is targeted will get an icicle attack that only deals damage if you are within the inner circle of his aoe. To find out just spread out and range him until his ice/earth attack pops up. You will know who he is targeting because you can see underneath them that the ground below them isn’t frosted at the beginning of the attack but becomes more frosted the longer the aoe circle is down until the attack triggers after a certain amount of time. To avoid this attack all you have to do is walk out of the small circle and it will never hit you. The key here if you’re targeted is to stay ranged so that you don’t accidentally put your aoe circle on them and vice versa.
For those who are not targeted, you should stack up and when you see the mass spam of aoe circles just stand still and you won’t get hit. This saves unnecessary dodging and makes the dungeon a whole lot faster and easier.
Alpha is really easy once you get used to his attack mechanics
(yes I always do all 3 coe paths everytime the rewards reset, either on my full zerk thief or paladin guard)
(edited by bladedhonour.5720)