Streakers downed Valiona and Theralion last night. (to be honest, I had to look them up to find out their names… I told you the details detracted from the magic right?) Yes, we are a little behind many, probably ahead of others, but then our members have been battling boss mobs of their own: flood, cyclones, earthquakes, 4,000 ping lag leeches, overgrown lawns (hey it nearly killed me!).
I have to say it’s a fun fight with half the battle knowing the differences between purple and blue dragons and which one is actually on the ground.
You want to get hit by some bombs (well at least fear them less), group for some, divide for others all the while watching who the current dragon is looking at and watching the sky for those lovely pink rivers of flame.
Fun, fun, fun, wipes and fun.
It’s cool that there are two dragons sharing the same health pool, no fussing about wondering who has to die first, just pew pee pew with an extra measure of pew.
Then when it’s all over, around the 1st corner, you run into two big buggers with their “raid flares of death”. Ohh the giggles when the first raid member went down with WTF was that. Quickly followed by a different party member speaking from his grave “Ohhh that’s what’s killing us”
No, not me, but I was laughing away.
Around the next corner and “Oh shit, this room is crawling with mobs”
Where we quickly discovered that once again, two is better than one.
Unfortunately Jono fails at math, so 2 became 3, became 4, became 5 and OOM calls from the healers.
Meh, maybe I shouldn’t stand in the fire.
Trash cleared and what can we see…
Not one, but two bosses!
If only the epics dropped in twos…
It was a seriously fun night. We got the dragons down on our last attempt, we weren’t quite winging the dastardly dragon duo (we were there Monday fighting the lag monster), but we were tweaking on the run.
With less than 30 minutes left on raid time there was no point in continuing, especially as one of our members left to smack his lag about.
But, never let the reality of zero potential progress stop a bunch like Streakers.
We pressed on, winging it all the way to the next boss as I described previously. With negative time on scheduled the raid clock, there was no real point in having a shot at the bosses, but then is there really a point in playing the game at all?
We winged it.
We died.
We laughed.
We learned a valuable life lesson.
Fire burns!
Of course I could have told then that, I like burning things.
At least no one can complain about value for money.
How often do you get two for the price of one?
Anyway, that’s my token WoW post, I must write more, it kinda rolled off my fingertips.
Gnomer and Out!
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Gratz on the kill! The Twin Dragons are definitely a fun fight for ranged – can’t speak about the excitement for the melee folk, but hey, when their life consists of typically staring at a bosses arse, can’t be too exciting, amirite?
Anywho, enjoy the victory and prepare for The Council – that one will test your powers of pyromancy for sure.
I would never speak for the melee, they can speak for themselves… ohhh, they are melee, might be a struggle to string 3 words together…
I know our Rogues were having a ball cloaking (or not) out of Blackout.
As for the council… who is afraid of a council? Are they going to be any worse than a local council… ohh hang on, they suck the life out of you with red tape… maybe I should be afraid.
ugh, two bosses who share health. seen that before, and it sounds like our guild is in for a hard fight on that one….
This fight is just a dance, even getting sent to the other dimension is just a dance to a portal.
Get your boogie on and the Dragons will drop like flies.
The single health pool at least means you don’t have to do any of that fancy-smancy “stop DPS” stuff which is just completely unnatural to someone that has a Flask timer ticking.
The twin dragons aren’t so bad. The council fight afterwards (there’s actually 5 different named creatures you fight – four combine into 1 with the average of the health remaining) is much trickier.
Pink swirlies are the new void zones and will make another appearance in the Cho’Gall fight. Learn them well here and do not dance in them.
Assign ONE person to dispel Blackout. Have anyone else turn off their Decursive, remove all their dispel abilities from their action bars, and break their thumbs when they continuously dispel Blackout too soon. Valiona will breath fire on half the room right after Blackout, be prepared. She also likes to do a Blackout during the second and later transitions as Theralion is becoming active, dodge crap on the ground and stay close enough together to soak the damage.
Theralion will face the ranged group as he casts his big void zone. Watch the dragon and don’t be caught off guard when the ground underneath you turns black and starts killing you.
Engulfing magic: stop casting and GTFO ASAP. Once free from the group, start casting again. You will not take damage, just any one near you, and you gain a buff while the debuff is on you. Smite healing with EM is sweet. Alternatively, if you have no HoTs, no DoTs, and no other random spell casts that you cannot control, you can stay in the raid but you can’t do squat. Maybe wand. I haven’t tried that yet.
/puts fingers in ears
la-la-la-la I can’t hear you!
Didn’t you read my post 2 back?
We did…
Phase (dragon) 1.
Everyone close to dragon (slightly spaced), ranged to side/back
All in to dragons mouth for black out.
Avoid fire when breathed
rinse, repeat.
Pink swirlies = time to move to 2nd phase.
Avoid pink swirlies, change targets, range stack on whoever has green diamond &
prepare tomove whenever dragon looks at us.Phase 2.
melee stack on tank for blackouts
range stack on green diamond for blackouts.
range move anti-clockwise (or right for those clock-impaired) when dragon looks at us (not when void zone is already under feet)
rinse, repeat
Engulfing magic either stay still and don’t cast (don’t ever tell me to do that kk?), or move forward between melee and ranged and pew pew, or move 3 void lengths to right and pew pew… green diamond group will reach you by time/as EM is finished.
Bubble world… 1) how the hell did you get caught anyway… 2) just go to the portal and click. 3) you can continue to dps if and only if you can “kite” and avoid bad soap bubbles. – just go to portal before your health ticks away.
Of course it was explained better/worse, more completely/less completely.
We weren’t winging it as completely blind as we did a few weeks back… but what I took out of the strat at the time was.
Some bad stuff you want to get out of.
Some bad stuff if fun, as long as you don’t share it with your friends, then it becomes bad.
OK, ready…