Here you go failures.

[Ethax]

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[lawlerbation the hardcore squatter]

i know your gonna rage at me but that priest is dotting and attacking mobs that just spawn and not pulling aggro

why cant we do that?

[Firecrest]

The biggest difference that I see in their Phase One compared to ours is that they only have 1-2 adds up at a time. Ever.

Why are our adds going down so slow?

They also seem to be spreading out midway between the boss and the door. For our attempts we tanked the adds near the outside of the room and then brought them in for the kill. It seems like we should be minimizing some of the distance between where we tank the add and where Abe brings it to die.

[Crazy Diana]

you guys workin on cthun

[Hitshade]

They also seem to be spreading out midway between the boss and the door. For our attempts we tanked the adds near the outside of the room and then brought them in for the kill. It seems like we should be minimizing some of the distance between where we tank the add and where Abe brings it to die.

Thats exactly it. Our positioning last night was ineffective and terribly inefficient.

At any given time their whole raid is just on the outskirts of the round puddle in the middle. They are not forced to play a retarded game of red-light green-light dps. The adds are always in range of the tank near Sara, and always in range of dps. We are tanking the adds MUCH too far away from the center and keeping them (and the raid) stationary. This is forcing Abec to take far too long pulling the adds towards Sara because he is forced to either run through clouds or take a ridiculous detour around them. In turn, this is slowing dps on the adds by a massive amount.

We need to be executing the fight in a similar fashion, rotating around the room to avoid clouds while remaining on the very edge of the puddle. Its not difficult to avoid clouds. Despite hearing my name a couple times last night, I never set foot in a cloud after the first couple of attempts. (I know where I was, and where the clouds were at all times. Who knows, eyes are probably drawn to the most easily spotted turkey who happened to be close to a cloud when some assclown ran through it. They do light up when triggered by a player, the only time I saw this not happen was if the cloud was already swelling by itself).

Avoiding them is so fucking easy. Theres little or no excuse for hitting them, and little or no excuse for why we cant have the raid just as close to sara as shown in the vid.

[abecx]

we did this shit on 10 man and had it down in about an hour we got to phase 2 multiple times with a capable amount of adds up.

[Ethax]

i know your gonna rage at me but that priest is dotting and attacking mobs that just spawn and not pulling aggro

why cant we do that?

Not ognna rage but when youre the only one thats pulled threat the entire night youre oing something wrong, and thats attacking the wrong mob. We can go all day with the tab auto shot bullshit but we both know its not true.

[lawlerbation the hardcore squatter]

or the only one doing it right HUMMMM

but honestly the times you yelled out on vent i had shot off an explosive shot without really thinking i sawwy

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[abecx]

Crusher Tentacle: Melees hard, has a ton of HP and has an aura that reduces damage done by the raid by 20%, stacks with other crusher tentacles so these must go down fast. Melee-ing these will interrupt their aura but they gain a temporary buff that increases their damage and attack speed when they are hit so this is dangerous if they are being DPS'd.

Corruptor Tentacle: Casts various debuffs, Curse of Doom, Apathy, Draining Poison and Black Plague. Dispellers will need to be on the ball. These are interruptable.

Constrictor Tentacle: These have very little HP and appear underneath random players, grab them and hoist them into the air doing damage every few seconds until killed.

[Burlock]

Alyse-

Dps was low because of the bad positioning you mentioned. Unless casters are expected to spec into range, we have to move a lot to dps the adds near the boss and the adds on Ethax.

If we only DPS the adds near the boss, the ones near ethax are too slow. If we move back and forth, theres a chance that the one near the boss will die slowly. The clouds cause this.

A Ranged Priorities are:

1. Avoid Clouds
2. Killing Blows Near Boss
3. DPS spawning adds

We can easily accomplish all 3 of these things if we have the raid follow Ethax, or whoever the add tank is. It will make avoiding clouds harder, but still ridiculously easy.

Also if we do it that way, we can see who fucks up because they will be separated from the raid group. There will be less confusion as to who is messing up because we will be able to see and correct whatever problems we face.

TLDR Version: If we continue tanking the adds near the door, we need to get ready for a sloppy start to P2 or a night of P1.