March 12, 2010

Ingvar the Plunderer vs Water Elemental

Filed under: Alts — Tags: — Kevmar @ 7:01 am

There we were standing at the end of UK starting at Ingvar the Plunderer.  He already took our group down twice.  Our warrior tank is in dps gear with 11,000 health.  Our healer was struggling a bit the whole run but its hard to decide if its tanks fault or not.  I was starting to question if the lock knew what he was doing or not.  He was a late join to our group.  After seeing him on the last 2 attempts I see him playing correctly and he does well.  The other warrior liked to off tank mobs the whole run, but that should not matter on this boss.  I am rocking the charts with my frost mage.

As we pull I swing out to the left and find my pillar.  I pop my trinkets with icy veins off the start like I do every pull.  Deep Freeze lights up for me. I decide to hold off on that for next time it pops knowing its too early in the fight or I will pull agro.  I do a nice job refreshing Ice Barrier and dancing behind that pillar to avoid the aoe so I end phase 1 with most of my health.

As Ingvar is getting revived, I do an early refresh of Ice Barrier to start that cooldown and do my evocation.  Getting into phase 2 I see that I am in a solid 2nd place behind the tank in agro.  The tank goes down with about 50% health left.  He turns to me just like I knew he would.  I let hem get all the way over to me and pop my Ice Barrier before I popped Ice Block. I expected the lock to go next, but the other warrior picked up agro.  I almost released Ice Block at that point but saw a dark smash headed for me and the timming looked like it was going to be close.   But it held just long enough.

The tank got a battle rez and got agro just long enough to die.  I see the other warrior go down almost instantly after.  That puts me back in his sights.  I blink to the back of the room and round the corner as I hit Invisibility.  I see him fade out behind me as I get away.  Knowing this is our last attempt, I pop Ice Barrier to break invis and get back to the fight.  This guy is almost dead.  The lock goes down and the druid goes kitty as he is out of mana doing any damage he can.  Druid dodges a few blows before he takes one and dies.  My water elemental is still going strong and picks up Ingvar.

With just my elemental and myself standing we take him down.  We were moments away from death but we won.  We were excited that we got him down.  I was also a little disappointed that we struggled on him.  He is not that hard of a boss to have a group struggle so hard on him.

March 5, 2010

Bad Hunter can trap

Filed under: Alts — Tags: — Kevmar @ 11:07 am

So far I hate my pet and my dps is average.  I loaded him up with BoA gear and picked some cheap greens off the AH.  I think my dps is low for a hunter but its with the group and is good enough not to get kicked.  My pet is a total spaz.  I keep seeing him drag a mob off into other groups on my instance runs.  I have the taunt thing turned off but I still see it happen.

I still don’t have good synergy with my pet.  There was this point where I decided to sleep a pat in a safe spot before we pulled the big group in front of him.  I used to sheep that pat so it would not chain the group behind it.  I hit my target with Wyvern Sting for CC and my pet decided to go stand next to it.  He did a little dance and brought the back group with him into the front group we were looking at.  It was a very large pull that quickly wiped the group and I was told to watch my pat.

I am very good with my ice trap.  I used to group with a very skilled hunter a long time ago and he was very slick with his traps.  I see I am already using some of his tricks.  If I don’t have a good use for the trap, I keep it in front of the healer or ranged aoe.  If the tank or healer is weak, I place the trap off to the side of the group and pull a mob out to it on the pull.  I do it off to the side so the tank knows what I am doing and does not think dps is pulling agro.  If I place that trap in the group, it looks like the mob is running back to kill someone.  I think it just looks slick when a hunter does that.

There was a large pull last night where I was able to Wyvern Sting a single mob pat that was going to agro just as we were pulling and then place a trap next to him and pull a mob into it.  We cleaned up all the other mobs and those 2 were still CC’d for us to kill.  I tried to get a screenshot because the placement looked perfect but I was too slow.

I didn’t think much of my trap skills except for one run where someone complemented me on how well I grasp traps.  I did save this mages life once when we were dpsing from max range and a rogue poped and started to own him (he was all spellpower and not much stam).  I trapped him and we went back to dpsing like it never happened.  The rest of the run, I didn’t do any active trapping because of all the aoe.  But my traps were in place every time a mob pealed off the tank.

I guess I look like a good hunter as long as my pet spaz does not mess it up for me.



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