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Anubis

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Originally posted by: Jax Omen
Originally posted by: Anubis
we Lust on Tennon and then kill Shad and dont take a portal untill shad is dead. Have a druid MT it and rotate Druid CDs, Bo Sac and Guardian Spirit on the tank for breaths when both Shad and Vesp are up

i got a fraps of this someplace, both 10 and 25 man

How do you kill Shad with his bubble up o_O???

Also I was slightly wrong, I forgot to take into account the buff they get, so the drakes have like 2.8m HP on heroic.

Shad is the 2nd one correct.

so yes we

Start fight
Tennon Lands
Lust Kill Tennon
AOE Adds
2nd Drake lands
DPS 2nd Drake
3 Drake lands
Kill 2nd Drake
Take Portal
Kill adds in Portal
Kill 3rd drake/take 2 more portals
lol kill Sarth
...
profit
 

Anubis

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Jax Omen

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I see. I'll relay that to Coup then, maybe we can down 3D Heroic Sarth tonight. Hopefully I can go again >_>
 

Anubis

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Originally posted by: Jax Omen
I see. I'll relay that to Coup then, maybe we can down 3D Heroic Sarth tonight. Hopefully I can go again >_>

the thing is with the burn both before port strat your healers and sarth tank have to be on their shit using cooldowns so the tank does not get 1 shot by the breath

Guardian spirit, Bosac, and whatever else need to have a rotation
 

Juddog

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Originally posted by: Malladine
And what's with all the Stamina gear?! Quest reward i just found has 81 sta...

They changed the weight that stamina has in terms of gear; therefore you can have 24 stamina on something where if it was a primary stat it may have only been 19 as an example. The reason for doing so was to inflate player hp to survive the newer encounters.

Example: on my priest I have around 22k hp raid buffed, or just above 18k self-buffed. Certain encounters like heroic halls of lightning have massive damage (for instance, HOL has Loken doing a 14k nova, if your hp is high enough you can just soak it and heal through it). You will also find that stamina gear is hugely useful for PVP, for Priests it's almost as important or maybe even more important than resilience gear; a lot of the priests that are heavy into arena just invest hugely into stamina gear and use stamina gems in every slot.

The reason being is that resilience really isn't as useful as they make it seem to be; even with 800 resilience as a cloth wearer you go down quick, so the extra stamina simply helps you soak all that extra damage long enough to possibly heal / bubble your way out.
 

rstove02

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Any word that Skaldi in UP being fixed yet? Kinda sucks that I was not able to get my tanking sword from there before the patch hit.
 

Baked

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Originally posted by: Anubis
Originally posted by: Jax Omen
Originally posted by: Anubis
we Lust on Tennon and then kill Shad and dont take a portal untill shad is dead. Have a druid MT it and rotate Druid CDs, Bo Sac and Guardian Spirit on the tank for breaths when both Shad and Vesp are up

i got a fraps of this someplace, both 10 and 25 man

How do you kill Shad with his bubble up o_O???

Also I was slightly wrong, I forgot to take into account the buff they get, so the drakes have like 2.8m HP on heroic.

Shad is the 2nd one correct.

so yes we

Start fight
Tennon Lands
Lust Kill Tennon
AOE Adds
2nd Drake lands
DPS 2nd Drake
3 Drake lands
Kill 2nd Drake
Take Portal
Kill adds in Portal
Kill 3rd drake/take 2 more portals
lol kill Sarth
...
profit

Everything sounds so easy on paper until people execute it. Then it's just uber fail everywhere. I don't know how people can get hit by void zone and firewall. There's just no excuse for that shit. There's plenty of time to move out and you should know what spot to go when the firewall comes.
 

Anubis

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Originally posted by: Baked
. I don't know how people can get hit by void zone and firewall. There's just no excuse for that shit. There's plenty of time to move out and you should know what spot to go when the firewall comes.

Tunnel vision
 

Malladine

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Originally posted by: Juddog
Originally posted by: Malladine
And what's with all the Stamina gear?! Quest reward i just found has 81 sta...

They changed the weight that stamina has in terms of gear; therefore you can have 24 stamina on something where if it was a primary stat it may have only been 19 as an example. The reason for doing so was to inflate player hp to survive the newer encounters.

Example: on my priest I have around 22k hp raid buffed, or just above 18k self-buffed. Certain encounters like heroic halls of lightning have massive damage (for instance, HOL has Loken doing a 14k nova, if your hp is high enough you can just soak it and heal through it). You will also find that stamina gear is hugely useful for PVP, for Priests it's almost as important or maybe even more important than resilience gear; a lot of the priests that are heavy into arena just invest hugely into stamina gear and use stamina gems in every slot.

The reason being is that resilience really isn't as useful as they make it seem to be; even with 800 resilience as a cloth wearer you go down quick, so the extra stamina simply helps you soak all that extra damage long enough to possibly heal / bubble your way out.

Thanks Juddog, makes sense
 

rstove02

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Originally posted by: Anubis
Originally posted by: rstove02
Any word that Skaldi in UP being fixed yet? Kinda sucks that I was not able to get my tanking sword from there before the patch hit.
He was broken?
Have not been able to find a group for H UP since patch, but only have played about 4 hours since 3.0.8.

Seems there is a very good chance that Skaldi disappears and resets randomly. People have reported him resetting while still on his mount (during the event) and even after he dismounts and is engaged. Some even had him despawn and reset while engaged and down to 20% health.

Several have reported 4-5 resets in a row and group breaking up due to not being able to kill him before he "runs away".
 

rivan

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Originally posted by: rstove02
Originally posted by: Anubis
Originally posted by: rstove02
Any word that Skaldi in UP being fixed yet? Kinda sucks that I was not able to get my tanking sword from there before the patch hit.
He was broken?
Have not been able to find a group for H UP since patch, but only have played about 4 hours since 3.0.8.

Seems there is a very good chance that Skaldi disappears and resets randomly. People have reported him resetting while still on his mount (during the event) and even after he dismounts and is engaged. Some even had him despawn and reset while engaged and down to 20% health.

Several have reported 4-5 resets in a row and group breaking up due to not being able to kill him before he "runs away".

I did regular UP Tuesday night; didn't have a problem.
 

Aikouka

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Hmm I'm not too pleased with my DK's DPS right now (on normal mobs). My enhancement Shaman with weaker gear pulls more DPS without the use of totems. I think I'll have to finally remember to get the Blood Strike glyph and use that. Although I was thinking about changing specs as well.

Originally posted by: Jax Omen
btw: Aikouka, you stop stalking me across WoW forums, it's not the other way around >_>

You joined 11/12/08, I joined 9/05/08, so your accusation is unfounded!
 

rh71

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Originally posted by: DangerAardvark
Nax was fun tonight. Absolutely wrecked the damage meters during AoE pulls. Fan of Knives spam is awesome.

I can't wait to try it out... if they ever fricken give me my rogue back from last week's hack job. Yes, I'm still waiting.
 

rh71

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Originally posted by: Aikouka
Hmm I'm not too pleased with my DK's DPS right now (on normal mobs). My enhancement Shaman with weaker gear pulls more DPS without the use of totems. I think I'll have to finally remember to get the Blood Strike glyph and use that. Although I was thinking about changing specs as well.

are you using a 2h? what spec?
 

Aikouka

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Originally posted by: rh71
are you using a 2h? what spec?

Yes and 50/0/21. Although I did realize afterward that I was doing what I call "lazy DPS" (using DS instead of Obl).
 

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I'm starting to think that the issues with Raiding/Lag on the servers is related to Blizzards ISP. It seems to happen at the SAME TIME every night. Last night,. we started the raid early to get Sarth 3D down, which we did (btw.. it's harder now, have fun!!). By time 8:15 P - 8:30 PM rolled around, the lag kicked in LIKE CLOCKWORK. Whole server was clunking and the forums lit up. It's been going to shit for MULTIPLE realms every night at the same time and stays that way until prime time is over (after midnight).

Course, Blizzard isn't offering any explainations or updates. Just a "we're sorry and we're looking into it" bullshit.
 

Juddog

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Originally posted by: Chimley
I'm starting to think that the issues with Raiding/Lag on the servers is related to Blizzards ISP. It seems to happen at the SAME TIME every night. Last night,. we started the raid early to get Sarth 3D down, which we did (btw.. it's harder now, have fun!!). By time 8:15 P - 8:30 PM rolled around, the lag kicked in LIKE CLOCKWORK. Whole server was clunking and the forums lit up. It's been going to shit for MULTIPLE realms every night at the same time and stays that way until prime time is over (after midnight).

Course, Blizzard isn't offering any explainations or updates. Just a "we're sorry and we're looking into it" bullshit.

I noticed this as well; it seems right around 8:30 PM Eastern time that lag hits like a freight train. Last night we were doing Naxx, when we got to Patchwerk we go to pull him and BOOM 5-6 people disconnect right off the bat. I got booted twice during the battle.

The past couple weeks, my raids have been like this:
* clear trash
* someone pulls boss
* "you have been disconnected"
* relog, disconnected again
* relog, get in for about 2 minutes, booted.
* relog, disconnected
* relog, stare at loading screen for 4 minutes, people on vent wondering why I'm still offline.

I remember really bad lag back in the vanilla WoW days when we were clearing BWL, but I never remember this many disconnects - it seems like a more recent thing, only the past 2-3 weeks really. Bad lag I can handle, but these disconnects just makes easy encounters hard. Especially encounters like Grobbulus; someone gets injected, then DC's and blows up in the middle of the raid.
 
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