ToGC25 NrB and Jaraxxus down! And a few other things on my mind
Very proud of Elitist today. Well done guys!
Northrend Beasts
We wiped a few times but we knew we had it. We ended up doing this with 6 healers. Healing was a little strained in Phase 2 and 3, but we were ahead of every single timer. Avoiding Icehowl's charge was what finally did it for us. All we needed to do was have every single raider paying attention. We also had a wait list threatening those who consistently died to stupid things. How shocking...very few raiders died.
Jaraxxus
Easy sauce. Our first try we got him to 20%. Our mistake was not arranging where our healers were. But that didn't take long to figure out. We put 3 healers on the left of Jaraxxus and 3 on the right. The ranged spread out in 2 groups, one to the North and one to the South. Anybody who got Incinerate Flesh ran towards the melee. This strategy worked and we killed him after about 4 attempts.
Faction Champions
This fight goes from being a hard burn to controlled CC. Without CC, it's impossible. I think the most viable way of doing it is locking down the healers and killing the painful dps. I'm kind of biased here though since the melee dps like to force me to eat dirt (or wood) every time I cast mass dispel. I'm pretty sure my rotation was Mass Dispel, Fear, run like hell, Mass Dispel, Fear, run like hell. I'm also pretty sure that I died early on the majority of our attempts because our CC wasn't well organized. We spent an hour on this fight and then it was bedtime. It didn't feel like we accomplished much besides realizing that we needed to do some research. But I think that no matter whether or not we decide to burn the healers first, CC will make this fight for us.
My guild doesn't run guild 10 mans usually. We don't get to do a lot of 10 man content because of this. Those who go to ToGC10 are friends of the person who hosts it. I go with a group outside of the guild. I was originally picked up as a pug healer for another guild's 10 man. They had been having trouble finding a third regular healer and were relieved to find that I wasn't a fail pug. So they asked if I would become their regular third healer. I told them I'd like that, seeing as how I don't have a regular ToGC10 group. With that group I hope to kill Anub on ToGC10 on Sunday afternoon. But tonight, my guild leader is hosting a "super leet" Ulduar hard mode group. I think he wants to get to Algalon at least, if not kill him. I was invited, signed up and hope I get to go. Here's to hoping I get to meet Algalon!
One more thing before I stop being such a chatty Cathy. I'd like to know other discipline priests' thoughts on gear. In our guild, druids and priests do not bid on mp5 gear and shamans and paladins do not bid on spirit gear. I have one such druid in my guild who finds it completely irritating that I can basically use anything, whether it has spirit, mp5 or neither. I informed him last night when the mp5 ring dropped that I would not be bidding against the shamans and paladins. I told him that once our two resto shamans and our holy paladin have the ring, then I will bid on it if it drops again. He was flabbergasted and asked me why I would limit myself when there is no reason to. I told him that I wanted to be fair to the other healers and as such I will bid on what a holy priest would bid on, unless the other healers (shamans and paladins) do not want it. I guess it didn't cross his lootwhorish mind that I could possibly think of the other healers when considering a bid. However, when it comes to dps, I don't hold back on bidding. Sorry guys, but you can bid on hit gear and I can't.
Figured out the "ban". Thanks to Apollia. My payment is pending, so I can't post til it goes through. How stupid is that...
Northrend Beasts
We wiped a few times but we knew we had it. We ended up doing this with 6 healers. Healing was a little strained in Phase 2 and 3, but we were ahead of every single timer. Avoiding Icehowl's charge was what finally did it for us. All we needed to do was have every single raider paying attention. We also had a wait list threatening those who consistently died to stupid things. How shocking...very few raiders died.
Jaraxxus
Easy sauce. Our first try we got him to 20%. Our mistake was not arranging where our healers were. But that didn't take long to figure out. We put 3 healers on the left of Jaraxxus and 3 on the right. The ranged spread out in 2 groups, one to the North and one to the South. Anybody who got Incinerate Flesh ran towards the melee. This strategy worked and we killed him after about 4 attempts.
Faction Champions
This fight goes from being a hard burn to controlled CC. Without CC, it's impossible. I think the most viable way of doing it is locking down the healers and killing the painful dps. I'm kind of biased here though since the melee dps like to force me to eat dirt (or wood) every time I cast mass dispel. I'm pretty sure my rotation was Mass Dispel, Fear, run like hell, Mass Dispel, Fear, run like hell. I'm also pretty sure that I died early on the majority of our attempts because our CC wasn't well organized. We spent an hour on this fight and then it was bedtime. It didn't feel like we accomplished much besides realizing that we needed to do some research. But I think that no matter whether or not we decide to burn the healers first, CC will make this fight for us.
My guild doesn't run guild 10 mans usually. We don't get to do a lot of 10 man content because of this. Those who go to ToGC10 are friends of the person who hosts it. I go with a group outside of the guild. I was originally picked up as a pug healer for another guild's 10 man. They had been having trouble finding a third regular healer and were relieved to find that I wasn't a fail pug. So they asked if I would become their regular third healer. I told them I'd like that, seeing as how I don't have a regular ToGC10 group. With that group I hope to kill Anub on ToGC10 on Sunday afternoon. But tonight, my guild leader is hosting a "super leet" Ulduar hard mode group. I think he wants to get to Algalon at least, if not kill him. I was invited, signed up and hope I get to go. Here's to hoping I get to meet Algalon!
One more thing before I stop being such a chatty Cathy. I'd like to know other discipline priests' thoughts on gear. In our guild, druids and priests do not bid on mp5 gear and shamans and paladins do not bid on spirit gear. I have one such druid in my guild who finds it completely irritating that I can basically use anything, whether it has spirit, mp5 or neither. I informed him last night when the mp5 ring dropped that I would not be bidding against the shamans and paladins. I told him that once our two resto shamans and our holy paladin have the ring, then I will bid on it if it drops again. He was flabbergasted and asked me why I would limit myself when there is no reason to. I told him that I wanted to be fair to the other healers and as such I will bid on what a holy priest would bid on, unless the other healers (shamans and paladins) do not want it. I guess it didn't cross his lootwhorish mind that I could possibly think of the other healers when considering a bid. However, when it comes to dps, I don't hold back on bidding. Sorry guys, but you can bid on hit gear and I can't.
Figured out the "ban". Thanks to Apollia. My payment is pending, so I can't post til it goes through. How stupid is that...
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1 comments:
Well, grats on NrB and Jarraxus. I am proud of you. I told you that you would have it.
Faction Champions is virtually the same fight from Normal to Heroic, except the Rogue 1 shots people. What we do is have particular people stunning some and so on. Like case in example, we have a Rogue on the Paladin just cheesing him the whole time. They can't do a lot.
A Druid/DK on another Melee DPS keeping him locked down is perfect. Between bear stuns, chains of Ice, etc. and Death Grip, they can't do anything.
Also, fade is your friend on that fight, though I am sure chatty Cathy already knew that :-P.
Honestly, I gear my Disc Priest like a Holy Priest to a degree. I tried to go with like MP5 shit back in Naxx/Early Ulduar days. As I geared up there, I switched it to Int only as I thought that we were there to bubble. Now that I am comfortable, I just gear it like a Holy Priest, and most people will be like, "ALJDOADOA THATS WRONG" and honestly, its not. I can still heal all day. I have a lot of haste for actual healing throughput. My crit is adequate for what I need. I wouldn't mind the Ring that you are describing, especially the Heroic one (seeing as it has dropped 3 weeks in a row for us now), but its not huge on the Priority list.
Honestly, if you can use the gear, and it is an upgrade, hit it up. Don't let somebody tell you what you should land shouldn't use.
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