Comments on: Playing in the fires of the Cataclysm

By: ReversionLFM

ReversionLFM — Tue, 30 Nov 2010 16:43:17 +0000

Well except that first big hit; which is a huge one. And if you are too far away from the ice or the patch is at an angle you land on outer edge of the ice and take that damamge too. But otherwise it is a great trick.

By: SoulOMatic

SoulOMatic — Tue, 30 Nov 2010 13:38:02 +0000

You are correct on Tyrannus. You back yourself up to an ice patch, he boots you over it and then has to walk across it himself. You take none of his enraged damage.

By: ReversionLFM

ReversionLFM — Tue, 30 Nov 2010 13:14:01 +0000

I was doing both. My gear was marginal enough that I was using cooldowns in there like crazy. Also I always back up to an ice patch so when he does the knockback he knocks me over it and then kites himself trying to get to me. Heh. Works great.
I went pretty ‘gogogo’ myself to say the least. But after I got my first tank uber geared I have since leveled 2 (this one being my second) to max and started tanking. With these I started writing checks my gear could not cash and I had to get a lot better with strats and cooldown use. The problem in this case was that most of my gear did not have tanky stats and nothing was enchanted. So it was literally the crappiest gear taht would get me into the instance. No shock that that was not enough.
The first times I got my second bear in there I had a similar problem. Actually when PoS first dropped it was only a bit easier, but I did have better gear then. Only a little… and mostly it was just that there were more tank stats and not DPS stats.

By: mrfenris

mrfenris — Tue, 30 Nov 2010 12:35:37 +0000

PoS-

Did you try kiting Tyrannus across the frost patches that Rimefang shoots down.

When Tyrannus goes into his “Hulk Smash” mode, I think I remember seeing that you can kite him across the frost patches to slow him down.

IIRC he knocks you back at some then buffs himself for 100% more damage. That’s when you kite him.

You just sit there and maybe pop a CD when you and/or your healer overgear the fight.

Maybe I’m making this up and it’ll get you killed.

I dumped most abilities and strategies once I stopped tanking from the RAM in my head and replaced it with GOGOGOOGOGOGOGOG when I started DPSing.

By: Gromdred

Gromdred — Mon, 29 Nov 2010 21:16:56 +0000

I was just happy to see the ironforge airport

By: repgrind

repgrind — Mon, 29 Nov 2010 18:24:01 +0000

Yeeeeah, about Booty Bay … Karius is still unfriendly with them (and Gadgetzan and Ratchet) because of that little Bloodsail misunderstanding. I do believe the cloth turn-in peoples are still around though, so I should probably get around to clearing up that last couple thousand rep. He can enter the towns just fine, but he can’t talk to anyone. Oops.

By: ReversionLFM

ReversionLFM — Mon, 29 Nov 2010 18:14:21 +0000

I did the human 0-5 and that was nice. So far in the 6-10 I have not seem much different but I am only 7 on that alt.

Just did some BootyBay quests over lunch. We had not seen many changes and then BAM, ran right into some changes that were funny as heck. I am still grinning over that one. heh. No spoilers here though.

By: repgrind

repgrind — Mon, 29 Nov 2010 16:42:46 +0000

Can’t say enough good things about the improvements to questing in the new-old zones. I still need to visit three more starting zones. I’ll have some posts on some of that stuff coming up this week.