No wonder that fucker is so hard.

I guess I'll be needing more +hit gear. :(

haha, my guess was from watchin a video about GM's on personal server. Pretty sure the highest the guy got his cha to was level 255.

Here's a link to the vid: kinda cool

http://www.youtube.com/w/GM-movie?v=S8L2Xe...search=Wow%20GM

Edit: About D1, I could have sworn it was 255. That's actually something that came to my mind when i said 255 originally.

Arbitrary number. HP, Mana, Xp, and abilities can all be regulated outside of level increments. The only signifigance of level on a WoW mob (or PC) is if they are governed by any specific To Hit or To Cast rules based on that number.

A level 1 GM or mob in WoW could have over 9 million HP and an unresistable insta-kill level 1 innate spell, if Blizzard wanted them to, but any character in the game could easily land full-damage spells/hits on them. They could have level 60 spells as well, but they generally couldn't use spells that needed level 2+ to cast in the requirements unless it was a specifically tailored version of that spell for that character, I believe.

The level on raidmobs is generally more built around the idea of resist rates to players than mob abilities, as I've seen it. The abilities can all be coded however they need to be mostly outside of level constrictions. Abilities that call level check are probably set and then bumped around until they feel the resist rate is a good value for the encounter's intended difficulty.

That said, I still don't really understand where they were going with Huhuran. Hehe.

I think transitions were intended, personally. Acid Spit isn't applied often enough and doesn't last long enough to be even a slight threat if NR let you resist it the way you can resist Flame Buffet.

Untauntable Firemaw wasn't a bug. Making the drakes tauntable was a design decision made after they turned out to be too challenging for what was intended.

I think the tank transitions are intended on Huhuran. It's actually a brand new "skill" the raid has to learn, how to do tank transitions on untauntable mobs without deaggro effects. It's not hard, but it does take a few attempts to get it right. If the damage output on the raid was higher, it would be a lot harder to pull off, since dps would have to go harder. I expect that to pop up on a mob soon, which will require a lot more precise work with the aggro. Huhuran has a lot of headroom both on timing and execution of the switch.

I know it wasn't a "bug," but I would consider it a design error that they corrected. Maybe I would think of it differently if I'd ever gotten to fight the untauntable drakes, but it seems like Wing Buffet on a tauntable mob is a neat and interesting ability for a raid boss, with a simple and specific solution. It's a better fight now than if it had just been another aggro-ceiling race (you only need one of those).

It's not at all unreasonable for them to make a fight about tauntless transitions (even though Huhuran is definitely a fight "about" something else already). But Acid Spit is either:
1) Intended to behave like it is, and is just a meaningless bit of effort on their part for reasons we will never understand.
2) Supposed to be unresistable, which would make the fight barely changed from how it is now.
3) Supposed to normally resistable.

None of these is totally outlandish, but 2 seems like a much less likely bug than 3 (agree or disagree, since I'm basing this on nothing at all).

Yeah, I was just pointing out that there's no other explanation which makes strictly more sense.

But we've seen Flame Buffet stack up on to 20+ on a MT in full FR. I understand what you're saying, but the problem would hardly ever take care of itself due to the randomness of WoW's resist system.

I'm gonna have to go with bugged on this one, although forcing tank transitions on an untauntable mob is interesting. I think there are much more graceful ways of doing it though.

I actually really like the transition mechanic in this fight. We've gotten used to the fast switching via taunts in BWL, this mechanic just involves a little bit more dynamic use of abilities we've gotten used to using in raids for different situations. Admittedly, I think you're right in that it could have been done somewhat more gracefully, but at least the raid learns how to pull it off.