We also found that if you pull Balor into the teleport room, you can use the 2nd line on the floor away from a wall as the joust point.
The adds come from the West, not from the middle.
Kill the 2 mobs at the teleport, pull and tank balor in the bridge close to the teleport, put other tank and his healer in the middle to hold the add to prevent it killing someone in your raid and they will be far away enugh to avoid the armour breaking, move the raid to the East to joust the red text. The buff to Balos when absorbing the add will reset on every add. Kill and loot. We did it with 14 ppl, 1,6 million DPS, no chanters btw.
The buff is called Soulstench and does the following:
Base Auto Attack Multplier +2000
20% AE Auto Attack
MA+20
Potency+50%
As the named doesnt have any strong AOES except his fatal and equipment wrecking DEVASTATING SLAUGHTER, this buff does not seem to have much effect on the encounter provided no one purposely stands in front or takes extra focus damage from Primevil Detonation & Primevil Ignition. (These aoes do less than 10k normally)
It should be noted however that the item permanently stays in your posession and can be used to remove/reduce the duration of the buff SOULSTENCH whether you choose to defeat the add or not.
If you hold the adds up, you'll see that he get empowered on the red text. The Soulsand Crystal is to debuff him in case an add has not been killed in time. In its current form, don't bother with them, the power improvement on named is barely noticeable.
Ok does anyone know what the "Soulsand Crystal" is for? You get it after the fight and the second time we were pulling him we used it said "The soulsand crystal tunes to Balor The Primeval's frequency and shakes him up a bit!" does any1 know what this means?
Also our pull strat....We pull him back to the portal (killed adds on both sides first) and we then move our dps to the first flame pillar thing w/e....our MT healers move slightly up to heal MT and MT and MT healers joust...Our OT stands behind us a bit and grabs add. We ignore add and do a full burn on the name...Our guild is mostly EM and pulls around 2 mil.