I wasted no time getting busy after Illidan’s freakishly long downtime. Almost 17 hours. Ah well.
First thing first: Finishing 10-man Trial of the Crusader. While the Anub’arak fight on 10-man is still as easy as the first 4 fights, we then went and tried 25-man and had him as low as 30.3%. The reason 30.5%? After his 4th submerge he will come back up and enrage. well it was a learning experience. We also had some bad DPS so no worries.
The group (well, some of us anyways) are going back tomorrow to finish him off. As the night went on we had to replace some folks with less than ideal candidates. Expect a video of it once we kill him.
I then and went and tackles the new Vault boss. As a Hunter, the fight is pretty much tunnel-vision your feet watching for fire while your fingers dance along your keyboard for your shots. While it’s easy to see how healing intensive this fight is compared to the other Vault bosses it wasn’t that big a deal, as expected.
But I was rewarded with my 9.5 gloves which go nicely with my 9.5 chestpiece. Rock that 2-piece.
On another note, Mass Effect finally got a friggin’ patch. Mass Effect is probably one of my favorite games. I played through it 4 times and plan on playing at least once more on Insane. But it was plagued with an error that caused a game crash in a significant portion of the game-playing population. Well, I did an Nvidia driver update again and patched and I was able to play for 3 hours last night without so much as a hiccup. While the new downloadable content is of questionable depth, it puts in a number of record-keeping competitions. And to me that rocks. Gotta own those scoreboards now.
If you enjoy RPGs and haven’t tried Mass Effect, I highly recommend it. Oh, I am also uploading the Anub’arak intro sequence (although it recorded without sound) for those who don’t mind spoilers and haven’t seen it themselves.
Thoughts, comments, tips on Anub’arak, leave ‘em here! :)
How many people did you have pulling down the frost spheres? We had 3 doing just that, and the rest on the boss/adds. We ran out of dps at about 40%.
We tried Anub’arak last night as a guild on 25 man and I think the best attempt was also 31% or so. Glad to hear he’s easier on 10 man, because that’s what I’ll be doing tonight!
Also agree on Koralon. He’s such a joke. I broke 6k on him and I’m still using Avalanche off Hodir (ie: Naxx-level bow). The new vault achievement is insane, though. Kill all 3 bosses within a minute of eachother? I can’t even imagine the logistics. Especially in 10-man.
Guild did the 25 man of Both the TOC and the new Vault Boss. Anub’arak went down on our 2nd attept and now were trying the hardmodes in TOC 25. Now thats intresting in that each boss is on a timer before the next boss comes out.
The Frost Spheres actually only have around 9k HP on normal 25man so assigning 1 ranged to down em is more than enough. Make sure u dont waste dps on the adds as long as anub isnt in the ground and make sure the addtanks are tanking the adds on 2 separate patches of frozen earth (2 adds on each offtank).It’s actually not a very valuable strat working towards the hardmode version since in hardmode there’s a finite amount of Frost Spheres, but i guess to get to know the fight a bit better perfectly fair :)
we got anuberak down the the 5th attempt and our working on the heroic version
We tried Anub’arak last night as a guild on 25 man and I think the best attempt was also 31% or so. Glad to hear he’s easier on 10 man, because that’s what I’ll be doing tonight!
Also agree on Koralon. He’s such a joke. I broke 6k on him and I’m still using Avalanche off Hodir (ie: Naxx-level bow). The new vault achievement is insane, though. Kill all 3 bosses within a minute of eachother? I can’t even imagine the logistics. Especially in 10-man.