Apparently, quite a bit because we spent most of last night trying to get people to do the bite part of the Blood Queen fight correctly.\u00c2\u00a0 Everything else, the air phase, the shifting shadow, the blood link thingy, all worked.\u00c2\u00a0 (Well, except one air phase where\u00c2\u00a0I died but that was partially my fault.)\u00c2\u00a0 <\/p>\n
More often than not, it was multiple people getting mind controlled because they didn’t get their bites off.\u00c2\u00a0 I know I was one of them.\u00c2\u00a0 I had moved next to my target, targeted them, then went to push my #1 to bite them when my targeting suddenly changed back to the Blood Queen.\u00c2\u00a0 And then I tried to switch back to my bite target but couldn’t find him.\u00c2\u00a0 Then I tried to find anyone I could bite but ran out of time.<\/p>\n
And I know one of the other Hunter’s had a different problem when he was supposed to bite me.\u00c2\u00a0 Twice in a row, he was supposed to bite me but before it switched his action bar, I got hit by the shifting shadow and I was off to the races.\u00c2\u00a0 I think he found someone else to bite the first time, but I think he got mind controlled the second time.\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n
We did figure out that part of the problem was that when the blood link hit people, it would move raid symbols over to them.\u00c2\u00a0 Since we were using the raid symbols to figure out where out bite targets was, it made things very dicey.\u00c2\u00a0 It was also unnecessary since the three people affected had a big red beam connecting them to two other people so it was easy to tell when you had it and we all knew to run to the center for it.\u00c2\u00a0 Silly<\/p>\n
Turns out that one of the assists had it on and we finally had to resort to removing raid assist from everyone and just counting on the raid leader to run things.\u00c2\u00a0 Except it really wasn’t our raid leader, but someone who had the add-on that did bite assignments.\u00c2\u00a0 Whatever worked.<\/p>\n
We actually managed to run the Blood Queen down to 2% health before she wiped us out with the enrage.\u00c2\u00a0 This was actually a two-fold problem.\u00c2\u00a0 One was the fact that we almost always lost dps during the fight.\u00c2\u00a0 I think part of that problem was that we were missing my guildmate, who’s one of the best raid healers we know.\u00c2\u00a0 That and the healers didn’t quite have their coverage down correctly because they kept having to shift all over the place.<\/p>\n
The dps problem was also enhanced by the fact that people would STOP DPSING while waiting to bite someone.\u00c2\u00a0 I mean it.\u00c2\u00a0 We got our whispered assignments 20 seconds prior to the bite having to go off.\u00c2\u00a0 I saw the person who was assigned to bite me move next to me.\u00c2\u00a0 That’s fine.\u00c2\u00a0 But they weren’t casting!\u00c2\u00a0 Not even doing the auto attack with their wand!\u00c2\u00a0 Nothing!\u00c2\u00a0 Nada!\u00c2\u00a0 Zilch!\u00c2\u00a0 So that person spent maybe 15 seconds doing nothing but standing by me waiting for the action bar to change.\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n
To put this in perspective, the Blood Queen has something like 59.4 million hp in 25-man normal.\u00c2\u00a0 We got her down to 2% which is\u00c2\u00a0a little under\u00c2\u00a01.2 million hp.\u00c2\u00a0 Anyone with the bite usually does at least 10,000 dps.\u00c2\u00a0 For 15 seconds, that’s 150,000 points of damage or about 12.5% of that total.\u00c2\u00a0 Since I’m one of the last bitten, let’s assume that person did the same thing for the previous bite target.\u00c2\u00a0 That’s 25% right there.\u00c2\u00a0 And he wasn’t the only one!\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n
Unfortunatley, being somewhat of an “outsider”, I can’t really say much about it.\u00c2\u00a0 My regular group would probably pay attention but not many of the others.\u00c2\u00a0 It was just frustrating to be so close and realizing why it was only “close” rather than “done”.\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n
So we finally gave up and went over to the Plagueworks.\u00c2\u00a0 Festergut was a chinese fire drill in all the worst ways.\u00c2\u00a0 We still got it done.\u00c2\u00a0 But it’s not good when the range dps all spread out, and then suddenly they say “group 3 on the left, group 4 on the right.”\u00c2\u00a0 Why isn’t that good?\u00c2\u00a0 Because most of group 3 had already setup on the right and vice versa with group 4!\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n
And as for the spores?\u00c2\u00a0 That was very confusing with people giving conflicting orders.\u00c2\u00a0 For instance, I got the spore and marked with a square.\u00c2\u00a0 I saw that all the spores were at range, so I ran in.\u00c2\u00a0 Half way there I heard “square come in” which was fine since that’s what I was doing.\u00c2\u00a0 Then I heard “no wait, cross come in” which meant I had to reverse and go back out.\u00c2\u00a0 Except the person with the cross heard the first command and had aborted his inward movement as well.\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n
And that’s pretty much how it went, spores running all over the place and conflicting orders.\u00c2\u00a0 I still have no idea how we didn’t end up wiping.\u00c2\u00a0 Somehow, we manged to eek out the kill, but I think we still lost quite a number of people.\u00c2\u00a0 Crazy.<\/p>\n
Rotface wasn’t all that much better.\u00c2\u00a0 On the very first debuff, the person ran North while the off-tank was waiting South!\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 It took several seconds for them realize what was wrong and in the meantime the ooze came out and started bashing on that person.\u00c2\u00a0 Fortunately a healer ran over and single healed that person until they could get the ooze to the off-tank but it was totally unnecessary.\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n
That wasn’t quite the worst thing, we also had people standing in melee with the ooze on them, causing quite a bit of damage.\u00c2\u00a0 Another person d\/c and I think he was standing almost directly under an ooze pipe when it turned on.\u00c2\u00a0 Again, we managed to get the kill but it was a lot uglier than it should have been.<\/p>\n
We took a couple of shots at Putricide as well.\u00c2\u00a0 Here, the problem was primarily a focus fire issue but there were a few others.\u00c2\u00a0 For instance, the raid leader called for a halt of dps on Putricide when we were close to the transition phase, and to dps the ooze.\u00c2\u00a0 Well, I know three of the four Hunters attacked the ooze, three other ranged dps and one melee also switched, but that was it.\u00c2\u00a0 We had something like 17 people acting as dps and only 7 changed their target?<\/p>\n
I know for the green ooze, despite the fact that Putricide was tanked mainly by his table, there were at least two instances when the ooze latched on to someone near the door, which is the opposite side of the room.\u00c2\u00a0 Nobody should have been there, and as a result, we could neither dps the ooze effectively or gather around that person to disperse the aoe damage.\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n
So naturally, that meant we lost people.\u00c2\u00a0 We were down at least 5 dps before we got to the third phase, which is just sloppy.\u00c2\u00a0 The first try we wiped quickly because of stuff like that.\u00c2\u00a0 The other try we actually got him down to 1% but that was more due to tank’s toughness more than anything else.\u00c2\u00a0 I know I was one of the last to die but all the healers were very dead by then and one health potion kept me up for only an extra second or two.\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n
We stopped at that point.\u00c2\u00a0 Again, it was nice to be working on 25-man content but it was annoying to get so close and get denied because of very correctable things.\u00c2\u00a0 It’s supposed to switch back to the 10-man teams tonight but I know we’re going to be short-handed because a few of our key people aren’t going to be around this weekend.\u00c2\u00a0 So there’s a good chance it’ll be called off.\u00c2\u00a0 I actually wouldn’t mind, I could probably use a few days off.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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