05-15-2008, 05:37 PM
Quote:Yeah, advisor health was reduced in phase 1, which isn't a nerf, it just makes the fight mildly less annoying. Kind of like life would be better if A'lar had less health in phase 1...damn that's a boring fight until phase 2.
But advisor health and weapon health was reduced in phases 2 and 3.
The relevant section from the 2.3.0 notes:
Quote:Kael'thas
All four advisors have had their health reduced by 10%.
All of the summoned weapons have had their health reduced by 10%.
This is, across all weapons and advisors, a nerf of 400,000 hp or so, which results in, as oldmandennis said, the possibility of a kind of back-door solution where you can wipe out all the weapons before the phase change, and then kill all the advisors before Kael pops loose. Fighting the phases completely independently greatly simplifies the fight. The essence of the fight - at least from my perspective - was in managing the phase transitions, controlling the next phase while cleaning up what was left from the last one.