Next on the hit list…
In pure AJ fashion last night, we finally got our first Firelands heroic kill with Shannox. If you've been with the guild long enough, the kill came as no surprise. It seemed as though we weren't making any progress, our 8th attempt (go Wendy!) we downed him quite easily.
Great job everyone with hanging in there. A special thanks to Zotak for sitting last night; really appreciate it and I hope your pug was good.
I mentioned this last night, but I highly encourage everyone to at least check this site to get a good base of what you may need to change. This helped me dramatically, and the healers confirmed this... My block was improved easily by 15%. Check the site out and let me know your results. I know Chris mentioned another site... Chris, let me know what resources you've found in the comments.
With our first heroic boss down, what do you guys think should be next? I'm thinking Rhyolith should be our next target. What are your thoughts?
Again, good job everyone!


November 3rd, 2011 - 17:43
I spoke about it yesterday :
http://www.curse.com/addons/wow/reforgelite
It’s the website inside a add-on. It will also reforge all your gear for you.
November 3rd, 2011 - 20:53
the order i believe the easiest to hardest for us is as follow:
Ryolith -> Domo -> baleroc/Alysrazor -> Beth
Domo and up requires enormous awareness and dps, make sure you know the fight.
Also i think we should be able to 1-2 shot rag before we attempt anything past ryolith. (for domo you need to avoid every possible damage for as long as possible or we will wipe, if we cant survive rag mechanic on regular its gonna be really hard on the heroic modes)
November 3rd, 2011 - 20:54
just wanted to add, beth can be easier on the list if we got 1 person that can solo spiderling + exploding spider, but even then the dps needed is pretty harsh for the raid to not get overwhelmed.
November 3rd, 2011 - 21:42
Zotak is spreading his in game mod propaganda. The website is http://www.wowreforge.com
November 3rd, 2011 - 23:21
tried the addon, got better result than wowreforge.com and it i just had to push a button to reforge everything. was pretty nice
November 4th, 2011 - 00:34
Zotak :12 – Thaxos : 0
November 4th, 2011 - 00:34
Juste cause I can :
http://www.curse.com/addons/wow/reforgelite
November 4th, 2011 - 07:59
I tried the add-on and the website Chris gave… I liked both, and actually used a combination of the two. For example, the website was basically all or nothing for spec’ing into Mastery. The add-on tried to balance dodge/parry… So, I tried to balance both… but I did focus more on mastery than anything else.
November 4th, 2011 - 09:54
I don’t disagree with any of the assessments. I would say the only thing that is going through my head right now is that we basically have two months (Estimated) prior to 4.3. My questions more come to what commitment or to what extent does AJ want to clear FL heroic prior to 4.3? As in, do we increase a raid night, are we fine just getting another kill or two, etc. I know I would be okay trying to workout a 3rd raid night for a short time, minus the Thanksgiving break so that we can try to clear more. Right now if we look at Shannox we are basically going to clear a heroic boss every 2-3 weeks depending. And I imagine the week of Thanksgiving attendance will be down.
If we are going to really make a true attempt at heroic we should consider a 3rd raid night. Our attendance has been great and we basically have 12 to 13 people that we rotate as part of our core group and we have plenty of interchangeable parts, which is FANTASTIC!
Oh last thing is I know Cless put in order his thoughts on order, and I am fine with everyone’s assessment of what bosses we need to work towards. I think everyone needs to come prepared after this week to fight both Rhyolith and Majordomo on heroic. We tend to get warn down by the repetition of the same fight and I think it would be good for us to see the mechanics of more than one fight on nights where we move on after failed attempts. This would at least allow us to see the mechanic in person and be better prepared when we do get Rhyolith down to move right into Majordomo.
Some bosses mechanics are easier than others but I have seen crazy things where raid groups just are better at certain mechanics than others, easy fights being a pain in the butt and a harder fight (typically) being easier for that raid group.