9/26 recap

[Sol]

got to game with 2 folks from Requiem, Ralcah and Shankr... thanks for coming along! Hoping to get to know more of the Requiem crew.

The rest of the group was HLS tonight. biggest HLS turnout for an event yet!

3 warriors merc, sol, be
3 priests nightengale, soy, yexia
2 druids manogan, duerdon
3 shaman potpie, myrkris, ralcah (req)
4 rogues wump, despicable, cybidium, shankr (req)
2 warlocks myrcinstatos, unka
3 mages warcaster, rollinz, mudsloth

i think we had a nice mix of healing and DPS and uber crowd control abilities. a great group no doubt. but, we didn't have the skills and experience to drop the bloodlord. holding aggro on this guy is an incredible pain. he seems to have some partial immunity to the default warrior Taunt. we tried him twice, before we had to hang it up. also, we didn't clear everything outside his ziggurat area... just a note that clearing all that would take another 30-60 minutes. so skip what you can before you go into the courtyard of the bloodlord.

i watched the video of a group dropping him on the beta server. they left the raptor up, and focused on the bloodlord first. they didn't appear to lose their MT, but the MT had trouble keeping aggro and I can definitely see why... he runs all over the place dropping agg easily. Once you start losing people, he starts leveling up and getting more and more uber. we had him down to about 76%, but started losing people every 15-20 seconds... he ended up going down to 70%, but by that point he was about level 80 and was hitting for 3000 on plate wearers.

gotta get a strategy to keep the DPS alive and manage aggro better. This is a long war with the bloodlord, and is not going to be over quick.


I can see why this formidable mob drops very nice weapons. he is a badass!

video here:
http://www.wowguru.com/movies/cat/17/

[Sol]

guide book

http://whataboutpp.com/zgs/

[Duerdon]

The snake boss fight was ubah as hell though! I'd say we've got him pretty much mastered now! GO HAWC! :)

[Warcaster]

To pre-empt Myrcinstatos.....

"Venoxxis is our bitch"

;)

BTW, CTRA has a nice pop-up message that alerts you when someone is being watched.

[Warcaster]

Our first attempt at these groups (found on the way to the Bloodlord) we did the traditional CC the caster / DPS the melee approach. Bad idea.

The Blooddrinkers have an AE effect that hits for about 300 damage AND heals them. It also seems to break CC but I can't confirm that. When the AE healing/damage is stacked with 4 mobs the effect is pretty spectacular -- in a raid wipage sort of way.

Our second attempt we CC'd all the Blooddrinkers and beat down the priests. Then we worked the drinkers one at a time.

The other trick with these guys is to have AT MOST the MT and 1 other melee on the Blooddrinkers. Everyone else has to stand back out of the AE effect and do ranged damage. The more people in the AE range the more these guys heal themselves. The mages/warlocks doing CC absolutely have to keep track of their charges and keep them under control until the MT breaks it.