Progress Update, Deathwing the Destroyer is DEAD!

We did it! Deathwing is DEAD!

Congratulations Fatal!!  Dragon Soul progression 8/8!  A new title for us, Destroyer’s End.  Thats right people we did it!  We got him down last night on Fatal’s Famous Final Attempt.  We spent 3 hours and numerous attempts (so many I lost count).

It is a fun, long encounter jumping to different platforms, hoping you won’t lag out and fall to your death.  Each attempt we would tweak our strategy and try something different.  We would get him to 5% and then hit the enrage timer, which meant instant death for us all.

Deathwing's Head

He fights you all the way no wimping out at 10% for him. Each platform has adds that need to die along with a wing claw. Once we clear all four platforms we get to attack his head, at this point he is at 20%.  There are more adds to kill, the AoE damage is insane, healers are out of mana, the dps is throwing everything they can at him.  I actually look down at my bars at and think, what else can I use on him?  As a hunter, I wish I could summon my 4 other pets and let them loose on him LOL.  I know that would be so OP, but way cool!  The last attempt was a close one, most of the raid was dead when he died, but a kill is a kill no matter how sloppy it was. Was Vesha still alive when he died??  LOL 

Now it’s time for some heroic modes, see you next week Deathwing!

Neytiri

Dragon Soul Week 2: Stuck on the Spine

Well, week 2 of Dragon Soul is done.  My guild Fatal sits at 7/8 (normal).  We got stuck on the 1st part of the Deathwing encounter Spine of Deathwing.

Deathwing is covered in armor plates and the goal of this encounter is to knock off 3 of his armor plates.  We worked on this fight for 2 nights, 6 hours total and we were not able to get all 3 armor plates off.  The most we were able to get was 2.  For the complete strat on this fight, check out MMO Champions.

Now we had been hearing all week that this fight was a joke for 10m raids, but we are a 25m raiding guild so we decided to continue trying to do this fight as 25.  We didn’t want to drop 5 players just to form 2 10m raids just in order to get the kill.

Since Tuesday is the reset day for raids, last night(Monday) we decided to get a 10m together and of course we were able to defeat this encounter just as easily as we had heard.  Afterwards our Raid Leader found the following post on MMO Champions, regarding the Hot Fixes Blizzard had done.

• Spine of Deathwing
  • Blood Corruption: Earth will no longer morph into Blood Corruption: Death when dispelled.
  • Blood Corruption: Earth now applies two stacks of Blood of Neltharion when it expires on 25-player heroic difficulty.
  • The health pools for Burning Tendon, Corrupted Blood, Corruption, and Hideous Amalgamation have been reduced by 6 to 11% for 25-person raids on both normal and Heroic difficulty.
  • Hideous Amalgamations with the Superheated buff no longer pulse their AE damage after being thrown from Deathwing’s back.

If he had noticed this earlier (before we had formed our 10m and before our 10m Firelands alt run had started), we would have formed our normal 25m raid and probably could have completed this encounter.  Oh well, it was still progression for our guild.

We were able to gain some valuable information though for the next fight The Madness of Deathwing which is the final encounter.  Here is the complete strat from MMO Champions.  I would love to link the videos of this encounter but they are way to damn long.  LOL

I am very happy to report that the top guilds are still stuck at 6/8 (heroic)!!  The Spine was causing them as much trouble as it was us.  But, now that that hotfix has gone out it should make it easier for guilds doing this encounter as a 25m raid.

Neytiri