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I like all of these changes. The heroic boss changes will save time. It's kind of a pain when you're cruising along nicely towards the kill and then get stuck waiting through a scripted pause of some sort.

There have been a couple of times during the airship battle where we've downed the battle mage and by the time the next one comes out, Saurfang still has more stacks of Battlefury than we might like. It hasn't caused any wipes yet but it should help to prevent tank panic attacks :P

Lord Marrowgar being tauntable is kind of a meh change. On one hand, it would ideally make tank repositioning a bit easier after bone storm...quite frequently our tank are so nervous about not losing threat on a non-tauntable mob that they just tank him where he stopped spinning which can make returning to position as melee dps a bit painful. (I've found that with current tuning, I can safely run through a strip of flame to get to him but my guess is that won't be an option on heroic).

And after seeing HoR for the first time last night, I agree with the decision to bump up the gear requirement and prefer that over a nerf to the instance. Our healer was having lag issues and it was very unforgiving.

There was also a recent hotfix to adjust the amount of healing Saurfang gets from Rune of Blood that doubles the healing Saurfang receives in order to prevent groups from solo tanking the encounter.

Great change.

Like the HoR change.

Last night a DK made it in as a Tank (on Heroic).
He had 28K Health, when Buffed.
I had more (when buffed) and I'm all DPS (DK as well).
The healer voiced her thoughts, and we tried it anyways. I think after the 2nd wipe, he knew he wasn't read to Tank it so he left.

We went through 2 more "tanks" until one was put in the group, and he had the skill/health to tank it.
If the LFG weeds these people out, that be great (or at least put them as DPS, and hope they have the DPS for it).

This is so true. I think my Dungeon Cooldown debuff was at around 7 minutes before the first mob spawned. If it had reached zero, I would have probably never run CoS again.

Its annoying because he steals your flesh, you fight him as a skeleton for about 10 seconds, then he returns your flesh -- only to steal it again 3-4 seconds later.

Same thing with Ionar's disperse. Annoying as hell. The one time, I kid you not, she dispersed, and then reformed... and me, as an Arms warrior, I Charged back up there, and she dispersed AGAIN, before I could even hit charge. Of course, I die, because I didn't know she was going to disperse again RIGHT AWAY as soon as she reformed...

Did I miss something, because Hippogryph's land now, and have cool emotes.



Edited, Dec 18th 2009 6:23am by dadanox

On the Halls of Reflection change. I don't think that its a tank health issue that causes most of the problems in this one. The vast majority of issues in this one result from two things imo, one the refusal of anyone to want to cc anything. One ret paladin can make every one of those pulls a three pull then a two pull by himself. No one wants to do this though as we are all so used to stomping through heroics and aoe tanking and dpsing everything.

Also its the rare dps that helps a tank nowadays. Not being on the same target, hitting a mob that has barely been touched with heavy single target damage, not using misdirect or tricks. Not using your other abilities etc. Went in on one of my alts last night with some main dps from the guild who I am usually very close to on numbers. At the end of both waves he was like man I killed you on dps. I was like sure but I decursed about 30 times abolished poisons just as much, rolled hots on the tank and healer and threw out a brez. I would hazard a guess that upwards of ninety percent of the pug dps in there don't use one utility ability.

This is really not that important of a change but will definitely make this boss a lot less annoying :p