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By: Falahla

Falahla — Mon, 31 Jan 2011 16:49:14 +0000

I have to thank Ado for supplying us with that information. I was having a lot of problems until I finally asked him what he does in his raid as he’s always assigned to the wind platform. Once Karius and I got those details, we were golden!!!

By: ReversionLFM

ReversionLFM — Mon, 31 Jan 2011 16:41:20 +0000

It is important that people do not stay on their boss in the ultimate phase, even if it is low. Can’t wait too long and lose the bridge. Have to jump on schedule regardless of boss health. No hesitation, stick to the plan. That almost happened on one attempted but the something else killed us.

We only had DPS on the frost during the ultimate phase. The rest of the time it was just a tank. So there was never any danger of him dropping early. They stay pretty balanced doing that as long as everyone gives him a few hard whacks each time. He is soft enough that as long as he is below 30% when the others die there is plenty of time to pop hero and zerg him down.

By: Nina

Nina — Mon, 31 Jan 2011 16:18:28 +0000

On the ice boss, we had a pally tank it and a frost mage as the dps. If our pally healer is on, he’s on the ice platform too. Pallies can bubble out of the stacks, mages can iceblock out of them. Frost mages can iceblock out twice.

If the pally healer isn’t on, we have the healer on blue swap with the healer on yellow. If we go through more than 2 ultimates we have the pally tank swap with the tank on green. The spare dps all go to blue for the ultimate.

I agree wholeheartedly on banning AoE on the life adds. It took a while to drill this into people’s heads, but I think we’ve got it down. The only exception is a mage’s frost ring, which can help pin the adds in place and make them easier to keep out of the green circle.

We also have learned we sometimes need to back off on dps if an ultimate is about to occur when a boss is close to dying. The bridges close during ultimates, so if you down one you’re going to lose precious seconds getting the raid restabilized and waiting for the bridges to reopen.

By: Analogue

Analogue — Mon, 31 Jan 2011 16:07:54 +0000

Ah, thanks for these details! I noticed sometimes you ladies didn’t jump back right away but I wasn’t sure why – figured there must have been a good reason.

By: Falahla

Falahla — Mon, 31 Jan 2011 15:58:50 +0000

For the wind platform (yellow)- you can’t depend on seeing his outstretched hand to know he’s doing the wind blast. His normal casts also have his hand semi-outstretched so it can be hard to tell the difference (especially if you’re on the blue platform and trying to determine if you should jump back or not). Speaking of which, when determining whether you should jump back from the blue platform, we used the following:
- if the windblast cooldown was under 10sec, we stayed on the ice platform and dps’d ice boss until windblast had been cast and finished, then jumped over.
-if the windblast cooldown was over 10 sec, right away jump back and prepare for the windblast cast.
This helped us out a lot and we avoided being blown off by wind blast as we were landing from returning from the blue platform.