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Many heals were distributed.
Many adds were destroyed.
We got some loots.
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Kamigami's first kill of Blood Queen (2nd week kill, post vampiric bite timer change).
We used 5 healers to make sure we had enough DPS. We had a lot of organization around who was calling out what in vent, making sure the first biters had fear wards up, and making sure everyone who had an AOE heal used it during the air phases (shadow priests used hymn of hope, all druids were using tranquility). Took us a while to get to the point where everyone was doing the right thing to get our first kill.
This guide is to be used in conjunction with this thread on our guild website:
http://www.redruminc.com/Forums/tabid/250/aff/33/aft/1525/afv/topic/Defa...
Here you will find the macros and the diagram used in the video.
This tactic will work for 10 or 25 man and only 1 person in the raid needs to spend around 5 minutes modifying macros (easily done on the trash approaching the queen)
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1/22 Hotfixes
http://forums.worldofwarcraft.com/thread.html?topicId=22748755899&sid=1:
Just wanted to update players on the hotfixes that have been applied recently to Icecrown Citadel...
Blood Prince Council
- Prince Keleseth will no longer melee players. So if you get knocked into Keleseth or happen to move by him, he won't swipe in between his casts and kill a non-tank.
- The first Shadow Resonance should appear earlier in the fight, which will allow the Keleseth tank to have more orbs on him or her if Keleseth is empowered second instead of third. We didn't want which Blood Prince was empowered second to be a major element of the difficulty in the fight.
- We reduced the melee damage for the Princes by 10% for the 10 player difficulty. They were doing less damage than the 25 player before the hotfix, but this change lowers the damage further.
- Empowered Flames will now run out of power after shooting fewer firebolts in the 10 player difficulty. We did not change the initial impact damage.
Blood-Queen Lana'thel
- The Blood-Queen is no longer spawned until the Blood Princes dies. This will prevent any unfortunate entry of her highness while a raid is fighting the Blood Princes.
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Kamigami first kill of Blood Prince Council. POV from holy priest, bear druid, and hunter.
Our kill had a shadow priest handling the shadow prince (gathering dark orbs), bear and protadin on the melee princes. We had been having issues with the kinetic bombs, so we had 3 range making sure all 4 bombs were always in the air coordinating in a separate vent channel. Otherwise it just took some attempts to get everyone up to speed with the various abilities to get the kill.
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Kamigami's very ugly first kill of Putricide. Feral tank and holy priest POV.
In phase 1 and 2, we kept him by the green side of the room to attempt to minimize movement needed for target switching. We kept both of our ret pallies on Putricide the whole time to make sure we were getting him down quickly enough (the previous week we weren't getting enough damage to him and were approaching the enrage timer). We used 3 tanks for the whole fight to extend phase 3 as well.
Our warrior tank died 1.1 seconds after Putricide died to a Malleable Goo, so it was a close one :)
Hunter and Holy Priest POV.
We were really melee heavy on our first two attempts which made the fight near impossible for us. Once we got a few more ranged in the raid, it became much easier.
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Hunter and Holy Priest POV.
Pretty much just another ranged perspective on the fight. Nothing super special about this attempt. This was shortly after server-up so we were fighting lag and the occasional disconnect.
Hunter's ammo mod really, really wanted to switch ammo back and forth on the bone spikes since they were non-elite, hence the occasional weirdness in her UI.
ICC First Night
Well, we one-shot everything, except Deathwhisper who we'd never seen before and knew nothing about -- and we two-shot her. 10's was a one-shot on everything. It's not a hard instance.
That said, it's harder than ToC I think. Not due to DPS checks, but due to requiring things like target switching, and healers keeping people up while they themselves move out of fire. And moving out of fire.
As a mage, it was definitely frustrating that so much of the fights are situations where JoW will not be up on your target. Not an issue for Fire, but as Arcane I felt the loss.
It's good to get back to something that feels like a real instance. I liked having trash again, I liked moving, I liked having variety in the places we fought and what we did.
A special thanks to Kody over at World of Raids for giving our streams some front page space -- we really appreciate it!
As far as the site goes, we handled over ten times the normal traffic throughout the course of the day and it only slowed down a little bit. And now I have some performance data so hopefully the next time the impact will be less!
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