Tonight we continued with our ICC 10 run.\u00c2\u00a0 So we start where we left off, getting our heads handed to us by Saurfang in heroic mode.\u00c2\u00a0 Since we had a slightly different raid group, we decided to do a modified tactic.<\/p>\n
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\u00c2\u00a0Last night we had\u00c2\u00a0two healers, who would have \u00c2\u00a0lined up in the center, one behind the other.\u00c2\u00a0 The two hunters were side to side on the left, focusing on the left blood beast while the melee would stun lock and kill the add on the right.\u00c2\u00a0 The shaman would use\u00c2\u00a0an Earthbind Totem<\/a> while\u00c2\u00a0us hunters would use traps to slow the beast down.\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0And while it did alright, we would eventually lose someone\u00c2\u00a0with the Mark of\u00c2\u00a0the Fallen Champion<\/a> on them and we’d wipe.<\/p>\n \u00c2\u00a0This time we were doing a 3 healer configuration, with a death knight dropping for an extra shaman.\u00c2\u00a0 The two hunters were still on the left, except this time there was a healer between the two of us.\u00c2\u00a0 The melee would still stun lock the right add but the extra shaman’s duty was to pull the aggro and drag that add out and away from the tanks.\u00c2\u00a0 They would still stun lock it, but if it did break free, it would give the melee a little more time to work on it.<\/p>\n And for the most part, it worked pretty well.\u00c2\u00a0 I had a little difficulty because I was the hunter between the healers and that meant I had to keep an eye out on who had Boiling Blood<\/a>\u00c2\u00a0on them since I would have to run near some people as I moved forward to drop my Frost Trap<\/a>.\u00c2\u00a0 And I mis-timed a Feign Death<\/a> once and got one-shot by a Blood Beast.\u00c2\u00a0 But otherwise we were getting deep into Saurfang’s “frenzy” zone.<\/p>\n Unfortunately, the best we got him down to was about 5%, or a little less, health.\u00c2\u00a0 We almost had him but then we ended up losing two people to the Mark of the Fallen Champion and had to wipe it at that point.\u00c2\u00a0 Rather disheartening to be so close but still not get it.<\/p>\n Eventually we decided to just take him on normal.\u00c2\u00a0 Our raid leader felt that it wasn’t a problem with technique so much as gear.\u00c2\u00a0 We’re strictly a 10-man raid team,\u00c2\u00a0and as he pointed out, many other guilds running heroic ICC10 have done ICC25 and as such, would have generally better gear than what we would have just doing straight 10-mans.\u00c2\u00a0 Plus, I know a couple of our healers got really close to empty on their mana bars, and better gear would probably have helped that situation out as well.<\/p>\n But once we switched to normal, Saurfang was paste.\u00c2\u00a0 In fact, we managed to kill him fast enough that we didn’t even get one Mark of the Fallen Champion.\u00c2\u00a0 That’s actually pretty fast for us, usually we get at least two.<\/p>\n So it was on to the Plagueworks.\u00c2\u00a0 And we decided to take on Rotface on heroic mode.\u00c2\u00a0 I actually hadn’t read up on how he is in heroic mode so it was a bit of a surprise.\u00c2\u00a0 Someone warned us to watch out for more slime pools, but didn’t mentioned that we would be dealing with Vile Gas, as we would in the Festergut normal fight.\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n So the first time we did it, myself and the other hunter bunched up as usual and then got hit by the Vile Gas<\/a>.\u00c2\u00a0 That in and of itself was fine.\u00c2\u00a0 The problem was when we would get hit by Mutated Infection<\/a>\u00c2\u00a0and the Vile Gas at the same time.\u00c2\u00a0 Actually, I got hit by both and was in the quarter of the room where the slime pipes were fixed, causing a quick death for me.<\/p>\n To adjust, us two hunters would stand on the outer ring and dps from there and staying far enough apart from each other not to get us both hit by the Vile Gas.\u00c2\u00a0 Which made this into a more dynamic battle for us that usual since we would have to move forward so that the off-tank could kite the slime behidn us, but not too close where we would bring the Vile Gas attack into melee.\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n