H FoS and H PoS

I managed to get these two down today with Apple Dumpling Gang! (Apologies to Kura if you did them before on heroic)

We had some interrupts on the final boss of H FoS, but he seems to cast randomly so it is a bit of a crapshoot, not sure if the gorilla helped. One thing that I did do was tell my Jilea to focus heals on the dps, since the pet is not taking an awful lot of damage here, I could manage without any heals for almost a minute with a turtle, and only slightly less with the Gorilla. This leaves the healer free to deal with the Phantom Blasts if they are not successfully interrupted, so she was raid healing more than anything else on this encounter.

Most of the trash pulls in FoS were much easier the second time round although we did wipe once due a to an overpull just before the boss (we got all three of the nasty wraiths).

Then we decided to carry on to H PoS, replacing Ephaena the hunter with Devinia the huntress. There was nothing specifically hard here, but a lot of technical trickiness.

We wiped on the first boss because I didn't realise you couldn't clear the trash around him first and got into a bad position which resulted in Jilea being blasted out of LoS for 30secs or so.

Then we wiped on Ick, first due to him targeting Jilea right off and her not getting out of the way fast enough and then a semi-wipe with only me left to deliver the final Kill Shot, this time due to a one shot poison cloud on Jil (we got him down due to some sharp off-healing from the druid).

Then we wiped on the trash up to the gauntlet, twice. The trick is to use a turtle and try to cc at least one of the mobs. At first I tried a whole whack of cc, but getting the priest healer to shackle one of the undead turned out to be a bad idea because when the shackle broke almost immediately it went right for her.

Eventually a bog standard Volley pull did the trick, I got some cc on the two casters for the second pair of groups by placing Volley right at the front of the soldiers and having George on passive, that way they run through the Volley to get to the pet and you can send him in at leisure far enough away from the casters to get in a cc.

The gauntlet was fairly easy, but pathing was dodgy every now and again. The final boss here was quite easy, nothing much different from most bosses, we didn't even manage to avoid all of the special effects.

So in summary PoS was actually much easier than the heavy weather we made of it, but it does take a little care and attention. There are plenty of ways to wipe the group and we pretty found all of them, but if you manage avoid them there is nothing much to it from a purely tanking perspective. Very exciting though.



A little bit of off the cuff CC is always handy.



50k!



Victory.



H FoS



Hmm, not a good spot to tank him.



Much better!



Well, he's dead isn't he?



Once you know how to do it it is as easy as pie (well sorta).



Thar she blows.



H PoS

The team was:
Dnysopheus (George the turtle, Ursula the bear and Orlando the gorilla)
Rumak the Pally
Jacobblack the Druid
Jilea the Priest
Ephaena (Frederico the wolf) FoS
Devinia (Rabies the hyena) PoS

All from yours truly, the Apple Dumpling Gang.

Doug wrote:I managed to get these two down today with Apple Dumpling Gang! (Apologies to Kura if you did them before on heroic)

Nope. With the holidays, I've actually been on very, very little, and not done any tanking in that time (other than an episode in HoL where our tank ran off early). So feel free to take that bit of thunder. ;D Well-earned! Congratulations.

Thanks Kura, your posts inspired me to get a group together again, or more specifically to bug my wife until she got a group together again. I don't how she does it, but she always finds us people to run with. Of course, having a sympathetic guild helps a lot as well, people seem quite taken by George and many enjoy the challenge.

But,there is still H HoR to go (and that darned Paletress in H ToC don't remind me), so the game isn't up yet. Pretty soon we'll get Durante to down some ICC bosses for us as well .