Nefarian Night DoT Style:

So tonight is the first run on Nefarian, I thought it would be nice to have a visual aid as we go.  We will probably change up the strategy several times, but this should serve as a good starting point.  I'm not explaining the whole fight here, its mostly just placement.

Phase 1A:

 The fight will start with Darktholumew grabbing Ony "X" by the face and bringing her to the point and the position shown here.  Betholoumew will be tanking Nef "Skull" on the opposite side.  I will be kiting adds "Stars" until they die, at which point I will join the dps group.

Phase 1B:

When Ony does Lightning Disharge Dark will move her so the tail points at the dps group.  At these intervals the sides of Ony are bad places to be.  How we deal with this positioning may change from what I made here, but the idea remains the same.  Sides of Ony = Bad.  The main idea is to get Ony to about 5-10% and then switch to Nef and drop his health to 80% before killing her.

Phase 2:

As soon as Ony dies the fight turns into a bad Indianna Jones rip off.  The floor fills with hot molten magma.  Each of us will retreat to our special pillar which will be painted with purple, blue, or yellow.  (We will assign teams later.)  There will be "Chromatic Prototypes" at each pillar.  We will have to interrupt each cast of "Fire Nova".  We can continue to dps Nef during this time, but only if the healers can handle it.  Also, we need to make sure the Prototypes die at the same time (or thereabouts) so we don't have them running around in phase 3.  When Ony is close to dying in phase 1, be moving to your pillar if you can.


Phase 3:

Same as phase 1, with the following changes:

• Dark will be kiting the adds.
• Rumbler is all time Nef, and her main responsibility is making sure to keep Nef's breath away from adds, and coordinating with Dark to make sure he has enough room to kite them.
• Dps is going to be FUCKING BURNING!  Cooldowns, Bloodlust, dogs and cats having sex!  Also, DPS and healers are responsible to stay out of the way of breath and tail lash.
• Graal's "sigh" intervals will be increased.

I hope this helps us tonight.  Making these maps was time consuming, but i'll be glad to do it again if it helps us down a boss.  Lemme know if you think this was helpful.

Pah Pah Pah Progression?!?!

So the mighty mighty DoT had quite the week for progression.  Makes me wish we had a 3rd day to raid.  Atramedes and Chimaeron are regarded as some of the harder fights in Cataclysm as a whole and I feel like we got our learn on fairly quickly with each of them.  Chimaeron in particular was most impressive to me.  90% of the team had not seen the fight and we learned it, applied it, and killed it in just shy of an hour.  Will Nefarian be so easy to beat?  Most likely not.  However I feel that we have grown well as a group and have become much more capable since our "Sindragosa wipefest" days.

So here's my thought, I would like to get Nefarian and his bitch ass robot sister down and I would like to devote 1 night a week to doing so.  I realize that there is gear to be had for everyone on the prior 5 bosses, but we will never be able to say "Ah, we got everything we need from these guys," like we did in ICC.  Different game now, for us anyway.  There are still a lot of guilds where we were a few months ago.  They go in, beat up magmaw, wipe 10 times on Omni-Tron, take their maelstrom crystals and call it a night.   That's not us anymore, and I don't want it to be that way again.

We have a shot at downing all twelve bosses before the next content patch, and I think thats a great goal for us.  The 4.1 patch is in release status on the PTR right now.  That means we will see it drop the Tuesday after next (Thats my best educated guess).  4.1 will not have any raid content, but the new Zul'Gurub and Zul'Aman 5 man's will have a shit ton of purple "almost tier" gear available for us to fill holes in our sets.  If 4.1 drops say, on the 26th, we won't see Firelands for at least a month and a half.  This gives us a solid 2 months to beat Nefarian, Ascendant Council, Cho Gall, and floaty turban wearing guy.

How do we do it?  It actually won't be all that tough.  On Tuesdays we go in on a fresh run of Bastion of Twilight.  I figure including a Baradin Hold run we can get up to Ascendant Council and have a good amount of time on them as well.  On Wednesday we go and punch Nefarian in the face.  Ideally we beat Nefarian, and then we reset BWD each week for gear on Tuesday while making BoT the raid lockout night.

There is something I need from you guys to do this:  Attendance.  I know a lot of you are great at getting to every raid, and I appreciate it.  I really really do.  The issue with doing top end game bosses is that we can't explain the fight every week because our composition changed.   I know people have real life shit, and work and the like, but I need people who want to raid to sign up.  Tentative is not acceptable.  We need to have a yes or no so we know what we are doing.  Nothing sucks worse than waiting till after we are supposed to start because so-and-so might show up.

Last Note From Thrall's Hand:
Thank you all for reading my bitch list.  Love you guys.  Everyone is doing really really well.  Except Bhoard.  (He can't read so don't feel bad for him.)

               -Kay

Ps, the video for this weeks post was requested by Lyrra:

Damn....  If you want to get the taste of that out of your mouth: