🚀 go-pugleaf

On Thu, 25 Jul 2013 08:08:02 -0400, IYM <nor...@whitehouse.gov>
wrote:

>It's ok to be smug - Congrats!!!!  :)
>
>I will have to take some of the wind out of your sails and remind you it 
>was nerfed...lol.  However, I ironically did it last night as well on my 
>resto druid and while easier, it still is not just a walk though.

I knew it was nerfed but had the impression some at least of the
comments on here were post-nerf, even if not, I still expected more
attempts tbh, so I'm pleased with myself anyway ;-)

>I had an advantage in that it was my second toon through that, so I knew 
>what to expect.  However, I will say that it was so much easier than 
>when I last did it on my mage pre-nerf.  I didn't know what changes they 
>had done until last night, but they pretty much took the damage down by 
>a lot that the adds in the 2nd phase did as well as the main boss.  They 
>also kicked down the final bosses damage and kicked up the celestial 
>tank damage.  One big thing they did was significantly reduce the adds 
>on the final boss.  He occasionally comes after you and there seemed to 
>be only one sha add to deal with each time, where there used to be about 
>4-5 of them you had to deal with, which took time (as a dps) away from 
>damage you could be doing on the boss unless they were timed to die with 
>an anvil strike.  Now I could ignore the one pretty much.  

Yikes, sounds like pretty heavy nerfs then, I'm rather glad I did it
now!

>A lot had to 
>do with being a healer and just heal stuff.    I was concerned before I 
>started about healing portrait style and was ecstatic that upon entering 
>the scenario, the shadow pan warriors and the celestial tank all 
>appeared as a group and were picked up by my Vuhdoo healing add-on.  I 
>only had to specifically pick the blacksmith during that phase and 
>designate him what Vuhdoo calls a "private tank" and then I could heal 
>him as a party of three....very nice.

Yeah, that's a big help, although I found it a bit glitchy with my
abilities, Prayer of Mending simply won't bounce between me and the
NPCs which sucks, when it's a major part of my healing setup (I
*really* hope they get that working for proving grounds...), also
Atonement didn't seem to heal as well as it should; I got through the
first bit as Disc but found that while it dealt with big chunks of
dmg, it would never top off the last 4-5%, instead it'd overheal on me
instead, sigh. However  in the main it worked well, and showing on
Vuhdo properly was a massive help, especially for dispels, I was
expecting that to be a huge headache, even with using focus to put the
defender in my private tanks.

>All in all, I got it on my second attempt.  I screwed up while running 
>from meteor shower in that I was on the other side of the room trying to 
>get back to an charged anvil for insanity and didn't make it...

Oops :-) I tended to run in circles around my anvil during showers, or
at least never far away from it, thankfully it worked out on my
successful run.

>I almost wiped on the second attempt as just like on my mage, I was 
>panicking as I could not find/see the damn lance to click.  I still had 
>one anvil left but I still was in a panic until I saw it...lol

Heh yeah, I was thinking "it's ready, now where is it, erm... I left
Wrathion over there, let's head that way", thankfully it's actually
pretty obvious when you get to the right side of the room!

>I then got depressed in that I knew I had not seen anyone doing Nalak on 
>my realm in a long time.  So on a whim, I went over to see if anyone was 
>standing around and behold! - I could not believe my eyes!  The Horde 
>had a small group of 10 fighting him!  What luck!!  I went in, clicked 
>my lance, dragged the add through their fight, healed myself and as soon 
>as the add died, my lance was charged and quest complete, I got the hell 
>out of the area and was done.  I was in total shock that I was able to 
>do that right away.  Thought I was going to have to stake out Nalak for 
>a week or so until I found a group killing him....

Nice one! Must be a heck of a difference in realm pops between my
server and yours lol, Nalak died on respawn all day on Wednesaday and
pretty often the rest of the week on mine, only had to wait 10-15 mins
for a group to form at 11am today! Now, if it required it to be your
faction doing it for the quest, and I was Alliance, then it'd be a
very very long wait, but Horde at least kill him very often here.

>Anyway - congrats once again!!  Now onto another toon to collect Titan 
>stones from....erg.

Hehe my first time collecting those, I'm glad that at the very least
there's one a week from Lei Shen, so at worst it's 12 weeks to go for
me... :-P