Easy baby, easy
I’ve held my tongue for long enough. I’ve not participated in the endless rounds of proclamations, declarations, and other things that end with –ations. The topic has been beat to death, Ankhed up, beat down again, battle-rezzed, and completely destroyed yet again in the WoW blogosphere. And I kinda told myself I wouldn’t post about it, ever. But I’m kinda about to break that kinda-promise to myself. Right now.
Raiding in Wrath = easy.
Easy like Sunday morning. Easy like the bake oven. Easy… like really, really frikkin easy.
Case in point: last night we downed Maexxna with 19 players. Six people got locked out of the room at the start, DPS and healers alike. But she/he/it went down like a vir... (ok I’ll stop the bad metaphors).
Second case in point: Heigan went down with half the raid dead. We used 2 ankhs and I think one B-Rez and it took us 13 minutes, but a kill is a kill and a 1-shot is a 1-shot, even if it is a ghetto kill.
HINT: for phase 2 of this fight use Alt-Z to turn off your interface and just watch the lava/plaguethingy bursts. I died the second time we hit this phase then popped up and survived all subsequent phases by turning off my UI and just observing the action on the ground. Remember: a dead DPS does no DPS.
Third case in point: Last week between 2 ten man groups we cleared every raid instance, and Naxx10 twice.
This was our first night in Naxx25 and we cleared 6 bosses in 2 wings with all 1-shots.
Thankfully Patchwerk finally gave us a challenge last night. Once we figured out we needed 3 tanks because he chains his Hateful Strikes we had a successful kill. Of course until then it was pretty funny as the melee dropped like flies on the first few attempts. BAM! Warrior dead. Then me. Then a rogue. Next Warrior. Next Rogue. Dead, deader, deadest. All within the first 10 seconds of every fight.
In retrospect it was kind of funny and we were thankful for the challenge. Even with 3 tanks the healing output was incredible. You could hear a pin drop in Vent during our last, and successful, attempt of the night. Great job to Unortho healers in that fight!
So there you have it, my contribution to the “raids r ez” rants of my fellow bloggers. I’m ashamed of myself for posting one, but really, I do crave a challenge. How are your guilds doing in progression? Similar experiences?
Raiding in Wrath = easy.
Easy like Sunday morning. Easy like the bake oven. Easy… like really, really frikkin easy.
Case in point: last night we downed Maexxna with 19 players. Six people got locked out of the room at the start, DPS and healers alike. But she/he/it went down like a vir... (ok I’ll stop the bad metaphors).
Second case in point: Heigan went down with half the raid dead. We used 2 ankhs and I think one B-Rez and it took us 13 minutes, but a kill is a kill and a 1-shot is a 1-shot, even if it is a ghetto kill.
HINT: for phase 2 of this fight use Alt-Z to turn off your interface and just watch the lava/plaguethingy bursts. I died the second time we hit this phase then popped up and survived all subsequent phases by turning off my UI and just observing the action on the ground. Remember: a dead DPS does no DPS.
Third case in point: Last week between 2 ten man groups we cleared every raid instance, and Naxx10 twice.
This was our first night in Naxx25 and we cleared 6 bosses in 2 wings with all 1-shots.
Thankfully Patchwerk finally gave us a challenge last night. Once we figured out we needed 3 tanks because he chains his Hateful Strikes we had a successful kill. Of course until then it was pretty funny as the melee dropped like flies on the first few attempts. BAM! Warrior dead. Then me. Then a rogue. Next Warrior. Next Rogue. Dead, deader, deadest. All within the first 10 seconds of every fight.
In retrospect it was kind of funny and we were thankful for the challenge. Even with 3 tanks the healing output was incredible. You could hear a pin drop in Vent during our last, and successful, attempt of the night. Great job to Unortho healers in that fight!
So there you have it, my contribution to the “raids r ez” rants of my fellow bloggers. I’m ashamed of myself for posting one, but really, I do crave a challenge. How are your guilds doing in progression? Similar experiences?
posted by Rich @ 11:44 AM
4 Comments:
At December 10, 2008 4:07 PM ,
Phil said...
Exact same experience. Ran Naxx25 last night and one shot all the bosses up until Patchwerk. Unlike you though, we didn't get a successful kill, even with 3 tanks. It was 2am so we gave up to try again tonight when we're fresh.
At December 11, 2008 11:27 PM ,
Anonymous said...
The thing that people do not understand is that the raid zones that are out now are not "high end" like MH/BT and Sunwell. These instances are like the Karazhan of WotlK. Except our gear is a lot better than what it was BC. People are still, and can still be using BC items far into WotlK, that wasn't the way with BC.
At December 12, 2008 11:06 AM ,
Rich said...
Update on this:
last night was gf night for me but I looked at the WWS reports late and saw that we actually were presented with a challenge at Thaddius. Movement of 25 people back and forth every few seconds can be challenging.
I know it was a struggle for Unortho and I'm sure there was some frustration in the guild last night, but I have to say I'm glad we're not steamrolling Naxx in 2 nights on our first week.
Anonymous, you bring up good points. We talk about this at work (the WoW players) about the dev's comments regarding ease of entry raids, and avoiding the mistakes of BC. Personally, I didn't think Kara was impossible at the outset, I think the biggest challenge in BC was transitioning from 10s to 25s and I'm glad the game is set up differently this time around.
But I do want to be challenged. Breezing through a 14-boss raid zone in the first week is just as bad as spending a month wiping on one boss. I should write more about this and perhaps will later.
I started in on the subject on another blog of mine:
guildguru.wordpress.com
and will continue that train of thought later
At December 12, 2008 4:24 PM ,
Anonymous said...
Can I give you a suggestion for Thadius..
\ /
\ /
\____/
<-- (Tank) -->
(Negatives) (BOSS) (Positives)
He has a huge hitbox.
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