Two Ways to Approach Ulduar’s Hard Modes

While patrolling the Plus Heal forums earlier, I ran into this thread. In it, the original poster laments the reduced healer requirement in order to achieve Ulduar’s hard modes. And why not? Let’s take a quick look at some of Ulduar’s heroic hard modes. Hodir – 32.5 million health, 2 minutes. 270834 DPS required Thorim …

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Frustrated by Ulduar? Here’s Why

Guys, I have a theory. I want to write about the perceived “easiness” of Ulduar. Random conversations with other WoW players on Twitter and reading of blogs inspired today’s post. Here’s the theory. “Ulduar’s easy mode wasn’t cleared because it was easy. It was cleared because the top guilds raid way more than you and …

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Healing Ulduar: Ignis the Furnace Master

For other bosses in Ulduar, check the Ulduar Healing strategy page. Here’s a rather unconventional approach to killing Ignis which utilizes the side of the instance. Using this method does appear to be rather cheesy, but it takes a lot of pressure off many players. Credit this to Kimbo for figuring this out. Ignis is …

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Healing Heroic Emalon the Storm Watcher

If you didn’t know already, Emalon is the new boss in the Vault of Archavon in Wintergrasp. Unlike his cousin though, he’s got a bit of a kick to him and look out because he brought friends! The encounter starts with Emalon in the middle of the room and four tempest minions surrounding him. Generally …

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