I like our attitude. I didn’t detect any frustration after several wipes at the Northrend Beasts and then again at the Faction Champs.
We’re definitely improving. Those worms are still giving us some trouble but we’re taking care of Morlok and Icehowl really well.
Jaxx is not the most difficult fight in the instance, but to one-shot him on our first attempt without a single death is something to be proud of
Faction Champs are hard. It just takes more practice. We’ll do better every week.
We should decide if we want to extend our lock to next week and start at FC, or let the raid reset and start from the beginning. I’m really fine either way, but we should consider if there are drops from the first two fights that folks in our group might need.
Grats on the progress. I’m sorry I couldn’t be there last night, I had a really bad day yesterday and wouldn’t have been in a good frame of mind. I tried to log on for just half an hour to do daily stuff, and even that was completely fouled up with problems that I mentioned in the omnibus thread.
1.) Have one ranged DPS, probably a Hunter, focus their attentions on an enemy pet. They don’t want to kill it–just keep its health low. The enemy healers choose who to heal based on absolute numbers, not percentages–this will keep them spamming the pet over and over again.
2.) Kill the melee DPS first. They’re the ones who will really eat you alive. Deal with the healers in the meantime by CCing the Druid if possible (Banish from a Warlock) and assigning people to interrupt/stun/fear the other healers. Note that if you follow #1 above, the people locking down the healers should ignore any heals going to the pet and save their interrupts etc. for anything that’s actually going to the current target. People will argue about which melee to kill first, but they’re all a pain in the ass. The one exception is that you probably want to get the Shaman down first, because of BL/Hero and totems.
3.) After the melee DPS, we usually get the ranged, but you could choose to do the healers here instead.
4.) Make sure you’re dispelling offensively. Especially essential for Heroism/Bloodlust, but Polymorph and Hex really need to be dealt with quickly. If a Shaman is up, you may want to assign someone to killing totems.
5.) Make sure you’re interrupting/disarming whenever possible, especially on the worst AOEs (e.g., Hellfire).
6.) Advance technique and a potentially dangerous one: have one of your tanks act as bait. They should run in first to get initial aggro, then allow their health to drop to about 50%… and stay around that point. The enemy DPS will focus their attentions on this person because of their low health. This is a great strat, but it requires a lot of focus and skill from both the tank and the healers, so that they don’t let their health get too high (enemies lose interest) or too low (death).
I just remembered I’ll be on vacation next week with no Wow, so it really doesn’t matter to me if we extend the lock or not because I won’t be there. Good luck though!
Yes, in 10-man the enhancement shaman is by far the most deadly, in my experience. He should always be your number one kill priority.
If we had good interrupters/CCers we always just left the healers up and whittled down the DPS. As long as you can kill two of them before they wipe you out you almost can’t lose (the healers never do any damage).
And yes, offensive dispels are critical, as is a mortal strike (or hunter Aimed Shot) on the kill target. Mass Dispel is a God-send.
And I’m pretty sure you can taunt (for at least a few seconds) in regular mode, so your tanks may be able to save people that way. (Any plate class, really–better the hostile DPS is hammering on someone in heavy armor than Cloth or Leather.)
I keep thinking I need to roll up a Holy Pally for BDL. With Priests and Druids as our main healing force, we’re a bit underpowered in the strong spike healing. And Beacon would save our bacon so many times. <3 Beacon.
Sadly I’m so freaking sick of leveling characters at this point that I’d only do it if I could roll a Paladin at 80.
We did pretty awesome last night. Faction Champs is a pain though.
It was us: 3 DK’s, 2 mages, 2 priests, druid, and 2 paladins
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Tree, Holy Paladin, Hunter, Shadow Priest, DK, and Enhance shaman
Pretty sure I failed on marking the kill order properly since I’ve only ever healed that fight. I just zone out during the kill order and then swear at my raid frames during the fight.
Well, we just had a level 80 holy pally join the guild (Rolando?) and I’m levelling one who’s at 74, so we’re getting there. Shin Kell is levelling a pally too who I don’t think is Holy now but I don’t know what Shin is planning for him.
I realized last night why I REALLY found it useful; with my normal camera angle, I get a big faceful of Tauren shoulderpads when I get shoved back against the wall and can’t see anything past 'em. If I was a weenie little night elf it might be different.
Okay – reminder: Burning Dog Legion alt dungeon run tonight for level 70-ish types. On the agenda: Magister’s Terrace. We’ll be starting at 9:00 or as soon as we have 5 people ready to go. This is our last Burning Crusade dungeon!
There will be no alt run next Wednesday night - I’ll be on vacation with no broadband connection. Actually no internet at all. In fact no computer. To be honest, no electricity. Or, for that matter, plumbing or utilities of any kind. So I’ll think of you guys while I’m sitting back in my motorboat angling for walleye on the pristine lakes of northwestern Ontario.
I’m afraid I’m going to have to miss this one - I’m way too wiped. Bummer; I was looking forward to MT, since it would only be the second time (the first being Naxx) that I’d actually fought someone in WoW who appeared in Warcraft III.
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