01-16-2006, 10:19 PM
Zarathustra,Jan 16 2006, 08:12 AM Wrote:Positioning: There are two methods to positioning the raid for this fight. The first is to scatter into a wide circle around the room with Geddon in the center. This can make things a bit difficult since you have to readjust a bit and ensure that everyone is within dispelling range of a priest/paladin. The benefit to spreading out like this is that if someone becomes The Bomb and doesn't get away from his buddies quickly, he'll only blow a small section of the raid up. The second method (which I'm pressing for in my guild on our next run) is to jump into one big pile and send the Maintank forth to hold Geddon. The pro to this is that no matter what, everyone is in range of every healer/dispeller. The drawback is one bad Bomb can wipe the raid. This should only be attempted once you're sure you can trust people to watch their debuffs (or the whispers from that mod).
Nah, we tried the grouping up idea twice and quickly abandoned it, because it requires both the tank to stay in the pulses (Possible if the tank is geared out, but our tanks weren't almost a year ago) and for all 40 people in the raid to be paying attention during the whole fight. I'm not one to take unnecessary risks when one doesn't have to such as: Will someone's cat jump on a person's keyboard while they have The Bomb? Will someone get disconnected while they have the bomb? Will someone make an emergency run to the bathroom right before the fight and not tell anybody "because it was going to be fast?" Will someone get lagged when they have The Bomb or just plain not notice that they have it?
Nah, spreading around in an arc is much better. You just have to have the individual parties clustered together so that they get the dispells and sheilds of their priests. Clustering up the entire raid is just asking for something to go horribly wrong.
Quote:Resurrections: It's possible to have a priest or shaman running laps around the cavern, staying out of combat, and throwing rezzes on those who've run to the edge and been blown sky high by the Bomb. This could help you out a lot in terms of manpower over the duration of the fight.
Yes, I mentioned that we did that. However, Blizzard does not like out of combat rezzing and is working on a fix for it, so we should all get used to the idea of not using OOC rezzers in the future.
Quote:Remembr, at one time Van Cleef was rough.
I still have a beef with that bastard and derive great pleasure every time I kill him. Still, it's hard to get complete satisfaction from killing such a watered down version of him. The beta 1 version of Van Cleef was hard. That's the guy I want to beat into a pulp.
Quote:One quick question. Why is every Rebirth you report on accompanied by a timer before resurrection?
The same reason that a Belt of Transcendence and a pair of Gauntlets of Wrath dropped. This was written back in March of last year. At the time, all resurrection spells used the resurrection timer. Since we had already died many times during the run, all of our resurrection timers were several minutes long. Luckily, Blizzard later changed it so that you can resurrect immediately, if someone casts a resurrection spell on you.
Plus, they changed the loot tables in Molten Core so that the only tier 2 set items that drop there are the tier 2 leggings off Ragnaros. Onyxia was made to drop only the tier 2 set helms and all other tier 2 set pieces were given to bosses in Blackwing Lair. Because I already had my Belt of Transcendence from this early Molten Core run, I believe I was the first one on the server (definitely the first on the Horde) to own a three piece Transcendence set.