Wintrow

As Gaviin and Talara mentioned during our raid, our exclusive target for this week will be continuing along in Mount Hyjal. I will be posting in separate threads links to the various strategies that everyone should review and learn prior to Wednesday’s raid. Accompanying the generic strategy will be a more detailed analysis that attempts to break down the fights by role to help you focus on mastering your contribution to the fight (as much as possible without experiencing it first hand). Please feel free to post your own thoughts in these threads as well, pointing out anything significant that you feel may have been overlooked.


I feel it is reasonable to expect that we move quickly past Rage Winterchill on the first night. We three-shotted him on our first night in Mount Hyjal; we should all set a personal goal to do our parts to contribute to a one-shot of Rage Winterchill on Wednesday night.

We will then move on to the second round of trash waves leading to Anetheron. Keep in mind that we will have significantly fewer NPCs to help during that second round of trash, meaning our own DPS needs to carry the load. Plan accordingly. Be sure to study carefully the Anetheron fight, as well as the makeup of the second round of trash waves. We should expect to down Anetheron this week, with a stretch goal of knocking him out on Wednesday night. With the proper individual preparation, I’m confident that we can do this.

I will also be posting a strategy overview for Kaz’rogal, the third boss in Hyjal. It is very likely that we will be in a position to make attempts on him this week, given the focus that everyone showed last Thursday in our first Rage attempts. We will be set up in the Horde camp for this third round of trash waves leading to Kaz, so we will have a new set of NPCs to help DPS again, including Thrall. Please study carefully the Kaz’rogal fight in preparation for some solid attempts this week. I do not anticipate that we will get to him on Wednesday night, but I do expect that we will see Kaz on Thursday night. I expect our goal to be progressive attempts on Kaz’rogal, getting him consistently below 45%, with our stretch goal being a successful kill by the end of this week.

Given our progress this week, I also would not be surprised if we finished off one night with a return trip to Magtheridon. It is certainly a quick detour that will net some people some temporary upgrades, in addition to helping build our supply of raw epic gems. If we do this, these trips will be one-shots; if we are going to wipe, it will be in our attempts at Tier 6 level gear.


As a quick reminder:

• Do your part to keep us starting the raid promptly @ 8PM. Be online, on your main, in time for 7:30PM invites. Be at the instance by 7:45PM. If you know you will be cutting it close due to RL constraints, you have an obligation to park your toon at the instance in advance and let Gaviin/Talara know. Please use the Note field on your raid signup. We will only summon people in exceptional circumstances; do not expect to receive a summon.
• Come to each raid fully prepared. This means that you have all the food, elixirs/flasks, weapon buffs, gear enchants and gems (minimum blue quality) that are ideal for your class. Also, for those of you who like to respec frequently for PVP, be certain that you have specced back to your raid spec. Finally, it should go without saying that everyone should have studied our target fights enough that they are comfortable executing their role.
• Strive to perform your roles flawlessly. Every member of the raid wears multiple hats given the circumstances. DPS is not just concerned with topping the damage meters; rogues have to stunlock, mages have to sheep, shamans have to keep totems up, etc. Please take care to prioritize mastery of these alternate roles in addition to the spell rotation you’ve worked out to maximize your DPS (or healing or threat generation).

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Wintrow

Nevermind this. I just spent some time running around our Hyjal instance and found all Alliance mobs had respawned. This indicates that a soft reset will get our NPCs back.

Also, Jaina says that her 'reserve units will reinforce us when battle is joined'. I believe that once we start the second round of trash, any NPCs that died will respawn.

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orion808

I was looking at this also...I think you're right. Just have to keep them alive during trash.

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Jest

Great work on preparing the platoon for these fights, Wintrow.

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Okto 70 Draenei Enhanc. Shammy
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Gollaen

So Trow...is the link to Kaz’rogal suppose to lead to an Adult content site?...

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Tarma: 70 Enhancement Shaman

I had it all! I had it all and then I lost it. Lost... all gone... like... my mind. My mind is like... cheese. I like cheese.

Wintrow

heh, that just reminded me....

No, I hadn't written Kaz at the time, but wanted to get that overall post out. It wasn't until later that I realized I couldn't edit my original post to include the actual link...

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Wintrow

Well, 2 out of 3 goals accomplished for this week isn't too bad.

We successfully one-shotted Rage Winterchill on Wednesday night and managed to get Anetheron down after a few attempts on Thursday. We missed our stretch goal of getting Anetheron down on our first night, and did not make it through the third round of trash waves to try our hand at Kaz'rogal.

That said, I feel that we have a solid strategy now for tackling Anetheron and having seen the third round of trash, we should be well positioned to master that this coming week. We need to clean up our Anetheron attempts, but I'm confident that will happen this week and open us up to spend more time in the Horde camp.

Look for a new post to level-set our expectation for the coming week shortly...

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