Time to get that whip cracking

We finally got Ilhoof down yesterday, not a fun fight. It just takes so long doing the same thing over and over again. Had a few goes on netherspite, people are still unsure of the concept behind him but that looks to be a much more fun encounter.

Nightbane, is impossible for me with the current lag... can't stance dance after spotting the ground tremor quickly enough . Will have to try timing the fears and offtanking him.

Doesn't matter when you have 1.4k ms and the fear is a 2sec cast. Ground is more reliable for me at least imo, i notice it earlier then the cast bar. Very sure i could do it with under 1k ms, just about.

Well, dealing with fear is one of the first things you learn as a MT, from Magmadar to Onyxia to Nefarian. You just need to spot the visual cues for the incoming fears, and if you can't do that, anticipate the fear. With my current lag it just means i can't deal with the fears with visual cues but instead anticipate the fears by stop watching the fears. Sigh... wtb dwarf/draenei priest.. sadly they all seem to have vanished in tbc.

First of all because of where you're standing you only tend to see the feet. Which means the enemy cast bar is often out of LOS as in too far to the top. The portrait bars are also at the top of the screen whereas my action bars are at the bottom. And i tend to look at the bottom of the screen for my action bars because of watching global cooldowns. So i'm more likely to be slow on picking up on the portrait cast bar which is at the top.

The whole screen shakes when they cast fear, and is really more obvious imo. Try it the next time, it really works.

I suppose a solution would be to either sit further away from the monitor which is impossible due to not having long enough arms or to move the portrait down to the bottom of the screen which really doesn't look that pleasing from an aesthetic point of view.

Hmm dunno if this is the right place to ask but I'm trying to figure out best config for netherspite and rotations for eating the zomglaserzpewpew. We normally try to roll with the following

1 Prot warrior
1 Prot Pally/off healer (if not available we use a dps warrior for OT purposes)
1 holy priest
2 Full time healers (druid/pala/priest)
1 Shadow mana battery
4 DPS slots (random - usually mage for water! and whoever i feel needs the gearing most. For learning days i take the more experienced ones though. Mixture melee/range)

The few times that we have been there have been total chaos. I'm saying to the rest of my team that it's good practice for the cubes on magtheridon and that we should take him down since Netherspite's the only thing we haven't cleared in Karazhan.

Hmm the shadowpriest eating the full blue beam sounds interesting. but if netherburn is ticking at 1200 every 5 secs won't he get 2 shotted when after 60 secs it deals +480% damage esp if unlucky with the breath on transition to phase 2? I imagine a warlock in the blue beam would require very little healing as well due to life drain + siphon life?

We're thinking of dpsing in the room as well during the breath stage though due to the fact that the door will be closed in the next patch. Dunno, how that'll work, guess we'll see when we get there again later this week.

This post has been edited by Kidicarus: May 17 2007, 02:55 PM

Grats!

Since you're beta testing SSC, which tank are you Frost or NR for Hydross? and what kind of stats are you packing?