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The Abyssal Maw: Den of Mystery and Doom
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Post by
fuhrerschein
(Yes, I am watching this thread like a hawk. What would you expect?)
woot! im honored :-D
speaking of "cool story bro"... i almost got into a fight at work today (i work at gamestop) because a customer and i were talking about cata and when he revealed he was a dirty mage i instantly turned hostile lol
Post by
LookOut
Oops, was logged into my brother's account when I posted that =S
LMAO at that being "his" first post xD
so, is anyone scrambling to get the last couple of things done before cataclysm like i am?
I was going for loremaster (old world at least), but seeing as the Shattering is most likely this reset ... meh, cba with it anymore.
my guild's "scrambling" before cata is restarted attempts on LK10 hc :D Did a few nights on him a few months ago, and restarted attempts this week. Got him to 35% last night *excited*
Seems there's an enrage bug on the horrors though, Soothe no longer works sub-20% to remove it :( Which results in our pally tank getting smacked with a oneshotting enraged shockwave. Which in turn results in me solo-tanking P2 (druid mastery is OP right now <3 enjoying it while it lasts before the cata nerf :D), and getting into P3 with an incomplete group.
Love the harvest soul room on hc btw ^_^
Post by
asakawa
like your loremaster, i've also been getting some random stuff done that isn't going away with 4.0.3. my rogue's done 55 strat runs to try and get the mount, my hunter got Skoll yesterday and my lock is doing H-MgT every day (already got the pet, just want the mount). this is mostly driven by boredom as we wait for all the new content.
it's the ulduar stuff that's really time sensitive and i'll be gutted if we don't get it finished before the 7th because the chances of coming back to it are pretty slim.
Post by
LookOut
Hmm my guild MIGHT go back to ulduar at 85 on an off-night, since we still haven't been able to grab Astral Walker on alg25. We tried for it, but then the patch hit and people started being absent and waiting for cata -_-
and theoretically, Loremaster IS going away (maybe this reset), the old world and its quests get an overhaul, and I wanted at least 1 toon to have completed it before I started exploring the new world with new toons (troll shaman and goblin rogue to be specific)
Post by
Interest
So glad I decided to do Loremaster BEFORE I finished the Insane.
Post by
vykas
so, is anyone scrambling to get the last couple of things done before cataclysm like i am?
we're just yogg+1 away from the ulduar achievement but really struggling to get everyone online at the same time >.<
Heh, my guild is doing pretty much the same thing. When 4.0.1 hit we had a good deal of peeps scampered off to take a "break" but a good core of people stayed so we decided to get the last few things out of the way before the 7th.
We're currently at Yogg+1 and Sindy All You Can Eat for both sets of achievements. We had Sindy down to like a a quarter of a percent then an iceblock someone was standing behind popped because the person inside asphyxiated--which left us with little chance of stopping in time. But yeah, it is what it is.
I am excited for this new off-topicness here as well. I've been such a long time lurker of this forum (generally my first stop for all things warlock) that I always felt weird trying to comment. But I think this place will make it easier for new people to get in and get posting!
Post by
asakawa
waaah! >.<
up to 85 baron runs now (first kill two days ago) and still no mount.
Post by
Interest
waaah! >.<
up to 85 baron runs now (first kill two days ago) and still no mount.
At least you can get it after the Shattering.
Right?
Post by
asakawa
yup, but i'm only doing it out of boredom which (i sincerely hope) will stop with the shattering.
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539323
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Post by
fuhrerschein
lol good luck asa, i know people who have done that hundreds of times with no mount
Post by
asakawa
thanks. just hit 90.
now i'm gonna do the washing up while i wait for the "too many instances" message to clear.
Post by
Interest
lol good luck asa, i know people who have done that hundreds of times with no mount
>>>>>>
I gave up.
Also, ZG won't drop the bloody mounts either. Now I'm screwed out of em.
Post by
TheVorago
My guild is trying to down the LK, (small friends only guild, raid once a week for 3 hrs, about 7ppl so we pug a few for our once-a-week ICC 10). Last night was our first night on Sindy ever and we got her down. Pulled LK twice.
Our guild is in sort of the same situation (very casual with several newly started, done ICC 10 a couple of months) and are now struggling to down the king before Cata. We're early on it, I know ^_^
Making progress on handling defile+valkyrs but seem to get in trouble after having nuked first/second valkyr and then if at any time defile comes up at the same time as a valkyr again we lose coordination and wipe.
Any small hint or tip from personal experience, anyone?
Post by
fuhrerschein
My guild is trying to down the LK, (small friends only guild, raid once a week for 3 hrs, about 7ppl so we pug a few for our once-a-week ICC 10). Last night was our first night on Sindy ever and we got her down. Pulled LK twice.
Our guild is in sort of the same situation (very casual with several newly started, done ICC 10 a couple of months) and are now struggling to down the king before Cata. We're early on it, I know ^_^
Making progress on handling defile+valkyrs but seem to get in trouble after having nuked first/second valkyr and then if at any time defile comes up at the same time as a valkyr again we lose coordination and wipe.
Any small hint or tip from personal experience, anyone?
yes
this is what we did to help us learn the mechanics
dont pull the LK... just stand up there and act out the battle.
have the RL calling out the phases and stuff, and most importantly, when you get to the valk phase, have the raid leader call things out over and over until its routine. defile in 3 seconds, spread out!.... okay now valk in 5 seconds stack back up! etc. etc.
do that over and over until its second nature... that way once you pull the boss it won't be as nerve racking
Post by
TheVorago
dont pull the LK... just stand up there and act out the battle.
have the RL calling out the phases and stuff, and most importantly, when you get to the valk phase, have the raid leader call things out over and over until its routine. defile in 3 seconds, spread out!.... okay now valk in 5 seconds stack back up! etc. etc.
yeah i see what you're saying about roleplaying, very good idea. And spreading/gathering works ok but when we play and defile actually hits at the same time as a Valk shows up we're more or less screwed it seems.
Post by
asakawa
you've correctly identified that second defile as the problem. save your really nice stuns for
that
valk since people will be spreading out, lowering melee damage.
also you should be doing the warlock teleport trick, if so then you might get lucky and get picked up by that valk.
make sure the whole raid is totally focussed on the valk + defile mechanics. surviving those mechanics every time is FAR more important than each DPSers personal DPS on LK. if they have to run a long way round to defile to be safe then they should do that instead of running through so they can get straight back to DPS (as a crude example).
if you can get to P3 then you're basically there. the first time you do it P3 will mess you up but it's the easiest one to get to grips with especially if you have a demo lock using hellfire on the spirits ^_^
fuhrer kinda touches on it but having someone really capable and reliable calling out the mechanics ("defile in 5, spread out now" etc) will allow other people to concentrate on the fight and can make a big difference to the whole raids results.
GL with it!
(btw, 114 baron kills now >.<)
Post by
TheVorago
GL with it!
(btw, 114 baron kills now >.<)
omg you sure do go to lengths to relieve boredom don't you ? ^_^ (or to replace one boredom with another).
Yes, what you say is typically the big issue, trying to spread out for second defile but then finding we cant get enough dps on valk to save the next poor bugger.
i actually havent used the "teleport trick" even though ive heard about something like that, i guess it is google time then :)
thanks
Edit: Oh lord, does this really work still? If so it will make things a lot easier for us. We often have 3 locks in the raid ^_^
Post by
asakawa
replace one boredom with another
this >.<
oh, 3 locks doing that and you're laughing!
remember to drop the teleport on the very edge (it's surprising how far out the valks take you before they drop).
also remember that you can freely move anywhere on the axis between your teleport circle and the centre of the platform. anywhere on that axis and the valk will take you over your portal (they take the shortest route). BUT, move too far to either side and you may be too far from your circle to use the trick.
when you get to P3, hellfire is nicely OP right now (this is new since 4.0.1). as soon as he starts channelling go and stand under him and hit hellfire. as soon as the spirits start to move you need to start moving too. if you do this you should be able to do enough damage (even with only one person doing it) to take them out without getting hit.
Post by
TheVorago
thanks for the tip. that limitation of only moving along the axis actually didn't occur to me, obvious as it is. Maybe we can make it work anyway. And phase 3: As of right now all three locks are actually
destro
^_^ Maybe hellfire is strong enough still.
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