07-11-2006, 08:45 PM
Quote:Not sure I would quite agree with that Quark given what is being heard out of Naxx. The more damage you have the better as certain bosses and certain trash have to be taken down in a certain amount of time or the raid is screwed (Gargoyles heal to full if you can't drop their last 30% in 6 seconds and the second Spider boss you have to drop in 2:29 seconds after dealing with a couple adds, equivalent to burning down Rag in 1:30). More damage in those cases makes KS very raid friendly IMO.
Edit: another AQ40 boss where this would be helpful, Huhu for that last 30% to burn her as quick as possilbe.
Yeah, definitely. The days when you could walk in with one tank and 39 healers and beat a boss eventually go out the window from Huhuran on. Most bosses now enrage at a certain point, so if you don't burn the boss down fast enough, the fight is over. For example, the Twin Emps will enrage at 15 minutes, and if three or four dps'ers die and don't get quickly battle rezed, there's a good chance your raid won't make it. In addition, many encounters now have "trash mob" add spawns throughout the encounter. If you don't deal with them quickly, things spiral out of control. The classic case is C'Thun's second phase where little eye stalks, claws, and giant eye stalks spawn. The goal of the phase it trying to get all those killed before the next set spawns. If you don't, you'll lose a couple people, which reduces your dps, which means even more eyes and claws are left up when the next bunch pop, and the encounter quickly spirals out of control. We've had many encounters now both at the end of AQ40 and in Naxx where we went in with lots of healing and found that reducing our healing crew and adding dps helped stabilize encounters greatly.
Lurkers, get your butts in gear and start getting to some of the end content! The new stuff is so much fun!