QuoteOriginally Posted by Blizzard (Blue Tracker (http://blue.mmo-champion.com/topic/197634/firelands-raid-changes-incoming) / Official Forums (http://us.battle.net/wow/en/blog/3494581))
With the final showdown against Deathwing approaching, we’ve been keeping a close eye on players' progress through the current Firelands raid content. Before patch 4.3 is released, we want groups who are working on Heroic-difficulty content to be able to get as close to Ragnaros as possible, and we want players who are tackling normal progression to be able to experience as many of the encounters as they can. To achieve these goals, we’ll be toning down the difficulty of both normal and Heroic raids through hotfixes in the coming weeks. In general, we plan to reduce health and damage of all raid bosses in both normal and Heroic Firelands by around the same percentage we brought difficulty down for the original Cataclysm raids when Rage of the Firelands (patch 4.2) was released.
We're looking forward to seeing more groups of players face off against the Fire Lord in the weeks ahead. However, before we make these changes, we want to give everyone a final shot at the bosses at their current difficulty level -- so this is a heads up that we’re planning to apply the difficulty hotfixes beginning the week of September 19.
Stay tuned to the Patch 4.2 Hotfixes blog for these and other live updates to the game as they happen.
I really want to clear the normal content before the nerf bat hits so lets get it done tonight!!!
Quote from: Whitey;332788I really want to clear the normal content before the nerf bat hits so lets get it done tonight!!!
QFT. Clearing before the nerf is the goal!
This is a must, indeed. I went on one of those fridaynight raids to BWD/BoT, and those were an absolute and utter joke - though I never experienced them prenerf. Firelands like that is going to be 0 fun.
I don't think they;re going to nerf the entire FL in one go. To me it seems like they are going to slow nerf. 1-2 bosses at a time, giving weaker guilds a chance to progress without being able to storm the place in one night. I think it makes more sense this way. That way, if they nerf 1 at a time, then it'll be 6 weeks until patch and the all bosses apart from rags will be nerfed before release.
I could very well be wrong though.
Well, we're 0.9% from the Ragnaros kill, so we expect to get it before the nerf whicever way the nerf happens! :dmw:
Well, rumour has it, that they nerfed heroic Rag with 40 mill. hitpoints last week during raiding hours.
Logs last night show in excess of 53m damage done to him, so I guess that's just a rumour then.
http://www.tankspot.com/showthread.php?77446-The-Weekly-Marmot-Too-Soon-Executus
Found where it was i heard the rumour.
Quote from: Deminion;332884Well, rumour has it, that they nerfed heroic Rag with 40 mill. hitpoints last week during raiding hours.
Quote from: Deminion;332896http://www.tankspot.com/showthread.php?77446-The-Weekly-Marmot-Too-Soon-Executus
Found where it was i heard the rumour.
Ok, I misread your statement and missed the 'Heroic' bit! I thought you were implying normal Ragnaros had only 40m HP these days, which of course our logs show he does not. I need to read the post more slowly!
since we were the first the notice the nerf, a small recap:
Obviously the dogs of shannox and shannox itsself die quicker, but for the rest the fight stays the same.
Beth, first stays the same caus its time bound of the Devistation.
Rhyo, stacks are the same obviously, but he gets to 30 quicker, so not much difference.
Baleroc, managed to 7 man him, with 1-2 dieing pretty late.
Alyszor, k this fight is **** now, atleast the first rotation since we had people dieing ure it, the druids can be soloed by melee, less interrupts needed. Big birds then die quicker caus a ranged is helping+they have less health.
there are less whirlwinds so thats easier.