So for some reason I didn't see this on MMO champion. Seems this was updated before our raid last night? I don't know.
- The Elementium Monstrosity will now prefer ranged targets to melee targets with its Electrical Instability beams. If there are more beams active then there are ranged targets present, then the beams will start hitting melee targets.
Haha, not an excuse just something to point out. =)
Look beyond what you see.
Notes on Heroic: Halfus:
So I was researching this a bit and was noticing a strange trend -- in a good 80% of the Heroic Halfus fights I was watching, Disc Priests were consistently MILES ahead in healing and I couldn't figure out why until Kain kindly reminded me of the damage boost Halfus recieves, then it all became clear: The Smite spam was destroying souls.
For the curious, examples can be found everyone, but a few I stumbled on are (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PIrDG5gY5oI, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GnGQ7KA9ngk, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zXFYidegrPA).
Bottom line is: Bunny we need you to be prepared with your best Smite-Heal offspec for Wednesday for this fight!
As for the rest of the fight and the Heroic differences, as far as I can tell, very little is changed, with the exception that all four drakes plus whelps are "active" and can be awoken and killed. Of course all the abilities hit harder as do the mobs, but that's to be expected. Tactically, the big change seems to be simply that activating more drakes earlier is better to get those life-saving debuffs on Halfus/Proto Behemoth ASAP (namely, Whelps to stop the big raid AE, Storm to interrupt Halfus shadow AE, and Nether to reduce Halfus' attack/damage).
Ansum, you should setup a Wind Shear macro that will cast on your focus target (Halfus) so you can help DPS whatever drake we're killing to get it down a bit faster.
Boheem, unsure at this point if we'll need it, but you should prepare for and assume you may have to help heal for this fight on Wednesday.
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I have read that this fight is made a lot easier with 4 heals and a disc priest. But then again our healers just healed a tank tanking 2 current content raid bosses so what do I know?
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Yar I have read about the smite Halfus on EJ. It sounds exciting. :x lol
I'm more or less ready (you know, with that spec Kain said I couldnt use in a raid, snarf!), and a small adjustment to pick up twisted faith, I'm just deciding on whether the Holy Fire Glyph is worth getting, which will require more research.
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Notes / Thoughts on Heroic Halfus. This is from a healer PoV
Log from the kill: http://worldoflogs.com/reports/t86fv...m/damageTaken/Tanks: Feral Druid and Prot Warrior
DPS: Demo Warlock, Fire Mage, Frost DK, Somekindof Rogue
Healers: Holy Paladin, Holy Paladin, Resto Shaman, DISC PRIEST
So, anyway, we started the fight by releasing Storm Rider, Nether Scion, and Whelps. We had our rogue and DK focus-target interrupting the shadow nova (and since DKs currently have hit chance problems with their interrupt, our druid tank also helped on those ones).
We AOE'd down the whelps while single-target focused on Nether Scion (it seemed to do more melee damage). As soon as the whelps were dead or near-dead, I'd release the Time Warden.
As far as I'm aware, we had two drakes on our warrior at the start and Halfus on the druid. When the druid got too high on MS stacks, we used hand of protection on him (he had a macro to cancel it). When his stacks got to about 6, the other tank taunted Halfus. We had a second hand of protection prepared for that tank, as well. There was some drake swapping, I'm sure, and the druid always picked up Time Warden when it was released. I'm not really sure who had drakes aside from what I've already said. I don't think the Halfus tank ever had more than one drake, though, for obvious reasons.
And that was it... adding the disc priest made everything much, much easier. We never touched the Slate Drake and we beat the enrage by about 20 seconds.
Stupid fight is stupid, but at least it's more manageable when you bring a disc priest and 3 other healers.
I'm prepared for H Halfus now. Though if we do something else first on Wednesday, I'll need to reforge, and then reforge again. lulz. =P
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What we do for ourselves dies with us.
What we do for others and the world remains, and is immortal.
I didn't think of it till reading your post Vik, but Hand of Protection to drop a tank's Malevolent Strike debuffs is a great idea and something we should've thought of long ago!
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Amg they hotfixed meteor on Valiona. Grounding totem no longer owns it. We are doomed!
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