(No, it’s not a post about guys who play lesbian night elves, I think Brad Pitt said all there is to say on that topic.)
We snuck a few more 10 man achievements from this weekend’s raids, and scheduled more time on Yogg for last night. I dreamed of green clouds afterwards, but it was an exciting raid and we’re definitely making progress. To get the Kiss and Make Up achievement, you have to blow a /kiss to Sara in Phase 2 of the fight. She will be floating above Yogg-Saron’s head.
Aside: Are evil gals always called Sara? I remember there was a Sara in LOTRO too.
I don’t have any especially helpful tips for Phase 1; it’s all about control, watching the green clouds with the eyes of a hawk, and communication between tanks. I have found it useful to put Vigilance on the other tank, for taunting adds across the room. We have experimented with individual tanks bringing their adds to the centre to be killed as opposed to one person staying in the centre and taunting adds across to them. But I think our conclusion is that it depends on the cloud formation — so sometimes we do one, and sometimes the other. I think we have that phase nailed now though, and damn if it doesn’t feel good.
I know we’d hoped to get Yogg-Saron down before patch 3.2 drops. Which looks to be tomorrow. And that gives one more night of tries, which I won’t be able to make. (Obviously it’s not the end of the world and I know we’ll still be going back for more tries, but it would have made the timing very neat.)
Being in the EU, we get our Warcraft patches one day after the US. I am still not entirely certain as to why they can’t patch on the same day but I find it an advantage to be slightly behind. There are a few reasons for this:
- If there’s a really bad bug with the implementation, it’ll be hotfixed before we get it.
- Gives the addon writers a bit of extra time to sort out their addon tweaks for the new patch before we download them (be sensible, don’t download the next patch’s addon updates before you download the actual patch!)
- Americans/ Rest of World also have a few hours to find and document any other minor bugs or exploits, ready for our playing pleasure the next day.
- If you’re interested in playing the auction house, you get a chance to see how the markets in the US realms have reacted to the new patch. If you’re quick and the US writers are helpful, you may be able to snag some last minute money making opportunities.
It’s not so great if you are an explorer type and need to do everything first. On the other hand, if you’re that into it you probably have been hitting up the test realms and know all of these things anyway.
Warrior Changes in patch 3.2
Tarsus reviews the 3.2 patch notes for warrior info – aside from some general balancing of parry and dodge values (devs noticed that dodge is rather too good value at the moment and want to keep avoidance more manageable) which affect all tanks, and block value which affects pretty much no one, the warrior changes have one thing in common.
They are all buffs, aside from the Shield Slam damage cap which was mostly to stop people slinging on a shield block set and going off to one-shot people by slamming them in PvP.
I’m looking forwards to them. Rage on block/dodge/parry will make it much easier to tank heroics in my current gear. The devastate change will make it easier to abandon the Tier 7 2-piece bonus in favour of the Tier-8 one – I still don’t have four pieces of T8 though (insert whine about warrior token never dropping). Hopefully will also result in some more damage for us while tanking. The ATT buff will certainly help with that too.
So nothing game changing but a few tweaks that do address current issues. That’s all you can really ask.
And the Argent Tournament, we knew the doubling up of quests couldn’t last
Siha adds a Part IV to her awesome Argent Tournament guide, noting changes in 3.2. No longer will you be able to double up and complete some of the valiant and champion quests by killing the same mobs. Hope you all took advantage of it while it was live. Notably, Battle before the Citadel now requires you to kill 3 Commanders. Definitely group for it.
Are you looking forwards to anything in particular about patch 3.2?
Welcome to Spinksville! 
I guess you already know, I say it over and over that I think achievements are odd at best and dumb at worst… 😛
Protector token just doesn’t really drop, I had to buy 2 of my 3 pieces of conq, and my shoulders piece dropped 1 time after running 10 man and killing yogg for around 8 weeks.
My middle name is Sara.
Hrrm.
Nuff said.
What worked for us was having all melee group up by the door and MD the spawning adds to those tanks. Once they hit 30% health we’d stop DPS and a runner tank would taunt them and pull them next to sara. The ranged DPS would be mostly in range of the melee group, dodging clouds, but would back out to kill range of the middle ones. One ranged with low latency who could always avoid clouds would be down there to aid in finishing the last 20%.
May need a hunter for that 🙂 (Not a problem in 25 man but our 10 mans don’t usually have one because our regular hunter has recently started to prefer his priest.)
In LotRO, you’re thinking of Sara Oakheart, who isn’t evil, just slow.
As for the patch, makes me glad I’m not trying to play my Druid as a feral anymore (well, not playing at all anymore). The change between dodge and parry means that bear tanks got nerfed in the nose. 😦
*coff* This may be a spoiler then. (sorry about that). How many of the epic quests have you done in LOTRO?
Ah, no, I haven’t gotten past book 7 due to an abysmal lack of PUGs on my server. So, I guess I haven’t seen her in all her glory.
@Psychochild @spinks
You’d both be in for a surprise or two later on in volume 1 😉
@Psychochild @spinks
MAJOR spoilers here (seriously, don’t even click unless you’re prepared):
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