the slime around the edges also does vastly more damage in the case that your tank or kiting hunter missteps and so much as touches it.

Yeah, it's not very damaging in itself, but -90% to all attributes (not just base stats now) is pretty brutal. If you're at full hp/mana and so much as dip your toe in it, you instantly end up at ~25% hp/mana.

hmm - i guess that must be what i was noticing :-P on the ptr i could jump over the slime and it was no problem if i nicked it, while on live last night (when our server decided not to crash long enough for us to actually clear the trash again for the upteenth time so i could get anywhere near the slime), every time i hit it i took a huge dip in health/mana. i thought it was just a damage/mana burn effect, but apparently i was wrong :-P thanks for clearing that up.

Impale was a bit harsh on us since we didnt have any experience with the fight, but after slapping the squishies over 4k health we managed just fine. Full raid survived on our first kill just now :D

Got the Frost res neck, was kinda hoping for the bracers or cloak, oh well...

Ouch, we didn't click the gate to open it either, but haven't been back to the spider wing to see. If it stays closed, ah well, not like there aren't other things for us to work on this week.

I went back there last night Gurgthock, the Anub'rekhan gate was open and all the trash before Anub'rekhan was despawned. Nothing to worry about.

Gate was locked for us, which was quite disappointing after killing Anub and getting some good attempts on Faerlina the night before. Had all my stuff ready to go... only to have to redirect to Noth. Not the first time Blizzard has had problems with a gate......

Has anyone else had a problem with Anub'rekhan Evading, if the main tank gets impale and goes flying through the air? Made it though 7 transitions, however finally resigned due to mana, he evaded to full twice :V

This happened to us last night too, I was the main tank and was pretty sure it had something to do with me getting impaled, I had two theories on what was causing it.

1, When I run around the room for a transition, I go all the way back into the doorway and run through him to reposition, If i get impaled while in the corner area of the doorway, that area might not be friendly to impale, and cause him to evade (maybe different ceiling model that makes me unattackable?).

2, When I was tanking him earlier, I was standing right on the ledge, with basicailly no room to move back, if I got impaled there, it may have thought I was above the water and not on the ground and possibly causing an evade.

After our 6 transition with multiple evades, I started leaving myself more room and we didn't have any more evades, but I also stopped using the doorways for positioning so either or could have caused it I think.

Could the random targetted impale cause an evade if his random target is in a goofy spot? I am not sure where you can really go to LoS it but just a thought.

(botox) I was referering to our raid fukasa, funny you read this. So far I have found no accounts of people having this same problem.

Where have you been doing your research, the New York Times? There's a thread about this on R&D every day. It's a pain in the ass, and seemingly haphazard even using the same positioning time and time again. Being pressed up against one of the walls seems like a bad idea, basically, and increases the odds of this happening. I think that what happens is that as the MT falls, he slides down the wall, and his position is momentarily "on" that wall as he slides down, kind of like sliding down a very steep hillside while walking around outdoors. If Anub tries to melee at the split second that your client is telling the server that you are "standing on" (i.e., sliding down) the wall, it makes him evade. We had him evade at 4% on the attempt before our kill. Annoying.