Amelioration ran two Kara groups this week for the first time. We're going to miss out on our SSC target but the fact that we can now run 20 people through Kara and have people on standby speaks volumes of our progress to bigger and better things.
Group 1 had some issues with Maiden the first night. One dispeller = hard times. They got her down but it took to long and they had to call the raid. Night two they rocked the opera house but had some drama on Curator and had to call it. Night three, no one wants to talk about night three. They didn't drop a single boss though.
Group 2 on other hand kicked major @$$. One shot on Attunmen, Moroes, Curator, Aran, and Chess. The Opera event was Romeo and Juliet. I think that only three people had ever seen this boss so it took us three (four?) attempts to drop them.
Hunter Loot? The vial out of Opera and the ring from Curator. Our OT/MS/Fury warrior took the vial and Arigg stole our ring. Although I can't remember the last time I missed so we're not mad at cha.
Prince was again controlled by our own personal GM and dropped us everytime. 11.4k health on our best attempt, which also happened to have the worst infernal drops. I really don't get this fight. Either we can stand in one spot the entire fight and Prince hits like a truck, dropping our tank faster then the heals can flow from the priests little fingers. Or he hits like a pansy and lets the infernals kill us. He can never hit like a girl and drop easy infernals..... I hate him. And he still has my bow. Damn it.
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Prince.....I hatez him too
Ok, here is the fight with the Prince summed up.
1. It all comes down to infernal drops. So far, the best place we have found is for the Ranged DPS and Healers to stand in the doorway (outside of the door) and the Tank with his back to the wall to the right of the doorway, where there is a niche and a crack. (Make sure it is ample space between tank and group to keep those safe from Shadow Nova when enfeebled. Melee DPS has to be on their toes of getting distance and navegating through infernals because any damage at all will kill the enfeebled. DO NOT HEAL OR CLEANSE an enfeebled player)
2. Ranged DPS and Healers must move as a group to navigate past any detrimental infernal drops. It is best to radi mark one (good) player and have them be the marker for everyone to follow.
3. Restoration Druids are rockstars in this fight because they can continue to heal the MT while moving out of harms way.
4. Between 60% and 30%, the Prince hits like a Mack Truck and the MT must ALWAYS remain topped off because the Prince can crit for well over 10K. Druid (Bear) tanks with good gear are good for this fight thanks to high stamina and armor. I sit at almost 29,000 armor raid buffed now and about 17,000 health. The Prince is my bitch! LOL
5. Shadow Priests are good in this fight because when using Vampiric Embrace, they heal the party with the damage they do.
6. When the axes come out, it is good to have at least one priest (shadow or holy) to bubble any target the axes may pick. They DO hurt.
7. When the Prince is going down, the infernals drop faster and faster. If you get to 10% or lower, all healers on the MT and they should have enough mana to heal your MT through any infernal drops as well as damage from the Prince.
8. Infernal odds are are 5-100, meaning you have a 5% chance that you will get good (safe) drops in the fight. (Or so it seems) LOL
9. This is an unwritten, unprooven statement, but we have found it to be true in every case. Anytime your Ranged DPS or Healers pull aggro from the MT, even if only for a second, the likelihood that they will get a close infernal drop greatly increases and could ultimately end in a wipe. To prevent this, make sure everyone has Blessing of Salvation, and if DPS starts to pull, do what you can to drop down to white damage until the MT climbs back up in the aggro chart.
Don't dismay. The fight itself is not hard, but the infernal drops are what make it or break it. No matter how well geared, how well versed the group is, bad infernal drops can lead to wipe city.
Take heed to what I have said, read up a bit on the fight and you will drop him in no time.
Good luck and Happy Hunting.
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