So it's been a long while since I've posted my misadventures with Pally alt healing.

Levels 70-80

The first thing I did was messing with mods and UI.   With new tricks with Judgements, Beacon, and stuff the old one definitely couldn't do what I wanted.    The first thing I wanted was something to better track the Bacon, ClassTimers wasn't good enough for me.   I figure since it only tracks Focus, Target, and Self, the Bacon I may need to track more targets than that. 

The mod I found was SpellReminder, able to set up timer bars and audible warnings of debuffs/buffs you cast.   This allowed me to put a beacon on anyone, heal someone else, have a focus on another person, track judgement debuff on a boss without focusing/targetting it, track mutilple sacred shield casts, while still targetting a different guy, etc.    The bars are similar to boss mods, with a "short timer" warning you can move to somewhere more visible to you while having it audibly alert you.    And able to set up each buff/debuff to have diff audible warnings so you don't even have to look, just listen for what's falling off.

Anyways, after that was over with, I decided to try my hand at instancing, and it was quite interesting.    It usually only took a few mins for me to find a group for instance rested xp and loots!    By the time I was 80 the only quests I really did was Dungeon ones, Borean, and Fjord.     Well, exception to that is at level 77, I started up on the Hodir quest chain.    So I was doing dailies by level 78, and 3 weeks into 80, already exalted with them.

Week 1:

So being a noobie 80 my plan was to get a bunch of heroics under my belt.   I wanted the gear, experience, and knowledge that I can pull my weight in anything higher I'd do.    Though, I did get into a Salmon VoA25, couldn't do much though, slow and weak heals!    Same with a random OS25.

Sticking back to Heroics, chugged along what was approximately an increasing level of difficulty.  Nexus and UK were easy targets.   VH was sorta but a bit of a crapshoot if the Void Walker showed up, still managed through it, but definitely needed a lot of spamming.   Even did AN and OK, but those were shaky, well more cause the groups themselves were too.   Strath, Pinnacle, HoS, and even Occulus, were on the completed as well.

Week 2:

With the heroics, I took as much gear as possible, leather, cloth, mail, etc, all to boost stats, fuck the armor.  lol    Still wearing a leather helm to this day.    Also by this time there were of course some epics, heroic ones, heroism emblems ones.

So tried my luck with a pug Naxx10.   Partial pug maybe, a few of them did know/run with each other a bunch I believe.   Definitely an experience in noob healing.   Mistakes were made, I died, people died, Pudo lived, stuff took forever to die, etc, etc.   It did take a 2nd night, but did manage a full clear.

For the most part I think I did fine.  Mistakes on trying to heal during Heigan dance killed me.   Learning to time things on Loatheb took getting used to.   Sapphiron took some running around, but it wasn't much trouble.     It was Kel'thuzad that became something that forced me to learn more.

The trouble was Frost Blast.   First was the folly of not configuring Grid to properly show it, well I thought I did, but it didn't work, so had to look it up.    Second, really need better reaction time to handle it, clicking to target then casting heal was a bit slow, and of course the other healers probably fail at this too so when all 3 of us fail, fun times.   Especially when they don't have a mod to show em who has it and started relying on yell macros to read then find the person then heal.

Anyways, got the kill eventually, but it definitely forced me to look up another mod afterwards.   Clique.   Binding spells to mouse buttons basically.   Spent a day experiementing with it and mouseover macros with heals.   My first thought was to just bind heals to standard mouse clicks, only have a 3 button mouse.     But that quickly was a mistake, doing that no longer allowed me to target anyone, anything, or right click for stuff like inspections and stuff, it all got sent to heals.  

Scrapping that idea, leaving the standard click alone, I went with modifer keys to combine with clicking to use this.   I set up CTRL-LEFT, CTRL-RIGHT, and CTRL-MIDDLE as my Flash of Light, Holy Shock, and Holy Light buttons.    CTRL being easy to just rest my palm on for standard healing scenarios.   The next set of buttons was Shift ones, putting the Hand of Salv, Prot, and Sac on those.   Lastly, the Alt handled my Sacred Shield and Beacon spamming.   Had one left over so I just slapped it on Hand of Freedom for that one.

Week 3:

This was also the first week I did heroic HoL, never want to go back.  lol

Anyways, Naxx10 this week was a fail pug.   Real pug, truly random bunch gathered together with no real organization.   Did 2 of the wings before falling apart.  lol

But the highlight this week would be Naxx25 partial pug, I guess, seems to be some guild hosted or something.   Went through that with minimal difficulty with all my new fanlged mod and macro set ups.   I did screw up on Thaddius charges, towards the end, failed to keep watch.

At this point, I've actually finished with Heroic gear.  Well, heroic emblem gear.   There are still a few upgrades I suppose in heroics themselves, but nothing major or it's an instance I'd like to block from memory.   lol

Week 4:

That would be this week.   Last night I did a pug Naxx10 again, semi-organized people though so good start there.   The problem was, they decided to just 2 healer it.    Scream in terror!

It was definitely the most ooming experience I've had.   I actually had to pot a few fights, and used Divine Plea quite a bit.   And, it was pulled off.    Only wipe was at 4H in which only cause the 2 handling the back fudged it up.

And by ooming I really meant ooming.   For Sapphiron though it was kinda close sometimes, there were enough breaks in the air phases that I could Divine Plea and stuff without much trouble.    For Kel'thuzad, it was very very close.   Especially coupled with the mana detonation, even with Divine Plea just ran out of mana for the Holy Lights.   Resorted to Flash spamming a bunch at the end barely keeping up both tanks, couldn't afford to keep bacon up, and started to ignore dps, cept for maybe a frost blast one heal to save em.

Anyways, stay tuned for more misadventures of the noob pally!

Health:

• Normal:  5.2M (Arms 1.2M each)
• Heroic:  20.9M (Arms 5.2M each)

Abilities:

• Focused Eyebeam:  Inflicts 4163 to 4837 Nature damage to enemies within 3 yards.
• Petrifying Breath:  Inflicts 18750 to 21250 Nature damage every 1 sec and increases damage taken by 20% for 8 sec. (Brittle Skin - Increases damage taken by 20% for 8 sec.) - Only does this if no one is in melee range
• Overhead Smash:  The not so massive attack Inflicts Physical damage and decreases armor by 25% for 45 sec. 5 yd range, Next melee;  Stacks to 4, used every 10-15 seconds.
• Overhead Smash Tremor:  The massive Overhead Smash causes a tremor which Inflicts 6338 to 6662 Physical damage and interupts casting for 8 sec.
• One-Armed Overhead Smash:  Same as overhead smash but less power, used when 1 of the arms is destroyed
• Stone Shout:  Unleashes a hail of jagged rock, striking target enemy every 0 sec for 2 sec, and damaging any additional enemies within 50000 of the target.   Does about 3K damage per tick, only used if both arms are destroyed

Left Arm (our right):

• Shockwave:  The shockwave from the massive arm sweep inflicts 13875 to 16125 Nature damage.

Right Arm (our left):

• Stone Grip:  Squeezes the life out of the target, stunning it and inflicting 5363 to 5637 Physical damage every 1 sec until Kologarn's Arm sustains 480,000 damage;  Targets 1-3 people.   Less damage in 10m, and needs 150K damage.

The Fight:

Firstly, the boss is just stuck on the ground, won't move, can't get behind him, so melee will suffer from parries and such.   There must always be someone in melee range or he wipes the raid.   He does slow hits, so optimal tanks appear to be druids or DKs.

He has 2 arms as seperate entities to target and kill if you wish so.   Killing one will knock off 15% of his HP, but each arm has more HP than that.   They respawn 60 seconds later.  Also killing one will spawn 5 adds, must be tanked and they aoe us, but can be stunned.   Best done with a warrior's Shockwave.

The Left Arm will Shockwave us every 25 or so seconds.

The Right Arm will Stone Grip 1-3 non-MT raid members, and they must be healed.   Here there are 3 methods of thoughts of dealing with it:

Leave the Arm up, heal through it the rest of the fight or...

Attack the Arm to release the trapped ones, but be ready to tank/stun adds when the arm dies.

Or kill the right arm at all times, deal with adds, then kill the boss, which is what we did.

For the main boss himself, with the Crunch Armor debuff, you'd want 2 tanks trade taunting off.  Though in 10 man, it appears to apply less frequently and fails to stack often.

There's a laser beam for the raid to avoid as well.

Note for Melee:  If you're attacking arms, you may notice sometimes you can't hit him.   With auto-attacks or whatever, and you have to reposition and stuff.    What's known now is that Kologarn is one giant hit box for both him and his arms.   So what you should be doing is facing him at all times, just retarget arms when attacking those, do not turn.   You don't have to run from arm to arm, you are able to target him and any of the arms simply standing anywhere in front of him, facing the main body.

Trash Info:

Dwarf Packs (10 man):  3 mobs, a Mender, a Charger, and a Construct.   We killed the Mender cause we didn't like his name.   The charger appears to just do a weak chain lightning.   Killed him next.   Construct was just debuffing Nuitbear with a slowing thing.  

Dwarf Packs (25 man):  The packs are doubled in size (2 of each of the above), and are more lethal.  The Charger does a thunder ball that does a lot of damage to the area it hits.   The Constructs root themselves but do 100% more damage.   The tank can run out but there better not be other people in range he can smack.   The Menders are CC'able, maybe all of them all.     Adjusted tactic was to sheep the Menders, burn down the Chargers first.   Then the rest, I think menders after.

Big Construct Packs:  2 Constructs, they have flamethrowers, so don't be in front of him.  They also "throw" out runes on the ground underneath people.    Whoever stands under em turns into bombs.    Don't blow the raid up.

Big Titan Packs:    Single pulls, they have a front cone aoe shout that's physical damage, physical avoidance works.   They summon spark things that do minimal damage in 10 mans.

Achievements:

With Open Arms:  Defeat Kologarn without destroying either of his arms on Normal/Heroic Difficulty

Simple enough to try to do.   Only means we employ the tactic of screw the guy in the Stone Grip, and heal through it.    Or, hit it just enough to release him, and hope you got enough dps to finish off Kologarn before requiring you to kill the arm.    Or combine the two a bit, when arm is low, screw the guy in Stone Grip and focus on Kologarn.  Definitely see several possiblities to try.

Disarmed:  Destroy both of Kologarn's arms within 10 seconds and then defeat Kologarn on Normal/Heroic Difficulty.

There's a possible bug where if you use the arms to kill Kologarn, it will not count (they take off 15% hp each).   We did the Right Arm zerg strat til Kologarn was 40% ish, make sure Kologarn is above 30%.  Then got some dps on the Left Arm.   Went back on the right arm, while switching sometimes to keep left arm low too.   Then kill right, kill left, kill Kologarn.

If Looks Can Kill:  Defeat Kologarn without any raid member being hit by Focused Eyebeams on Normal/Heroic Difficulty.

Simple enough, don't get hit.   Nobody gets hit.

Rumble and Roll:  Defeat Kologarn with 25 Rubble creatures alive on Normal/Heroic Difficulty.

This might be deceptively tricky.  First thing is, someone OT'ing the Rubble to the side of course.   But each arm only seems to spawn 5 rubble.   So to do this, we need 5 arm deaths in the fight.   But, we killed Kologarn with only 3 arm deaths.

This could mean, we cannot dps Kologarn himself at all.   We must only deal with the arms.   And since we can't have both arms dead at the same time, it could mean we only kill 1 arm the entire fight.    So kill an arm, wait 60 sec, kill right arm again, etc.

Well but arms only take off 15% of Kologarn's HP each, so that's 5x15% = 75%.   That's still 25% of his hp we can afford to dps.   Though, that means at most 5% after each arm.   5% of hp in 60 sec.   That's nothing, there'll probably have to be forced downtime if we do this.

Perhaps just more tanks dealing with the adds without killing them be the way to go.  

Sources:

• http://www.mmo-champion.com/index.php?page=843
• http://www.stratfu.com/strats/Kologarn
• http://www.wowwiki.com/Kologarn

Health:

• Normal:  5,250,000
• Heroic:  25,000,000
• 10 Minute Enrage

Abilities:

• Tympanic Tantrum:  Deals 10% damage every 1 sec for 12 sec. Nearby enemies are also dazed for the duration. 2 sec cast / Channeled
• Light Bomb:  Charges the target with divine energy, causing them to sear nearby allies for 9 sec.
• Gravity Bomb:  Charges the target with dark energy, causing them to explode and pull in nearby allies after 9 sec.  (Pulls enemies within 10 yards into a gravity well, dealing 19000 to 21000 damage. Instant)

Adds:

• XM-024 Pummellers: melee fighter adds and use Arcing Smash, Uppercut, and Trample
• The XS-013 Scrapbots:  runs to XT-002 Deconstructor to repair it. If they manage to reach it XT-002 will consume them and regain health.
• XE-321 Boombots:  explode and deal damage to anyone within 20 yards, including NPCs.

Hard Mode:

To activate hard mode, destroy the exposed heart during a phase change and he restores to max health and gains the following abilities:

• Heartbreak:  The heart of the XT-002 Deconstructor has been severed, removing the combat limitations of the XT-002 Deconstructor. Damage increased by 30%. Health increased by 40%.
• Void Zone:  Summon a Void Zone that deals 7500 Shadow damage to enemies that stand within it. This is spawned by Gravity Bomb.
• Life Spark:  Light Bomb also spawns an add called Life Spark. This add will repeatedly cast Static Charge - Deals Nature damage to all enemies within 500 yards every 3 sec.

The Fight:

A mostly tank and spank with adds coming out type of fight.   He does Tympanic Tantrum which is like a thunderclap or Void Reaver's pound.   He makes people into bombs, so the ranged would be best be stacked together so the bomb guy can run out before killing the raid.

Every 25% (75%, 50%, 25% of total hp), he stops and adds come out.   Scrapbots will heal him if they reach him, so kill those asap.   Boombots blow up at 50% health damaging everything around them including other adds, so they can be used to help.   Pummellers must be offtanked, and taken care of after all the Scrapbots are dealt with.

Repeat.

Ok more details.  The boss is tanked in the back near the stairs.  The raid should spread out.  AoE healing is less effective, but AoE damage is also reduced.  

During add phase, the Heart is exposed for 30 seconds.   Every damage done to it will transfer to XT-002, and it is also vulnerable taking double damage.    This is significant in helping with the enrage timer.   The adds have a little lag time before they appear from the scrap piles from the 4 corners of the room.   Just make sure not to kill the heart, stop at 10-20% or so.  

After the heart phase, be sure to kill the remaining Scrapbots, utilizing the Bomb bots when you can.   Also for the Pummelers, we just let splash damage finish them off.   Though be careful they do cleave around melee, not lethal one-shot cleaves, but still hits hard.

For hard mode, during the add phase, destroy his heart.  This will reset his health, well actually increasing it too, along with damage.   You can do it in any of the add phase, but since it's the same hard mode loot in any of them too, it's best to do it early.

Added lethal abilties are Void Zones and a Life Spark add from the bombs for more aoe damage all around.

After destroying the heart, clean up the adds, there will be no more heart phases so no more bots coming, just straight dps.   Work out a system for the Gravity Bomb and Light Bombs.   We had Gravity Bombs go left, dropping off Void Zones there.     Light Bombs go right, and towards the tank, so the Life Spark can be closer to him to be pulled off.   Ranged will switch to dps it down.   Rinse and Repeat.

Achievements:

Nerf Engineering:  Defeat XT-002 Deconstructor without him recovering any health from XS-013 Scrapbots on Normal/Heroic Difficulty.

Simple task to do.   Just need to make sure of it.

Nerf Scrapbots:  Defeat 20 XS-013 Scrapbots within 12 seconds using XE-321 Boombots on Normal/Heroic Difficulty.

This may need a bit of a trick since these bots aren't tankable and only move towards the boss I believe.   So I'd imagine we'd have to tank in the middle, furthest from all 4 piles.   And simultaneously work on 4 boombots on each pile and get em to blow up the scrapbots within those 12 seconds.

Nerf Gravity Bombs:  Defeat XT-002 Deconstructor without any raid member dying from a Gravity Bomb on Normal/Heroic Difficulty.

Raid check, another simple one.

Must Deconstruct Faster:  Defeat XT-002 Deconstructor in 205 seconds on Normal/Heroic Difficulty.

Simple again in theory.  Probably just more gear, less healers, etc, etc.

Heartbreaker:  Defeat XT-002 Deconstructor after destroying his heart on Normal/Heroic Difficulty.

Hard Mode.  Well the fight resets with more damage more health, but not the timer though.   Most part the fight is the same, cept Gravity Bombs leave Void Zones to not stand in.   Light Bombs leaves a Spark add that does more damage.

Trash Info:

The 2 packs on either side have been brought back.   They were gone for a week due to a bug making them both linked.    Anyways, you'll find 3 tech gnomes, and a bunch of bots.    They bots themselves cleave and stuff, can hit hard, also one of them throws Sawblades up which are killable (14K hp) or they can rape the raid.

The tech gnomes are what to focus on first.   They can cast a shield that will heal them while in it, and reduces damage done to them by 90%.   So gotta interrupt those casts.   Or if they get it off, drag them out of the shields, they're big and yellow, can't miss them.

After that, most of the threat is gone, and the rest can be burned down.

Sources:

• http://www.mmo-champion.com/index.php?page=841
• http://www.stratfu.com/strats/XT002
• http://www.wowwiki.com/XT-002_Deconstructor

Health:

• Heroic:  24M
• Normal:  6.9M

Abilities:

• Flame Jets:  Stomps the ground causing geysers of flame to errupt under all enemies. These geysers deal 8483 to 9517 Fire damage, knocking the targets into the air and interrupting any spells being cast for 8 sec. In addition, the targets take 2000 Fire damage per second for 8 sec. 2.7 sec cast
• Scorch:  Fires a jet of flame, burning all enemies in front of the caster within 30 yards, dealing 3770 to 4230 Fire damage every half-second for 3 sec. Additionally, the ground is scorched by this effect causing it to catch on fire, dealing 7540 to 8460 Fire damage every second to all enemies within 13 yards. Iron Constructs within this radius will begin to heat up, eventually becoming molten.
• Slag Pot:  Charges and grabs a random enemy target, tossing them into the caster's slag pot. The target is unable to attack the caster and takes 7500 Fire damage every second for 10 sec. If the target survives, they are imbued with the magical slag, increasing their haste by 150% for until cancelled.
• Strength of the Creator:  Increases Ignis' damage by 15% each time an Iron Construct spawns. Stacks up to 99 times.

Iron Contructs:

• Heat:  Blasts all nearby Iron Constructs with intense heat, increasing their movement speed by 5% and haste by 5%. This effect stacks up to 20 times. If this effect stacks to 20, the affected Iron Construct will become Molten
• Molten:  The Iron Construct becomes Molten, increasing haste by 100%. In addition, Flames errupt out from the caster every second, dealing 4713 to 5287 Fire damage to enemies within 7 yards. Drag the Construct in the water and it will become Brittle.
• Brittle:  The cold water causes molten Iron Constructs to rapidly solidify, rendering them unable to act. In addition, if they are dealt more than 5000 damage during this state, they will shatter, dealing 18850 to 21150 damage to all enemies in a 10 yard radius.
• Shatter:  Deals 18850 to 21150 Physical damage to all enemies within 10 yards. Damage from this effect ignores armor.

The Fight:

This is mostly a tank and spank fight, but can hit the tank hard, upwards of 30K.   He will occasionally scorch the ground in front of him, so just move away.

Casters need to pay attention to Flame Jets timer, when it goes off it'll interrupt any spell casting for 8 seconds.   They are spells that are resistable or whatever spell avoidance immunity you got.   So use em to help mitigate damage.

Randomly charges and throws someone in the slag pot dealing 5000 damage per second, so heal him.  Should he live, he'll get a haste buff.    You can cast in it still, and use spells that make you immune, however if you do anything to remove the debuff, you will not get the buff afterwards (haste), and will not get the personal achievement.

There are constructs in the room he'll activate.   Each one active increases his damage by 15%, off tank em.

The way to kill those is to drag em into the scorched ground til they become Molten (stack to 20), then drag them to the pools of water.   They'll be rendered unable to act for 15 sec, so run away and ranged blow em up, a single 5K hit will kill it.   Not collective damage, a single hit.

We settled on more of a 3 point drop off locations for the scorch.   Left, Center, Right sides of the pool of water, both sides, and dropping it about 3 times between each pool on either side.   This keeps the scorches relatively close so the OTs can drag Constructs into them before they wear off.   The raid mostly stands in the middle, with only some healers and DPS to move in range for shattering Constructs.

The Trash:

There's a pair of fire giants, and a few pairs of golems, and pairs of elementals.    Here's the quick and dirty versions...

Fire Giants:  Tank em apart, they do a damaging fire aura to everyone in range.    Even after death so stay away from their corpses.

Golems:  Charged people and put a slowing attack speed debuff on tank.  Nothing huge.

Elementals:  These have a trick we remember.   They spawn out 2 fire cyclones that knock you around and do I believe 7K damage per tick.    Run away run away.   Melee could run away, but I kind of found when they spawn, they aren't really that lethal, they knock you way back.    So as long as the cyclones aren't chasing you down in particular to get hit again, just run back.

Achievements:

Shattered:  Defeat Ignis the Furnace Master after shattering 2 Iron Constructs within 5 seconds on Normal/Heroic Difficulty.

This does not require you to kill Ignis within that timeframe either.  It's only asking you to shatter 2 within 5 seconds.   Then don't wipe.     So easiest thing is to gather 2, drag em to fire, then blow em up.  Then continue the rest of the fight normally.

Hot Pocket:  Survive being thrown into Ignis the Furnace Master's Slag Pot on Normal/Heroic Difficulty

This would be a personal achievement.  Part luck to be chosen, part healers to heal you through it.   Do not use bubbles (or equivalent) to escape it if you want this achievement.

Stokin' the Furnace:  Defeat Ignis the Furnace Master in 4 minutes on Normal/Heroic Difficulty

Just a straight dps it down in time thing.   Quite easy once this fight is on farm, don't really even need special stacking if you got decent dps.

Sources:

• http://www.wowwiki.com/Ignis_the_Furnace_Master
• http://www.stratfu.com/strats/Ignis
• http://www.mmo-champion.com/index.php?page=839