Friday, March 24, 2006
Baron's horse makes fun of us
... or how we managed to give Stratholme another cleaning, so that Baron can wipe the floor with us.
Five of us, four tigers and Favio from DM have set out to clean the undead side of Stratholme yesterday, and while the whole run was so smooth that it doesn't get any smoother, having some bad luck while fighting Ramstein eneded in a whipe, but since we cleaned the entire place really fast, there were no respawns yet so we just ran straight to the end.
Now baron was another story. He isn't really the easiest boss out there, in fact he is quite hard in a 5 man group, and that was evident, since we almost havent been able to budge his health bar down. Well ... as always ... we patch up, heal up, rest and come back with vengeance.
UPDATE:
Link on stratholme to study some Baron info for the next time: http://www.wowwiki.com/Stratholme
Some people say that the warrior tanking should pull him to the corner of the room so the AOE mage can stand in the middle of the room and kill the adds, and still be out of reach of his aura. Key is keeping the baron and his skeleton adds separate, because he consumes them to heal up.
UPDATE #2
We tried the tactics above today in a 8 man raid, we got the Baron down to little above 50%, at that point our casters ran out of mana, which resulted in a whipe. Next time we will try mounting more damage on the baron so we kill him faster. Gear with some shadow resistance also wouldn't hurt, and mage being 60 instead of 57 would probably make a considerable difference when cleaning adds. This should be perfectly doable with a level 60 team NOT clad in epics, so we are just going to trial and error untill we get it right.
Five of us, four tigers and Favio from DM have set out to clean the undead side of Stratholme yesterday, and while the whole run was so smooth that it doesn't get any smoother, having some bad luck while fighting Ramstein eneded in a whipe, but since we cleaned the entire place really fast, there were no respawns yet so we just ran straight to the end.
Now baron was another story. He isn't really the easiest boss out there, in fact he is quite hard in a 5 man group, and that was evident, since we almost havent been able to budge his health bar down. Well ... as always ... we patch up, heal up, rest and come back with vengeance.
UPDATE:
Link on stratholme to study some Baron info for the next time: http://www.wowwiki.com/Stratholme
Some people say that the warrior tanking should pull him to the corner of the room so the AOE mage can stand in the middle of the room and kill the adds, and still be out of reach of his aura. Key is keeping the baron and his skeleton adds separate, because he consumes them to heal up.
UPDATE #2
We tried the tactics above today in a 8 man raid, we got the Baron down to little above 50%, at that point our casters ran out of mana, which resulted in a whipe. Next time we will try mounting more damage on the baron so we kill him faster. Gear with some shadow resistance also wouldn't hurt, and mage being 60 instead of 57 would probably make a considerable difference when cleaning adds. This should be perfectly doable with a level 60 team NOT clad in epics, so we are just going to trial and error untill we get it right.
# posted by Officer @ 7:59 AM 
