Yeti Chow
Posted 08-06-2009 at 08:02 AM by Horacio
Or....my review of the new stuffs.
Well, as it turns out, our MT was unable to get his computer patched and UI rebuilt prior to the patch so I had to take over and face new content last night.
It wasn't bad. I take back 38.9% of the bad things I said about the whole concept of the patch. We killed regular 25 man mode after some learning basic concepts like "fire=hot" and get out of the way of the giant runaway yeti. took us I guess 5 or 6 pulls and I died on the kill because he charged someone, got enraged and squashed me.
My threat is definitely up. I was touching 8-10K TPS in spikes just using my normal rotation. I was never in any danger of losing threat there or in Ulduar except on Hodir where I alone wore FrR gear, 3 pieces and nearly paid the price but never lost him.
Devestate damage......wow, its just like as advertised but you gotta see it. Being able to spam the crap out of it means alot of threat and improved damage. I saw 6K crits on XT's heart.
XT...holy crap! What did they do? We had 934 mobs streaming out of the piles....it was nuts! we actually decided to try hardmode to eliminate them but couldn't quite get the heart down so we just went on to kill him but it was ugly.
All in all, not bad. I've gotten all my gear up to date with epic gems. I need a few more for my JC trinkets. We're done with Ignis and that stingy jerk never dropped me a trinket so....off to farm the new instance on regular.
Did it on heroic....its different, I guess. Not awful, just weird. Seems like a bitch to heal because so many of the fights seem to have mobs that can be tanked but hit other players with damage throughout.
Well, as it turns out, our MT was unable to get his computer patched and UI rebuilt prior to the patch so I had to take over and face new content last night.
It wasn't bad. I take back 38.9% of the bad things I said about the whole concept of the patch. We killed regular 25 man mode after some learning basic concepts like "fire=hot" and get out of the way of the giant runaway yeti. took us I guess 5 or 6 pulls and I died on the kill because he charged someone, got enraged and squashed me.
My threat is definitely up. I was touching 8-10K TPS in spikes just using my normal rotation. I was never in any danger of losing threat there or in Ulduar except on Hodir where I alone wore FrR gear, 3 pieces and nearly paid the price but never lost him.
Devestate damage......wow, its just like as advertised but you gotta see it. Being able to spam the crap out of it means alot of threat and improved damage. I saw 6K crits on XT's heart.
XT...holy crap! What did they do? We had 934 mobs streaming out of the piles....it was nuts! we actually decided to try hardmode to eliminate them but couldn't quite get the heart down so we just went on to kill him but it was ugly.
All in all, not bad. I've gotten all my gear up to date with epic gems. I need a few more for my JC trinkets. We're done with Ignis and that stingy jerk never dropped me a trinket so....off to farm the new instance on regular.
Did it on heroic....its different, I guess. Not awful, just weird. Seems like a bitch to heal because so many of the fights seem to have mobs that can be tanked but hit other players with damage throughout.
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I dont like the new 5 man. The 25 man raid is...eh...no worse than VoA.
And yes, Ignis is being very stingy here also.Posted 08-06-2009 at 08:16 AM by Gehn 
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the trick we found for XT was that the bomb bots would explode in melee range, so simply get away from the bombs. We got the "blow up repair bots" achievement entirely by accident when they started getting to XT and literally domino exploded outwards. Do snares and death grips so the bomb bots have a good lead on the repair bots, but not too much of a lead... let the bombs do the work for you.Posted 08-06-2009 at 12:40 PM by Alent -
I believe this was hotfixed. At least according to mmo-champion.comPosted 08-06-2009 at 12:43 PM by Turkson -
We got that achiev also Alent. XT was a pain thats for sure but if you were able to do it without moving him to side before you have the bases for doing it again. Guilds that never beat him without tanking on side will have major problems.Posted 08-06-2009 at 01:59 PM by Sylvaneart - XT was awesome. Normally we assign 1 aoe dps to each corner that we arent covering. Hearing the changes, I assigned two... when the adds started coming I just told ALL dps to break off and deal with it. Honestly it was a bit harder, but a lot more fun. Shame they had to fix it.
Posted 08-07-2009 at 06:21 AM by dadricvertanis - We went to the new 5man Heroic with a Pally healer...not renowned for their party wide heals and lets just say....it was rough. 3 of us had never been (including me, the tank) so we wiped the first try but squeezed it out on try two.
Even reg mode is a bit of a pain with the 3rd phase of the Black Knight nuking the healer regardless of how much threat is on him.
Nothing ground breaking in fight mechanics though, unless you count the first section being done on mounts. All in all, I thought it was fairly entertaining.Posted 08-09-2009 at 02:13 PM by TiKrazeeeNeg
