The Hard Mode Thrill

The post you’re about to read is from the past. I wrote this post on Saturday hours after we had taken down Deconstructor on hard mode. It’s the 10 player version. Going in there, I figured that this was a boss well within the crosshairs of what our guild was capable of doing. The adrenaline …

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Healing Ulduar: Kologarn

For other bosses in Ulduar, check the Ulduar Healing Strategy Page. Kologarn is the sentinel that stands in the way between your raid group and the rest of Ulduear. He is a challenging boss for guilds that are new to raiding. Like Deconstructor, victory lies in the ultimate ability of individual players. Abilities Eyebeams: Two …

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Abusing General Vezax as Discipline

The Conquest strike team reached General V on Monday evening. In the final hour remaining in our raid night, we spent most of the time identifying the environmental elements of the fight. What did the Saronite Vapors look like? What’s Shadow Crash? How do we deal with Mark of the Faceless? More importantly for healers, …

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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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