• Intermission

[edit: well someone already replied while I was typing, but hopefully my post might help people too.]

I'm the Felmyst breath caller for my guild, and I havent gotten one wrong since the third pull (/flex!). So I'll try to explain how I go about it. We had a rogue do it actually for the first night of attempts, just a few wipes after our first Brut kill. I had them frapsed, and I made sure to capture the flight phases. After watching them a couple times I was confident I could make all the calls and I took over from there.

Just a few notes on camera and positioning etc

While I am a hunter, I dont use the minimap tracking position. I'm sure if could be done this way though, as here LOCATION (not her facing) is indeed the thing that distiguishes her breath area. I had planned to use the minimap, but a few reasons stopped me:
- She exits tracking range on the west side.
- If I was to die, I loose my tracking.
- The movements on the map are very small... in addition to my map itself being quite small. I just didnt want to trust 10 or so pixels. Hell, its hard enough to see when she starts and stops moving on the map, which is the important thing, let alone if she is north/middle/south.

I stand a little bit outside the raid who are grouping up on the skeletons. I stand on the side furthest away from Felmyst, so I can position my camera on the ground and angled up at Felmyst. Because I am a few yards away from the AoE/taurens I usually have a pretty clear view of Felmyst (about the top 1/5th of my screen can see Felmyst).



Now that I can see the bitch, the calls are very simple. I'll try to be as basic as possible in this explanation so hopefully people who have never done it before can understand.

She finishes her last Vapor Beam and heads over to the east. The position she flies to is not a breath position, just some unimportant place. The raid is grouped in the middle, near that little box on the ground (you cant run through it, dont get stuck on it!). She then does one of 3 very distinct things.
1) Flies south - I call north the moment she starts moving south.
2) Flies north about 10 yards and stops - I call north when she stops.
3) Flies north about 30 yards and stops - I call south when she passes the first 10 yards.
Dont look at her little twitches and her facing, its simply her location that matters. Her body and breath always fly in a direct straight line from side to side.

Those 3 positions are the same for each side! That's all there is to it. I believe her 'starting' location is a little different on the west. Regardless, all the caller needs to know is the location of those positions relative to the general raid area. Then just follow these rules:
- If the raid is in the middle (its the first breath): run north on middle and south breaths, and run south on north breaths.
- If the raid is north: stay north on middle and south breaths, and run south on north breaths.
- If the raid is south: run north on south breaths, run further south on middle breaths, and stay south on north breaths. I do not recommend running from south to north when a middle breath is called. You end up running around 7 or 8 yards further than you need to, and slow people can easily be caught in the fog.

Some people refer to the breath locations a little differently, such as "north, south, and SUPER south". It's the same thing, I just call it "north, middle and south". Seems more logical and it hopefully stops people trying to run from "south to north when a south breath happens" (using the north/south/supersouth terminology), instead of simply running 3 yards further south to avoid it. Of course, I only ever call out on vent "north" and "south" as the safe spots, and the raid blindly follows those calls.