So we went into ICC tonight and attempted five different hard mode fights.<\/p>\n
1) Lord Marrowgar. Coldflame lasts longer, bone spikes during bonestorm… I got impaled by a spike during a bonestorm AND Marrowgar came whirling my way and I died. So did another healer. And another healer had already died.<\/p>\n
But then Marrowgar died, so all was well!<\/p>\n
Heroic modes Attempted\/Succeeded: 1\/1<\/p>\n
2) Gunship Battle. Rockets knock you back 7 yards and hit for more damage. Mages have more health. The Horde ship (or Alliance, if you’re Horde) has more health.<\/p>\n
Okay, this was still facerollingly easy.<\/p>\n
Heroic modes Attempted\/Succeeded: 2\/2<\/p>\n
3) Deathbringer Saurfang. Has more health, likely to get more Marks of the Fallen Champion. Adds are super fast and annoying and debuff the whole raid to 20% movement speed. Will one-shot anything but a tank.<\/p>\n
Ow, my face. We tried three times and got up to 5 Marks of the Fallen Champion and were completely unprepared for the amount of raid damage taken and the amount of blood power he generates.<\/p>\n
Then we switched it back to normal and killed his ass.<\/p>\n
Heroic modes Attempted\/Succeeded: 2\/3<\/p>\n
4) Rotface. The addition of Vile Gas complicates things, requiring some people to remain at range. The ooze on the ground now slows\/roots you. The infection now reduces healing done by 75%, not 50%.<\/p>\n
It actually seemed to go by faster than normal mode.<\/p>\n
Heroic modes Attempted\/Succeeded: 3\/4<\/p>\n
5) Festergut. Okay, moving all the healers at once to avoid Malleable Goo is dumb and leads to tank death. Speaking of tank death, HOLY TANK DAMAGE, BATMAN.<\/p>\n
In 1.5 seconds:<\/p>\n
[22:24:49.497] Festergut hits MT 27196\u00a0 (A: 2353)
\n[22:24:49.733] Madrana Holy Light MT +0 (O: 15383) (clearly this is lag on my part)
\n[22:24:50.476] Festergut Gastric Bloat MT 11250 (R: 1523)
\n[22:24:50.598] Festergut hits MT 27334
\n[22:24:51.039] Festergut Gaseous Blight MT 1391 (R: 251)
\n[22:24:51.269] MT dies<\/p>\n
So that’s 27k + 11k + 27k\u00a0 = 65k damage in 1 second. Plus another 1k damage half a second later. Yikes.<\/p>\n
He’s still up, so we’ll go back tonight and maybe try again.<\/p>\n
Heroic modes Attempted\/Succeeded: 3\/4.5 ;)<\/p>\n
My poll over there on the right (on the main blog page) asks you what you think about heroic modes. Vote (or not) and comment here (or not), but I think it would be neat to get a discussion going about heroic modes\/dungeons\/raids.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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