So our raid group finally gets rolling last night for our regular Wednesday night Onyxia raid (Horde, Burning Legion server) about 1/2 hour late due to the normal log in and server performance issues, disconnects, etc. . .to which we have all become so accustomed now. Now we have Onyxia on farm status pretty much. We've taken her down before with as few as 27 people in the raid. We have got the encounter down like a well-oiled machine. . .or so I thought until last night.
We get in there, clear all the mobs with not problem and start the encounter as usual. All is going fine through phase 1. Then begins phase 2. Now I play a warlock so it is my duty to keep up my DOT's on her during this phase at all times. But I noticed she was moving around A LOT more and resisting my corruptions and curses A LOT more. It almost seemed like she was warping or porting around the room. And she kept using deep breath. . .A LOT. Must have been 6 or 7 of them. Normally if we are sloppy we let her get away with 1 but most of the time we are doing so much dps during phase 2 she never gets in a single deep breath. We still managed to scatter to the edges before most of the breaths but even still, being as far to the sides as we could get people were still being burnt up. And the average Fire Resist in our raid is 150 and up. I have 175 FR as a ranged dps and that is considered low in our raid.
Needless to say our first try was a wipe before we got her to phase 3 due to this unexpected behavior. There was nothing in the patch notes about it. We got her to phase 3 on our second try but we had lost too many people during phase 2 again and we couldn't get her down. The other wierd thing is that none of the trash mobs you have to clear to get to her ever respawned between attempts.
So we gave up on her and moved on to go to BWL when the entire raid was promptly disconnected upon arriving in Kargath. At that point I gave up for the night. Good game, Blizzard. You win!
So does anybody know.. .is the Onyxia encounter bugged or broken b/c of a botched patch or is this the way she's gonna be from now on?
[EDIT] Edited for the formatting nazis.
We get in there, clear all the mobs with not problem and start the encounter as usual. All is going fine through phase 1. Then begins phase 2. Now I play a warlock so it is my duty to keep up my DOT's on her during this phase at all times. But I noticed she was moving around A LOT more and resisting my corruptions and curses A LOT more. It almost seemed like she was warping or porting around the room. And she kept using deep breath. . .A LOT. Must have been 6 or 7 of them. Normally if we are sloppy we let her get away with 1 but most of the time we are doing so much dps during phase 2 she never gets in a single deep breath. We still managed to scatter to the edges before most of the breaths but even still, being as far to the sides as we could get people were still being burnt up. And the average Fire Resist in our raid is 150 and up. I have 175 FR as a ranged dps and that is considered low in our raid.
Needless to say our first try was a wipe before we got her to phase 3 due to this unexpected behavior. There was nothing in the patch notes about it. We got her to phase 3 on our second try but we had lost too many people during phase 2 again and we couldn't get her down. The other wierd thing is that none of the trash mobs you have to clear to get to her ever respawned between attempts.
So we gave up on her and moved on to go to BWL when the entire raid was promptly disconnected upon arriving in Kargath. At that point I gave up for the night. Good game, Blizzard. You win!
So does anybody know.. .is the Onyxia encounter bugged or broken b/c of a botched patch or is this the way she's gonna be from now on?
[EDIT] Edited for the formatting nazis.
