World of Warcraft

[SliverKing]

You've refered to uBRS buff several times... what exactly is that? The mind-control a mob-use-its-abilities-thing? Or Citywide buff from Thrall for doing something in uBRS?

[TracerBullet]

The MC Spellbinders to get a free 83 FR for one hour buff.  We usually take 2 priests and all our melee classes in there before our major FR fights.

[Jebus]

Got my Thunderfury today!!!

It pwns.

[TracerBullet]

Gratz!


Now start owning some bosses with it!


We're still stuck unable to get Nefarian to phase two.  /hate this game.

[Jebus]

We're on Chromaggus.

We've got Broodlord down pretty good now.  Last kill not a single tank went down.

The three drakes were cake for the most part.

Chromie is tough though.   We think we have a good position so we plan on working on execution Tuesday.

[SliverKing]

Congratulations on Thunderfury.

We just finished our Sulfuras this weekend.  The warrior who got it specced/geared completely for dps and on our next MC run finished 2nd overall (losing to the perditions rogue) in dps.  Rogues in plate FTW.

[Jebus]

I'm our second main tank.  Our first main tank also got his Thunderfury on the same day.

After a day of raiding, both of us were Top 10 on damage.  He was around 3-4 and I was 6th or 7th.  That never happens.

I actually broke 500DPS while tanking a Warlock in BWL.

This sword is amazing.

[TracerBullet]

Chrome is pretty easy, we've got him down to where even if we have Time Stop and Ignite Flesh we can kill him.  It's all about timing your breaths and tanks.

[Kowal]

We just got Vaelestrasz for the first time tonight.  Didn't have quite enough time to mount an attempt on the Broodlord, but from what we've heard he's a gimme if we can get this far.

Most of Vael was just the tank transitions, but a lot of it was also the rogues seeing how high we could get our DPS during the transition from Heroic Strike to Execute.  400 seemed to be the magic number until the tanks were executing.

[SliverKing]

Even more important than Vael, we totally ninja'd a thunderfury yesterday when nobody was looking.  Some very lucky warrior had both halves fall during one of the minor guild-alliance raids. This guy is an awesome warrior, but he's been stuck in a noname guild for ages. The guild alliance is of course sputtering through Molten Core and so he has been looking to sign on with a more established guild. Once again, Revered Server Rep pays off and he came to us.

[SliverKing]

Broodlord will probably go down tonight, as we've pretty much figured out the obnoxious suppression room and taken a few good swings at him.  Any advice regarding the knockback de-aggro and how to deal with it? Do you have your ranged folks wander in from time to time to get de-aggro'd also, or just go with uberlow ranged dps?

[Jebus]

We threw every warrior we had at him, fighting for aggro.

Just make sure your ranged guys control their aggro.  Same with your rogues.  We never really had to "sacrifice" a ranged guy to the knockback.

We spawned Nefarion last night and got him to stage two.  He's hard.  Had him down to 84% though.  Definately an intresting encounter.  I think we'll kill him in the next couple of weeks.

[TracerBullet]

Jebus, are you guys using a right-side kite system, pulling them all to the left, or single-target DPS on the right?



It really sucks that as alliance we have no real way of kiting them like I can imagine horde does.




Broodlord's cake.  We run 3 tanks on him and have them just build as much aggro as they can.  We have Rogues engage slowly (starting usually at about 95%, I'm imagining it'll have to be much later for you guys) and have all DPS on bandage heals only.  If they resist a large number of blast waves in a row, we have them take it easy for a while, as the blast wave is an aggro dropper.  Rogues vanish at 50%, and just make sure everybody else is controlling their aggro.   You should be able to kill Broodlord 5 times over assuming you have a decent mana pool.

[Triple_S]

Broodlord got served tonight, now its time to get the clear to Firemaw down, and to kill that scaley beast also.  Onyxia Scale Cloaks ftw!

[Jebus]

We split the raid in half.  Each half just rules the dragons on their side.  No kiting involved.

We might have to adjust this, but so far we've done this once and it was with Green and Black Drakonids.

[TracerBullet]

Yeah, we managed to get to Phase Two without anybody going down tonight.  Unfortunately, it was an unpotted run at the end of the night, so we only got nef to 55%.  We should get him tomorrow.  I'm feeling it.



We're running mostly single target DPS on the far side against Blue and AoE DPS on the near side vs Green.  We had all our rogues respec Combat Adrenaline Rush/Blade Flurry so we can get this shiz down.


Oh, btw, if you're looking to know how anybody can respec for free, send me a pm.  L33t hax.

[SliverKing]

As I figured the Broodlord went down with little trouble last night.  Our only real problem was the burst damage he puts out on the tanks occasionally (the mortal strike).  We used flask of the titans as a short term crutch to give our healers more breathing room, but I can already see where with more practice and a touch better gear we wont need them. A bit of practice on the goblin pulls and I see us at Chromaggus within a couple of weeks. Onyxia cloaks will likely be a bigger problem than the drakes.

PM me that bit about respeccing Pat

Good luck with Nefarian guys, I look forward to catching up so that I have some clue wtf you're talking about.

[TracerBullet]

As I figured the Broodlord went down with little trouble last night.  Our only real problem was the burst damage he puts out on the tanks occasionally (the mortal strike).  We used flask of the titans as a short term crutch to give our healers more breathing room, but I can already see where with more practice and a touch better gear we wont need them. A bit of practice on the goblin pulls and I see us at Chromaggus within a couple of weeks. Onyxia cloaks will likely be a bigger problem than the drakes.

PM me that bit about respeccing Pat

Good luck with Nefarian guys, I look forward to catching up so that I have some clue wtf you're talking about.

You only really need Onyxia Cloaks on your tanks.  They only help on Ebonroc anyway.

[TracerBullet]

Well, I thought I had sent you a PM already Josh, but it turns out I'm just crazy- I"m just gonna post it here because i've gotten a billion PMs about it.


Player A wants to respec; Player B is his helper.  Have Player A trade ALL his money to Player B (Gold, Silver, and Copper).  Have Player A open his respec window at his class trainer.  Have Player A get to the FINAL screen (the one where it tells you the respec will cost XXX amount).  Have Player B trade EXACTLY the amount of gold that Player A needs to respec.  Accept the trade, then have Player A accept the respec, then IMMIDIATELY log out.  I usually Alt+F4 just to be on the safe side.  When Player A logs back in, he'll still have the XXX amount of gold in his inventory, and Player B will still have the rest of Player A's money.


Free respec.


Now, for those asking about Broodlord- We run 3 tanks on him.  Each tank builds up aggro on him for 20-30 seconds or so, then we engage slowly with DPS.  Our Mages usually don't engage hardly at all.  If any player draws aggro, they have to run to the corner where the tanks are.  ALL heals are on the tanks; DPS and whatnot have to bandage themselves.  At 60% or so, our Rogues Vanish, and that's usually that.  It's worth noting that on all BWL fights except Razorgore you can have an out of combat rezzer.  The way we fight Broodlord, we could take him down with only the tanks doing DPS if we wanted because our healers are out regenerating the amount of healing he requires.


I beg of all parties reading this post- Do not report this loophole to Blizzard.  For those of us who played in Beta and came to know the joy that is free respecs, it's one of those things that I personally think should be a part of the game.  A player should be able to change their character to the situation, and this bug is being used only for that purpose.

[SliverKing]

I got your message Pat, thanks.   

Personally I found that I had to treat Broodlord like Onyxia in the level of dps I could dish out. Mostly used wands, with a few bolts thrown in when I felt bold. The autoattack on wands is exceptionally fast so judging light and wisdom on Broodlord is very helpful for alliance raids. It gives an extra mana boost to your regenning priests, and the light helps keep the ranged dps topped off without priest support. We judge wisdom on almost every serious raid boss... it just adds too much mana over the course of the fight.

[Jebus]

A quick note about Broodlord.  The Blastwave does not deaggro.  Only his single target knockback does.

[TracerBullet]

19% last night.  Tonight's the last night of our lock.  We had positioning problems for the drakonid respawn, but we at least got some experience with it.  Tonight's the night.

[TracerBullet]

I completely and totally forgot to mention that we killed Nefarian Friday night.


lol.



http://www.1g-guild.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=2748&start=0

and

http://forums.worldofwarcraft.com/thread.aspx?fn=wow-realm-frostwolf&t=171906&p=1

Hopefully we'll be able to duplicate it this week.  We did it with the hardest of the drakonid spawns and the easiest of the drakonid spawns (Blue and Green, respectively).

[Jebus]

We got him to 84% the first night we got to him.  That was with Black and Green (which seemed pretty easy).

Now we're working on Red and Black which is a bit harder.  We can get him to stage 2, but don't have enough going to transition properly.

We'll have it soon enough.

[SliverKing]

Congrats on Nefarion.  Looks like you'll have just enough time to get him on farm status by the time AQ comes out.

Have you gotten Perditions yet?

[TracerBullet]

Congrats on Nefarion.  Looks like you'll have just enough time to get him on farm status by the time AQ comes out.

Have you gotten Perditions yet?

Actually, we got him first try on Monday night.  Get this- We cleared MC, BWL, and Onyxia by Monday.  All locks opened up on Sunday, and all locks were cleared by last night.  TOO MUCH TIME ON OUR HANDS!

No, I have not yet gotten Perdition's or Dragonfang....


Fucking hate this game. 

[Kowal]

I sucked it up and sword specc'd again for the Brutality Blade that dropped a little while back.  Fun build.  I was farming devilsaurs, with adds, and having absolutely no issues kicking the crap out of them.

Just killed Firemaw tonight.  The positioning we were using sucked until our successful attempt when we rotated the tank-tank-healers line by like 40 more degrees.

Have not yet touched Ebonroc.  He'll die tomorrow.  So will Flamegor.  Then we will wave to Chromaggus and get our shit molested.

[Jebus]

Ebonroc and Flamegor are almost like free loots.

We got Nefarian to 40% tonight.

[SliverKing]

Firemaw was in the way of our goblin pull, so we killed him.   It really was that simple.  If Ebonroc and Flamegor are as easy we'll be on chromaggus this coming week.
Honestly I expect learning those ridiculous goblin pulls to be harder than learning Firemaw was. We killed him on our second pull.

We finally got our last rogue a purple mainhand recently, a dragonfang fell off vael.  Still missing some offhand purples, but the rogue dps is really beginning to take off.

[BigChuck]

You guys have any suggestions for the goblin pulls? I wasn't there for our actual attempt at pulling them last week, but from what I've heard, and looked at, they seem pretty rough.