Having did not defeat Erudax, the ultimate boss of Grim Batol, on our first outing this previous Sunday, we took benefit of the three day weekend and got here again for a night run on the occasion on Monday. We obtained ourselves on-line and a few us headed out to Grim Batol and the summoning stone.
Hanging out ready to summon
We needed to utilizing the summoning stone as a result of the group was nonetheless lower than merchandise degree 305 so we had been locked out of utilizing the dungeon finder to get us there.
Shut doesn’t rely
The group additionally had not leveled up or something in a single day, so I can re-run the identical group graphic from final time.
The occasion group for this spherical… once more
We go everyone summoned in and headed straight for the occasion. We knew the routine, having simply made it to the ultimate boss the day earlier than. We may do that.
We had additionally tune ourselves up a bit… or I had at the very least. I went by way of my expertise and located a pair that had been inexplicably not on my bar… significantly, issues that had been in my rotation in Wrath Traditional that obtained pooched within the Cataclysm redo of all lessons.
It wasn’t even a matter of “you could re-learn tips on how to play your class” which is the curse of each WoW enlargement and, I believe, an considerably unacknowledged side of the sport’s long run decline, however simply “we took crap off your scorching bars, hope you bear in mind what you had!” Grrr
We obtained in and made our solution to the griffons so we may do our bombing run. This was amusing for me as a result of, realizing what we had been in for and having simply accomplished the run, it was clear which teams of trash mobs stood out essentially the most as a result of they obtained plastered with bombs. Later within the run we’d hit teams that had been someplace between 50-80% well being, after which we’d roll up on a gaggle down a mob and the remainder at 10% and it was clear we had been “and screw that group specifically” primarily based on the day earlier than.
Our solely downside is that the griffons trip and we waited a bit earlier than mounting so Potshot, who runs two characters, obtained again to search out Karageenan’s griffon had light. Should be extra on the ball subsequent time… if there’s a subsequent time. I think a whole lot of the dungeons we do as a part of WoW Traditional are “for the final time.”
We obtained that accomplished and headed out, clearing trash, till we obtained to Common Umbriss, the primary boss.
Prepared for the boss
We had managed him fairly rapidly final time, even when the tank died as a result of not being the main focus goal of the healer. This time we had been all set to go and… we wiped.
Umbriss engrages at 30% well being and one thing in Fergorin’s UI wasn’t responding and the wheels got here off. It occurs. So we tried it once more. And we wiped once more. Crap, had been we over considering this?
We took a breather, everyone checked their stuff, and we tried to comply with a plan associated to managing the trogg provides, which completely fell aside as quickly as we began, however someway we muddled by way of and Umbriss went down.
Then we began to get a way of deja vu, that unusual feeling we generally get that we’ve lived by way of one thing earlier than, that what is occurring now has already occurred. Solely, with loot. The RNG determined to only take the identical path because the day earlier than and we ended up getting virtually precisely the identical drops from the identical mobs as we moved alongside.
That was nice for the mages who had needed to “want off” on some material objects and a wand, however it was unusual. That lasted by way of a lot of the run… although we didn’t get the purple merchandise from the trash mob. Nonetheless, even I noticed a drop that I moused over and stated, “Oh, I’m already carrying that from yesterday.”
The drape didn’t get the memo and didn’t re-appear
We managed to get by way of Forgemaster Throngus, the second boss, nonetheless with out understanding in any respect how that combat is meant to work. Even Lethal Boss Mods, which frequently tells me what I must be doing in a method that I can nonetheless handle to screw up, was like, “I don’t know, perhaps get out of the way in which or one thing?”
Anyway, we gained and obtained the identical drop, as famous above.
We made our method across the loop… ought to I put the picture I made from the trail by way of the occasion on this submit as effectively? Why not! I did some work on it, would possibly as effectively re-use it!
The route by way of Grim Batol
We made it by way of the button hook on the center there and labored our method round to the third boss, Drahga Shadowburner. The teams close to him appeared to have gotten particular consideration throughout our bombing run… although that was partially as a result of we knew that hitting the boss was pointless, to we pasted the 2 close by teams as an alternative.
We did have one comedian second on the final group earlier than Drahga. They had been all closely broken however we had been practising crowd management simply to get again within the behavior and I picked a mob at 10% well being to get the polymorph therapy, forgetting that polymorph applies accelerated therapeutic to the goal. When it was lastly that mobs flip, it was at 100% well being. It might have been higher to only AOE the hell out of issues and be accomplished with them.
We did managed to take Drahga on the primary go.
We realized the important thing to that combat on the primary spherical, which was to run away from the add till they blew up. I solely dragged provides over the casters a few instances, and no one died as a result of that.
We had been now within the final stretch. We had been coming to the previous few trash mod teams, together with a giant group within the doorway right down to the ultimate boss that had been spared out bombing run. That had two elementals and we had realized that banish, a warlock spell, labored on elementals regardless of the instrument tip saying it was solely good on demons. So we set Liftkit the duty of banishing one of many large, 100% well being elementals that had assaults that went after the casters.
We’re nonetheless undecided what occurred, however Liftkit hit the mistaken button and… is there an enrage elemental potential for warlocks? It ended badly and we wiped.
Getting run over by that full well being group
So we obtained ourselves again collectively and cleared them out. Actually, it was an odd wipe. We mainly took ourselves unexpectedly.
Then we cleared the final couple of mobs and had been right down to Erudax as soon as extra.
Pondering Erudax
We had spent a while the night time earlier than and that afternoon attempting to determine our method.
The consensus among the many many and diverse stories on the combat… everyone appears to have an opinion on the combat… is that the provides should be killed ASAP, that they’re what heals Erudax, and a healed Erudax results in a wipe.
It wasn’t clear what instruments in our arsenal would gradual the provides down, however all of us had issues lined up and able to strive. After working by way of the fundamentals just a few instances… strafe proper if you happen to get focused by the direct assault, simply sit there if you get knocked again till the debuff clears, everyone to the middle of the gale when that lands, after which all DPS on the provides once they arrive, with no matter slowing talents work… we had been off to the races.
All of it appeared to go to plan and all of us ran to the fitting spots after we wanted to.
In the course of the Gale
The provides obtained knocked down quick sufficient to keep away from the large therapeutic surge, with cone of chilly being one of many winner of the race to decelerate the provides.
We went by way of half a dozen cycles of the gale and the provides, however we wore Erudax down till… he was accomplished.
The second of Questie and the Achievement
Grim Batol completed… in regular mode at the very least. However, for a standard mode dungeon, that was form of a tricky one. Potshot put this win up close to Archaedas again within the day… although even our pandemic period WoW Traditional Uldaman run was a giant victory, as we did it with a gaggle of 4.
I went again to examine how we did in Grim Batol again within the day, however we had equipped some in Pandaria at that time so simply blew by way of the bosses and trash continuous after which and went off and did Heroic Deadmines. OP for the win. So this was our first time doing it “for actual” I suppose.
There was a pleasant large 2H mace as a drop for Karageenan and the search reward to gather for all of us. However first, an image with the defeated boss.
Erudax Defeated
Then to show within the quest I prompt all of us simply teleport out of the dungeon after which again in… solely to understand that we didn’t use the dungeon finder. We had been going to must hoof it again.
Working all the way in which again
So we unwound our path all the way in which to the beginning of the occasion and the search givers.
Nearly there
There we turned in our quests and obtained our rewards. Nevertheless, there was nonetheless one quest undone, associated to the bombing effort. However we noticed, as we ran again, that the griffons had returned so thought perhaps we obtained one other chunk and the bombing run apple.
The griffons had been ready for us
Nevertheless, as quickly as I hopped on I noticed there was no button for bombing. That they had been transformed to taxis to get us again to the Drahga. A method taxis too. So now we had been again in the course of the occasion.
After working the mistaken method for a bit, we determined to only hearthstone again house and name it an evening. However everyone had picked up sufficient upgrades on this run that we at the moment are clear to dungeon finder our method into the final two regular mode dungeons.
All regular mode dungeons open
Heroic mode… that’s going to have to attend till all of us make it to 85.
