Infraction for Aurala: Potential Trolling

LodeRunner · 12/01/08, 5:19 PM

Post: WotLK: Naxxramas
User: Aurala
Infraction: Potential Trolling
Points: 3

Administrative Note:

Message to User:

Calling bullshit because your profile, specifically armory and guild links, are full of lies. If you can fix your profile to reflect that you're telling the truth I'll knock off 2 infraction points and just leave it at 1 for the profile. Deal?

Original Post:

Patchwerk was killed by my new horde guild tonight with 21 people on Heroic.

This fight puts a lot of pressure on your healers, especially your paladins.

I was able to confirm on my end (can't provide logs for proof as we didn't have WWS or anything running) that Hateful Strike on 25 man heroic might ignore threat, and simply hit the person with the highest health. I logged down everybody's buffed health to double-check this.

Our tanks consisted of

[Main Tank Protection Paladin]: 42,312hp
[Primary Soaker]: 46,001hp
[Secondary Soaker]: 42,971hp

The highest HP dps players in order from highest to lowest was

[Ret Paladin] 24,012hp
[Death Knight] 22,002hp
[Rogue] 21,217hp

I assigned one holy paladin to each of the tanks, with a holy priest on each of the soakers, and a resto druid on the main tank. (6 healers)

It was a very rough fight the longer it lasted, even with each holy paladin assigned their own tank to keep Beacon of Light on. Eventually, healing mana had gotten so low that each soaker was very low health at times. When this happened the Ret paladin went down first, followed by the Death Knight, and then the Rogue. This leads me to believe that threat does not play a role in factoring who gets hit by a Hateful Strike.

If you've been relying on the threat method, and your dps keeps getting insta-gibbed, I would reccomend trying two soakers with healers assigned to their own tanks. This worked fantastically for us as there were a lot less dps dead at the end.