02-21-2006, 12:28 AM
Quote:Some of the things they do I think we might do well to consider emulating. For example, hopefully Alram can explain how they assigned CC because it seemed to go very quickly. They also keep target selection for DPS very simple: if it doesn't have a hunter's mark (from designated hunter) and two sunders, you don't hit it. I thought Lurkers/Lost Souls were very good about our CC and trash mob clearing but this did simplify things for new people. They used two warriors, alternating which one would break CC on each mob in turn (not that that would be important but they felt it gave them more efficiency).The tank announced who the 1st target was for focus fire and the mages picked their own targets. I was assigned targets until I figured out that I was supposed to pick my own. By marking the target with Detect Magic it not only told the party who the sheep targets were, but it also prevented 2 mages from picking the same target to sheep. I have no idea how the druids knew which druid was hibernating which mob. Perhaps Fazuul can illuminate us on that. As Necrali mentioned, the initial focus fire target was marked by the 1 hunter designated for the task. As mentioned 2 warriors altermated the tanking. The next warrior in line would begin tanking his trash mob when the current trash mob was at 10-20% health; this also sped things up and did not result in any warrior deaths.
They made frequent use of CTRA to broadcast messages. This was helpful. Macros probably help. Everyone was not on Vent, and I think that the CTRA broadcasts probably helped compensate for that.
There were a couple of things they did wrong which involved failure to communicate.
For example, during the fight with the spider boss their strategy involved telling everyone (via CTRA and Vent) to stop DPS at certain points. They erred by never telling people when to resume DPS--so we had to guess. Then they got bent out of shape because someone resumed DPS too early. After several requests they also began broadcasting when to resume DPS.