Yesterday we, the clearly insane members of Touched by a troll went into VoA 10 and killed Toravon.
Then, we went for Koralon, Archavon and Emalon, all at the same time.
Clearly insane.
But I can’t help but feel that this is the way this instance was supposed to be done. It’s as though all along we’ve been bitching that VoA bosses are too easy, when they were never really designed to be seen alone.
And really, as brothers, fellow watchers, you can’t imagine that on hearing the rampaging army of little people rush through their corridors, they wouldn’t want to jump to their comrades defence.
Anyway we didn’t get the fight done. Our problem was really just in the tanking, and the timing. We have Koralon and Archavon on low health, being worked down by us tanks while the rest of the group barring a healer or two who stay to keep us up are off at Emalon. At some point, we always get unlucky with a tank being grabbed by Archavon while Koralon is casting Meteor Fists, which by that point is hitting very very hard, and the tank dies. Hard. In the face. Either that or Archavon hits his enrage timer before expected (thanks to some inaccurate boss mods timers) and I get flattened.
Our strategy for next time: both tanks in the Koralon/Archavon room should have 390+ fire resistance. We did some little tests afterwards, when all were in bed except Cherana and I, on the trash before Koralon. They do a miniature Meteor Fists. I took the hits alone, and with 410 fire resistance, I got hit for roughly 11k, resisting up to 17k each hit. Scale that up to Koralon’s Mighty Meteor Fists and you should be reducing them initially to (on a single tank) 12k hits, growing to 25k hits when Molten Fury is fully stacked. Totally healable. (I have lots of faith in our healers, dey be good mon!)
And thanks, Zorzil, for coming on your warrior to tank this with us. We’ll get it for your warlock as soon as we can find another tank insane enough to do it!
June 15, 2010 at 1:10 pm |
Also, this was the most fun I’ve had in wow, for a loong time! Doing insane/silly things in wow stands out from the tedious bits (such as farming, instance stuff and such). And I know I didn’t contribute much to the whole tactics discussion myself, but listening to the rest of the guild tinkering, changing details and making reasonable suggestions made me feel like I was playing a different game entirely – one that wasn’t relying on you reading it all beforehand, wich means you get to figure things out yourself, like in a game such as zelda, and it made me feel like a gamer again. Moar of that pl0x!
June 17, 2010 at 5:38 pm |
YOU! Where is you! You better have a damn good explaination mister Matt