Unlabelled World of Warcraft - Community raids - part 2

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World of Warcraft - Community raids - part 2

Community raids - part 2

Posted: 21 Feb 2017 08:10 AM PST

After some trial and error, we've refined the requirements for Community Raids.

If you've messaged modmail in the past few weeks asking about these raids and haven't received a response, please message us again - I've been sick for a few weeks and haven't been able to respond to people as much as I'd like. I should be able to get everyone sorted out now though!

Community raids are meant to help people who might not get into a raid otherwise see the content, while being lead by an experienced leader who can explain boss mechanics and strategies. This option is also open to those who'd like to help others learn about PvP in battlegrounds and arenas.

Community raids are not a substitute for LFG or for finding people to fill a permanent raid roster.

Community raids have:

  • A set schedule, at least once every two weeks.
  • Experienced raid leaders who've been organizing and leading raids for a while.
  • Reasonable ilvl expectations (~15 ilvls lower than the drops in the instance)
  • No expectation of previous raid experience.
  • Generally going to be behind on progression - e.g.: running normal/heroic NH or earlier content right now.
  • A relaxed atmosphere dedicated to learning.

Community raids are NOT:

  • Progression oriented. The leaders should have experience downing the content already.
  • One-off "we need to pug a few people" raids.
  • Meant to fill out raid rosters.
  • Run by new raid leaders.
  • A replacement for LFG.
  • Stressful or drama filled.

For an example of a community raid post, click here.

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Tanking Tuesday - Your Weekly Tanking Thread

Posted: 21 Feb 2017 02:07 AM PST

Welcome to Tanking Tuesday, your weekly thread for everything related to standing in front of mobs and saying "HIT ME" and taking it like a champ. There is class specific advice below, but you can also post general questions that you have pertaining to tanking of any kind.

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Finally used the WoD boost and created a guild just to match my name/title combo

Posted: 21 Feb 2017 02:33 AM PST

I drew a sword. I call it "Felsaber of the Deceiver"

Posted: 21 Feb 2017 07:11 AM PST

TIL the gunship that crashed in Stormheim was the same one we parachuted onto Deathwing with, brought us to Pandaria, and saved the Alliance from the Broken Shore

Posted: 21 Feb 2017 08:50 AM PST

Deathwing and Sindragosa Cosplay comparison by Jessica Nigri

Posted: 21 Feb 2017 10:15 AM PST

How to kill heroic gul'dan in a pug (strategy)

Posted: 21 Feb 2017 12:04 PM PST

I've been running heroic gul'dan in pugs for a few weeks now and I've managed to bring many players through that were lower ilvl than most pugs or lacked aotc. A tank who ran with my group this week started the night 6/10H. Gul'dan died in 10 wipes.

Most "experienced" pugs know the gist of the fight but the gist is what causes a 5-10% wipe. There are some specifics that vastly improve success. I'm hoping this can help more pugs get through.

Before we get started, this is focused on people who have been through to phase 3 but can't get over the hump. A video / attempts in any group will help you understand the basics of the encounter better than these tips. This is for the people wiping in P3. Second, you need voice. Unless you are like a full 905 group with multiple kills, so much shit can go wrong. Someone making reminder calls makes a huge difference.

P1

  • Tank the first add on top of Gul'dan. Stay on Gul'dan and cleave the add. This is important for the enrage later as you will easily shave an extra 5% or so off his health.

  • Hard swap to inquisitor and drag the other 2 adds on top. Inquisitor should die first.

  • Take zero risks in this phase. You cannot afford to burn bres.

P2

  • tanks should trigger an cleave at 35-40 energy.

  • tanks should break their own bonds.

  • Assign 3 melee to interrupt the big add. Don't yolo this. DPS needs to focus on him when eyes aren't up. 4 casts max, hopefully 3.

  • Melee should be killing eyes and in fact should kill the ones furthest away as ranged can't get to them and they have to worry about running in the opposite direction to soak bonds.

  • The 3rd and 4th bonds are tricky and the cause of many P2 wipes. 3rd comes right after eyes and the 4th comes right before eyes. In both cases, do not break bonds until eyes are cast and dead. Once there are 1 or 2 eyes left at low HP call to go break bonds (should die by the time ranged get over to bonds). This has to happen fast as there is liquid hellfire coming soon or a big add spawn. Saving extra buttons for eyes is prudent to help this.

  • All bonds after the 4th should be broken immediately and quickly. You have enough time to do it before the next mechanic.

  • In for bonds, spread for eyes. Chant this in voice until it sticks.

P3

  • When he turns red at the start of this phase that's your last chance to hit your extra button for dps. This helps you run against the wind and get a bit more dps.

  • Fire must go to the outside and never near the Well. If you have to step in existing fire, no problem. The ground effect doesn't do a ton, it's the explosion from dropping on people that does.

  • If you are running from storm and get fire, lag behind a bit. Do not run on top of people. If you drop fire in the storm it just goes away, win win.

  • For the eye after the 1st storm (think it's the 2nd eye), I usually call for potions. Soul soaking needs to happen soon and the eye dying fast helps that.

  • 3rd+4th eye (the ones after the second storm) should be lusted. NOTE that the 3rd eye spawns across the platform right after storm. All dps must run to it.

P3 Soul Soaking

  • What? Soul soaking gets its own bullet? Yup because it is in my experience the true cause of pugs not finishing this boss / having "5% wipes". One soul in the well is likely enough to wipe you on harvest. ESPECIALLY the 3rd harvest.

  • You sacrifice dps to soak souls if you have to. If there are extra breses, soaking extra souls and then ressing that person can help.

  • In my experience the following soak order should be used: healers before first storm, ranged before 2nd storm, melee before 3rd storm with some help from ranged/healers at 2-3 stacks. Gang up on the soak before the 3rd harvest. Even if you get 6 stacks and die, that's better than him casting harvest with a soul in the well.

  • Healers soak the first set because it lines up with an eye being out that must be dpsed and is the least intense point in time for them

  • Ranged soak the second because they can keep dpsing the boss/eyes without issue

  • Melee soak third right after killing the 4th eye. Ranged will usually be high on stacks around here. Storm is coming in like 15s and melee have to run away anyway. It's the time with the least dps loss for melee.

  • After that 3rd storm the 3rd harvest happens immediately. If you are running across and see a soul in the well, sacrifice your life to get that soul if you have to. Blow every personal, every healing cooldown, every bit of mana and resources you have left to stay alive. If that means flash healing yourself as dps, do it. If that means flash healing others as a dps, do it.

  • Congratulations. If gul'dan is at 10% or less and you have ample enrage time (by getting him to like 90-92% in P1), and you have most of your raid alive, (because you popped everything like a champ) you win. He does literally nothing for 1 minute at this point. If you're a bit behind that point, just make sure you drop fires out and ignore the 5th eye spawn if you get it. This past weekend we had like 10 people survive that harvest at 10% hp and then face rolled him to death because he did nothing but melee the tank. This is why sacrificing melee dps uptime to soak souls for the 3rd harvest is so important.

Of note, other successful pugs have such high dps they kill him before the 3rd black harvest. For those of you around 890-895, this is a pipe dream so strong execution and soul soaking is your ticket to victory.

Parts of this strat won't come out pretty on WCL but they will get you kill week in and week out. A strong raid caller for these "corner case" moments and reminding everyone who should currently soak goes a long way.

Any questions, hit me up.

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Give Spriests a blue shield Blizzard!

Posted: 21 Feb 2017 02:41 PM PST

So... when is Blizzard gonna fix Fjarnskaggl?

Posted: 21 Feb 2017 08:30 AM PST

Basically, everytime i farm Fjarnskaggl in Stormheim theres a 50% chance roughly of it just not giving items at all. The node doesnt dissapear, and you can herb it, but it doesnt give items.

It has been this way for several months, and im not the only one with this issue. I have multiple members in my guild and my previous guild who had this issue. It is extremely frustrating to farm when your not even guaranteed herbs from the herbs. I opened a ticket once, but didnt really recieve a good response.

I guess this is a "Blizz PLS" post.

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That can only mean one thing...

Posted: 20 Feb 2017 09:43 PM PST

Nightspire LFR pathing from each boss is different.

Posted: 21 Feb 2017 10:50 AM PST

Court of Stars M+ tips

Posted: 21 Feb 2017 06:13 AM PST

I have run a lot of CoS10-15 and here are a few tip for people interested in small optimizations beyond "have a comp that can use the buffs". Hopefully some people find them useful!

1) If you are on someone else's passenger mount and the mount-owner is pulled into the boat at the beginning of the instance then you will be dropped in the water and you can mount up on a water strider to reach the beginning of the instance slightly faster.

2) Scouts deal a nasty dot on the first person to aggro them, no matter how fast they are taunted after. So be ready for that or let the tank aggro them.

3) If you are unable to stun a scout you can interrupt the "sound the alarm" cast. The scout will not recast it and will simply melee the tank until killed.

4) The engineering (Goblin/Gnomes also) orb that disables all robots is now able to spawn in M+! Check for it, the robots suck.

5) The adds that the first boss summons if you do not deactivate the last three pillars are easy to handle (usually) so you can save time by pulling the boss sooner.
5b) The summoned adds do not drop sanguine puddles or cause bolstering. They do cause additional volcanoes and necrotic stacks (!) though.

6) You can skip the robot after the first boss by simply running past it, it will not chase you into the second boss area. I usually kill it though.

7) If the broken trap is repaired (hunter or blacksmith) while a miniboss is stood on it then it will kill that miniboss without being consumed. This means it can be used to quick kill two minibosses.

8) THEORY: Since 7.1.5 it seems that you will always get at least one offensive (haste/crit/dmg) and one defensive (hp/damage reduction) buff available.

9) If you wipe on the last boss, buff items that cannot be triggered by your party will become usable.
eg. The crit orb is up and you have no DH or lock, then after wiping on the last boss any group member can pick it up on the run back.
NB: If you have a lock/DH and he's just been lazy, other people cannot use the orb even after a wipe.

10) There is a stealthed Dust Lily Agent that stands on the last boss' balcony after you kill him and will teleport you out of the instance.

EDIT, more tips:
The enforcers (that call minibosses before 2nd boss) do not move while casting detonation so the tank can also LoS it.

An enforcer can spawn in any of the four "corners", when killed another will spawn after a fixed time in one of the other three corners. Be careful about pulling enforcers out of their spawn-corner as this enables a new enforcer to spawn on top of you.

You can avoid the charge the last boss does by being at max range and running, using a speed increase if not at max range, or blinking out of the way. This reduces damage taken on that fight a LOT.

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DPS spec stats after 1 month in Nighthold

Posted: 21 Feb 2017 09:58 AM PST

So after a month in Nighthold this is currently where the specs stand at the 75th percentile in both heroic and mythic difficulties. Note that there are still a fairly limited amount of parses for mythic in general. This is a bit interesting and can start a discussion based on Nighthold fights and spec performance judging by the differences in damage as well as number of parses of these specs. Blizzard seems to be balancing specs fairly well for the most part and tweaking will always happen throughout the game's future.

Heroic Parses: 3,237,135

Median DPS: 613,321.6 dps (Balance Druid / Arms Warrior)

Warcraft Logs by Normalized Scores: http://i.imgur.com/BJpd4QC.png

Warcraft Logs by DPS: http://i.imgur.com/Dmkb1G6.png

High outliers (> ~3% or ~18k dps higher than median):

  • Frost DK (+6.4% or +39,537.4 dps) [197,165 parses]
  • Assassination Rogue (+5.2% or +32,171.7 dps) [216,921 parses]
  • Subtlety Rogue (+3.5% or +21,218.7 dps) [15,081 parses]
  • Shadow Priest (+3.3% or +20,413.3 dps) [228,511 parses]

Low outliers (> 3% or ~18k dps lower than median)

  • Outlaw Rogue (-4.3% or -26,384.1 dps) [35,242 parses]
  • Unholy DK (-4.2% or -25,764 dps) [35,397 parses]
  • Destruction Warlock (-3.9% or -24,114.5 dps) [67,056 parses]
  • Frost Mage (-3.1% or -19,143.5 dps) [54,370 parses]

Mythic Total Parses: 209,717

Median DPS: 724,586.1 dps (Marsmanship Hunter / Retribution Paladin)

Warcraft Logs by Normalized Scores: http://i.imgur.com/517DRC8.png

Warcraft Logs by DPS: http://i.imgur.com/PIVlLxb.png

High outliers (> ~3% or ~22k dps higher than median):

  • Frost DK (+9.5% or +69,076.1 dps) [12,573 parses]
  • Fury Warrior (+5.4% or +39,073.8 dps) [9,918 parses]
  • Shadow Priest (+3.4% or +24,809.8 dps) [16,833 parses]
  • Havoc Demon Hunter (+3% or +21,993.9 dps) [19,696 parses]

Low outliers (> ~3% or ~22k dps lower than median):

  • Unholy DK (-5.2% or -37,818.5 dps) [1,815 parses]
  • Balance Druid (-3.7% or -26,898.5 dps) [13,436 parses]
  • Outlaw Rogue (-3% or -22,290.3 dps) [1,567 parses]
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TFW you missed raid night and desperately try to pug before reset.

Posted: 20 Feb 2017 10:48 PM PST

How the mighty have fallen

Posted: 21 Feb 2017 11:52 AM PST

Lets do Nelt+19 they said, It would be fun, they said!

Posted: 21 Feb 2017 02:10 AM PST

I customized my coffee mug. For the Alliance!

Posted: 21 Feb 2017 11:11 AM PST

US Horde - A Reddit Dystopia N NH, M EN, H ToV Community Runs — 2/22, 2/24, 2/26

Posted: 21 Feb 2017 07:33 AM PST

Hello there, Reddit! Filling in for Töömbz today is your edgy neighborhood Veng DH, Woedenaz! I hope everyone is having a wonderful day! :)

It's been a busy month at A Reddit Dystopia and this week we have a ton of community events going on that anyone and everyone are welcome to join, regardless of experience. For all of these events, you do not need to be on our server (Bleeding Hollow) but you will have to join our Discord.

We welcome everyone to become part of our community, which does not require transferring (unless you plan on being in a mythic progression group.) You only need to join our Discord and participate in all the fun events and interact with all our great members, with almost 500+ active members in our Discord at this point.

For EN and ToV runs, we do not have any ilvl requirements, but for Nighthold we do recommend:

  • An iLvl of 865
  • Food/Flask/Pots/Coins
  • DBM and Discord (Discord is Required)
  • A positive attitude (we have a No Douche Canoes rule)

All posted times are in EST unless stated otherwise.

We got some real good stuff for you, doing some old raids, some new raids, some sorta ignored raids. There's something for everyone! Here is a list of all events we have coming up (and there is A LOT of them.) If you're interested, you can also find these at r/WoWARD and http://wow-ard.com/events

TODAY (2/21):

Pixel Perfect Normal Nighthold @ 8:00PM

Taps Community Normal & Heroic Nighthold @ 9:00PM

Wednesday (2/22):

Team Golden Corral Community Normal Nighthold @ 8:00PM

Thursday (2/23):

Team In and Out Normal Nighthold @ 10:00PM

Friday (2/24):

Team JCS Community Normal Nighthold @ 8:00PM

The Melting Pot Normal Nighthold Part 1 @ 9:00PM

Team Waffle House Community Heroic ToV @ 10:00PM

Heroic EN Community Run

Chicken Bucket Late Night Normal Nighthold @ 11:30PM EST

Saturday (2/25):

The Melting Pot Normal Nighthold Part 2 @ 9:00PM

Sunday (2/26):

FuT's Normal Nighthold Beer Run! (Drunk Raid) @ 8:00PM

Team Waffle House Community Mythic EN @ 7:00PM

Monday (2/27):

Pixel Perfect Normal Nighthold Continued @ 8:00PM

As an aside, please do join our subreddit/discord and keep a lookout if you enjoy the friendly raiding atmosphere that we provide. We have groups looking for great players just like you!

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Don't talk to me or my son ever again

Posted: 21 Feb 2017 12:32 AM PST

There's something weird going on about the Big Love Rocket's so called "0.03%" drop-rate...

Posted: 20 Feb 2017 07:28 PM PST

I got Raddon's and felt obliged to make a video

Posted: 21 Feb 2017 12:19 AM PST

It just felt right

Posted: 20 Feb 2017 07:28 PM PST

Months into Legion, what class did you say you would main at launch? What class are you playing now?

Posted: 21 Feb 2017 03:36 AM PST

I saw an older post I made saying I would main a Hunter or Paladin at launch. I remember release night sitting on my Hunter while waiting for the Broken Shores to open up, then immediately switching to Paladin. As soon as I hit 110 on my Paladin, I wasn't satisfied with the playstyle and hopped over to my Monk.

Months later, here I sit with multiple 110s and no distinguishable main. My Monk, however, is my furthest progressed.

How about you, redditors?

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I opened 1040 Heart-Shaped Boxes this year and still don't have the Big Love Rocket. AMA.

Posted: 20 Feb 2017 06:46 PM PST

As the title says, this year I opened an astounding one thousand forty(1040) Heart-Shaped Boxes from the Love is in the Air holiday boss. I still do not have the mount from the box, the Big Love Rocket despite farming for it every year since it was introduced. With the new scaling this year I was able to utilize all my alts on my main account and 27 alts on a second account under the same b.net login to reach the number of 1040 boxes for the year. I am officially bummed out by the results of all the hours sunk into this endeavor but I knew going in that this might happen. AMA.

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Looks like the legions building a wall of new technology

Posted: 21 Feb 2017 08:00 AM PST

How is Blizzard going to implement a new non-hero class, now that every class in legion got it's own thing?

Posted: 21 Feb 2017 07:29 AM PST

All the classes get an order hall, an artifact weapon, followers, lore and more. Does that mean Blizzard doesn't intend to release a new class for a long time? Maybe only hero classes that start at the previous level cap? I think it's going to be weird leveling a non-hero class through legion without an artifact/order hall/followers, and it would suck even more if they retcon (add all those features for the new class) and say they helped fight the legion all along.

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