So we got onto PTR tonight and without too much trouble were able to get our raid group in the zone. They had Ignis spawn @ 4 pm server instead of having the zone come up so that was cool. I hope they do this in future testing as it removes the complete pain in the ass the world server. The fight itself is pretty underturned in it’s current version and I know that many guilds out there opted to just offtank the adds instead of using the molten/brittle system that was intended so the encounter defiantly needs some work. Seems to be more of a MT gear check (25k hits in some cases) and an AOE healing check than a real encounter. We also downed him on 10 man which seems to be more balanced than the 25 man version.

Anyway we’ll get to see what they did to Hodir tomorrow and hopefully get an idea of how hard they want the encounter to be.

I’m hoping to get to the point were we can really start churning out some video content on the website (fraping encounters) as well as streaming video from raids. Our website is really great and we should be taking advantage of it!

Alright thats it for now, I’ll try to get another post in for the Hodir PTR testing!

Well after about 2 straight hours of being constantly disconnected, having the world server down, and random fatal errors our guild finally got into Uldar and got the Iron Council down.  At the time of this posting to my understanding the only guilds that downed the encounter were Forlorn Legacy - Windrunner (Thats us!) and Premonition -  Sen’jin.  It’s a very interesting fight similar to the Bug Trio in AQ40 but with new abilities.  Some people may say that this is a cop out on Blizzards part, not having “NEW UNIQUE ENCOUNTERS!” but IMO its a perfect blend of a boss with new abilities in a different style.  I like it!

A lot of people really stepped up to the plate for this.  It’s really really fucking enjoyable to see us play that well after months after months of old, repeated, easy content. The biggest let down of all of this is the PTR servers being totally unstable, its a real huge challenge to just get your entire raid in the zone.  It took us 4 attempts to get it down after all getting in there.  Sadly Brann Bronzebeard didn’t yell for us like he did for Premo, you can check out their page at http://premoguild.com/forums/portal.php  (Hey, it’s all love!)

Oh, and get this…we 24 manned it one of our ranged DPS was offline the entire fight.  GG Blizzard servers.

It would have been awesome to try some different kill orders because the “super power” of the small guy at the end is kinda weak after you figure it out.  I can also see why Blizzard made the heroism change (Enh Shaman here) because the enrage timer on this fight is 10 minutes.  It’s going to be neat to check out how all the damage testing on the Patchwerk Dummies will be.  Blizzard is making some smart changes to the class (hi expertise on UR instead of AGI) and I’m liking the direction they are taking it.  Sadly I couldn’t get a good feel for my DPS on Iron Council because Shock and Awe was broken, not showing Maelstrom Weapon procs.  The addon is pretty much required to do max dps.

All in all it was a pretty good night, we got a buncha combat logs from Council to go over and catch anything we missed during the fight.

Looking forward to finshing up some missing loot spots on my shaman and getting ready for Uldar Live.  See you there!

EDIT: Just heard Crimson - Greymane also downed the Council, I’m sure there might be a few others that I missed also.