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July 16, 2009, 06:08 AM
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Ironbound.. so close I can taste it
Ironbound.. so close I can taste it Author: Saobuks Posted: July 14, 2009 06:40 PM This past week was perhaps our most successful week in this current content. We were able to knock out Firefighter on Tuesday and 1 Light yesterday, which basically leaves Freya+3, which is probably the hardest out of all of the "harder" hard modes (used to be Firefighter but they made it a whole lot easier recently). Regardless, this leaves us 1 hard mode away from getting that amazing Ironbound drake. I still remember back before Ulduar when I first saw the skins for those.. it looked amazing then and is still amazing every time I see them flying around Krasus' Landing. I'll probably start doing what I used to do when we got our black drakes: alt-tab AFK in Dalaran while mounted. This week the goal is obviously to take care of Freya with all her stupid elders up. I'm probably going to spec into Deep Demo for that fight for two reasons. One is that I haven't raided as Deep Demo ever. I've never even used Metamorphosis. I know it's cool and all, but there's really no point in raiding with a usually inferior spec whose utility is already provided by another person (we always have an elemental shaman in the raid, even in our 10man group). The second, more important reason is that it seems that deep demo is a very strong spec for this particular fight. Although it doesn't appear in the top 20 WMO parses more than 13/58, it's average rank is higher than destro. Plus, it's the only time you really see demo up there competing against other specs in hard modes. There are plenty of reasons why deep demo is extremely viable for this fight. The first talent that you know will help you a lot is soul link. With the amount of damage the raid incurs during the various add phases, it doesn't hurt to decrease it as much as possible. Damage reduction is even increased via MD. Really though, I could care less about reducing raid damage but what makes deep demo so potent is its AoE capabilities. Metamorphosis + Immolation + Hellfire is perhaps the most devastating AoE combo (probably right?). This means a lot to successfully handling the detonating lashers. There are differing strats on how to deal with those little buggers, but hopefully we use the single target strat, which basically involves the raid AoE'ing them all down to about 25-30%, then focus fire dps'ing them one at a time, thereby controlling the influx of raid damage resulting from them exploding. It's definitely the most controlled way of doing things, and if we're able to AoE them to 25-30% fast enough, we'll have plenty of time to single target each one down. Another reason why I plan on going meta/ruin is threat. The triple add phase always gives me trouble mainly because of threat. Obviously, we're not all that efficient at that particular phase yet as there are numerous ways to make sure dps is high on all three mobs while still being able to control them. But if I'm able to solely focus on the snaplasher without worrying about threat ever, then by all means I'll do it. I honestly suck so bad at Freya as destro, but hopefully meta/ruin will alleviate some of my issues. The last bonus is probably the felguard. Melee pets are generally safe in this encounter, and I won't lose its dps during conservator phases since it will always be right on the tree, and the tree will always be tanked next to a mushroom. So even if I'm forced to sit outside a mushroom due to nature's fury and less than ideal mushroom spawns, I'll be able to at least contribute some dps. I don't expect us to get her down this week, considering we'll have to repeat Firefighter, which we barely killed last week (we had about 3 seconds left before one of mimiron's parts revived). I can see us having a hard time on that. It's a fun fight though, and I have a certain bias towards it since I hold the #13 worldwide warlock dps parse on WMO (lol). If somehow we get our drakes this week, then it would be pretty ****ing awesome to say the least. Post a comment... |
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