4 AM and just getting back from the hospital. Wife having issues with her gallbladder and they say it looks like there is "sludge" in it. Which normally doesnt require anything done, but since its giving her lots of pain etc, they may take it out.
At this point Im not anticipating missing raid. But it is a possibility.
What I found interesting was how they handed the flame orbs
They had the tank and melee rotate on one of the orbs instead of having other ranged deal with it. I think thats kinda smart in a way, just means the tank takes more damage when those are up and then just rotates out with one of the melee. Overall one less person the healers have to worry about healing at that point. But positioning overall and a melee taking damage reseting his concentration for a whole cat phase might make it an issue. Just a thought it was interesting, never seen it done like that.
Or..... we could just flip our strat completely upside down, and two heal it. Start with a cat phase, 6-7 leaps, group back up for an extremly short scorpion phase, get out before 1 cleave goes out, deal with orbs, and repeat. Healers have more mana that isn't wasted on AoE healing. When seed comes out, everyone basically stays spread out and somewhat near a healer.
Well my thought was also since the vid was disc priest, do we emulate that? Shields op good or something?
And if Cromi can be feral and not suck, it's actually be a great spot. The melee gets to keep their concentration buff full time, and not worry about fire. I know he had the boomkin spec the other night, but he does occasionally mention that feral set.
Well, we have 4 people that can effectly negate their seed via bubble, iceblock, or Cloak. We're left with 3 people that can negate a portion of the seed (PW:S and barkskin), and Fel and Mehguy are the 2 left that we have to keep an eye on.
I don't see any other reasons why Elapsed and Cromi can't just 2 heal this, unless Cromi stands in fire....
Meh, We have two priests : P I'll just blame your leap of faiths not working. And I usually am ready in this phase to hop into travel form, so i'll just start moving on jumps no matter what. I think this strat looks fine. more time for more dps to hit concentration, means a faster fight as well.
If you happen to be putting up hots or dots at the time of the leap and can begin moving in anticipation without losing any hps or dps then that sounds perfectly fine.
However, if you're intending to start running just so that you might keep your buff you will be wasting hps or dps for sure.
Mainly it just means i'll be preparing myself to move on every jump anyways. 90% of time I'm fine in normal. Just in case I take any large extra damage right beforehand then I'm dead. It's only happened twice to me.
And I'm going hunting so a 5-10% chance I get stuck in the woods for the night and can't make it to raid. and a 23% chance I'll be late.
Majordomo! I guess we can take it to 11:30ish. I assume we won't need a lot of time for Rag anymore.
As for Domo itself. For the most part we've seen the fight. It's now a matter of dps/endurance to get it down before we all die.
First point, would be more comfortable if all the dps can be above 30K dps. Maybe towards the end of the fight we'll see more ramp up. But not sure if everyone has those execute type abilities. Anyways, pull all your tricks, we def need to end this asap.
Second point, we might have to be open to the idea of bringing the healer back into the stack and sending another dps out there. It probably means we can't take it to 8 stacks, a 6-7 and just go with that.
Parses:
saedo — Mon, 10/10/2011 - 21:21Parses: http://www.worldoflogs.com/reports/rt-zbvb729n9wrw6fuj/
Could potentially not make
Mehguy — Mon, 10/10/2011 - 04:16Could potentially not make raid tonight.
4 AM and just getting back from the hospital.
Wife having issues with her gallbladder and they say it looks like there is "sludge" in it. Which normally doesnt require anything done, but since its giving her lots of pain etc, they may take it out.
At this point Im not anticipating missing raid. But it is a possibility.
Watched this video
Mehguy — Sun, 10/09/2011 - 23:50Watched this video tonight.
What I found interesting was how they handed the flame orbs
They had the tank and melee rotate on one of the orbs instead of having other ranged deal with it. I think thats kinda smart in a way, just means the tank takes more damage when those are up and then just rotates out with one of the melee. Overall one less person the healers have to worry about healing at that point. But positioning overall and a melee taking damage reseting his concentration for a whole cat phase might make it an issue. Just a thought it was interesting, never seen it done like that.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DCly2ZVMqYI
Yea I've seen strats like
saedo — Mon, 10/10/2011 - 00:43Yea I've seen strats like that. Basically instead of 4 ranged dps losing concentration rotating the orbs, it's shaved down to 1 tank and 3 dps.
It's just the issue of, can healers heal through the extra damage. But I guess if they keep their concentration buff...
Either way, probably still gonna make these phases shorter than the non-orb phases.
Or..... we could just flip
Ghli — Thu, 10/06/2011 - 15:09Or..... we could just flip our strat completely upside down, and two heal it. Start with a cat phase, 6-7 leaps, group back up for an extremly short scorpion phase, get out before 1 cleave goes out, deal with orbs, and repeat. Healers have more mana that isn't wasted on AoE healing. When seed comes out, everyone basically stays spread out and somewhat near a healer.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4pjrTgHTIOg
I talked to Atar in IRC this
Ghli — Fri, 10/07/2011 - 13:32I talked to Atar in IRC this morning. GEL does the same exact thing as in the video, and they don't even let domo cleave even once.
Looks like we're going to do this strat on Monday.
This intrigues me. This
saedo — Thu, 10/06/2011 - 16:35This intrigues me. This does give the most people the concentration buff more of the time.
Probably have to keep the healers/tanks marked to keep them in a holy trinity and the rest of the raid stand around them.
I take it it'd be Elapsed and Cromi as the 2 heals?
only caviat is Cromi not
Elapsed — Thu, 10/06/2011 - 17:01only caviat is Cromi not standing in fire....
hmmm this may just work
Well my thought was also
saedo — Thu, 10/06/2011 - 17:10Well my thought was also since the vid was disc priest, do we emulate that? Shields op good or something?
And if Cromi can be feral and not suck, it's actually be a great spot. The melee gets to keep their concentration buff full time, and not worry about fire. I know he had the boomkin spec the other night, but he does occasionally mention that feral set.
Yea for once, a melee advantaged fight!
Well, we have 4 people that
Ghli — Thu, 10/06/2011 - 17:54Well, we have 4 people that can effectly negate their seed via bubble, iceblock, or Cloak. We're left with 3 people that can negate a portion of the seed (PW:S and barkskin), and Fel and Mehguy are the 2 left that we have to keep an eye on.
I don't see any other reasons why Elapsed and Cromi can't just 2 heal this, unless Cromi stands in fire....
Meh, We have two priests : P
cromi — Fri, 10/07/2011 - 14:32Meh, We have two priests : P I'll just blame your leap of faiths not working. And I usually am ready in this phase to hop into travel form, so i'll just start moving on jumps no matter what. I think this strat looks fine. more time for more dps to hit concentration, means a faster fight as well.
If you happen to be putting
Disrupter — Sat, 10/08/2011 - 02:06If you happen to be putting up hots or dots at the time of the leap and can begin moving in anticipation without losing any hps or dps then that sounds perfectly fine.
However, if you're intending to start running just so that you might keep your buff you will be wasting hps or dps for sure.
Mainly it just means i'll be
cromi — Mon, 10/10/2011 - 12:27Mainly it just means i'll be preparing myself to move on every jump anyways. 90% of time I'm fine in normal. Just in case I take any large extra damage right beforehand then I'm dead. It's only happened twice to me.
And I'm going hunting so a 5-10% chance I get stuck in the woods for the night and can't make it to raid. and a 23% chance I'll be late.
Search for signs of Aurleas
saedo — Mon, 10/10/2011 - 12:56Search for signs of Aurleas while you're out there.
And I don't suppose there'd be a cell tower in the area to tell us if you get stuck up a tree?
He'll just have to shake his
Mehguy — Mon, 10/10/2011 - 13:14He'll just have to shake his leaves and hope the trees relay the message down to the trees near us.
I have no new update currently on my situation. Still not anticipating missing raid, but might happen.
Question for healers
saedo — Thu, 10/06/2011 - 13:24Question for healers now.... Can we do 13 stacks?
If iit helps at all we do 11
Keisjaa — Thu, 10/06/2011 - 14:17If iit helps at all we do 11 or so stacks on the 1st scorpion phase although we have no spirit link totem(really op for trying to push more stacks)
we don't either anymore,
Elapsed — Thu, 10/06/2011 - 16:50we don't either anymore, we're rocking the same loadout of heals as Afterglow now
but Saedo, yes
Majordomo! I guess we
saedo — Thu, 10/06/2011 - 10:56Majordomo! I guess we can take it to 11:30ish. I assume we won't need a lot of time for Rag anymore.
As for Domo itself. For the most part we've seen the fight. It's now a matter of dps/endurance to get it down before we all die.
First point, would be more comfortable if all the dps can be above 30K dps. Maybe towards the end of the fight we'll see more ramp up. But not sure if everyone has those execute type abilities. Anyways, pull all your tricks, we def need to end this asap.
Second point, we might have to be open to the idea of bringing the healer back into the stack and sending another dps out there. It probably means we can't take it to 8 stacks, a 6-7 and just go with that.
Anyways, you got the weekend to prep, go go go!