Ulduar Discussion Thread

[Mordekhuul]

Bloodlust/Heroism on the first Heart phase, all DPS should be pounding on the heart for the first phase, healers should also be DPSing the heart as well during the first heart phase, you want to get as close to 50% as possible so that you go into heart phase two as well. Every 33% damage done to the heart = 10% of XT's life. Save potions of speed for the second heart phase (so you can get close to 25%). The reason you don't want to blow down to 50% immediately after heart phase 1 is to give your AoE dps time to kill the scrap bots and boom bots so they can help get a solid second heart phase.

The 33% = 10% thing probably explains why when we switched to bloodlusting at 27% instead of during the first heart phase we didn't see a difference in when the second add phase started (most of our pulls until the end we bloodlusted just before the first heart phase).

I expected it to take a lot longer to drive into the 2nd add phase when we switched to a 27% strategy, but it really didn't....he was pretty close to 50%, but not below 50%, either way.

On rogues (heh) - yeah, we have like 1.5 rogues that raid, and one of them has a hurt back and is out, so we are used to running with zero rogues. Most of our rogues swapped to hybrid classes (death knight) where they can fill more than one role, still put out high DPS, and bring more utility (their view of things).

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