Bloodboil Dead & Why I Hate Him
We smashed down Gurtogg Bloodboil last night bringing the guild up to 5/9 in BT. Congrats to Unorthodox on this kill! It took us a few weeks but we downed him last night in what would have been a nearly flawless kill, if it wasn't for me dying early on to a Cleave. There's so much bouncing of aggro between the tanks that it is hard to avoid if you end up in the wrong position, which I did once and I saw a rogue do once as well. But this isn't the reason I hate Bloodboil.
The reason I hate him is that I have to stay below the threat levels of not 1, not 2, but 3 tanks. You can't be below 2 and slightly around the 3rd. In fact, you can't even be anywhere close to the 3rd tank's threat level.
At one point I was well below the Druid and Warrior tanks and hovering slightly below the Pally tank. The Druid called out for a BoP to wipe the debuff stacks he had so Gurtogg switched to the Warrior. The Warrior got knocked back out of range so he switch to the Paladin. I saw this happen and saw I was way too close in threat. I stopped swinging and started backing up. As I'm backing up out of melee range he decides that in fact I am too close in threat, bounces aggro to me, one-shots me, then proceeds to one-shot a holy Priest and a Warlock before the Paladin can get control of him again. All of this happened in about a 2 second timeframe. BoPKnockbackPallyBackupOneshotOneshotOneshotPally. BAM!
Every attempt after that I sat back until the first Fel Rage--one full minute cooling my heels. Totems down for the Rogues but otherwise just one full minute of watching the threat meter and yelling at the hunters to Feign Death.
The Fel Rage phase is supposed to be there for the dps to pound his brains out without consequence, but until we brought in an extra healer I spent most of those phases healing the Fel Enraged person. I noticed that when I was not helping out with the healing the target died. My meager 1250 LHW's might not be much but I'm spamming them as fast as I can and it made a difference. Once we brought in that extra healer I was able to actually do some damage during that phase.
All said, this fight is a perfect example of the hate on melee.
The reason I hate him is that I have to stay below the threat levels of not 1, not 2, but 3 tanks. You can't be below 2 and slightly around the 3rd. In fact, you can't even be anywhere close to the 3rd tank's threat level.
At one point I was well below the Druid and Warrior tanks and hovering slightly below the Pally tank. The Druid called out for a BoP to wipe the debuff stacks he had so Gurtogg switched to the Warrior. The Warrior got knocked back out of range so he switch to the Paladin. I saw this happen and saw I was way too close in threat. I stopped swinging and started backing up. As I'm backing up out of melee range he decides that in fact I am too close in threat, bounces aggro to me, one-shots me, then proceeds to one-shot a holy Priest and a Warlock before the Paladin can get control of him again. All of this happened in about a 2 second timeframe. BoPKnockbackPallyBackupOneshotOneshotOneshotPally. BAM!
Every attempt after that I sat back until the first Fel Rage--one full minute cooling my heels. Totems down for the Rogues but otherwise just one full minute of watching the threat meter and yelling at the hunters to Feign Death.
The Fel Rage phase is supposed to be there for the dps to pound his brains out without consequence, but until we brought in an extra healer I spent most of those phases healing the Fel Enraged person. I noticed that when I was not helping out with the healing the target died. My meager 1250 LHW's might not be much but I'm spamming them as fast as I can and it made a difference. Once we brought in that extra healer I was able to actually do some damage during that phase.
All said, this fight is a perfect example of the hate on melee.
Labels: Black Temple, PvE, strategy
posted by Rich @ 2:45 PM
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