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Emalon the Storm Watcher - Vault of Archavon
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Erlinn
TBH I think both thelazypeon and Gawdofwar or incorrect, in their own ways.
Archavon was easy, yes. He was SUPPOSED to be easy. On paper, it's actually quite well thought out. He's a loot pinata for those who have a remote idea of what they are doing, but if you're a moron who can't listen, Archavon will kill you very quickly (LOL HE JUMPED IMMA CHASE AFTER HIM OMG Y AM I DYING?). Of course, there's nothing to keep you from rolling on what he drops, t7.5, Hateful Glad, what have you, even if you died. Especially if you're in a pug, which is 90% of the time. You could also argue that the odds of something you can actually use dropping and you winning it are quite low, especially in 25 man.
Now, I haven't done Emalon yet, but from it sounds like, he's a major jump from the easymode that Archavon was. This, I feel, was a mistake on Blizzard's part. I can see their reasoning, since Emalon drops Ulduar gear and Ulduar is a major leap in difficulty from Naxx, whose gear drops from Archavon, the reasonable thing to do is to make the fight on the same level. BUT, by doing this, they have destroyed what VoA is meant to do in the first place; be a simple encounter that has the chance of gearing people who otherwise cannot get gear that level.
I guess we'll have to wait and see if Emalon gets hit by the nerf bat, which I think is a good possibility. His alleged difficulty is too contradictory to what VoA was meant to do. I'm hoping their reasoning isn't that "Oh, well, you don't HAVE to do them both" because it's just naiive to assume that every single group that goes in there won't say "Well, we're already here, let's give Emalon a try..."
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Fingulfin
What kills me is Phase 2.
"Emalon emits a sudden lag spike, disconnecting your entire raid. Your character will be unplayable for 2 hours."
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Arigise
Im not sure what the issue is. Archavon can still be engaged while completely ignoring Emalon. Archavon was designed to give non-raiders a small taste of what raid content was like without forcing them to bash their heads into the wall and also get some pretty decent (granted very random) loot.
Emalon is T8. The freebies are over and if you want to step it up to this level you're going to have to commit more time and resources into raiding. If thats something you arent willing to do then sticking with the T7 Archavon is by far your best bet.
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d3xx
You know you could just do Arch and ignore Emalon all together?
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yawgmoth
You know you could just do Arch and ignore Emalon all together?
Arch's lewtz are not nearly phat enough anymore.
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Porcell
It is just VERY unfortunate and I would say unfair to others (not saying myself) that you go to a vault group and they demand Emalon first. Then, you proceed to wipe because people don't listen or they are not geared, and the group disbands.
However, given what we have right now, I totally see the point (and wholeheartedly agree) that groups who are interested in downing Emalon should do Emalon first. That way, in case stuff doesn't turn out well and the group does fall apart, no one is saved and they can try again later.
I know I'd be ticked if I went into vault and the group killed Archavon, and then I was locked to half an instance and couldn't get into another group to do the "good" boss.
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Fingulfin
I finally finished Emalon (10 man) on Thursday, was a hell of a fight.
He dropped 1 T7.5 peice, 1 Valor Badge and 1 Deadly Peice... Kind of a let down, we were all expecting tier 8 >.<
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levalexi
i dont know what you guys got for loot, but when i healed it on my druid, and we downed him( 2 tries :D) he dropped 2 pieces of shadow priest t8...no priests in the raid... and my main is a spriest...
*edit* it was on 10 man *edit*
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