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Jebraltar · 11/14/07, 2:07 PM

From going through about half of Zul'aman yesterday:

Bear boss is just like he was on the PTR. Simple, simple, simple, hits like a truck attached to rockets. With two tanks over 20k HP buffed and some good healers, the fight's a joke.

Eagle boss was again the same as on the PTR, but our strategy was better now. We spread out pretty far, then collapsed to a smaller spread 5-10 seconds before electrical storm. As a result, we didn't take much damage from the chain attack between storms or from the storms themselves. A Survival Hunter was full-time on the birds, and he did pretty well at it. (No Warlock.) Gauntlet wasn't a problem, even with just a mage and the Protection Paladin for AOE.

After that, we took a break and came back in after the raid. The group was a bit less focused than the one that had been clearing bear/eagle.

Lynx boss trash was pretty much a complete joke. Beast-Tamers were a bit annoying with Domination, but even that wasn't too bad - we pulled a croc pack and a lynx pack, with their associative two tamers, by accident at one point and made it through. The pulls around the boss itself get a little more tricky, though, with a really easy to nab pat in the room itself and a mob pack close to the doorway on either side. We ended up taking an embarassingly long time to not screw up the pull on either one.

The boss himself was bizarrely simple. He doesn't really do anything besides the phase changes. As long as your tanks are ridiculously well-geared - I strongly recommend a Druid on the Lynx form - and either your healers can heal a long time or your DPS can take him down quickly, you win. Complete tank and spank with totems and a flame shock.

Edit: With Lynx, the Saber Lash mechanic does seem to have some troubles. (Although it may just be strange bear hitboxes?) I tanked the first few attempts, but I kept getting gibbed by what seemed to be full-damage saber lashes, in spite of the bear directly on top of me.

Dragonhawk went okay. The majority of the fight seems to be condensed into the retard check that is the bomb phase and the decisions about how many eggs to let them hatch. We let them hatch about three eggs per phase, hit 35% just after the soft enrage...then all of the healers got targeted and killed by dragonhawks. The Dragonhawks don't hit hard at all, a Protection Paladin should be able to tank a pretty massive zerg if it comes to that.

11/14/07, 2:07 PM	#269 (permalink)
Jebraltar Don Flamenco Conine Blood Elf Paladin <Impure> Staghelm	From going through about half of Zul'aman yesterday: Bear boss is just like he was on the PTR. Simple, simple, simple, hits like a truck attached to rockets. With two tanks over 20k HP buffed and some good healers, the fight's a joke. Eagle boss was again the same as on the PTR, but our strategy was better now. We spread out pretty far, then collapsed to a smaller spread 5-10 seconds before electrical storm. As a result, we didn't take much damage from the chain attack between storms or from the storms themselves. A Survival Hunter was full-time on the birds, and he did pretty well at it. (No Warlock.) Gauntlet wasn't a problem, even with just a mage and the Protection Paladin for AOE. After that, we took a break and came back in after the raid. The group was a bit less focused than the one that had been clearing bear/eagle. Lynx boss trash was pretty much a complete joke. Beast-Tamers were a bit annoying with Domination, but even that wasn't too bad - we pulled a croc pack and a lynx pack, with their associative two tamers, by accident at one point and made it through. The pulls around the boss itself get a little more tricky, though, with a really easy to nab pat in the room itself and a mob pack close to the doorway on either side. We ended up taking an embarassingly long time to not screw up the pull on either one. The boss himself was bizarrely simple. He doesn't really do anything besides the phase changes. As long as your tanks are ridiculously well-geared - I strongly recommend a Druid on the Lynx form - and either your healers can heal a long time or your DPS can take him down quickly, you win. Complete tank and spank with totems and a flame shock. Edit: With Lynx, the Saber Lash mechanic does seem to have some troubles. (Although it may just be strange bear hitboxes?) I tanked the first few attempts, but I kept getting gibbed by what seemed to be full-damage saber lashes, in spite of the bear directly on top of me. Dragonhawk went okay. The majority of the fight seems to be condensed into the retard check that is the bomb phase and the decisions about how many eggs to let them hatch. We let them hatch about three eggs per phase, hit 35% just after the soft enrage...then all of the healers got targeted and killed by dragonhawks. The Dragonhawks don't hit hard at all, a Protection Paladin should be able to tank a pretty massive zerg if it comes to that.