04-15-2009, 12:40 PM
(This post was last modified: 04-15-2009, 12:43 PM by Mordekhuul.)
I'm starting this thread as a discussion place for Ulduar bosses. Contribute or read as desired.
We spent a few hours in there last night (the 10 man, our 25 man run is tonight).
Flame Leviathan is fun and really, really easy with all four towers dead. Next week we'll definitely keep 1-4 of them up.
We spent a lot of time before him wandering around figuring out where everything is, what our tanks do, etc, which was pretty fun.
We worked on XT-002 Deconstructor then, and wow.....it was fun and tough. Wearing tier 7.5 gear we didn't beat the enrage, which I find odd. You can discount the first 2-3 pulls, where we didn't realize there were two huge groups of trash mobs in the corners of the room that we needed to clear (lol), but then after that there isn't a whole lot to the fight and we still came up short.
We even switched to a single tank strat (our druid OT went to his cat dual spec and did DPS) and a double-healer strat (had our shaman swap to elemental) and still missed the enrage by 6.5% on our best pull.
It really made us wonder if we were doing something wrong, considering Ulduar is theoretically tuned for players with lower iLevel gear than us. Our line-up:
tankadin
feral druid dual'd to cat
holy priest
healadin
resto shaman dual'd to elemental
elemental shaman
death knight
shadowpriest
mage
enhancement shaman
Our approacht o XT was for me to tank him near the stairs and the raid to fan out to the left, right, and middle. We did not kill the heart after some initial attempts to do hard mode.
When add phases started our DPS would split up and kill adds, with our melee and single-target DPS going back on the boss when he became active, leaving our AOE dps'ers to deal with adds unless they needed extra help due to extra spawns on their side.
Our feral druid would go bear briefly when an elite add spawned and drag it near me so I could taunt it, and I would off-tank all adds throughout the fight (they did no damage to me even in my EF/Avoidance gear - I full blocked most of their attacks).
I'm pretty sure no repair bots reached the boss on our best attempt too.
We spent a few hours in there last night (the 10 man, our 25 man run is tonight).
Flame Leviathan is fun and really, really easy with all four towers dead. Next week we'll definitely keep 1-4 of them up.
We spent a lot of time before him wandering around figuring out where everything is, what our tanks do, etc, which was pretty fun.
We worked on XT-002 Deconstructor then, and wow.....it was fun and tough. Wearing tier 7.5 gear we didn't beat the enrage, which I find odd. You can discount the first 2-3 pulls, where we didn't realize there were two huge groups of trash mobs in the corners of the room that we needed to clear (lol), but then after that there isn't a whole lot to the fight and we still came up short.
We even switched to a single tank strat (our druid OT went to his cat dual spec and did DPS) and a double-healer strat (had our shaman swap to elemental) and still missed the enrage by 6.5% on our best pull.
It really made us wonder if we were doing something wrong, considering Ulduar is theoretically tuned for players with lower iLevel gear than us. Our line-up:
tankadin
feral druid dual'd to cat
holy priest
healadin
resto shaman dual'd to elemental
elemental shaman
death knight
shadowpriest
mage
enhancement shaman
Our approacht o XT was for me to tank him near the stairs and the raid to fan out to the left, right, and middle. We did not kill the heart after some initial attempts to do hard mode.
When add phases started our DPS would split up and kill adds, with our melee and single-target DPS going back on the boss when he became active, leaving our AOE dps'ers to deal with adds unless they needed extra help due to extra spawns on their side.
Our feral druid would go bear briefly when an elite add spawned and drag it near me so I could taunt it, and I would off-tank all adds throughout the fight (they did no damage to me even in my EF/Avoidance gear - I full blocked most of their attacks).
I'm pretty sure no repair bots reached the boss on our best attempt too.
Jormuttar is Soo Fat...