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Noodleface

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After how many pulls KJ took us, killing H Argus in 6 was the best Christmas present ever.

Also accidentally tanked varimathras with dampen harm. One shot still
 

xzi

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H Argus dying at the exact same time the raid died was great. A little part of me was hoping the rest of you died before me and I got to BOP kill the last 10m, but I'll settle for the kill anyways.
 

Sumdain x

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Still can't find a DPS class i enjoy, Sub rogue is the closest i've found. i leveled a shaman to try out enhancement or elemental and remembered how shitty it was being GCD locked, and elemental just feels lack luster (probably the gear level i have atm).

i did give my DH a go that i haven't played since prenighthold (still had 910 tank legos on him) i did lfr, a few invasions and the argus questline and got him to 930 and 72 points over the weekend, ill give him a try in normal/heroic alt runs this week and see what i think. i also decided to finish the mage tower appearances for havoc/vengeance while it was up. these were the easiest challenges ive done other than faceroll assassination.

i'd rank the tank challenges from hardest to easiest as Monk ~200 attempts(did it prenerf at 904 ilevel)>Warrior @30ish attempts(at 908ilevel, with good legos)>DK~20ish attempts(910 good legos)>Bear~20ish attempts(940, shitty legos)>DH 3 attempts(925ish)

for dps challenges from hardest to easiest Sub rogue 30ish attempts (this is mainly because i was bad at slowing the adds in the final phase) > Fury Warrior 30ish attempts (legos saved me here but it was shitty swapping targets) > WW Monk 20ish attempts(10 attempts after i made a macro that solved all my problems) > havoc 4 attempts with no dps legos, only issues i had was reaching xylem when he teleported away if he chose a particularly bad spot, and the last boss even ate 2 adds to heal for 30% and i was able to meta stand in the aoe and still kill him. > assassination 3ish attempts (this shouldn't even be a dps challenge since i did it on my wifes rogue at 890, fight is a complete joke).

so now i have all the tank challenges done except paladin (one of the 2 classes i dont have along with mage).
 

a c i d.f l y

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Failed the balance one once at 880'ish, didn't try again until 940 and basically moonfire spammed to beat it in one attempt. Guess I should give the manbear run an attempt since I managed to get the two ideal legos... I'm sad you can't use the alternate forms in other specs or I'd give the feral ones a go.
 

Sumdain x

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Failed the balance one once at 880'ish, didn't try again until 940 and basically moonfire spammed to beat it in one attempt. Guess I should give the manbear run an attempt since I managed to get the two ideal legos... I'm sad you can't use the alternate forms in other specs or I'd give the feral ones a go.

I haven't tried the balance one since i was like 902, i didn't have the dps to kill the purple portals before they got a cast off. For balance legos i only have ring and prydaz but i should give it a try im sure 40 ilevels probably makes it face roll easy.
 

Chancellor Alkorin

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Failed the balance one once at 880'ish, didn't try again until 940 and basically moonfire spammed to beat it in one attempt. Guess I should give the manbear run an attempt since I managed to get the two ideal legos... I'm sad you can't use the alternate forms in other specs or I'd give the feral ones a go.
Feral is easy AF. I've done it on both of my druids with almost no effort whatsoever. Still having trouble with the Guardian one on Horde druid because I have shit legos, but wow, I have Ekowraith on the Alliance side and it just nerfs the entire challenge down to no effort required. Got the Feral challenge in one attempt on my Alliance druid, and Guardian in 6 attempts. I think Feral took 3 attempts on my Horde druid.

It's just ridiculous how easy Kruul becomes with Eko + balance affinity.
 

Sumdain x

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Guardian is even easier with luffa's+pants, or moonfire shoulders + cape. Saw a video of someone doing it with luffas at 940 where they didn't even get an infernal spawn they just hit incarn and spammed thrash until kruul came out.

DH was a complete joke as well, you have a 40% dmg reduction for every other cast of mind rend (4 secs of immunity every 20 secs) and you literally cant die since you have 2 "heroic leaps" to grab orbs and if you get knocked back your glide instantly cancels the push back. only difficult part was keeping Velen and the DH alive since they like to hang out in puddles or follow the boss around swinging when adds are running around.
 

Nite1

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Eko completely trivializes both guardian and feral mage towers. Although honestly feral aoe so damn strong you don't need it. Both dh mage towers where a joke as well. I think I only had a small issue with havoc and that was bc I didn't think to spec into demonic for the healing. By far the hardest challenges for me have been sub rogue frost dk and blood dk of the ones I've finished. Sub was as said before the adds where hard to bring down frost I had some really random issues and blood I kept losing velen to the damn ghosts....

I'm working on the prot Paladin Tower right now and I have to say there's some really random stuff that happens in that fight. I've Had The Inquisitor actually chase me down and get me to 10 Stacks when I tried to leave at 4. Also the knock back seems alot harsher and I don't know if it's a graphics issue or something else but even whwn it looks like im out of the path im still getting launched. Ididn't have a problem with it on the other 3 tank challenges I've done so I'm not sure what's happening.

So far I have priest dk dh and rogue done with feral and guardian on druid
 

Sumdain x

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For sub rogue i ended up just burning 2 phases of adds and then killing boss after the third set spawned but before they reached him. i was using shoulders+cloak, if you vanish with 30 stacks you can just about 1 shot a wave and then you only have 1 wave to nightblade.

for the Havoc challenge the guide i read recommended going chaos blades / felblade after the xylem part, but i tried that once and didn't quite have the burst. going demonic build you can just save an eyebeam and then a deathsweep and the adds are pretty much dead, i fucked up on the third wave and wasted a fel eruption early and had 2 adds get through and heal the boss, the entire platform was covered but i was able to pop meta and just stand in the bad and kill 20% of his hp.

the tank challenge can be shitty with the knockbacks since its not always exactly where it puts the graphic (for the infernals) and the eyeballs are oddly specific at the angle you have to face. for the DK i ended up downloading a WA that had a big airhorn whenever a knockback was about to occur and a different noise when the eyeballs were casting. I think Prot pally is still the harder of the tank challenges atm. I would be interested in trying BrM again now that i overgear it, i dont remember the nether adds actually casting their AoE on the BrM challenge either, so either they dont have that ability or i killed them too fast.
 

Nite1

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For sub rogue i ended up just burning 2 phases of adds and then killing boss after the third set spawned but before they reached him. i was using shoulders+cloak, if you vanish with 30 stacks you can just about 1 shot a wave and then you only have 1 wave to nightblade.

for the Havoc challenge the guide i read recommended going chaos blades / felblade after the xylem part, but i tried that once and didn't quite have the burst. going demonic build you can just save an eyebeam and then a deathsweep and the adds are pretty much dead, i fucked up on the third wave and wasted a fel eruption early and had 2 adds get through and heal the boss, the entire platform was covered but i was able to pop meta and just stand in the bad and kill 20% of his hp.

the tank challenge can be shitty with the knockbacks since its not always exactly where it puts the graphic (for the infernals) and the eyeballs are oddly specific at the angle you have to face. for the DK i ended up downloading a WA that had a big airhorn whenever a knockback was about to occur and a different noise when the eyeballs were casting. I think Prot pally is still the harder of the tank challenges atm. I would be interested in trying BrM again now that i overgear it, i dont remember the nether adds actually casting their AoE on the BrM challenge either, so either they dont have that ability or i killed them too fast.


For me going gloom blade made all the difference suprisingly. I held onto lust long enough to help w the 1st set of adds then popped all my defensives and stayed on him and managed to kill him right as the second adds spawned

Havoc I just sat on the artifact ability for the adds and went chaos blades. Meta is stupid on that fight. I think I had him to 30% before the 1st adds?

I think I'm going to find that weak aura you used and download it because I think it might help me now that I know I have to get a lot further away from that knock back then I thought I did. The other problem I have is I don't have any DPS trinkets like I had on my other three tanks and I'm definitely feeling the lack. Speaking of the glaives from sisters are amazing for these challenges
 

Chancellor Alkorin

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i dont remember the nether adds actually casting their AoE on the BrM challenge either, so either they dont have that ability or i killed them too fast.

Probably killed them too fast. They barely got any casts off on my warrior, but I saw plenty on my druid.
 

Nite1

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Probably killed them too fast. They barely got any casts off on my warrior, but I saw plenty on my druid.
They don't cast anything on the paladin challenge. They may not for monk either.. guardian they'll chase you when aoeING but blood dk they sit and cast
 

Chancellor Alkorin

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Weird. I never noticed a difference in their behaviour, but I was too busy focusing on the bosses anyway.
 

Sumdain x

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There are a few changes ive noticed between the tank ones, I dont know if the other challenges change slightly depending on the class

Eye's cant be damaged except by moonfire on the guardian druid version
Adds don't move when casting on the DK challenge
I dont *think* the adds cast at all on the BrM challenge
Kruul has double the HP on the paladin challenge

anyone know of changes between the non-tank challenges?
 

Tauntworth

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That's right on brm they don't do the aoe cast

Source: did the challenge about 200 times

Now I don't feel as bad. About 150 attempts in, was like, 'god I'm trash'. Saw one BrM do this shit pre900 ilvl with one leggo. The Monk challenge was by far the hardest for me. I prolly put int 200 attempts too. Not sure why it was so brutal for me. But something I will say about these, is that it made me play my class better. Sort of shined where I was weak on awareness and ability usage. Have done all the tank challenges, sans Pally and I'd say in terms of difficulty, for me it was: BrM >>>DH>Warrior>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>DK>Druid.

Beat DK and Druid in like 5-10 attempts at ilvl 915. Maybe I was just too used to the challenge after 400+ attempts between teh BrM/DH/War.

And yah, BrM adds dont cast, but will fuck you up if you don't blow them up quick. The druid's DnD zone is fucking huge. If you have the bracers though (I did not) it's trivial. Just sit and thrash/swipe at the edge and the fucker dies. Despite that it felt like a longer fight to me than the rest of the challenges. Maybe because you can do everything at range as the druid and its just far more boring and less active than the rest of the tanks.