Archive for May, 2006

We are Praetorian Guards, and this is how we work.

[item]Nemesis Gloves[/item] – Firemaw
[item]Claw of the Black Drake[/item] – Firemaw
[item]Doom’s Edge[/item] – Trash mob
[item]Bloodfang Gloves[/item] – Ebonroc
[item]Band of Forced Concentration[/item] – Ebonroc
[item]Netherwind Gloves[/item] – Flamegor
[item]Herald of Woe[/item] – Flamegor

Razorgore, Vael and Broodlord are missing, because I got on late… hehe. The internet at house was gone for almost all the day, thanks to my ISP, and by the time I could get in, I had to wait a couple of minutes and then got into the raid, and after that we took down Firemaw.

The smoothest run I’ve ever seen. Since I wasn’t there on the first three bosses, I cannot give comments about it, but for those that I was, we 1shot all of them. Call what, six Blackwing Lair bosses in a single night? Considering that we do not have BWL in farm status, yet :) We even had an attempt on Chromaggus, this time we had the Corrosive Acid and Incinerate, and we were at around 56% when we had an issue (someone had all the afflictions on and got turned into a Death Talon). It was pretty late by that time, and past our raiding time, so the raid leaders decided to call it for the night. That means that tomorrow we will be taking down Chromaggus and for the rest of the day (and week) we will have a chance to practice Nefarian :) Can we say that Nefarian is going down this week? Lets see :)

And Nefarian lands! Booya!

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Yesterday night we made a couple of practice attempts on Nefarian, end boss of Blackwing Lair, some people would consider them as “dry” attempts, which are those that flasks and things like that are not used. In one of the attempts, we made it to Phase Two, where he lands ^_^ First time ever I see him (well, other than screenshots) in dragon form ^_^ It shouldn’t take too long until we beat him, probably this week? ^_^ Whats funny is that we wiped just when he landed xD

Nefarian consists in a three phase fight:

Phase 1. Consists of defeating the drakonids. There are 6 types of drakonids that spawn. In every Nefarian encounter you will fight Chromatic Drakonids; the largest and toughest drakonids. Fortunately they spawn in far fewer number than the other color. In addition to the Chromatic Drakonid, 2 other random colors of Drakonids will spawn as well. One color will spawn from the southern door, and one color will spawn from the northern door. Colors are fixed for each instance: if Nefarian is attempted multiple times between instance resets, same color combinations will appear.

Phase 2. After killing 42 Drakonids (edit: unsure as to exactly how many you need to kill, assume you will need to kill at least 42), Nefarian lands on the balcony in Dragon Form. This is the beginning of Phase 2 of the encounter. Before landing he will cast an AoE (ignores LoS) Shadowflame on the entire raid. This version of the spell does about 1000 shadow damage and is completely resistable. Every member of the raid must be wearing an Onyxia Scale Cloak to avoid the fatal DoT from the Shadowflame (note: frost mages can use their Ice Block ability to avoid the Flame without the cloak). By now most of the drakonids should be dead. Move your raid to this area and start DPSing him down, from here on out its simple damage dealing with a few twists.

Phase 3. When his health reaches 20% he will resurrect all the Drakonids killed in Phase 1 as “Bone Constructs”. They hit fairly hard but do not have a lot of health, so they are relatively easily AoE’d to death. It is advisable to move AoE groups into position where the Drakonids were originally killed prior to reaching 20% HP to ensure their swift elimination, and to avoid healers getting swarmed. Alliance has an advantage here, as the Paladins’ Holy Wrath can quickly decimate the Constructs (assuming they can afford to stop healing temporarily).

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That’s Therdra, member of Praetorian Guard‘s French Mafia :P

Dun dun dun…

[item]Vis’kag the Bloodletter[/item] — Onyxia
[item]Ancient Cornerstone Grimoire[/item] — Onyxia
[item]Helm of Wrath[/item] — Onyxia
[item]Nemesis Skullcap[/item] — Onyxia

It was said during the raid that it’s the third time in PG since they are raiding that [item]Vis’kag the Bloodletter[/item] drops! I think that the one that won it was Tonylittle ^_^ Nothing usual to say, we went there, we owned, you know, the usual :P

Now some BWL

[item]Judgement Gauntlets[/item] — Ebonroc
[item]Ebony Flame Gloves[/item] — Ebonroc
[item]Ring of Blackrock[/item] — Flamegor
[item]Emberweave Leggings[/item] — Flamegor
[item]Chromatic Boots[/item] — Chromaggus
[item]Girdle of the Fallen Crusader[/item] — Chromaggus
[item]Netherwind Mantle[/item] — Chromaggus
[item]Bloodfang Spaulders[/item] — Chromaggus

Hmmm… I can’t really guarantee, but I’m almost sure that the combination we had on Chromaggus was something like Frost Burn and Ignite Flesh :O (I might be wrong on the Frost Burn… but I’m totally sure about the Ignite Flesh). We tried once Nefarian, had a couple of issues with numbers by the time we reached there. We also had Red and Blue Drakonids

Red Drakonid – Short range cone DoT fire attack, stacks; resistant to Fire
Blue Drakonids – Attack which drains mana; resistant to Frost; slightly resistant to Arcane

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Yeah yeah, that’s me dead in the middle of the picture :P :P

Lets keep moving! Zul’Gurub!

[item]Animist’s Boots[/item] — Jin’do
[item]Overlord’s Embrace[/item] — Jin’do
[item]Nat Pagle’s Fish Terminator[/item] — Fish

This was a continuation (we ran this on saturday I believe). Yet again some terrible Jin’do drops, at least the Fish boss was nice with us ^_^

Last, but not least, Molten Core

[item]Lawbringer Bracers[/item] — Trash mob
[item]Choker of Enlightenment[/item] — Lucifron
[item]Gauntlets of Might[/item] — Lucifron
[item]Cenarion Leggings[/item] — Magmadar
[item]Nightslayer Pants[/item] — Magmadar
[item]Earthshaker[/item] — Magmadar
[item]Nightslayer Gloves[/item] — Gehennas
[item]Sabatons of Might[/item] — Gehennas
[item]Lawbringer Belt[/item] — Trash mob
[item]Felheart Horns[/item] — Garr
[item]Lawbringer Helm[/item] — Garr
[item]Aurastone Hammer[/item] — Garr
[item]Felheart Shoulder Pads[/item] — Baron
[item]Obsidian Edged Blade[/item] — Baron
[item]Giantstalker’s Gloves[/item] — Shazzrah
[item]Salamander Scale Pants[/item] — Shazzrah
[item]Shadowstrike[/item] — Sulfuron
[item]Heavy Dark Iron Ring[/item] — Sulfuron
[item]Lawbringer Chestguard[/item] — Golemagg
[item]Nightslayer Chestpiece[/item] — Golemagg
[item]Blastershot Launcher[/item] — Golemagg
[item]Sulfuron Ingot[/item] — Golemagg
[item]Ancient Petrified Leaf[/item] — Domo
[item]Fireproof Cloak[/item] — Domo
[item]Wild Growth Spaulders[/item] — Domo
[item]Felheart Belt[/item] — Trash mob
[item]Giantstalker’s Bracers[/item] — Trash mob
[item]Onslaught Girdle[/item] — Ragnaros
[item]Stormrage Legguards[/item] — Ragnaros
[item]Legplates of Wrath[/item] — Ragnaros
[item]Essence of the Pure Flame[/item] — Ragnaros

Very controversial run, lol, but I’m not going to give any comments about why :P Huge congrats to Pantone, the warriors gave him a chance on the [item]Heavy Dark Iron Ring[/item], since Pantone (which is a druid, and one of the Druid Leaders in PG) also tanks from time to time on many instances, including BWL. Pantone also got the [item]Stormrage Legguards[/item] ^_^

Oh, my rogue got Friendly with Zandalar Tribe! LOL. It would be cool he were Exalted as my druid ^_^

One last thing, last night I as thinking about ranting on sets and stuff like that, something I just realized T_T But I can’t rant right now, I’m short of time :P :P I guess I’ll leave it for another entry.