Ascendant Council 25-man heroic mode killed
The second day of year 2011 brought us Ascendant Council 25-man heroic mode kill. This was one of the fights we were most looking forward to after beta testing. It was a huge letdown for some, but others enjoyed it. Somewhat bittersweet.
Also, a big thank you for the melee DPS'ers who play in the guild. They had to pass up spots again for alts, simply because the encounter design is incredibly punishing for any melee. It's a pretty glaring oversight when bringing in more than one or two of them results in ridiculous increases in damage taken in the last phase due to non-stop chaining chain lightning. Dropping out melee characters in favor of ranged ones has been a recurring theme throughout this whole raiding tier, but we hope that it's over now with only the end bosses and Sinestra left.
Here's to hoping next tier of raiding won't favor ranged by design. Maybe even go wild and give some incentive to bring in melee, too.
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Sun, 02/01/2011 - 20:28
Well done! :D
Sun, 02/01/2011 - 20:46
Edited the newspost, nevermind this comment.
Sun, 02/01/2011 - 20:51
Hey guys, congrats on the kill!
Seems like you used a LOT of healers (8 or 9 by my count from the picture). Is the damage crazy unhealable?
Sun, 02/01/2011 - 21:19
I have to agree this. Last 3 bosses been range > melee.................................................................
Sun, 02/01/2011 - 21:33
Congratulations, Paragon your coverage is up: http://www.gamersbook.com/scene/coverages/ :)
Sun, 02/01/2011 - 21:53
is there any boss that actually need any melee dps?
Sun, 02/01/2011 - 23:26
The ones that need many interrupts. Like Nefarian.
Mon, 03/01/2011 - 00:01
OMFGGGGGGGG!!!!111 GRTZ PARIGUN!!!111
Mon, 03/01/2011 - 00:38
Based on the levels of ease from normal modes, would it be right to assume Cho'gall is going to be the next Hard Mode that you progress on?
Mon, 03/01/2011 - 03:56
ihana nähä että joulu on tehnyt hyvää teille! =) hieno aloitus uudelle vuodelle, 2 killii kahta päivää peräkkäin. toivottavasti viimet kuolee kohta
/Expré
Mon, 03/01/2011 - 04:28
Nice come back guys!
Mon, 03/01/2011 - 10:24
nice pose diivil, u ironmanz?
Mon, 03/01/2011 - 22:56
The more healers you run the harder it is to kill due to it being a pure dps race.
World first while having to carry geru and smirk is all the more impressive.
GzLol!
Tue, 04/01/2011 - 23:36
grats from Korea :) always a pleasure watching Paragon's progress
Thu, 06/01/2011 - 08:17
Any chance of a video of this fight once a few other guilds down it?
Fri, 07/01/2011 - 16:19
Yup, we'll release a video when there are other kills.
Fri, 07/01/2011 - 19:42
Awesome, this is one of the fights I enjoyed the most in normal mode, so I'm looking forward to seeing hardmode :)
Did "The Elementium Monstrosity will now prefer ranged targets to melee targets with its Electrical Instability beams. If there are more beams active then there are ranged targets present, then the beams will start hitting melee targets" make the encounter more enjoyable for melee this week or was there little change?
Fri, 07/01/2011 - 21:06
Not really, no. We still ended up using only two melee. Their DPS output just isn't as good as ranged characters when having to avoid the Liquid Ice pools. If they don't play it very safe, they die.
Still, it was a step in the right direction. Just wasn't enough. Maybe I should rant more in the news posts.
Sat, 08/01/2011 - 18:32