Finding our footing once more
Up until that first pull of Heroic Marrowgar I was terrified that last night was going to be a repeat of the debacle that was the raid on Wednesday last week. The first time we tried Heroic Marrowgar last week I think I was two shot, ingloriously. The offtank followed suit with much haste.
Last night–much better! We had no problems dropping Marrowgar. In fact it felt like pre-4.0.1, except for dps was much higher, so the fight didn’t last as long. Then on Heroic LDW we had a somewhat clean one shot. With everyone’s additional health I’m sure that there were survivors to some unnecessary ghost explosions. I’m sure we wouldn’t have pulled it off that attempt if not for 4.0.1, but at this point I’m beyond caring about these externalities. I just want the night to go well.
And so it did. We pretty much rolled over everything in our path, cleanly one-shotting Heroic Putricide and only stalling at Heroic Sindragosa at the end of the night. With Put in particular I was convinced there were some boss damage hotfixes, because I was reduced to a paste by his normal mode last week, and yet last night I wasn’t taking that much of a beating. Lo and behold, there were.
Per the crab,
We’ve made some Icecrown and Halion changes already and we may need to make more.
He didn’t go into details but I’m certain that they nerfed boss damage in ICC and RS. On just about everything except for Sindragosa (who is still very truck-like in her damage) I was sitting pretty with very few “oh crap” moments, if any.
Last night was also a great chance to get more comfortable with the rotation and all our new toys. I’m much happier with 939 than I’ve been since it was first devised. It’s still annoying to CS every other attack, but the 9′s are not as locked in as they used to be (there’s some fluidity) to make the rotation require some thought. Plus, I’m really liking the choice presented by Shield of the Righteous and Word of Glory.
The former you use at the start to establish a threat lead, then once you’re comfortable with your position you can use Word of Glory to boost your survivability. A lot of times I found myself with a good 10% or so headstart on the dps and started popping the self-heal/absorb. I like any choice we get and any choice that rewards us for not choosing poorly. I think WoG is one of the those things.
Perhaps my favorite part of the night, though, was Heroic Festergut. Thanks to Vengeance and the the damage buff he slaps on the tank, I pulled off an 85,665 damage Shield of the Righteous crit. I’m sure I could have done much better with AW up, or some dps gear, though I was at least using my Bloodvenom Blade.
In any case, I close out my post with this demand: I want to see your crits. Email me screenshots of ShoR crits on your scrolling combat text or Recount, from Festergut. Your personal bests, the biggest number you can push. Next Friday I’ll do a post showing off the biggest ShoR crits I received. You can email your screenshots to rhidach [at] gmail [dot] com.
Housekeeping note! Tomorrow morning I’m flying out to California for Blizzcon. Blogging here will of course be light to non-existent, since Anafielle is also going to be there. However you can follow both of us and our Blizzcon-related ramblings on Twitter! Here’s my Twitter page, and here’s Anafielle’s.
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I have to agree with you there Rhid…i love our flexibility in our “9″ slots and WoG is great for soloing…used when soloing Kara alot because for some reason they hit me like a truck in there, but i barely take damage in ICC 5 man heroics….yeh its a level 70 raid, but still…i do wish/hope they play around with GC more, and maybe make Guarded by the Light last a little longer then a few seconds, for cases when ur not hit right away and you want to get use out of it.
Hi this my shor maximum! http://img686.imageshack.us/img686/1672/dibujoyuk.jpg
100.337!! in festergut yeah
@Rhidach
20 October 2010 at 1:19 pm #
Whoa! Nicely done!
I’m really loving the rotation now and having vengenance now helps a lot and its nice seeing us up on the dps meters doing more then 2k dps. Ill need to get a screenshot but I was getting 56-72k crits on festergut.
heya Rhidach, should I send that screenshot of my SoR crit to you or can you still grab it from my comment a tad back? Though, if I get a bigger crit I’ll send a new one in~ ^^
@Rhidach
20 October 2010 at 2:33 pm #
I can grab it from before, but send me a better on if you have it. I’ll use the biggest number I have from you.
Yeah, I didn’t get a higher crit tonight so I’ll go with the one from last. I guess I was trying too hard this time around. Was 93.4k, but not higher.
Hi guys I’m new to the site here :D will post my SotR crit then my raid is over :) was 101146 :D!!
Hi back :) here is the link: http://i1128.photobucket.com/albums/m488/Siegmal/SotRcrit2better.png
101.146 dmg crit on feastercut with 9 stacks and AW on :)
I came in 2nd on DPS on H:Festergut just behind our Shadow Priest. The DPS nearly executed me. :) My best crit so far is in the ~50k range, in a survival set. :) I’m loving this.
saif’s last blog ..Woah!
Just hit Festergut with ShoR for 103,252k. Will post a screen shot later.