LFR Tips

Treach · December 12, 2011, 05:35:36 PM

Thought I'd share some LFR tips as I think I;ve found a corker of a tac for one of the bosses.

Warlord Zon'ozz. New tac for 2nd tank. This only works for LFR. I noticed that the ball seems to be on a timer of some sort so I had an idea. Get the 2nd tank to chase the ball around to get maximum procs off it before it goes to the boss thus maximising the amount of damage the boss takes in the aoe phase. It seemed to work. 2 minutes faster kill than the previous weeks go on him.

Anyone else got any tips for Raid Finder bosses that don't apply to normal/heroic modes?

Arcticfire · December 12, 2011, 05:47:01 PM

Only need 1 tentacle down on spine of DW.

Azunai · December 12, 2011, 06:02:45 PM

On LFR difficulty, the ball on Zon'ozz goes to the boss automatically, i.e. you don't need to make sure the boss is in its path. I think it does this after X ammount of explosions, possibly 5 or 6, maybe 10? So yeah, you just get a bunch of people (might be just the tank as the damage from the explosion is a lot less too) to chase the ball around to trigger it. Easy enough to do this in LFR, just shout for one of the groups to do it. Then again, so far in my experience in LFR, you can just kill this boss by standing and hitting it. Ball will usually hit some bunch of people who happen to stand around anyway, then eventually go to the boss.

As for Spine, yea that's quite a good tip actually. I've actually dragged a group through the whole routine of gathering somewhere and then rolling on normal, but since the tentacles don't grip you don't really need to kill them, hence removing that mechanic. Heh. Nice.

My contribution: On Madness of Deathwing, ignore the Elementium Bolt. It hardly does any damage at all. With that in mind, use the order Ysera -> Nozdormu -> Kalecgos -> Alexstrasza. Or if you can't make them understand that they need to move in the opposite direction after Nozdormu, just go Ysera -> Nozdormu -> Alexstrasza -> Kalecgos. I don't think the Blistering Tentacles will be a wiper on LFR.

Arcticfire · December 12, 2011, 06:05:42 PM

Quote from: Azunai;339934I don't think the Blistering Tentacles will be a wiper on LFR.

Heh, think again!

Azunai · December 12, 2011, 07:06:48 PM

Quote from: Arcticfire;339935Heh, think again!

In that case, good luck with getting people to understand platform order

Arcticfire · December 12, 2011, 10:47:17 PM

Thats easy, follow the marked person.

Slush · December 13, 2011, 09:32:48 AM

Do Lfr the night before reset, as loads of people will already be locked out on loot. Atleast from the first boss/bosses. Greater chance of 384's for you.

Azunai · December 13, 2011, 10:20:58 AM

Will people do LFR when they cant loot anymore? Seems kind of pointless to me..

Slush · December 13, 2011, 11:04:35 AM

Quote from: Azunai;339978Will people do LFR when they cant loot anymore? Seems kind of pointless to me..

Thursday:
Player X enters a 0/4 bosses "LFR: Fall of Deathwing".
Player X kills 2 bosses.
Player X understands that this group will never take down Spine of madness in its current state / He doesnt have the time to stay in group anymore.
Player X leaves the pug.

Tuesday:
Oh hey... Player X has the time to do LFR, as he has a few hours to spare.
Player X enters a 0/4 bosses "LFR: Fall of Deathwing".
Player X cant loot from boss 1 and 2 when they are killed.

Seems like this happens alot.

Azunai · December 13, 2011, 12:18:57 PM

But will the chances of killing Spine have improved much? xD I'd rather not take the risk of not being able to kill last two bosses in time before reset. I might do this with the first 4 bosses, but it seems rather pointless as your described scenario will hardly occur there as it's such a pushover.

Slush · December 13, 2011, 03:04:50 PM

Quote from: Azunai;339991But will the chances of killing Spine have improved much?

I would say that the chance is the same.

Quote from: Azunai;339991xD I'd rather not take the risk of not being able to kill last two bosses in time before reset.

I dont care :narnar: Its meant as a tip to improve the chance of getting loot from LFR

Quote from: Azunai;339991I might do this with the first 4 bosses, but it seems rather pointless as your described scenario will hardly occur there as it's such a pushover.

With 15+ ppl leaving and 15 new ones joining throughout my LFR, well.. ok. We might just have different opinions.