10-18-2006, 11:26 AM
(This post was last modified: 10-18-2006, 11:28 AM by NuurAbSaal.)
Ebonroc down on the first day we tried him (boy is this a strain on the tanks, to make matters worse, I was MT and the only warrior with Mortal Strike:o). After the walk in the park we had had with Firemaw we were quite a bit overconfident and it took us 5 tries ti kill him. As with Vaelastrasz, the tanking is the key it seems:)
We handled the trashmobs in a very unspectacular way in Firemaw's room. one hunter pulls the group to the goblin tank and the wyrmguard tank (far right corner when you enter the room, facing the ramp to the second level), two hunters peel off the warlocks to MT and OT (standing at the left end of the ramp, just around the corner) and the band spell binder is picked up and moved out of the way by tank number five. As Mirajj pointed out, the summons are easily taken care of and we kill warlocks-goblins-wyrmgaurd-spellbinder-summons. Went great.
The triple Wyrmguard pull gave us some trouble again, despite having double tanks on each one and keeping them away from the raid. Eventually two warriors would get the stun or the sleep hax brood affliction (as I have started to call it) and things got messy, we got them down with 10 people standing. Improvement is definately possible here, next time all the tanks will have Free Action Pots, should be easy mode then.
Ebonroc is a tough fight for tanks. We got him to 30% on first try (yay!) only to see him heal to 99% again when two tanks died all of a sudden and the backups got their taunts resisted. Nasty. There are just so many things you have to do at once here as a tank. Build aggro, duh. Check for Shadow of Ebonroc. Check for taunt resists. Check for Wing Buffet. Apply Mortal Strike. Get more aggro. Try to keep Shadow Flame away from the weaker third tank, minding all of the above. Gah! Tough and tiresome, but very entertaining at the same time.
Eventually we just had us tanks on Ebonroc for like 5 minutes without any damage, until we felt the taunt rotation was nailed down and had a ton of aggro to compensate for the buffets. After the kill I felt like taking a loooooooong nap.
We weren't going to use flasks on Flamegor until we felt we could kill him and after a silly death-on-pull by me and two wipes because other tanks died during the fight we called it a night and settled with just one first kill for the week. So far we have been killing a new boss every week we ventured into BWL after besting Vaelastraz on the first day of serious attempts. We might see Nef before TBC comes out after all.
To get a bit back on topic: It was great just running through the suppression room with no mobs in there:P
take care
Nuutabsaal
We handled the trashmobs in a very unspectacular way in Firemaw's room. one hunter pulls the group to the goblin tank and the wyrmguard tank (far right corner when you enter the room, facing the ramp to the second level), two hunters peel off the warlocks to MT and OT (standing at the left end of the ramp, just around the corner) and the band spell binder is picked up and moved out of the way by tank number five. As Mirajj pointed out, the summons are easily taken care of and we kill warlocks-goblins-wyrmgaurd-spellbinder-summons. Went great.
The triple Wyrmguard pull gave us some trouble again, despite having double tanks on each one and keeping them away from the raid. Eventually two warriors would get the stun or the sleep hax brood affliction (as I have started to call it) and things got messy, we got them down with 10 people standing. Improvement is definately possible here, next time all the tanks will have Free Action Pots, should be easy mode then.
Ebonroc is a tough fight for tanks. We got him to 30% on first try (yay!) only to see him heal to 99% again when two tanks died all of a sudden and the backups got their taunts resisted. Nasty. There are just so many things you have to do at once here as a tank. Build aggro, duh. Check for Shadow of Ebonroc. Check for taunt resists. Check for Wing Buffet. Apply Mortal Strike. Get more aggro. Try to keep Shadow Flame away from the weaker third tank, minding all of the above. Gah! Tough and tiresome, but very entertaining at the same time.
Eventually we just had us tanks on Ebonroc for like 5 minutes without any damage, until we felt the taunt rotation was nailed down and had a ton of aggro to compensate for the buffets. After the kill I felt like taking a loooooooong nap.
We weren't going to use flasks on Flamegor until we felt we could kill him and after a silly death-on-pull by me and two wipes because other tanks died during the fight we called it a night and settled with just one first kill for the week. So far we have been killing a new boss every week we ventured into BWL after besting Vaelastraz on the first day of serious attempts. We might see Nef before TBC comes out after all.
To get a bit back on topic: It was great just running through the suppression room with no mobs in there:P
take care
Nuutabsaal
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