This fight is a little more subtle than it appears at first.

For starters there's a need to DPS the two bosses evenly despite the fact that two huge adds spawn on one side and not the other. However it is much more possible to have people swap sides than I thought it was; the aura debuff will fall off when the sentinels are at only 25 energy or so at which point people can swap sides if needed. Although a counter-intuitive thing is that the better the raid is at DPSing both sides evenly, the shorter the intermission is and the less time the raid has to add to four and the aura debuff won't have ticked down for 10+ seconds.

What I'm gonna try next time is 2/3/10 or something, with two teams of 1-1-4 committed to each side, and then the extra healer and 2 DPS will start every rotation on the blood side until their poison aura falls off, then swap over. This means the poison side will 75% of the time have an extra healer and two dps. (It does mean the blood side will need to be attentive to the soaks.)

One issue that isn't instantly obvious is that when the Breath (poison one) comes over after the intermission, the tank's (blood) slam debuff falls off right about when the big add spawns, creating a huge pool of blood in the worst location at the worst time. I think the raid kinda just has to deal with it, although you could in theory have a tanky dps pull the boss away for a few seconds right before that happens.

I have also seen tanks trying to stack everything in the corner which isn't really needed IMO. It creates a solid area of blood, which makes the green orbs that spawn in random locations difficult to soak.

A huge part of successfully completing this as well is reminding people to cheat towards the center prior to intermission, then to Stop Moving for a second or two while people figure out what's going on. Especially since the bosses take reduced damage, so many people run around like chickens with their heads cut off instead of swinging the camera around and Then moving.

Also the boss can be reset by just running up the stairs opposite the entrance.

Whole group was scared and confused. We entered unknown territory. Ive done the dungeon maybe 20 times so far this season and never seen a tank go right nor have I gone right on my tank. DPS kept hitting their arrow key to move back to the left as if possessed, even pinging that direction, but the tank trudged on, unbothered. Never said a word the entire run either.

Run went well but I didn't sleep well last night. Been thinking about it ever since.

For a little background context, I have played MMOs my entire life. I play WoW for a while but took a VERY long break between the end of WoD until about 3 weeks ago. My biggest problem was being a serial dialogue/quest skipper. Well, I've changed that. I've been timewalking the older expansions while simultaneously progression on my main character through Midnight.

Let me tell you, my god, the difference between quest writing in older xpacs vs Midnight is night and day (no pun intended). How did we go from "I received word that my brother enlisted... the thing is, he's been dead for years" (WoTLK) to "OH MISTAH MY KITTY WAS SPOOKED BY THE SCAWY SUNWEW EXPWOSION :(((((" (Midnight)?

I'm looking forward to finishing Loremaster, but I am curious as to how obvious the degradation of writing quality will appear. Who knows, maybe the modern xpacs writing quality improvs later on.

Who would have thought that not casting Collapsing Star can be so freaking damn fun, also combo gameplay without extremely tight windows as Havoc makes it absolute chefs kiss, I hope blizzard will not force it to cast Collapsing Star eventually, that button can cause so much frustration sometimes

Whoever tried Devourer last season and felt disappointed, try out Void Scarred, it's so much more fun imo

Is someone able to breakdown this run & help me understand why my DPS is where it’s at?

For reference, this was a PUG 13+ AOF

https://www.warcraftlogs.com/reports/WyTw6rVf9dHmAhz2?boss=-2&difficulty=0&start=0&end=6397997&source=3

Photo is where orange damage parses are for Arms in 13+ AOF. So I should want to be in the 290-310k range.

For stats I am using a crit flask to get my Crit > Haste for Recklessness pots

Save save save, but finally.. with all these choices... is it time? i think i might wait for the 50k super mount :d

for SHAMAN healing ,,,which is the best spec TOTEMIC or FARSEER

thanks.

I had somehow gotten 7 sparks and managed to craft 3 pieces of gear. Logged in today to see my 7th got Thanos snapped. I look forward to seeing what they try to do about my pieces that are already crafted. Its a mess seeing that others haven't even gotten all of their expected sparks yet I got more than we're even supposed to. We're beta testing still :)

All their weapons get tilted back. These ones are clipping into the arms of my Haranir. All the fist weapons tilt backwards on Haranir females and it looks awkward.

I know this is a glaive, but all moggable fist weapons tilt back too. I used this one because it's the worst example of the tilt on display.

Hey guys! Just wondering what's everyone's go to activities for the week? Do you complete all of them or just a select few? I'm wondering what ones to skip at this stage.

Delves

Prey

Coiled Isle

Abundance

Soiree/Runestone

Void Assaults

Weekly Spark Quest

Arcantina

Lost Legends

This is what I can remember off the top of my head.

The fact that a myth track Guillotine, Gebbo's, and my BiS pants from heroic Ula'tek are all in my vault, but the objectively correct choice for me is to take the bonus roll is god awful design. Blizz was warned during PTR that the bonus rolls from the vault were going to be too strong. This just feels like shadowlands all over again when people were screaming that the original version of the covenant system had glaring issues. Just make it so taking a vault item removes it from the bonus roll pool.

Edit to add context. Frost DK main. Raid in a slightly outside HoF guild so optimal gearing matters to us.

I picked up arcane mage this season, and I find myself starting at CDM a lot to keep an eye out on whether I'm at 12 stacks, etc. I have my CDM literally at the feet of my toon, but you are still looking down rather than at the boss. Are the really good players doing this? Are they more watching out for the glowing procs that blizz have appear around the characters, both? Are they just better at multitasking than me? I'm doing pretty good damage, and very rarely die to things I shouldn't, but I feel like I'm starting at CDM more than the encounter. Curious how the top players handle all of this.

Hi all ive recently gotten back into WoW I stopped playing before WoD and I came back to MoP classic around the end of phase 3, now phase 5 is in full swing im finding less and less things to do as most of my toons (mainly tanks hehe) are geared and raiding. Now to my question I got midnight today and logged into my old toons having a look at the gear and such more reminiscing about the old days the games changed from what I know most of my toons are lol 35 should I just pick one and start leveling again and re learn the game again or use the free 80 boost I got when buying the expansion?

You're not supposed to be able to catalyse weapons. Someone go try it, I don't wanna brick my main.

Has anyone gone back to the Emerald Dream and spoken to Q'onzu (the Loa of Change) as a Haranir... for science? 🧐

The Season 1 Trinkets just seeem to be far better than 90% of the Season 2 trinkets except the ones that drop off the last couple bosses of the Venomous Abyss. Can anyone tell me if any other S2 trinkets are better than the top tier S1 trinkets? To PuG into groups having ilvl is better, but the stat increases off all of the S1 trinkets far exceed what any S2 trinkets seem to offer. Again, I'm not saying all, but a 298 trinket shouldn't be offering a better stat push than a 334 trinket (or about the same)....

I always see those daggers from here and from cataclysm back cover (the one the worgen is holding) but never managed to find it in game

Edit: Thank you u/dreadlordnotdruglord! it is "Hellscream’s Razor"

Should I play Dwarf (Stoneform + Crit. Buff) oder Nightelf (Shadowmeld + Dodge % and Hast / Crit %). Sent help, please! Current #1 Prot. Warrior is Cps as Nightelf.

Has he spoke since? Or did blizz just pay him big bucks to lie/hype up/their business-as-usual retail xpac trash? I can’t even get past the stupid warbands login screen without thinking this is shitty retail not traditional WoW.

many meta users if not hardcore are Copying guides without understanding the talents and UI and that is kinda illogical

The 2nd reason is... That they follow streamers that focus only on 1 or 2 classes and they are more hardcore than half of them...

The 3rd reason... Well... They often confidently declare that they know more than you and blame you or the leader when they die or raid wipes.

Let me know what you think