Brutallus Down!
Logging on for the raid, it didn't seem like we had the people on to get Brutallus. We were short DPS, and we were short healers. But we'd never hit the enrage, and people were still chaining burn on each other occasionally, and we hadn't really had much time on the boss (3-4 hours at that point) because we never seemed to have the right groups, so we went for him anyway.
We got the positioning down so people weren't chaining burn to each other and the tanks weren't dying at the start. However, half the burn victims seemed to die With only 1 shadow priest and 7 healers, some of them undergeared things weren't great, but we had gotten a good handle on the basics. After 2 hours we finally got some other healers to log on, so Ronery went back to shadow and we decided to try 8 healers. Eight healers is more than ideal, because it can be done with seven, but we'd been frustrated with only 1 shadowpriest (vampiric embrace helps a LOT) and having people die because when they got burn they were already low.
So we tried 8, and decided to see where we were. We had 1 pull that did ok, and at least showed we could survive burn with 8, so DPS started going full consumables. And you know what? We finally hit the enrage, Brutallus at 8% when the last persion died. So we DPS'd a little harder, and worked on our enrage strategy and hit 5%. After a stupid 20% wipe due to some DPS dying early we had all our cooldowns ready to go. At 2% he enraged, but our paladins were ready with a taunt rotation. We still didn't have that perfect so at 1% he killed half the DPS with a meteor slash, but in the end, he died. (And, in true OOT fashion, 90% of people still up had burn, having chained it to each other, so except for the rogues who could cloak of shadows, the rest of the raid proceeded to keel over)
Thank god.
A word of warning about screenshots though. As we were getting ready, one of our raiders warned us not to AoE or we'd pull Felmyst, who was circling through the air. With this carefully in mind, we posed for the screenshot above. And then Vast said "Ok, do your flashy effects!" With those people who remembered the admonition against AoE screaming in horror(I admit I had my finger over volley and stopped just in time) AoE begain.
And Felmyst arrived.
We got the positioning down so people weren't chaining burn to each other and the tanks weren't dying at the start. However, half the burn victims seemed to die With only 1 shadow priest and 7 healers, some of them undergeared things weren't great, but we had gotten a good handle on the basics. After 2 hours we finally got some other healers to log on, so Ronery went back to shadow and we decided to try 8 healers. Eight healers is more than ideal, because it can be done with seven, but we'd been frustrated with only 1 shadowpriest (vampiric embrace helps a LOT) and having people die because when they got burn they were already low.
So we tried 8, and decided to see where we were. We had 1 pull that did ok, and at least showed we could survive burn with 8, so DPS started going full consumables. And you know what? We finally hit the enrage, Brutallus at 8% when the last persion died. So we DPS'd a little harder, and worked on our enrage strategy and hit 5%. After a stupid 20% wipe due to some DPS dying early we had all our cooldowns ready to go. At 2% he enraged, but our paladins were ready with a taunt rotation. We still didn't have that perfect so at 1% he killed half the DPS with a meteor slash, but in the end, he died. (And, in true OOT fashion, 90% of people still up had burn, having chained it to each other, so except for the rogues who could cloak of shadows, the rest of the raid proceeded to keel over)
Thank god.
A word of warning about screenshots though. As we were getting ready, one of our raiders warned us not to AoE or we'd pull Felmyst, who was circling through the air. With this carefully in mind, we posed for the screenshot above. And then Vast said "Ok, do your flashy effects!" With those people who remembered the admonition against AoE screaming in horror(I admit I had my finger over volley and stopped just in time) AoE begain.
And Felmyst arrived.
posted by Harwin at 10:09 PM
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