An eye spawns on each player doing damage to them each second. You stack so that we can blow them up quickly. After 10 seconds the eye explodes for damage to everyone in the raid.
Occ’uthar himself does his laser thingy at set intervals, one of which is always like 10 seconds after the eyes come out. Obviously, having a bunch of eyes blow up is no good (as we found out in the first attempt).
Ideally we would stack up and kill them all in like 6 seconds and then safely spread out before the laser. Since the DPS was a tad too low for that we had to burn them down, killing as many as possible, and then spread back out hoping that the explosions from the few left alive + laser didn’t kill everybody.
Yeah, that’s no problem, as long as you were close enough for the AoE effects (Howling Blast and Fan of Knives for us, primarly) to hit your eye. Even then, you can probably survive the one eye blowing up on you (I think it’s like 50k while it’s alive and 26k when it explodes).
Personal defensive CDs during that are nice too - I made sure to use AMS for every eye phase, and IBF for one of them as well.
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BTW, Jas09, I didn’t realize that was you at the time. Nice having you along. Like old times
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Yup! Glad to help out.
Please only link the level 85 toon(s) that you plan on using for the raid (you can use your alts in other guilds as fillers also, but would like to get guild credit as much as possible), along with their class & role (Tank, DPS, Healer), the night(s) you prefer (although we usually do Monday nights, 9pm server time), and the time zone you are in: The Cataclysmic Burning Dog Legion 10-man Raid List (Cairne / Horde)
Skammer - Keyne - Heals/DPS(sorta) - Paladin / M,W,Fri 8-11 server time / Central
JayRx1981 - Rahuul - Heals/rDPS - Druid / Panzera - (underpracticed Tank/mDPS) - Druid / Every night of the week but only every other week and every morning 10a-noon / Eastern
Long Time Lurker - Kreuler - mDPS - Rogue / Kruler - rDPS - Priest / ? / ?
I am committed to two raid nights already with Darland, and cannot commit to more than that at this time. If I’m on, feel free to whisper if you need a tank or melee DPS - I’m unlikely to be saved to any of the T11 raids and am happy to help out if I have the time.
I also have an 85 hunter (Jagaya) and boomkin (Halakaya) but neither is particularly geared (although possibly good enough for nerfed T11).
I can also bring Kene (priest) to DPS, but we’re more likely to need my healer. I haven’t played my resto shammy in a few weeks so he is not raid-ready.
Guys…let me suggest that we group up as much as possible to do FL trash runs…there are some excellent rewards to be had!
I’ve only done it twice so far, but I’m already friendly with the Avengers of Hyjal where I was able to purchase this sweet 378 cloak, and I won the roll for this 378 necklace. Unfortunately, I lost the roll for this BS plans for caster plate boots, but there were about 4 other epics that were uncovered during these 2 runs.
I agree with Yeti, FL rep runs should be doable with our group. But the T11 raids are now much easier and we can do those too. I’m not going to be on tonight, but Monday’s still work for me, so I’ll be back soon. I know you got a BH group with some help last week, but hopefully we can get 10 BDLs to start raiding on a semi-regular basis.
I also wanted to check in to let you know the progress of the great BDL arena team. Long Time Lurker and I have been playing using our mains (rogue + mage) for a while, but since RB is no longer a BDL snif it wasn’t a guild team. So I did a bit of decking out Moo, and LTL’s been PvPing on his priest for a bit so we combined them to create the first BDL Arena team! There’s a bit of a difference in playing a healer/dps group rather than a dps/dps group. For one, they last longer! dps/dps is burn or be burned, where heal/dps is a bit more of a chess match.
Since we’re not very competitive, there’s nothing to be had here except for a couple achievements, but it’s all in good fun. I still think the Arena’s system works well for any level player. Since it matches you up with other players as good as you. (or bad ahem) No matter how good you think you are…there’s someone else that’s better…and the opposite is also true
The arena has been a lot of fun, and we’ve been doing pretty well all things considered. 52% win ratio (out of 31 matches) on our double DPS and 57% (out of 14 matches) on our hybrid. Although that may say more for the success of the matching system than our skill level – we seem to hover around a modest 1000 team rating.
Healing has been interesting. Hardest part is avoiding and surviving the initial burst. When we’re against double DPS, if I can manage to live through the first couple minutes, we usually end up winning. A double DK team destroyed us, however. Just couldn’t find a way to escape those long arm bastards (I imagine them screaming “Get over here!” like Scorpion from that old Mortal Combat game every time I try to make a run for it.
My PvE gear is still pretty terrible on both of my chars, though. Really need to start running some better dungeons, or at least get enough badges to buy some purple gear. Don’t think there’s any good upgrades left from the first tier of heroics – unless they upgraded the drops in the last patch.
Two full trash runs will get you friendly if you have the better guild tabard…got about 1600 rep per run, so you can get the cloak quite easily. Some of the comments mention that you can d/e the cloaks for Maelstroms atm…so if it’s worth 250g to d/e cloak…well, maybe you can make a killing on the AH or accumulate for enchants. The trash is not too hard, just be aware that some mobs are quite mobile and their paths often intersects with other patrols. Usually a tank that pulls and draws the mob back to a safe distance will be a smart tank. Here are the descriptions of the trash and how to deal with them. We may even try the first boss, if we feel we got enough stones forShannox. He seems to have a lot of caster gear for loot.
Glad to hear some Doggies putting the bite on some other hapless pvp’rs!
The Icy-Veins website is a great resource for anyone interested in reading up on the new Firelands encounters. They even have the fights broken down into tank, healing, and dps strategies for each boss. The link to it is here for Shannox.
Last night was quite a boost for Yeticalayla. Got the 125 marks for “Additional Armaments” and bought all of the plans for the level 365 weapons. Made the Masterwork Elementium Deathblade, put the Landslide Enchant on it and slapped on the Meteorite Ring from Derek Bloombeard as well. JayRx (Rahmon) and I ended up doing 3 heroic dungeons afterwards, and we PLOWED through BC, TotT, and HoO in record times…stupid easily. Corla had all 3 adds evolved and with Rah healing, we still took her out. Don’t ask how…we really don’t know. I won the rolls for all 3 orbs although, by luck…it was just me and Rah doing the rolls. Sorry, Rah.
After those 3 runs, we both had enough VP to pick up another 378 item…for me, it was Gigantiform Bracers. Socketed that sucker with another +40 STR gem and now I am ready to rumble with the big toons…got into the #3 spot for Ret Pallies on Cairne! I know…kinda temporary…I’m sure others will get their FL perks and pass me back up.
Alas, my raid experience is lacking though.
Anyways, I currently have 13 orbs and hope to get 2 more before I go on vacation on this Saturday. I would like to BS two more level 365 weapons for a couple of toons on our raid list. Eventually, I would like to have all of our main raid toons to have 365 weapons, but for the time being, I’m thinking that I should make one each for a tank, a healer and a DPSr, probably in that order. Since heroics are gonna be easier, I would love it we can have our guildies run more 5mans to secure more orbs to make this happen as quickly (but casually) as possible. I could make the two (or possibly 3) weapons before I go on vacation or I can wait until I get back on the following Saturday…in time for Monday night (Aug. 1) run.
Anyways…help me figure out how to make the biggest bang for the buck.
Damn, I was planning to get you the mats for a Masterwork Elementium Deathblade. So close, I only needed 3 more truegold… and then the price of Truegold on the AH doubled (from about 500 to about 1000 per 1 bar), lovely. The mats aren’t much cheaper, with just one third of the volatiles going for nearly the same price as truegold itself used to.
I can probably get the mats through mining (on Destroyercon), I just need the alchemists to transmute those mats into truegold…I burned all my truegold on my Deathblade. I remember you asking me to make that Deathblade for you (Jsor) when you got the mats…I will still will honor your request then…that means your gonna be on the raidlist…right?
I’m planning to be on the raidlist. I have all the pyrium, ALMOST all my fires, but nowhere near enough waters (300g for 30?) and somewhere in the middle on airs. I’m limited by access to 'mutes and some volatiles, mostly I think.
I just want to say I got in a PUG for a FL rep run the other night, and they were MUCH worse than we were on our attempt (actually, we did pretty well I thought). For some reason the bear main tank, with in 359 gear, only had 140k hp. We had folks dying on almost every pull. Finally the other healer ragequit and the group fell apart less than 1/4 of the way through.
Can someone promote my alchemist, Onikyoushi? I’m happy to contribute his available transmutes to the Burning Dog True-gold factory, but don’t have withdraw access currently.
