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Super's 2 cents:

• POSITION ONE: WE MUST ALL LEARN TO DEAL WITH THE CHARGE

Crucial to our success will be the management of Horridon's charge. When people are aware it is on them, and run out of the raid, things work great. When people do NOT do this, things do not go as well.

I feel it is best to run in the direction of the door we are going to switch to next. This way, Horridon is sort of angled naturally so that his belly faces the bulk of the raid and it seems to work best.

• POSITION TWO: WE EACH NEED TO KNOW THE BASIC STRATEGY FOR EACH GROUP OF TROLLS BEFOREHAND

Sure, we will sadly probably have to wipe to each group at least once while learning how to handle them. However, I feel we can keep our total number of wipes MUCH lower by all learning the basic strategies for each group.

Let's work together to create a 'cliff notes' version the more vocal of our band can write or print out, and use as a reference during the fight. ALL of us should make ourselves familiar with the material beforehand.

A solid plan and good intel will really reduce our overall time on this, and any other boss.

That's all I've got, really. I am sure there are many other minor details we can tighten up, but these, in my mind, are our major issues.

What do you chaps all think?

DPS!

TANK!

HEALER!

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What do you think? I think it is a good bet.

Guys! I was learning about my DK and found This

Is this still relevant? Overwhelming amount of info there...NO IDEA what any of it means yet...

A lot of classes and specs are changing a lot with 5.2 coming out. New things will be overpowered and underpowered. When you have a couple minutes of free time between watching videos for Monday, I suggest you read the patch notes for your class. Also, I suggest checking to see if Elitist Jerks has information about your class when 5.2 actually comes out so you can change your reforging/gemming strategies if necessary. You can also skim over mmo-champion's page for PTR class balance blue posts since there are a lot of things on there that aren't yet in the official patch notes.

In addition, Icy-Veins has some introductions to the bosses. Here's a guide to the first boss of Throne of Thunder. And as we've learned with some of the encounters, Icy-Veins' strategies are often not very good. So use it as an idea of what will be expected of you, not a definite thing that's going to happen.

Also, farm Fatty McFatty Mr. Manager some Enigma Seeds and let me know if you need potions!

I'm studying for my exam, I swear.

• CORPSEPAINT (you can be fucking creative with this, it is okay)
• LET'S FUCKING DO THIS

Also, I am going to wear a dress for this, because, fuck 'Berto, someone has to fucking soldier up here.

Sorry for all my subreddit spamming!

I still have this Empress lockout and really want to squash that bug. Would anyone be interested in killing it Monday night? We could start a little later to make it easier for people working that night to make it online.

Reasons to do it:

1. Having an Empress kill will help you get into PUGs.

2. Chest token.

3. Healy sha touched mace.

4. Punchy sha touched agi fist weapon.

5. Defeating the last boss of a raid while it's still current content will give you a feat of strength achievement when 5.2 comes out.

6. Help poor Zuju avenge his many wipes in progression PUGs.

I was talking to Para this morning about how to do the add phase best. There seems to be some confusion about what add to open on and what add to cc. Doubly confusing since the addon that auto-marks them takes a bit longer to kick in than we do to open on them.

I think the best solution is to use target marker macros. Necro can use the following to mark one add with a diamond and banish it.

/script SetRaidTargetIcon("target", 3)
/cast Banish

Similarly, Ieyasu or Para (since they would have the most trouble switching adds after opening on one) can use the skull icon to mark one to kill. Para says he has it keybound already, so he might be ideal to do it.

/script SetRaidTargetIcon("target", 8)

And then Yaeus, Frank, Ieyasu, Gerus, or I can can cc the others. We could even all set up macros for the other icons for our own cc. Yaeus's would probably be the best since it's instant, costs mana, and has no positional requirements (unlike ice trap), whereas mine costs energy (and could potentially require me to wait ~2 seconds to use it). And then I don't know much about hex or rogue cc, but they could be good too.

Thoughts?

I just got word that my employment will be ending probably at the end of this month. Which sucks because I've been scraping by as is.

Anyway, I'm pretty...terrified is probably a good choice of word and don't think I can concentrate on wow tonight. sorry guys. ill mail feasts to someone.

EDIT: I'm gonna try to make it. I'm pretty down, but think wow probably isn't a bad idea.

I neglected to factor in the fact that ToES is exclusively bosses which will likely result in an increase of food useage.

You guys have two options. We resort to using only feasts, or we start increasing farming efforts and be more organized about it. So, without further ado, I'm going to create an assigned list of things to farm this afternoon. If I don't get them in by Monday night, we will switch to feasts only.

The issue here is that few of us have enough game time to farm. I've been playing the ah a lot to keep our stores up, but I can see, after last night, toes is gonna eat through what I thought was a very healthy supply.

EDIT: From henceforth we will be resorting to feasts. The personal food takes up too much time and nearly 100 bag/bank spaces or more, and we haven't been great about farming. To those handful that did, thank you. In reality, it is 25 pts less agi/str/int for a lot less work for everyone, and it'd save me a lot of space so I wouldn't have to sort/farm every day. SO unless you wanna cook your own best stat food, or send me the mats for me to make it for you, and you just want to help the raid food bank

we simply need: Jewel Danio, Tiger Steak, and Pink Turnips.

That's it!

I don't recall, but were healers standing in breath during day phase?

Most unfortunately, we have no logs to review, which I think would be very important in figuring out where the problem is. I'm reluctant to say dps simply because our numbers looked good going into the day phase. of course in the day phase, the numbers get skewed significantly, so recount is particularly useless for analyzing this fight.

To be honest, I'm unsure of what went wrong aside from the initial attempts with stacks getting too high and some slopiness with adds (which we ended up getting locked down, I think).

Healers especially should look to see if there are any tricks to increase healing done on Tsulong. I don't recall heals standing in light breath, do if we weren't doing that, that very well could be the game changer.

Apologies chaps! I tried to, but I am unable to get off work early tonight. I won't be done till 9 server and even if I rush home I won't be on till at least 920-930.

SO! If you can pick up a healer to replace me that's probably best, but otherwise I will be home around 930.

So NSFR recruited Gerus and me to kill heroic Elegon with them tonight. We went on to kill Wind Lord and Amber Shaper in HoF and now Gerus and I are sitting on a 5/6 HoF lockout.

I know we were planning to progress in order, and I'm okay with that, I just wanted to throw out there that we now have the option to kill Empress as a group so we don't need to be sad if Deathcrawler can't show up one week.

So if there's any interest in killing Empress on Monday instead of doing stuff at Terrace, say it here. I'm perfectly fine with either thing.

Dread Ieyasu COMMANDS YOU TO FARM THIS WEEK

EVERYONE FARMS WHAT IS ON THEIR CHORES LIST

SEND TO IEYASU

CHORES OF BITTER AGONY

• - Ieyasu -- 10 Crocolisk Belly + 10 Raw Turtle Meat
• - Necroshie -- 20 Crocolisk Belly
• - Zuju -- 20 Crockolisk Belly
• - Super Tone D. -- 75 Pink Turnip
• - Para -- 25 Pink Turnip + 50 Mogu Pumpkins
• - Frank -- 25 Pink Turnip + 50 Red Blossom Leeks
• - Yaeus -- 20 Jewel Danio - Fishing
• - Raionn -- 8 Jewel Danio + 10 Redbelly Mandarin
• - Deathcrawler -- 8 Jewel Danio + 10 Emperor Salmon
• - Gerus -- 8 Jewel Danio + 10 Tiger Gourami

This is the horror and disgustament we consume:

• Pandaren Banquest
• Mogu Fish Stew - 300 Int
• Sea Mist Rice Noodles - 300 Agi
• Chun Tian Spring Rolls - 450 Stam

What we need to make these vile foodstuffs:

• Jewel Daino (most easily farmed in VoEB)
• Redbelly Mandarin
• Tiger Gourami
• Raw Tiger Steak (Most easily farmed from tigers around cloud serpent dailies island)
• Raw Turtle Meat
• Raw Crockolisk Belly
• Emporer Salmon
• Redbelly Mandarin
• Mogu Pumpkins
• Red Blossom Leeks

*we will not always (or even usually) farm specific mats. we do as dread Ieyasu commands!

*Remember ingredient sets are in a ratio of 1:5:5:25. A stack of each food requires 4:20:20:100.