Bloodboil got taken down last night with relative ease on the second shot.
Loot
Staff of Immaculate Recovery – I passed the staff off to a different Priest. I only wish that he were able to play more often. But I’m sure the staff will drop again. When Archimonde dropped his, I got mine the week after we killed him again.
Shroud of Forgiveness – Nice cape for me.
Notes
- 3 Holy Priests: One in each Bloodboil group spamming Rank 3 Prayer of Healing. At our level, it heals for about 1800 and the bloodboil damage is about 600+ /tick.
- Inner Fire helps a lot.
- Stack an extra healer in the 3rd bloodboil group as that group will have 2 seconds of bloodboil during the Fel Rage phase. This frees them up to help with the Fel Raged player.
- Chain potting is a must.
- 4 Paladins were healing the tanks.
Sunday’s going to be progression night. 6 hours of wiping on Reliquary of Souls. I’m going to see how we do and take some notes.
I highly doubt 6 hours of wiping… Reliquary really isnt that bad.
Good luck on the RoS. 😛
Congrats, Matt!!
A few tips for RoS:
Trash:
Put your MT on follow, shield yourself, and spam CoH. There is a niche close to the last pull – your raid can stand there for a second, get out of combat, let all the mana users drink, and then have only one or two little pulls before engaging the boss. Pot as you run in, so you’re at full mana.
Phase 1:
PW:Shield anyone and everyone taking a fixate. Early, and often. Don’t be afraid to take a fixate yourself (as long as it’s not an enrage, obviously). SW:P the boss. Every little bit helps.
Phase 2:
CoH. Nothing but CoH. 400 mana for 2k heals on 5 people. Tell your shadow priests that SW:D is off-limits. No matter how much you want to, do not pot during this phase. Pop your earring, pop your fiend, but do not pot. You’ll need your cooldown. Save your Inner Focus ’til the end, and your Vial of the Sunwell. You may go oom, and need the heals. I have been told that you can Mass Dispel the last shield using your Inner Focus, so I save mine for that, but we’ve never needed it. Pray that your rogues are smart.
Phase 3:
Bosskillers said (when we were reading) to take a cauldron of Nature’s protection pots. Not sure why, the nature damage is minimal. Our guild uses Shadow Protection pots. Take them at 80%. (This is why you couldn’t mana pot in phase two.) Make sure everyone has one before you start the trash.
Pally’s on the tank, priests CoH everyone. Druids saving Tranq for this phase is not a bad idea.
Things I’ve found helpful:
Golden fish sticks if you have 10k health. Stam/regen food if you don’t. Don’t be afraid to take a fixate – no one has any armor anyway, so unless it’s an enrage, you’re not going to take more damage than a tank would. Rogues can also evade-tank enrages. Don’t flask for this. Wait until you’re ON PHASE THREE, then take draenic wisdom and healing power.
The more balanced stats are really, insanely helpful compared to Raw mp5. But you’re going to die a lot on the first couple of phases ’til you learn it, so don’t go broke wasting elixirs until people learn how to take fixates from one another.
Frequent Issues:
Trash: Mages like to AoE and kill themselves. Shield and renew them.
Phase 1: People being nervous to get in there and take a fixate, or not being smooth with the transitions = dead people. Watch those who are exceptionally low on health, and dispel them first.
Phase 2: S.priests, warlocks, Mages critting themselves to death. Rogues & interrupters interrupting badly or not at all.
Phase 3: Don’t. Let. The. Tank. Die. Everyone else is expendable. Especially you, if you have Spirit of Redemption. In fact, if you go Oom, just let yourself die, so you can keep healing.
The phases are very short, with full mana regen afterwards. Don’t be stingy with your mana.
Sorry, that was a novel. I love this fight 🙂
Dangit Matt, we downed RoS last night and got a few Gurtogg attempts in, I was hoping we’d finally pull ahead of you guys.
Gratz!
Grats on BB!! The AoE capable classes healing AoE all the time is the answer to that fight. Glad it worked for you.
RoS: What a beauty of a fight! I absolutely love that thing. Wynthea hit everything right on the head. I’m sure you guys have a Prot Paladin…the only thing I’d suggest different is to let them tank Phase 3. I do it for my guild and let me tell you, Mages/Rogues/Fury Warriors/Locks love it when they can go balls to the walls and not pull aggro. Especially since my threat scales along with theirs. Prot Warriors on the other hand have quite a bit harder time with P3. IT’S TIME TO LOVE YOUR PROT PALLY! Tell them to get as much Spell Dmg while staying Uncrush/Uncrit and go to town. Flasks of Blinding Light, SD Food, everything. Your DPS’rs will love you for it. It’s to the point now where when we get to P3 my guild know’s the fight’s over.
Best of luck! RoS is one of my favorite fights!!
Sasstar was the key to this fight
The real question…did Matt run out of mana? 🙂
Grats on Bloodboil kill! RoS really is a fun fight. I hope your rogues are on the ball though, the death of RoS depends on them in Phase 2.
GRATS on Bloodboil, I’ve never seen the cloak or staff drop!
RoS is a hands down gear check DPS/HPS race, your tanks NEED to be able to out-threat all of your DPS when they go all out. Nature resist pots are for phase 3 where people WILL get basically 1shot without one.
On RoS as the IDS priest (CoH priests, just CoH Phase 2 and 3):
Phase 1, PW:S > DISPELL > S:WP
Phase 2, PoM on destrolocks/mages (anything that can 2shot themselves) HoTs on Spriests/afflocks/rogues/enhshaman (to help counter many small damage hits)
Phase 3, non CoH Priests can use Prayer of Healing to VERY good effect, was able to keep up my group all the way to 3.2k per tick, should be considered when phase 3 assignments are given.
Nice to read someone blogging that is at the same progression level as mine 🙂
Downed Teron Gorefiend and Gurtogg Bloodboil last night for the first time, and we’re heading for Reliquary of Souls and (hopefully) Mother Sharaz tonight…
Oh and thanks for the RoS tips, Wynthea!
Grats on the kill and nice blog too!