Mountain o Mounts (90/100)

Loot Pinatas (the boss after Fuction Champs)

This hotfix went in earlier this week…

The following bug fixes to Val’kyr Twins were just deployed, and they will increase the overall difficulty of the encounter.

• Surge of Light and Surge of Darkness were not being cast properly on Normal difficulties.
• Light Vortex was doing less damage than Dark Vortex.

Along with those two major bug fixes, we also increased the rate with which the Concentrated Light and Concentrated Darkness spawns.

After we owned the Twins in 10man I was certain this hotfix would make the encounter slightly harder.  The orbs spawning faster really got to me, I figured the raid healing would be a lot tougher (so I turned only 2 of our 6 healers into DPS).

We engaged… it was going pretty smooth… and the first vortex killed a DPS, a healer, and our dark tank!

OH NOEZ!

The OT picked up Dark and I had all DPS switch to killing the same target and figured we’d just try and pwn one of them (since they have a shared health pool).

We did.

Thats right… this encounter is so stupid easy that you can do it with 3 healers, 1 tank (tanking both twins), and only 22 people.

Srsly?

Come on Blizzard.  Everyone loves the encounter but its obviously lacking something.  Maybe this something is on hard mode, where the fight can’t be done by a barrel of monkeys.

Whatever.

Its late and Sundays post will be more Abusing Your Powers.

Toodlz.

Abusing Your Powers: 3 – Favoritism

Hungry Hungry Hippos!

I really hate the fuction champion’s fight.  It’s not really that fun.  The fight is about how you can reduce the randomness of the random number generator (RNG).  Anyway, it took us 5 or so attempts on them tonight but we got them down.  I was super eager to start the Twin Val’kyrs.  I watched a youtube about the fight, to try and get a general feel.  The video made it look stupid easy.

Rez of the Week – Falcs

I met Falcs back in The Burning Crusade expansion when I was running my shaman (at the time enhancement) with another charter.  He was doing superb damage that I couldn’t quite catch on the meters, which is a good thing.  After I started raiding more on my priest I quit running with them and lost track of him a bit.

Lich King rolled around and he started signing up with my guild again, I noticed he wasn’t in a guild at the time and of course… the ears perked up.  I managed to snag this amazing guy and I’m holding onto him.  He’s an awesome guy and he’s been a great addition to the family.