tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9015737272343810105.post415454265425666677..comments2024-03-29T05:19:30.673-04:00Comments on The Grumpy Elf: In Raid Rares - The Raid Weekly.TheGrumpyElfhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07621615711198405365noreply@blogger.comBlogger8125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9015737272343810105.post-15196208137728769292013-04-02T09:38:10.468-04:002013-04-02T09:38:10.468-04:00You are a lot further than I am so that could be t...You are a lot further than I am so that could be the reason. ;)<br /><br />Our healers are really holding us back and having no one for the poison on horrodon is killing us. But I have a plan this week for it. There is always a plan.TheGrumpyElfhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07621615711198405365noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9015737272343810105.post-25473727575899229022013-04-02T04:45:43.469-04:002013-04-02T04:45:43.469-04:00@Taitrina
The key to progress is figuring out what...@Taitrina<br />The key to progress is figuring out what's wiping you. <br />We only did this on 10m the first week, before the nerfs, did it on 25m only after that, but here's what I recall. There's several things to take care here properly:<br />- are the spirits the thing that's killing you? You need to work out a proper rotation on them. They can be stunned, gripped back, so on<br />- are the icy things killing your raid? you just need to figure out to differentiate the two debuffs - the ones you stack for and the one you spread for<br />- is Sandstorm destroying you? On this phase I take the adds, dpses remain fulltime on Sul and burn him down and kill the adds after. I go to pick up adds with Malak on me and 50% CD and offtank takes him back at 14 stacks. Kite adds around the edge so they don't leave sand in the middle!<br />- are your tanks dying / healers going oom - you need better damage intake management; always a cooldown for frigid assault and interrupt interrupt interrupt. Make and interrupt on focus macro if needed as to interrupt some other target than your main one.<br />- is damage an issue? We don't keep a tank full time on Priestess, he aggros her at the start and then switches to Sul to help with the burn; only goes back on Princess when she's black and needs to be dpsed. <br /><br />BTW, Sul doesn't focus the tank, he casts randomly so he doesn't really build vengeance on the tank.<br /><br />Jameshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18173436197557929355noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9015737272343810105.post-42682015939169471602013-04-02T04:15:04.517-04:002013-04-02T04:15:04.517-04:00Poisons and diseases will eat your raid. You need ...Poisons and diseases will eat your raid. You need to use your raid to help out. Any paladin (prot, ret) cand take care of both dispells and help out. Locks can also help out I think. People with immunities take debuffs off themselves. On gate 3 you get diseases only on hit so you can pull Army if you have a dk and deal with them easier. Mass gripping them (gorefiends' grasp) also works wonders. Don't forget to focus the Dinomancers fast and click the orb.<br /><br />If you have a paladin tank, you'll have a lot less damage and craziness to deal with since paladins can solo tank Horridon from begging to the end (bop / bubble debuff every gate and a cpl of times in the last phase, at 5 stacks, as not to get oneshot).<br /><br />Shamans are pretty bad for this tier alltogether, you'll have big issues without at least a paladin or priest.Jameshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18173436197557929355noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9015737272343810105.post-21054610660879196682013-04-02T04:00:23.662-04:002013-04-02T04:00:23.662-04:00We've had 3 up to now, the ghost one, some blo...We've had 3 up to now, the ghost one, some blob iirc before iron qon and a thunder guy before lei shen. Pretty sure there's one rare every week. They all resumed to tank and spank. Then again, we also tank and spank Animus trash, so don't take my word for it.Jameshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18173436197557929355noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9015737272343810105.post-14110628584686281242013-03-29T11:55:17.302-04:002013-03-29T11:55:17.302-04:00We are having issues with the second boss still. ...We are having issues with the second boss still. Two weeks on it and nowhere. Hurts that our healer rotation is 3 shaman and a priest right now which means nothing that can deal with poison and shaman are by far the weakest class to heal a fight like that one. Hence the reason they recently got a boost.<br /><br />It also does not help that our healers are not well geared. Bad luck with drops last tier. None of them are over 490. My two alt healers, a shaman and a priest, means I can't even help in that angle and they too are both 487 and 488.<br /><br />As soon as our healers catch up I can see us jumping at least 5 deep, the first 5 do not seem to be too pressing and out DPS core is insane.TheGrumpyElfhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07621615711198405365noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9015737272343810105.post-2949138228742061932013-03-29T11:51:14.092-04:002013-03-29T11:51:14.092-04:00Thanks for the notice. The only one I have seen s...Thanks for the notice. The only one I have seen so far is the one between the first and second boss.TheGrumpyElfhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07621615711198405365noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9015737272343810105.post-67845640554602724272013-03-29T10:40:33.225-04:002013-03-29T10:40:33.225-04:00We had that rare between the first 2 bosses, Monar...We had that rare between the first 2 bosses, Monara or whatever it was called. We knew that there was something different as we could see the ! mark in front of the bridge. So when I got the quest in my log I looked it up on wowhead while we did the bridge trash. I have two screens so it was easy to look while still tanking. Therefore we didn't have any trouble with her, as I told everyone what she did, we pulled her back to Jin'rokh's room so even if someone did get caught by shadow nova it couldn't knock them off anything. Reset the healing stacks half the raid at the time, easy.<br /><br />I too was disappointed that there wasn't even any rep from it. I felt that there should have been but maybe as you said it's a luck thing, they didn't want people getting further ahead with rep. Which is ridiculous as so much is dependant on luck these days. However, the shado pan rep doesn't follow any of the rules. The guild battle standard for instance doesn't increase the reputation. The guild % increase works, as does the humans racial passive, so I really think the battle standard should.<br /><br />I read on wowhead that those bags do have a chance to drop good stuff, someone on there said that they got a thunderforged item from one. However, they could be lying, they don't show what the bags drop via datamining (or however that works) so there's no telling really. Still it is some nice flavour in the raid.<br /><br />How are you getting on in Throne btw? We've got the first 2 bosses on farm now. However, the third is giving us some serious issues. The RL thinks that it's a dps problem and I'm inclined to agree with him. You look at kill logs and the overall dps is 750k from everyone combined. Ours is more like 550k which isn't encouraging. The RL is a warrior tank and he was like "I'm 3rd on dps here and it is not that kind of fight" though to be fair he did have a lot of vengeance as he was the tank getting stunned by Malakk and having Sul and Malakk hit him all the time. So 70k isn't unreasonable from that, but yeah 3rd, which is kinda bad. Everyone needs to do about 30k more each which is a lot. The RL thinks maybe it's a wrong class thing as we don't have any dot classes. However, we don't have an abundance of extra people to bring, so we're kinda stuck. Not at all sure how we can move forward from that and get past this boss. People are getting fed up with the wiping as no progress is being made. Hmm it's a tricky one. Hope you are doing better with your team :)Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17771213542953346538noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9015737272343810105.post-55988366050277392272013-03-29T10:36:30.263-04:002013-03-29T10:36:30.263-04:00If you run into the last queen of the mogu, don...If you run into the last queen of the mogu, don't google her by name. Virus warning.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com