Spine of Deathwing - DEFEATED 04/12/11

hubbah · January 24, 2012, 07:54:17 AM

5. Use some designated ranged DPS to break Grip -> Grip breaks by dealing 20%> of the Tentacle's hp in damage to it. Be careful with this, you do not want to take it too far or kill it. This will spawn a new tentacle and an extra Amalgamation.

Just to add someting on this point, Dont go all out on this one, killing it before the plate goes up means you have to offtank this one wich means alot of dmg on the 2nd tank wich means healers struggling.
With us its TL, Jes & Me and we all do a spell / hit or 2 just to break it.

Sithvid · January 30, 2012, 07:52:26 AM

Bumped for tonight .
According to video no aoe is this correct through the whole fight ?

TeaLeaf · January 30, 2012, 08:14:20 AM

There's nothing to AOE! The point being that you do not want to kill more tentacles or the Amalgamation by accidental AOE, so single target is more than sufficient.

The things to avoid:
-acidentally getting 9 stacks on the Amalgamation before it is down to say <15% HP (or you get extended periods of AOE damage whilst the add is killed), hence the OT stacking dead bloods away from where the amalgamation is ready for the Amalgamation to be dragged into them to gain stacks when the raid is ready

-causing Deathwing to roll, so make sure that if melee rush to a tendon on the left, that ranged move slightly to the right to counterbalance. If you kill the Amalgamation slightly to the left each time then your tendon will always be on the left and your ranged dps will know to always slide to the right during the tendon burn phase

-getting a Grip during the Tendon phase (so as the Amalagamation gets 9 stacks and starts to cast his AOE, the rest of the ranged DPS should kill the remaining tentacle - this triggers a new tentacle which will not cast Grip for 30 seconds, thus leaving the Tendon burn phase uninterrupted by Grip.

If you avoid these things then it is a much easier fight! It's not a DPS race, it's not even a HPS race, it's just "hit the right thing at the right time" kind of fight.

Switchback · January 30, 2012, 06:19:05 PM

Oh bugger

Arcticfire · January 30, 2012, 10:09:31 PM

gz on the kill RGW, atleast if I should trust the logs

Azunai · January 30, 2012, 11:18:34 PM

Good job lads :-) This was only 1 night of proper tries right?

Sithvid · February 09, 2012, 05:30:00 PM

Cleared all the way to dw again! With off heals ! great raid last night and lots of loot for our mages and Druid tank, dw is going down on Monday

Arcticfire · February 09, 2012, 05:41:21 PM

yeah went great, our try on DW itself wasnt bad either, nearly killed the 4th claw without Heroism.

Maybe if Treach didnt suicide by charging the tentacle, we could have made it...leaving Heroism for P2.

Healers had everything under control tbh, I know my CDs were fully avaiable for P2

Switchback · February 10, 2012, 12:15:04 AM

Maybe you should come bk in then?

Arcticfire · February 10, 2012, 01:27:33 AM

Ill be there monday

Switchback · February 10, 2012, 11:22:05 AM

Sweet

Treach · February 10, 2012, 04:57:19 PM

Quote from: Arcticfire;344067yeah went great, our try on DW itself wasnt bad either, nearly killed the 4th claw without Heroism.

Maybe if Treach didnt suicide by charging the tentacle, we could have made it...leaving Heroism for P2.

Healers had everything under control tbh, I know my CDs were fully avaiable for P2

Fully my fault that. I have skull bash set to 4 and my cd's set to 5. Managed to mash 4 and 5 at same time. Did I ever mention how much I hate fighting things from ledges? No? Guess what? I really really really friggin hate fighting mobs off ledges.