Tuesday, March 31, 2015

Maximizing DPS

A couple of observations from our last raid:

Our DPS is slightly below average . . . .

According to other combat logs of these bosses, our group is slightly below average DPS.  This log is from our Oregorger wipes, but it is pretty consistent with all our boss fights.  we are between the 35th and 45th percentile for average DPS.


What can help our DPS go up?

(1) Potions/Buffs

I have added 2 new addons to my folder. The first will check every raid member for Flasks, Food buff, AND runes.

The second will keep track of who is using damage potions on the pull.


Especially on progression bosses, everyone should be pre-potting with damage output potions. Every DPS, and even tanks should be hitting strength pots on the pull. Healers can pre-pot int if you have damage spells in your healing rotation. 

As soon as 2 minute CD's are up, DPS should be hitting your 2nd potion and giving the boss every ounce of Damage you can crank out!

Our last attempt on Oregorger he got to 5%. 100% pots would have made that attempt a kill  . . .

(2) Gear

Work with guildies to help get any crafted upgrades still needed. Halok has tons of Savage Bloods and is willing to help

(3) Stats/Rotation

Use tools like Noxxic/Icy-Veins or askmrrobot to make sure you have solid mechanics and stat priorities.  Addons like spellflash, Bitten, and weakauras, can help manage rotation and Cooldowns as well.

(4) Fight Mechanics (stop dying!)

You can't DPS in the dirt, period . . . the faster we switch from Boss -> adds -> back to Boss, the faster he dies. 


Progression Road Map

Here are our next 4 bosses. I am expecting us to beat these fights in the next 2-3 weeks. Do your homework and get acquainted with these mechanics before we get to them.


Operator Thogar:

Kromog:




Iron Maidens:



The Blast Furnace:



Thursday, March 5, 2015

G. T. F. O.

The "Standing in Fire" award goes to . . . . ME! lol

These reports for "Avoidable Damage" show all the times you stood somewhere you should not have stood. Now that we have seen these mechanics, we can practice them in LFR




Monday, March 2, 2015

Blackrock Bosses

This Wednesday we will start Blackrock Foundry

Here are some of the first bosses we will tackle

Gruul:


Hans & Frans:


Flamebender



Beast Lord

Thursday, February 19, 2015

The Crew

Here is a list of our current raid group and a little background of who everyone is:



Tanks: 
SeditiƓn - Hydraxis (Mark, CJ's brother, raided with Halok back in Wrath and Cataclysm)
Morinfen - Pete, IM Flash, not new to raiding, but first expansion raiding with this group

Healers:
Halok - Dunemaul (Rick, Module owner in PI - head pimp of this bunch of WoWcrack hoes)
Mathion - Dunemaul (Tom, Process owner in PVD - raided with Halok n' Friends since Wrath)
Uwincrybabys - (RealID Friend of Ivoryhorn)

DPS:
Zaytan - Dunemaul (Justin, IM Flash - long timer  )
Sapherix - Dunemaul (Rudy, IM Flash Raided with us since Cataclysm)
Santoki - Dunemaul (Jason, IM Flash first expansion with this group)
Aidoneus - Dunemaul (Drew, IM Flash - also a long timer, started raiding with us in Wrath I think)
Ivoryhorn - Dunemaul (RealID and former guildie of Halok)
Obadiiah - Dragonblight (Andrew, IM Flash, raided with Halok n friends from the beginning)
Cakedream - Hydraxis (CJ,IM Flash, joine group back in Cata)


Our "Regular" group is 12 people big, and we would like to expand our group just a little to make the progression a little easier.

If you know others who would be interested that are not jerks, let's try to get them sucked in :P

We are still looking for 2-3 more DPS and 1 more healer

Monday, February 16, 2015

Imperator Mar'gok - Highmaul Boss # 7


Imperator Mar'gok - Wowhead Stategy Link:
http://www.wowhead.com/guides/raiding/highmaul/imperator-margok-raid-strategy-guide



Fatboss Youtube Guide:


















As we continue to do Farm-day Wednesday and Progression-day on Fri/Sat, please be prepared for Imperator attempts (just in case Ko'Ragh goes down)

Thursday, February 12, 2015

Ko'Ragh - Highmaul Boss # 6

This Friday we will try Ko'Ragh for the first time as a group.

Please review this guide and start getting familiar with the mechanics before Friday's raid


I have also included a link to Fatboss YouTube video guide:




Update: 2/19
Here is an additional/alternate guide that shows some graphics and outlines some of the mechanics a little more detailed

Visual Guide - How we did it