{"id":127,"date":"2010-06-18T17:01:09","date_gmt":"2010-06-19T03:01:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/loqualityproducts.com\/blogs\/lqwow\/?p=127"},"modified":"2010-06-28T15:51:54","modified_gmt":"2010-06-29T01:51:54","slug":"lo-quality-hunter-finally-took-down-that-orc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/loqualityproducts.com\/blogs\/lqwow\/?p=127","title":{"rendered":"Lo-Quality Hunter: Finally Took Down That Orc!"},"content":{"rendered":"

With scheduled 25-man raids, the Palidrons didn’t need any puggers, so I got to spend some time fishing to restock my Fish Feast<\/a> supply.\u00c2\u00a0 Didn’t do much beyond that the past two nights.\u00c2\u00a0 But then last night, we started in on our regular 10-man.<\/p>\n

The raid leader had already planned which bosses we’d tackle on Heroic, and which on normal.\u00c2\u00a0 The plan was to take Marrowgar, Deathwhisper and the Gunship on Heroic, do Deathbringer Saurfang on normal, then finish up with the Blood Prince Council on Heroic, and if we were lucky, Blood Queen on Heroic as well.<\/p>\n

Our regular holy Priest wasn’t around, but our shadow Priest had a friend fill in.\u00c2\u00a0 We were also missing one of our regular dps, but we replaced that person with a Warlock.\u00c2\u00a0 Which was noteworthy primarily because we so rarely run with a Warlock.\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n

Marrowgar on Heroic has been our bugaboo for awhile now.\u00c2\u00a0 We’ve done it before but we always had issues.\u00c2\u00a0 Not this time.\u00c2\u00a0 We actually managed to one-shot him on Heroic mode.\u00c2\u00a0 I did die, mainly because of bad luck in being spiked right on the edge of Marrowgar’s Bone Storm<\/a>.\u00c2\u00a0 That and the fact that a healer had just been spiked before me and his rescue took priority over mine.\u00c2\u00a0 Fortunately, our Druid healer was able to get me back up and I think nobody else died.\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n

And to be honest, I’m not sure what we did different this time.\u00c2\u00a0 The main differences I can think of, is that we did it with three healers, and all three healers were majorly overhealing the spiked person, and the act that we only had one melee dps.\u00c2\u00a0 Which meant the rest of the dps could usually focus fire on the spike with minimal effort.\u00c2\u00a0 It also meant that Marrowgar’s Bone Storm had less chance of parking right on top of a spiked person.\u00c2\u00a0 (Which tends to happen if there’s a bunch of melee standing around the spike, trying to break it.)<\/p>\n

Lady Deathwhisper on Heroic is usually a sure thing for us.\u00c2\u00a0 And it was.\u00c2\u00a0 We had pretty good focused dps and people were quick to move away from spirits.\u00c2\u00a0 The only issue we sort of had was threat control, where once or twice, someone came very close to pulling the aggro off the tanks.\u00c2\u00a0 So that was easy, and I managed to outroll 3 other people to get my hands on a Whispering Fanged Skull<\/a>, which was nice since I’ve been trying for awhile to get a new trinket to replace my Darkmoon Card:\u00c2\u00a0Greatness<\/a>.\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n

The Gunship battle on Heroic is also a sure thing for us.\u00c2\u00a0 With only one melee dps, our other Hunter had to be on the second gun.\u00c2\u00a0 This fight was pretty standard, or tried to be.\u00c2\u00a0 A couple of people forgot to wear their Goblin Rocket Packs<\/a>, which meant we were a little short on dps for the boarding party but we were able to adjust and get through it.<\/p>\n

With us pretty much one-shoting everything, we decided to give Deathbringer Saurfang a couple of shots in Heroic mode.\u00c2\u00a0 Our dps output was pretty decent and we were clearly ahead of schedule.\u00c2\u00a0 So we did our normal setup, I was left far side, with our other Hunter opposite me.\u00c2\u00a0 The two tanks and one melee dps would be in close.\u00c2\u00a0 We were running 3 healers because we had problems with the Mark of the Fallen Champion<\/a> last time, they were stationed in the center.\u00c2\u00a0 The other two dps were arranged next to a\u00c2\u00a0Hunter.\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n

The first try, we actually got him to the Frenzy point but we then lost someone to a Mark and had to reset.\u00c2\u00a0 Another try barely got started when we got a disconnect.\u00c2\u00a0 On the third try, again we got him to the Frenzy point but lost someone to a Mark.<\/p>\n

At this point, we decided that we were pretty close and that’d we just go for it.\u00c2\u00a0 Mark’s were coming out when Saurfang was at approximately 75, 50 and 25% health, so we were\u00c2\u00a0doing well on dps.\u00c2\u00a0 We\u00c2\u00a0decided to switch our tactics slightly.\u00c2\u00a0 What we originally was doing was stunning the right side\u00c2\u00a0Blood Beast\u00c2\u00a0and concentrating fire on the\u00c2\u00a0Blood Beast on my side.\u00c2\u00a0 We decided to split dps and take out both Blood Beasts at the same time.\u00c2\u00a0 We also had our Shaman healer switch to his dps mode, figuring that with the extra dps, we could avoid the third mark anyway.<\/p>\n

So we had our two highest dps, the other Hunter and our Shadow Priest, take one Beast, while myself, the Warlock and Shaman took the other.\u00c2\u00a0 Which for the most part worked out except when I had to Feign Death<\/a> and the Warlock, the dps next to me, didn’t react fast enough when the Blood Beast went after him.\u00c2\u00a0 With the loss of his dps, we ran behind schedule to be the enrage timer and had to reset.\u00c2\u00a0 But before he went down, we saw the marks come out at 63 and 30% health, so we knew we could do it.\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n

The next try was the charm.\u00c2\u00a0 We actually managed to push the dps enough that the marks came out at 60 and 27%.\u00c2\u00a0 The Blood Beasts went down fast each time.\u00c2\u00a0 The only downside was that I popped a mana potion about 2 seconds before we killed Saurfang, which was a waste.\u00c2\u00a0 But he went down and we finally got out Heroic: Storming the Citadel (10 player)<\/a> achievement.\u00c2\u00a0 We also got a tier token, which probably was even more important to us.<\/p>\n

Our raid leader actually thought we wouldn’t have been able to take him for another month.\u00c2\u00a0 We’ll have to see next week if we can do it again or if we just lucked out on this try.\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n

So on to the Crimson Hall and the Blood Prince Council.\u00c2\u00a0 This is where we spent the rest of the night.\u00c2\u00a0 And the very first wipe was actually the fault of us Hunters.\u00c2\u00a0 In Hardmode, the Kinetic Bombs<\/a> fall even faster.\u00c2\u00a0 Which wouldn’t have been a problem except we both took our pets off a Bomb to attack a new Bomb that spawned at the same time.\u00c2\u00a0 In the second or two it took us to realize what we had done and tried to get one of our pets back on the original Bomb, it had already landed and wiped several people.<\/p>\n

Now, given that we were mostly ranged dps (in fact, our melee dps became our third tank for this fight) we should have been fine for the various attack abilities as well as the new Shadow Prison<\/a> debuff.\u00c2\u00a0 That is, everyone except us Hunters.\u00c2\u00a0 Why?\u00c2\u00a0 Because of our duty on the Kinetic Bombs, it sometimes meant we had to move to a new Kinetic while our pets dealt with an older one.\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n

Which is how the rest of the night went.\u00c2\u00a0 With the added restrictions on us, it made it that much more difficult to juggle the Kinetic Bombs and do our regular dps duties.\u00c2\u00a0 But by then it was getting rather late so we decided to call it off rather than keep banging our heads against the fight.<\/p>\n

So tonight we should be doing the Crimson Hall completely in Heroic mode, which should be interesting.\u00c2\u00a0 And given our current group makeup, Heroic Festergut and Rotface are definite possibilities.\u00c2\u00a0 I think we’re still undergeared for Heroic Professor Putricide though.\u00c2\u00a0 Guess we’ll find out.\u00c2\u00a0 In the meantime, I need to read up a bit more on the Heroic mode Crimson Hall fights…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

With scheduled 25-man raids, the Palidrons didn’t need any puggers, so I got to spend some time fishing to restock my Fish Feast supply.\u00c2\u00a0 Didn’t do much beyond that the past two nights.\u00c2\u00a0 But then last night, we started in on our regular 10-man.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[66,49],"class_list":["post-127","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hunter","tag-hunter","tag-icecrown-citadel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/loqualityproducts.com\/blogs\/lqwow\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/loqualityproducts.com\/blogs\/lqwow\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/loqualityproducts.com\/blogs\/lqwow\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/loqualityproducts.com\/blogs\/lqwow\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/loqualityproducts.com\/blogs\/lqwow\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=127"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/loqualityproducts.com\/blogs\/lqwow\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/loqualityproducts.com\/blogs\/lqwow\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=127"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/loqualityproducts.com\/blogs\/lqwow\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=127"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/loqualityproducts.com\/blogs\/lqwow\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=127"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}