Faction Champs tips and pointers.

The Faction Champions fight in Trial of the Crusader is a love hate relationship with a lot of people.  There’s no medium for it… you hate it… or you love it.

Over these past few weeks I’ve grown to love it.  The fight is a puzzle to me.  You have to matchup your raids composition verus the Horde (or Alliance)’s composition.  I figured I’d share some knowledge that I’ve ascertained over the last few weeks.

Your initial kill target is extremely important.  But what do you choose?

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.

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.

re: Faction Champions

Okay, so… a few posts ago I was talking about the ease of ToC.  I got to talkin’ about how I figured the Faction Champions would be similar to the fight in Magister’s Terrace where you have to do a pvp fight.  There’s one static NPC, a priest, and she has 4 cohorts of varying types.  All sorts of CC was able and the timers were reduced to their PvP counterparts (read: CC only lasted for 10 seconds and has diminishing returns).  Anyway, I figured the Coliseum fight would be like that except the mobs would be somewhat tankable and you’d just have a buncha different ones.