This is a note to players for the second boss -

FOR THE LOVE OF GOD - when the boss does his Tranquility Technique get out of the way and kill the three little trees he sprouts quickly because they heal him.

As a Strategy - tank him at the front of that long pathway leading to the boss.  When he goes into tranq mode - he will turn into a big tree and heal himself - The only way out - is to kill the three little trees that he sprouts.  Simply when the three trees come out - go around the corner behind the glass panel and the little trees will follow - kill them quickly and the boss will turn back to normal.  Rinse and Repeat. 

And please - everyone go around the corner - because if you have one person just standing there - the little trees will stay by the boss healing him.  If you think you can just all stand there and push through it - you will wipe.  you will wipe all the time.  Just go around the corner everyone and kill the little trees then go back to spank and tank little boss. 

And if some arse wants to write a comment after this one - saying that they just pushed through it and killed the little trees next to the boss - well bravo for you - but for most groups just go around the corner and it'll make life a lot easier.

The Botanica is directly north of the main palace.  The south one is The Mechanar and the one above them both is The Arcatraz.  The Eye is the one in the middle of them all, a 25 man raid zone.

As far as instances go The Botanica is longer than average and more difficult than average.  The only requirement for zoning in is the ability to fly to it.

There are at least two quests that you can complete/advance there:
http://www.thottbot.com/q10704
and
http://www.thottbot.com/q10257

After grinding the reputation needed for the crest of sha'tar i found out just as the person above me said that the easiest place of the 3 instances to farm rep is Botanica. Sure it'll take some time to finish it, 5 bosses is quite alot.

But as always it depends how experienced your group is. If you a some1 that knows what to do you'll raid the place, if not it'll be a little tricky.

Clearing to first boss is easy however, you might notice that there's a mob that does alot of damage when he/she spins around. You want to kill them alone, not with more enemies around.

* First boss --> Tank and spank, there will come some adds but do not panic, they are all normals exccept for a mender that heals. You want this mender to be cc'd. Easiest way is to have a mage sheep her or a hunter to trap her. If you fail to cc her, no worries she doesnt pose much of a threat anyway.

Clearing to second boss is also very easy. You'll get to fight vs mob groups of 4 and a big flower, cc is nice here. Some tips are, Kill the flower first and nuke down the chemeist fast. When i ran it i always wanted to have the chemist cc'd to be killed last.

* second boss ----> very easy when done the right way. This is phase fight, how many depends on your dps. Firstly you want to tank her at the middle of the bridge, do not overaggro. After a while she'll turn into a tree. Now, every should run around the left corner asap. Do not stay and nuke the little adds she spawns untill every1 is around the corner. Nuke the adds fast cause she heals her self during this tree phase. After the adds are dead, simply run back and let the tank pick up the boss again and start dps.

Clearing to third boss demands some knowledge about the following mobs. Do NOT pull the goats and whatever when they have a red glow, as you can see if you target them, you'll have a buff that increases attack speed and damage done. Pull them after the buff dissapears.

* Third boss---> The healer has to know what to do. This boss doesnt have much hp so its a relative short boss encounter. Tank him in the middle of the room and get out of his fire aoe spell. From time to time he sacrifices one of the group to be placed where the boss stood from the beginning. It's very important that this person get healed by the healer since he/she WILL die if not^^

Clearing to 4th boss. Got only 1 thing to say, Get of of the red cloud.

* 4th boss =Joke If you have 2 ranged in the group tell eachone of them to take care of the left and right add the boss spawns from time to time. Tank the boss in the middle and keep him there. Dps = Hit him... Hit him..Hit him.. like 100times and he's dead =)


Clearing to 5th boss is only about 2 aoe packs nothing speciall.

* 5th boss ---> He's big but not hard. I've tried many tactics on him and the easiest way to kill imo is to tank him where he stands, turn him way from the group. Ranged dps and the healer has to stay on max-range due to the aoe. You also want the dps to take care of the adds (flowers) that comes, they will heal the boss. This is however not neccesary. If you have a well geared group and nice dps you could ignore the adds and just keep on nuking the heals he get.

Boss dead gj and repeat this like 12 times and voila you'll have a pretty good shield =)