02-09-2007, 12:51 PM
Quote:I'll have to admit, Arcatraz is the most fun and challenging place sofar though.Just ran Arcatraz for the first time last night. What a rush that place is, and a blast to heal. Only deaths on the run were due to two messy pulls, and me dying twice on the end boss thanks to getting mind flayed twice in a row. Not sure how that can be handled with only one healer. If the healer gets double-mind flayed, there's nobody to bail them out (think AQ40 post-Emps trash packs, complete with mind controls and huge mind flays that disable you). They should let Millhouse interrupt those mind flays somehow. Inevitably your healer's going to get nailed by one, and if the RNG decides to hit the healer again right after, you lose. Else you have another class capable of healing along who can astutely see it happening and save the day.
And it's a kicker watching the pugs trying to assemble random groups to run this place.
Still, Improved Dyi...I mean, Spirit of Redemption can go a long way, now that it's 15 second duration.
I just don't see any PuGs successfully running that place, not until people start getting overgeared for it again. I can imagine that early PuGs of UBRS/Scholomance were the same way - hopeless. Blizzard will either nerf it eventually or else the gear curve will ease it out.
Like the Steamvault, Arcatraz is a showcase of the power of Prayer of Mending. I sometimes read the WoW Priest boards and see Priests posting there about how useless PoM is and I can't help but wonder what they're smoking. We have the best heal in the game and they don't "get it."
-Bolty
Quote:Considering the mods here are generally liberals who seem to have a soft spot for fascism and white supremacy (despite them saying otherwise), me being perma-banned at some point is probably not out of the question.