May News/Discussions

[Mordekhuul]

But advisor health and weapon health was reduced in phases 2 and 3.

The relevant section from the 2.3.0 notes:
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.

Cool, I was mistaken then. The advisors have half the HP in phase 1 as phase 3, but maybe that was always that way, not something they changed.

I think Kael is pretty well tuned at the moment. Even with some of the badge loot and a few (not many) pieces from early hyjal bosses, we spent a good 5+ nights of wipes before we got a kill, a lot more than we spent on other bosses in tier 5 content.

He's a tougher and more epic fight than the first 4/5 Hyjal we've now cleared or the first 3 in BT, and frankly I'm not looking forward to going in for a 2nd kill because of all the little things that can sink a Kael attempt even with an experienced group.

I guess like most fights, he'll seem easier the 2nd time we go in after having killed him, but still - after the initial excitement there sure were a lot of folks saying "never again" and "f*** that guy" after he died for us =)