[WoW] 3.1 - Ulduar

[BurnemWizfyre]

Paladin or Shaman healing would drive me insane, Resto druid healing is very fun.

[Hatorade]

Originally Posted by BurnemWizfyre

Paladin or Shaman healing would drive me insane, Resto druid healing is very fun.

Pure Resto druid myself but I miss all the oh shit button my priest has.

[Murr]

In order to better reward players for completing hard mode encounters in 10-player Ulduar, we will be updating weapon rewards from these hard mode encounters to an item level of 232 in the next minor patch. Players already with these items should see an increase in the power of these items to better reflect the new item level.

Nice touch. Gonna have to push to get Steelbreaker down last now since the fist off him is going to be really nice (179 dps, socket, 2.7 speed). We've just been doing Iron Council ezmode the last few weeks, should probably start leaving Steelbreaker up longer just to get a feel for it.

[Pyros]

Ugh, now I'm gonna have to run Ulduar10 for loot, was planning to just stop running it when I'd get my YS trinket(or before). More than that, I'm gonna have to do hardmodes even though I'm pretty much the tank for the "B" group, also known as "we have to take the high attendance retards in" group. That or I get World Carver from Ignis then I don't need a weapon, and bam, problem solved.

[mrONLINE]

Originally Posted by Murr

Nice touch. Gonna have to push to get Steelbreaker down last now since the fist off him is going to be really nice (179 dps, socket, 2.7 speed). We've just been doing Iron Council ezmode the last few weeks, should probably start leaving Steelbreaker up longer just to get a feel for it.

10man it's actually a really easy "hard mode". Honestly it feels less chaotic than the easymode version.

[Tuco]

Healing the steelbreaker tank when doing him last is one of those thankless healer jobs. If you don't dispell him within 1.2seconds every time about 60 times, the tank dies. Somewhat easy job done a bazillion times with disastrous consequences heh.

[Vinen]

Finally got XT 10man hardmode down tonight... soo.. damn easy... with a Druid Healer. Fuck hots are OP

[Vitae]

I actually had cleanse outright fail on it once, too, Tuco. As in, 'Your Cleanse fails to dispel Fusion Punch." No matter how many screenshots I produce no one believes me.

[Vinen]

Originally Posted by Vitae

I actually had cleanse outright fail on it once, too, Tuco. As in, 'Your Cleanse fails to dispel Fusion Punch." No matter how many screenshots I produce no one believes me.

I thought our priest was on crack. We had that happen too...

[Fadaar]

Originally Posted by Vinen

Finally got XT 10man hardmode down tonight... soo.. damn easy... with a Druid Healer. Fuck hots are OP

2 healers or 3?

On Iron Council if you have a ret or shadow priest make them be the dispel bitch, frees up GCD's for healers.

[Deathwing]

Originally Posted by Vitae

I actually had cleanse outright fail on it once, too, Tuco. As in, 'Your Cleanse fails to dispel Fusion Punch." No matter how many screenshots I produce no one believes me.

That's happened to us too.

[Zippygoose]

Originally Posted by Fadaar

2 healers or 3?

On Iron Council if you have a ret or shadow priest make them be the dispel bitch, frees up GCD's for healers.

Speaking of number of healers, I have a more general question about Ulduar 10 man. I run with a group of mostly RL friends in a strictly 10-man guild. We always run with the same 10 people however as raid leader I'm running into a problem with running Ulduar with just 2 healers.

We farmed naxx no problem with me (disc priest) and a resto druid. Now that Ulduar has come out our decently geared druid has switched to an arms warrior, and a friend has taken over a very undergeared resto druid for healing (1600sp, 8% crit, 136 hit! lol)

So far we've done fine on Razorscale, Ignis, and XT with just the two of us healing. However, on iron council and Kologarn we just aren't able to keep up with the damage and have to have our elemental shaman switch to resto (which of course seems to turn the encounters from hard mode to easy mode instantly).

My question for you all is, seeing as how our second healer is so undergeared, can we expect to clear Ulduar eventually with just 2 healers? Clearly on fights like Kologarn and even iron council we'll see a drop in raid damage as they just learn to play, but should we expect to reach a gear level that will make 2 healers a standard setup?

[Zehn - Vhex]

Stop being bad and respec Holy.

[Pyros]

I'll go with Zehn advice, but with a twist, buy that dual spec and go holy/disc. Disc is excelent on some fights(Vesax comes to mind, shit is insane there for double healer) but you want to be holy if you're gonna 2heal some of the fights in there due to the constant raid dmg. Another solution would be to have one of your DPS respec heal when needed, there's a few fights where 3healers isn't really luxury.

About the dispel on Steelbreaker, we've been using a warlock felhunter. I'm unsure if he auto eats the debuff after fusion punch or if our warlock is like inside the matrix, but the shit is never up pretty much. And then since we do easy mode/semi easy, he sticks the pet on Runemaster for shield dispels, those are auto for sure the shields don't even show up. Dispels can fail randomly though, think it's 1%, and it fucking blows. Blizzard added that some time ago and it's the fucking worst idea ever.

Planning to go Unholy tanking this reset for fun and to get used to it again since I think Steelbreaker is gonna be next on our list of shit to do and I guess I'll be tanking. Just need to finish running a couple of instances for my lock on my DK as blood, can solo all of this crap makes for rather solid xp doing quests in a group that don't suck(aka me alone and maybe a couple of random DPS to make it faster). And probably dropping blood altogether, I think I'll go Tank/DPS dual spec, so need unholy or frost as tanking spec for AE situations, probably frost cause it's like much better mitigation. Gotta give blizzard one thing, having 3specs for DPS and 3specs for tanking makes things interesting at least, and they somehow managed to balance them quite nicely.

[BurnemWizfyre]

Steelbreaker last is so fucking easy on 10 man i have never did it any other way.

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