10-27-2009, 08:56 PM
Quote:Yes, we spent quite a long time working on Vashj. But I never felt we were undergeared for it - just that we needed to coordinate properly. Failures were an issues of strategy and execution. Working on HToC beasts last night, I felt like the tanks were barely on the edge of success. Any little tiny issue with the healers and a tank went -splat- from full to dead. Vashj and Kael and the others never felt that way to me. Vael did, but only because it was a gimmick fight. If you didn't have the resist gear, you were in trouble.
My issue with the way it's designed is that normal-mode TOC is so easy, and heroic is a total wall. On top of that, the first boss in heroic is one of the hardest. It doesn't bother me that we can't finish heroic-10 yet, but we can't even get past the first encounter!
That's my beef as well. Taking in our best geared, best played toons that are ToC25 geared we can squash the first four bosses in heroic ToC10, but with a full raid that got every boss in ToC25 on farm status within 2 pulls the first week they were out, we have not come within 20% of having the first beast down by the time the worms spawned.
I'd rather heroic mode twins have been the big DPS check for us and beasts be more about coordination and learning, so we had something to work hard on each week for the past month or two, whereas now that we are maybe approaching having the gear for heroic mode beasts, attendance has fallen off massively.
Jormuttar is Soo Fat...