{"id":1682,"date":"2011-02-21T10:03:29","date_gmt":"2011-02-21T15:03:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kurn.apotheosis-now.com\/?p=1682"},"modified":"2011-02-21T10:03:29","modified_gmt":"2011-02-21T15:03:29","slug":"lord-victor-nefarius-and-lady-katrana-prestor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kurn.info\/blog\/lord-victor-nefarius-and-lady-katrana-prestor\/","title":{"rendered":"Lord Victor Nefarius and Lady Katrana Prestor"},"content":{"rendered":"

I’ve been playing WoW for a long time. More than five years, now. One of my earlier memories is getting the Rallying Cry of the Dragonslayer<\/a>. I remember being VERY confused about it when I got it and that’s when I started researching stuff.<\/p>\n

And that was my introduction to Lord Victor Nefarius<\/a> (better known as Nefarian<\/a>) and Lady Katrana Prestor<\/a> (better known as Onyxia<\/a>). Brother and sister, both children of Deathwing, Nefarian was the end-boss of Blackwing Lair in vanilla WoW and Onyxia was the only boss in what is appropriately named “Onyxia’s Lair”, a raid instance in Dustwallow Marsh. Ony was a 40-man raid and then retuned during Wrath of the Lich King to be a 10 or 25-man raid. Personally, I loved the Ony raid. I only killed her twice on Kurn at level 60, once in a pug run by some of the better players on the server and once with a bunch of my guildmates at the time, although we had a lot of outside help.<\/p>\n

I never did kill a Blackwing Lair boss at level 60, so I was nowhere near getting to kill Nefarian.<\/p>\n

So why all the background?<\/p>\n

In Blackwing Descent, the end boss is Nefarian. And he has resurrected Onyxia. And we did our first 17 or so pulls last night.<\/p>\n

For all of Phase 1 of the Nefarian encounter, you’re dealing with Ony and then Nefarian lands partway through and you are fighting BOTH of them. Hilarity and awesomeness!<\/p>\n

They get a buff called Children of Deathwing<\/a>, hilariously enough, if they’re within 60 yards of each other. Also hilarious and awesome!<\/p>\n

I’m not a huge lore person, but because I KNOW these characters, and especially because I unmasked Lady Katrana Prestor to be, in fact, Onyxia, at the end of the exceedingly long attunement quest chain to be attuned to Onyxia’s Lair, back in the day, it means more to me than some random dragon.<\/p>\n

The Valiona and Theralion fight in Bastion of Twilight means very little to me, despite the fact that you actually fight Valiona in Grim Batol. There’s no history for me.<\/p>\n

But Nefarian? I spent a long time in vanilla WoW wondering if we’d ever get to set foot in BWL as a guild. (We did not.) I spent time inspecting those awesome T2-geared hunters and paladins (Judgement is still the coolest set of all time<\/a>, despite the fact it’s all healing gear now. Whatever happened to the strength, spirit and agility that was on that set?).<\/p>\n

I’ve killed Level 60 Nefarian a couple of times since 4.0 dropped, while Football (our gnome warrior we used to get to pull the Beast in UBRS, who would then get punted, hence the nickname) was farming up mats for his Thunderfury<\/a>, but I never killed him at the appropriate level.<\/p>\n

Apotheosis got Nefarian to 47% last night.<\/p>\n

That’s with:<\/p>\n

– one no-show
\n– one very late cancellation by a tank
\n– one late “oh crap, I’m going to be late” notification
\n– three officers missing<\/p>\n

So we ran with two offspec tanks (an Unholy-turned-Blood DK and a Retribution-turned-Protection pally). Didn’t have a feral druid in the raid. Didn’t have a frost DK in the raid. We were missing some pretty important buffs: 3% damage, increased melee speed and increased bleed damage (until I realized the bleed damage thing and got Toga to pull out his hyena).<\/p>\n

And we still got Nefarian to 47%.<\/p>\n

Not only that, but I’m dogsitting at my parents’ house for a week while they’re away and I have had nothing but computer issues. My laptop refuses to stay connected to the wireless network here, while my dad’s desktop refuses to run Mumble. So I was on Mumble on my laptop and on WoW on the desktop and kept dropping off Mumble but then also got dropped out of the game a couple of times. \/facepalm. So I eventually said screw it and just plugged my laptop directly into the modem (using the one ethernet cord my father apparently has in the entire house) and played from my laptop, as I normally do.<\/p>\n

So even with my ridiculous technical issues and despite our DK DCing a couple of times, we did great. 47%!<\/p>\n

There was this one attempt where we’re in P2 and I’m on my pillar and I look and neither our elemental shaman nor the DPS DK who were interrupting were still alive.<\/p>\n

I then realized that it was up to me and the Blood DK to interrupt Blast Nova<\/a>. And while my Rebuke<\/a> was on cooldown, I would be healing the crap out of the people on my platform, along with one of our disc priests. Believe it or not, we got through that attempt without me or the DK screwing up and\/or missing. And I don’t mean “oh no, my attack didn’t hit”, since even with just one point in Enlightened Judgements<\/a>, I’m melee hit-capped for a raid boss (… is Rebuke a spell-hit roll or a melee-hit roll?) and the Chromatic Prototypes<\/a> we’re interrupting are level 85, but with zero communication between us, the DK and I managed to keep that sucker locked down, in a proper rotation. It was pretty awesome. :D<\/p>\n

Well, it’s awesome in retrospect. In the moment, I was like “Oh God, he’s dead… she’s dead… OH GOD I HAVE TO INTERRUPT. ShitshitshitshitREBUKE.”<\/p>\n

Still, makes for a good story. ;)<\/p>\n

So Nef to 47%. And we can clear out 5\/6 BWD in about 2 hours, with any luck.<\/p>\n

I think our priority this week is a repeat Cho’gall kill, a quick run to Conclave for a repeat there (?) and definitely some more Nef work.<\/p>\n

At some point, in the not-so-distant future, I will finally kill Nefarian at the appropriate level.<\/p>\n

This makes me giddy. :)<\/p>\n

Have you pulled Nefarian? Killed him? What are your impressions on the fight?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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