Yesterday we had a pleasant experience in the Public Test Realms where we were able to test The Blood Queen Lana'thel, Mothface and the val'kyr. The Val'kyr lost us a lot of time because, between wipe and wipe they always caught a clueless player, they killed the entire raid, etc.
And why don't we kill them?
Because it took us a while to understand the mechanics of these vile allies of the Lich and if we died, we tried to avoid them. (Mental note: next time they will be the first to fall)
Our Trys started with the Blood queen after a friendly employee of Blizzard open the doors to us when asked by the general.
First try ... almost instantaneous death. The rogue died with a single blow without being hit ...
After several attempts with Val'kyrs along the way, we understood the mechanics a bit:
Lana'thel ties the Tank's damage to the player closest to the tank so that if the secondary tank enters combat a little late and the melee is sharp and tries to get in place to start the damage, it dies from a 20,000 hit. ipso facto.
The secondary tank takes shadow damage especially since 100% of the damage taken is converted to shadow damage. I guess the Death Knights will be the best Secondary Tanks in this match due to their magic damage reduction abilities.
Every now and then, Lana'thel jumps towards a target and bites it. The player grows a bit and does 100% more damage. The biting magician almost always commented that he hit 20,000 hits and that if he did not stop hitting, he would heal well enough on his own and, if he did not do so, he would die quickly. Looking at the abilities, we know that afterwards he completely transforms into a vampire after about 30 seconds but… we didn't last that long.
You have to be separated because it shoots a beam that jumps between targets and makes a lot of pupa.
Every 3 seconds, the entire raid takes 4,500 points of damage which, with Paladin's Aura, stays at around 3,700-3,800 points.
Use an ability on a player, who appears warned in the band, that leaves "shadow fires" around the room, in the style of Lord Jaraxxus.
Soon they canceled the tests because it took us a long time between wipe and wipe for the Val'kyr and we found that they activated us to Carapútrea.
We only did a couple of trys because most of them had a band later and we decided not to continue but the fight was easier than Lana'thel's.
My impression is that the difficulty is very acceptable and the mechanics are quite fun. Healers can't rest on their laurels between the constant damage in almost every fight and the Chill of the Throne.
I wanted to especially thank those who attended and comment that our intention is to set up a fixed group of the more the merrier to be able to test the content. You can find out better in the forum.
- belleros
- Bloodhoof
- skozzesdios
- tankptr
- yeargh
- Blogger
- Deaf
- cexx
- Bloodsanguine
- borox
- ponies
- maguemm
As a final culmination, some videos of our wipes for Ciudadela: