No surprise to everyone, it's official on the live servers, the Lich King will wait to eat your souls in 2 weeks (unless you defeat him of course :P). The official date is February 2nd (US) and February 3rd (EU). You can read the details, as usual, on your best source of live information about WoW, MMO-Champion.
The second wing opens today (yesterday on the US servers) with 2 new bosses: the Blood Princes and Blood Queen Lana'thel. A bunch of vampires, that seem easier than Putricide as the queen has already been downed, though this can be due to the guilds having 2 more weeks of itemization in icecrown. Explanations and information about the gating system and the combined pool of limited bosses attemps can be found on MMO-champion, here.
About my games lately I finally got Saurfang down in 10-Man, on both my paladin and ma discipline priest. I tried a bit Festergut with Syrïel, we managed to keep the tanks alive (with me and two other healers) on 2 attempts (we tried it 4 times), but our raid dps wasn't high enough to pass the enrage timer. It's tricky as the tank/heal team is kind of better in the 10-Man my priest is sometimes, but the dps are way higher in my horde guild :P
On a side note a discipline priest is incredibly effective on Saurfang to limit his blood power. We killed him with 0 mark in 10-Man once I figured that if I have the mana I should just shield everyone at all time to prevent as much blood-producing damage as I could. For the first time my priest went into icecrown she started with Saurfang and had a huge amount of fun, even with her limited gear (not even 230 medium ilevel).
The fight with Saurfang is really much more about control and reactivity than pure dps and/or stuff, which I happen to like. Festergut on the other hand is nearly the whole contrary.
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The casual guild I am in hopes to get to the 2nd wing this week, i am looking forward to my first fight with festergut (or failure)!
ReplyDeleteI have to agree with you on the fun part with healing or bubbling in your case. So far these fights have been the funest (I know it’s not a word) I have had healing in a while!
Thanks for the visit and good luck for your Festergut fights :)
ReplyDeleteI must say I like Icecrown up to now, it's not that hard, but not as forgiving as edc. And Festergut surely isn't a pushover for lazy dps.
My horde guild did down it last week in fact on Tuesday night, but I was not in that raid (we have several 10-Man groups).
I'm awaiting to see Blood Queen Lana'thel and the Blood Princes, these fights look like a lot of fun too. We'll see how it goes.