Comments on: Case Study: Anub 10H vs Holy Paladin

By: Lychordia

Lychordia — Mon, 30 Nov 2009 16:33:40 +0000

Ophelie should show up more. She rocks. Great write!

By: Kata

Kata — Sun, 29 Nov 2009 14:16:08 +0000

great article You’ve got a great writing voice!

I did have to giggle for a few moments at the raid chat recap – been there, done that!

By: Hempia

Hempia — Sat, 28 Nov 2009 19:31:08 +0000

I think this was an enjoyable read. Don’t quit writing… You gave me a chuckle several times and help me realize it’s okay to laugh at our imperfections. Cya later.

By: Josh

Josh — Sat, 28 Nov 2009 18:41:11 +0000

Just a word of advice from personal experience, I wouldn’t have any other pallys except holy paladins pop Bubble Sac. Prot, for obvious reasons, shouldn’t pop it, and ret will lose way too much dps during their bubble. The focus should be on the burn during this phase.

I 3-heal all of TOGC10 with a resto shammy, holy priest, and myself (holy pally). For anub we switch to 2-heal (resto goes elem).

I’ve heard of holy pallys 1-healing this. Anyone else?

By: Almaster

Almaster — Sat, 28 Nov 2009 18:38:52 +0000

A very nice report, go Oph go!

I’ve been a follower of Oph’s blog for a long time now, she is a wonderful blogger, her blog is worthy to follow,

All the best Oph.
Almaster´s last blog ..Holy light builds VS Flash light builds.

By: bleuchz

bleuchz — Fri, 27 Nov 2009 22:05:46 +0000

Just joshin’ ya .
Posted this and a bunch of links from your blog to my old guild’s forums for the pallies there. You show concern for your writing style, but this type of narrative is PERFECT for new up and coming healers. Keep up the good work!

By: Velestrasz

Velestrasz — Fri, 27 Nov 2009 18:02:46 +0000

Awesome post, I love your writing style! :3 As someone who has not yet set foot in a raid, I find these kinda posts doubly awesome ^^
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By: Ophelie

Ophelie — Fri, 27 Nov 2009 16:04:05 +0000

@ Halthor: You make really good points! Since what I posted was just impressions and reflections after my first time, it is really helpful to get some extra imput from someone who knows the fight well.

On phase 3, I had my hands full with the tanks and my attempts to help with the PC targets resulted in panic, but I’ll admit that I wasn’t keeping track of whether or not the adds died due to splash. Definitely something I’ll pay more attention to next time. I must add that our awesome resto shammy did a crazy good job and handling the raid and PC on phase 3.

About Bubble Sac, the reason I talked about coordinating them with other pallies was because both our ret pally and I used our bubble sac at the same time. I thought it was a bit of a waste since we could have potentially stretched out the mitigation longer. Good call on Aura Mastery, I can’t believe I forgot about that!

@ Bleuchz: Sowwy! The mention of loot at the end was really just gently poking fun at the stereotypical boss fights blog posts where more attention is given to loot than to the actual fight. I needed to keep it as short as possible for the effect to work.

My awesome resto shammy teammate is both a great healer AND gives me weapons! (Is that better? ;D)
Ophelie´s last blog ..I has a linky to share!

By: Halthor

Halthor — Fri, 27 Nov 2009 09:55:53 +0000

Dealing with Penetrating Cold in Phase 3 for me is as follows:

1) When Bubble Sac is up = FoL on PC target
2) When Aura Mastery is up = FoL/HS on the PC target
3) No dmg mitigation + MT tank is stable = HS followed by a FoL if needed.
4) No dmg mitigation + MT tank needs big heal = HL on PC target

Make sure you assign each healer a PC target. I always take the X and my partner the blue square. One each.

An ideal Phase 3 will last 45-55sec, but I have successfully killed Anub with Phase 3 lasting 1min 30secs… Chaos at the end but very intense.

By: bleuchz

bleuchz — Fri, 27 Nov 2009 04:53:14 +0000

No shout out to the shaman who FORCED you to take that mace?
fyi, the name of the debuff is Penetrating Cold, it hits in Phase 1 and Phase 3 but is not a concern until that third phase (and boy, oh boy is it a concern).
Great post, glad Matticus asked you to