◊ Praetorian

Finally, some new content. As with Naxxramas almost two years ago, it's exciting to see Blizzard demonstrating a real understanding of the limits of high-end raiders, along with a willingness to push players to those limits. I suspect that what we've seen so far is just the beginning, and the steady progression and variety moving from Kalecgos to Brutallus to Felmyst bodes well for what is less well-known ahead. Looking forward to it.



Speaking of tightly-tuned fights, allow me to add my voice to the chorus asking for Brutallus to remain as he now stands. He is the essence of a "gear check" and changing him even a little would defeat the purpose of the fight. We did him with a completely ordinary raid composition (no stacking -- exactly the same sort of raid makeup we've routinely taken through BT and other zones), and in fact the only real difference between our series of single-digit wipes yesterday and our ten-seconds-before-berserk kill tonight was that we'd been trying to "stack" yesterday instead of running with a more natural setup to which we've been accustomed for a year now. Congrats and thanks to our hunters for defying the huntard reputation that plagues the class, our healers for a fantastic job on a stressful fight, and all the rest.

WWS parse, for the curious: Wow Web Stats

Obviously we killed Kalecgos on Tuesday too but I think everyone can live without seeing a screenshot of us standing around in an empty plaza.

 

Ghando

I spammed /flex for like a solid minute and this is what you post as the killshot...ugh.

<Bryne> >> MILKED TEAT 2, GHANDO NEXT <<

 

Hate Monkey

It's what you get for trying to get famous!

And I see your key to success: Lailla's Rocket Chicken!

http://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/random_number.png

 

• Fogbug

Kalecgos and Brutallus are both tuned perfectly, I think. Sunwell is pretty sweet so far

 

Kemosabe

Plan to eliminate all traces of Eliiria from the screenshot for taking the belt token: Huge Success.

 

Pachwa

At least your horsey is nice looking.

We don't go to Ravenholm...

 

Mithr

Congratulations guies!

It seems it's a very impressive fight according to your wws report!

Again thank you very much for your wws report which is very usefull for all the wow community

 

◊ Kaubel

Your dedication to tradition is still commendable!

 

• Daboran

Congratulations!

 

Harj

Furio represent!
Grats EJ

 

Zorick

21:03'40. 377 Brutallus's Death misses Brutallus!!! You guys missed his death. =P

Grats guys.

 

Eliirion

Oh you sob

 

Lailla

Finally someone sees the true driving force behind EJ's success!

 

Solithaira

First off...huge grats on the kill, and best of luck on all future progression.

Side question - I'm a newbie raiding priest (shadow) and was curious about your WWS result. As far as I can tell your sole shadow priest ended up 15th on the dps charts (and third last overall).

Now I know that spriest role in raids is not a pure DPS role, but really I thought they managed to maintain at least top 10 in a 25 man.

Could someone share a few thoughts on this topic? Please note that I myself have no experience on this fight (boss resists/abilities/etc) but I assume by the 100% dps time stat that the priest was at least doing some form of damage for most of the fight.

Thank you.

 

• Nurru

This is not the thread for your questions. Go to the many spriest threads.

< Groat> Well, I'm still really wondering what they'll do with Undead Invasion 2.0.
<+GnolieWork> I AM THE LICH KING. TREMBLE AS MY ARMY MEANDERS ABOUT LOWBIE ZONES WAITING TO BE WHIRLWINDED TO DEATH
< Ama> I AM THE LICH KING. DO DAILY QUESTS TO DEFEAT MY MASSIVE ARMIES

 

◊ Quigon

The "limits" of high end players apparently means raiding for 2 nights and busting out our solar powered calculators twice a year. Content!

 

◊ Praetorian

Well, Brutallus definitely requires near-flawless synergy and DPS output from a fully-geared guild. When you have Blood Legion with 3 Glaive sets hitting the berserk timer as he dies, it's safe to say that this is more of a gear check than we've ever seen in WoW.

We probably spent roughly the same number of hours on Patchwerk for our first kill that we did on Brutallus for our kill, but on Patchwerk we beat his berserk timer by almost a minute on the first kill -- it was just a matter of whether we could keep all our HS tanks alive for the whole time, and most of our healers at the time simply were not used to healing predictively (lots of CQMC-powered spamming experience -- breaking that mod was such a good thing).

I don't know of anyone who thinks that any of these bosses are too easy. The tuning so far is just right.

 

◊ Quigon

You know I don't want to shit up this thread. Apologies.
Grats on your kill guys

 

• Elendril

You heard it here - Rocket Chickens get you Sunwell boss kills.

Buy more WoW TCG.

/shill

 

• Wodin

When does Servants of the Betrayer come out again? Also I hear something about a new rocket mount, confirm/deny?

 

Hate Monkey

Confirm: [X-51 Nether-Rocket X-TREME]

http://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/random_number.png

 

Jesus

Amazing performance you guys! I wish you the best of luck on the next bosses.

 

• Elendril

The sneak preview is tomorrow (or today, for non-west coast types), and the release date is the first, if I'm remembering correctly. And yes, there is a flying rocket mount.

 

Sebalot

Congratulations.

How important would you say Enchanting/Leatherworking is when it comes to downing such a tightly tuned boss?

 

Holmie