Terenas Friday 4/14

[vor_lord]

-------------Tanking----------------
Last option would be 3 tanking and AoE.  This might be doable, in dagger and sheild, I'm not positive I could hold 2 while fazuul or pet held the other, but I probably could.  I think this would only be plausible in the event of 2 primary AoE classes (warlock + mage)  This would be an insteresting thing to try.  It's definitely possible for 2 pulls, but also of even more questionable utility there, as that's a lot of mana usage for just 2 mobs.

If you recall we did this for all the pulls prior to the gate, and at I think at least one is a 3 elite pull. It does exhaust mana, but things go down fast. I agree, it isn't worth the mana for 2 mobs.

----------- drinking / eating ------------------
Usual habits are to only drink/eat when necessary, but I think on the 45 minute run a better strategy is to LOAD UP on the mage food and water and eat/drink in small bursts. 

I've always done this when I have a lot of water -- top off during the time between the pull and when I need the first heal. The need to shackle for me is the biggest limiter on that time.

------------- Baron -----------------------
Shadow resist buff is incredibly nice.  I can't imagine making a serious attempt without having the resist buff.  We eventually did it with the shaman healing and no druid for even a minor amount of resist, but it was a real challenge.  With a shadow resist to cloak enchant I'll be sitting at 47, heroism belt will get me a set bonus with +8.  That should amount to 115 with shadow protection, which should be to a pretty significant damage reduction for the Baron, and I only had to sacrifice a few stats (mostly stamina from ring, bow and cloak, but a little strength and armor too).

I can now get my shadow resistance over 120. But... I"m not the one that needs it. However I can say that it does make a very large difference in the amount of damage taken by the aura. I've been watching for a codex of shadow protection that isn't astronomical in price to no avail (made one bit at 72g which didn't last long). Having that book would _really_ help -- there is a lot of shadow damage, and being able to inner focus off the buff and keep going would be very nice.

You have to aggro the Baron before the timer runs out, but if you die, he will execute her (unless the timer isn't done yet).  It's basically, if you have his attention, he can't execute her, but if you don't, he will.
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Ok that is good to know. I imagine then the best use for a soulstone is to give a second life to a healer or tank, since a wipe is game over.

Well it's interesting -- we could actually field two different teams wanting to try this out if people want to. I know Xarhud would like to try, although he'd also like to kill the shadowcasters to get his bracers. We have two warriors, two mages (is Mistique ready for that quest?), two priests. I believe that Vamp Embrace could be a HUGE help -- as long as everything but the FF target is CC'd it is nearly all you need for healing. This is of course if swirly is interested in doing it with his warrior first rather than the hunter.

One thought -- pair up the warlock and the shadow priest. VE is free mana for the warlock. The warlock's goal should be to never be full on life ;) He'd be free to keep up the succubus for extra damage or the imp for stamina, rather than sacrificing the felhunter for mana regeneration.


If we were to design two teams (not sure if we do at first, might be better off stacking one team according to a chosen strategy)...

Have a shaman for whatever group doesn't have the shadow priest. One or the other makes the aboms trivial.

Put a mage in each for the skeletons on the baron. Put a warrior in each (obviously). Split the priests too, if for no other reason than the shadow buff. Let's see off the top of my head for a CC/FF approach:

Necrali
Swirlywar
Yuri
Marn
Mogo

Fazuul
Conc
Mistique
Octord
Xarhud

we still have people left over though... Nashkara (where's he at in quests? I know he won't go to strat dead otherwise), Keshoga (is she ready for the quest?), possibly Wimpy, Rogoll for a while and he missed out last week...

Well if swirlywar is interested, we could have the warriors pick teams. Draft picks, trades... you know :P