HEROIC Madness of Deathwing (10-man) - Fire Mage PoV - HD
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- Опубліковано 9 лют 2025
- This is our first kill of HEROIC Madness of Deathwing 5 % nerf (10-man) as a guild.
Guild: The Machine of Sylvanas-EU (Horde).
Kill date: 25th of February, 2012.
PoV: Zumzar - Zumzar. Armory at eu.battle.net/w...
We used 1 tank, 3 healers and 6 dps for this.
After loosing a majority of our players throughout DS (including a legendary staff), we didn't manage to kill HEROIC: Madness pre-nerf, even though we were really close with a 3 % wipe two weeks prior to our actual kill. We also had to cancel approximately half of our raids the last month of DS due to lack of members. We hope to bounce back strong in Mists of Pandaria, though! :)
This fight really isn't very challenging tactially, and the hardest thing about the encounter is the actual lenght of it. It requires focus for a full 15 minutes which is pretty intense. Every platform is almost identical, which also adds a sleepy-factor to the fight. Nevertheless, even after the 5 % nerf the dps/hps requirements are pretty heavy, and we were very relieved when we finally managed to bring it down and thus bring an end to this expansion raiding wise.
If we start from the beginning of the fight, we have our two melee DPS start on the last platform, since the DPS requirements for it is very high, and it's therefore good to get a head start. When the Corruption spawns, they'll jump back to the rest of us.
Phase 1:
We have assigned positions for every single member of the raid, to ensure no more than one person gets hit by the Corruption's smash.
Our Death Knight tank takes the first Impale with defensive cooldowns, and our Shadow Priest takes the second Impale.
As far as dps goes, we obviously nuke the Corruption while it's up. When an Elementium Bolt spawns, every dps switches to it. When a Parasite spawns, our goal is to bring it ~20 %, to ensure maximum DPS effectivity. When Regenerative Bloods spawn, our goal is to not kill them untill the second Parasite spawns, so we can AoE them all down together, and take advantage of Spellweave procs. If you see dps'ers (especially Aríadne) attacking Regenerative Bloods prior to the second Parasite spawning, it is because of Spellweave cleaving.
Every time someone got a Parasite, they would move into the Time Zone.
When the Corruption and the Bloods have been killed, we would stack up in melee (for heals), and dps the Tentacle down.
The last platform is a little bit different:
We would use Bloodlust/Heroism when the Corruption spawned, to make sure the Corruption would die before the 3rd Impale.
We would try to kill the Parasites.
We stacked up for the Elementium Bolt and used defensive cooldowns, due to it not being killable on the last platform. A little tip for this: Immunities (such as Ice Block, Divine Shield etc.), together with a Spirit Link Totem works wonders.
Parasites would be positioned next to the Corruption, so melee classes could cleave.
We aimed to kill the second Parasite and the Regenerative Bloods at the same time, stacked up.
Phase 2:
We were trying to do the following:
1. Get boss to ~16 % (NOT below 15 %), while killing Elementium Fragments.
2. Get Elementium Terror spawns, and kill em both asap. Our Death Knight tank would use Anti-Magic Shell to remove the stacks.
3. DPS DW to 15 %. Kill Congealing Bloods.
5. DPS DW to 10 %. Kill Congealing Bloods.
6. Kill Elementium Fragments.
7. Kill Elementium Terrors. DK uses AMS.
8. DPS DW to 5 %, use Dream
9. Kill Congealing Bloods
10. Kill DW, using defensive Cooldowns and Dream on CD.
From a Fire Mage point of view, there are several things you can do to maximize your performance, apart from the obvious:
Keep at least 2x LB up at all times. Using a focus-target macro for LB works very well here. That's what I did.
Use Combustion twice per platform, where one of them has to be in the Cataclysm phase, when the Tentacle takes increased dmg.
You can spend 1-2 GCDs on a BW/FS on the Bloods in P1, when they're close to the Corruption. This will give you Spellweave cleaves onto the Corrpution, resulting in roughly 100k dmg onto the Corruption from 1-2 GCDs. This is definitely worth it, considering you'll also get Pyromaniac. Don't pad meters though!! cough Ariadne cough
Use Ice Block for the Elementium Bolt on the last platform. See 09:55.
In Phase 2, use BW to slow the Congealing Bloods. You can also use Cone of Cold if you miss slows.
Switch to Mage Armor when running from the 3rd to the 4th Platform.
Ventrilo: Yes, for the entire fight.
WoL from the kill: www.worldoflogs...
My UI in 1920x1080 (Updated 10th of January, 2012): www.gamefront.c... - Remember to download the newest addons with Curse Client!!
Songs: The songs are listed at the end credits, in order of appearance.
www.the-machine.wowstead.com - Ігри
Congratulations guys, you were great.
I've been watching your videos a time ago... you deserved it!
Very well put together video man thank you for putting the work into it. It was a great view and got some good laughs! LOL!
Nice video and nice dps. Gotta love your UI.
@Nak3DMeDiA A fire Mage's stat priority is: Hit cap > Haste (till 1505) > Crit > Mastery. So, yes Crit is the second strongest stat after 1505 Haste, which is almost impossible to NOT get.
As far as i have seen your guilds vids, u really make nice dmg usually. Thumbs up! Special thanks to you personally and for Ariadne too. For giving some tips for my gameplay to my main and my alt :) I dont have to try all little things myself to see if they work on wont.
That priest had some insane DPS, congrats on the kill!
No problem buddy. Thanks for the support.
haha :) i hope you will continue raiding together in mop. Just want to Thank you zumzar, for teaching a lot of tips, tricks, for analyzing your own pov. You really added a lot in my personal performances, keep it up !
Please read the description. Songs are listed at the end of the video, in order of appearence.
The songs are listed at the end of the movie, and are also displayed on the screen when the song is playing. See 00:03 - 00:08.
We used 3healers and 'sort of' 1.5tanks if you will, having our feral druid take the first impales on each platform (but using dps gear+spec) then had prot warr tank rest, had off taunts in phase 2 via DK/ret paladin to help reset stacks :)
Yes, read the attached README. Type /rbuff unlock
See the end credits. It's the soundtrack from The Hobbit called "Misty Mountains Cold".
@ZumzarWoW Hmm, not sure if we have the dps to run with a 2tank 3healer setup, you think it'll be easier with 2tank + 2healers? Our 2nd tank is also a warrior >.>
Another thing we've experimented with is to have one of our pala healers to taunt and then bubble when it gets close. Then our tank taunts it back.
A couple of guys have said that already. The video has been up for some time now, and I haven't received any spam e-mails due to it.
Thx for videos. Those help us a lot.
Hello Zumzar! Can you please take a screenshot, or make a video with your Pitbull settings? They're awesome!
Can someone help me? I cant figure out how ı will setup that procs on top of char's unitframe?
Hey, it would be very helpful if you could make a list of all your addons in this vid ty!!!
@buzzerkrb I'll just quote from our website: "Big thanks to Swizzeh for helping out on the kill, even though he quit WoW on January 7th, and it was his first raid since then *cough* ilvl 390 *cough*"
Realy nice movie and i realy like your UI using it myself =) Gz to the kill!
We're trying to do this with 1tank and 3healer tac aswell. Difference is that we're using a a warrior tank, since we dont have a dk tank, got any suggestions of when to kill the adds?
Currently we're trying to do -> fragments -> bloods -> terrors. As if we try to nuke down one of them, the tank usually dies before we can get one of them down, so we're trying to have the tank leaping around, and getting pulled. He eventually dies though. Our best try is at 10-9%.
Thank you very much.
The problem is that when I download your UI with your Pitbull it's just the deafualt settings, and not your super smooth settings! :D Please post 'em if possible
Grats Machine!
@Symby55 Man.. dunno what happened. Jabba the Warrior and Symby the Butterzz (??). Sorry :) Cba re-editing it, and re-uploading it now though.
hey zumzar do you mind sending me in a message all of your add ons for the set up you have in this video i really like em and id appreciate it great vid
It's from the movie The Hobbit. It is the Prequal to Lord Of The Rings. If you want the full version, look up The Hobbit trailer.
i downloades your UI but my map doesnt have a big map icon on it or have a search items like repairs how i change it?
I'm definitely going to play in MoP, and yes - I am going to FRAPS our first kills as a Mage. Perhaps I'll even get a STREAM going in MoP in our raids! :)
@OsomoMojoFreak It is VERY hard to 1-tank it with a Warrior tank. I'd suggest using a 2-tank tactic to be quite honest.
@MAIINIIIAC You can download my UI by following the link in the description.
Love the outtakes part hahaha.
Excuseme, can you tell me which is the interface name of the addon that you use, and how you can see the dots on your target?? Plzzz is very nice =)
Fantastic vid. Fire really was at its peak during Cata. Miss the playstyle, miss instant flamestrike that actually does damage. Don't miss DS tho.
@Agobtik If I reforged out of ALL Haste, I could get down to 1990 Haste rating. At 2005, you get an extra Combustion tick, so I thought it would be worth it.
i just noticed MoP comes out in exactly 2 months from now!!!!
How do you open up to get Combustion as good as possible and at what dmg on combustion helper is it got to use it on?
our mage always does what that mage does at 16:32
Nope, it says that file cannot be found.
"IS IT OVER?"
Hi there! Awesome video and gratz on your kill, too bad you had players missing so you couldn't get the kill earlier, but a kill's a kill! I'm just wondering if there is any specific reason to why you're reforged into 2005 haste rating as fire when you mentioned in an eariler comment that 1505 is the cap with set bonus. GL in the future!
why is it not possible to download your ui anymore?
Awesome, gonna look forward to your streams. I got a huge DPS and overall skill from watching your videos, hopefully you can guide me through MoP aswell! :P
gratz, very nice. My question is, what was swizzeh doing here ? :D wasnt he quitted the wow ?
btw love jabba nerdscreams
hey man what is the name of the song from 0:00 to 0:25 ? and very good vid tho..
Could you tell me the focus-target macro for LB ?
I have had issues with my UI where my buffs are in my mini map, which addon is causing this to happen? I am using your UI layout.
Hey I uploaded your UI package, for some reason my buffs are in my minimap and I'm not sure what addon is causing it. Any suggestions? @zumzarwow
I'm afraid there is not. It doesn't take more than 1 hr to configure it to adapt to 1680x1050.
Hey Zumzar, how do you put Recount, your spells and Raid members into separate boxes? What addon is it youre using? It looks very neat.
hey bro, how is sylvanas as server? are there heroic raids on both horde and alliance? and how about world pvp? like killing varian and such?
AAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!! THE HOBBIT!!!!!!!! (begining music)
@dotmage95 I just tested it again. Click on the link in the description of this video, and it works. Remember to update all of the addons with Curse Client or similar. Hope you figure it out. Zumz.
Zumzar, im sure that you already saw new content in mop. How is it for you ? you gonna fraps again as you did in cata ? :)
Hey can you make an Addon video?
Because it's really neat and easy to see whats going on.
what resolution is this?
Macros that used to madness?
When you gonna upload mists content ? :)
In Phase 2 you get Shrapnel while Dream is on cooldown, and survive it fine... what defensive cooldown was used there?
The akward moment when i tried to press release spirit when u fall in water in outtakes XD
Still dont understand why people didnt like cata
Gratz, can i ask why you have crit i thought mages was meant to go for Haste ?
yo, in your wtf folder your account name is "GHETTORAMUS" or something, how did you get it like that? I'd like to put my own name rather than my long ass email for the login
It still works. Try again.
I just tried to download it again from one of my friend's computers. It works, dude. I'm sorry, don't know what to say! :)
how was your dps so high? i hit about the same and i can't top 40k but thats on normal... is there a difference?
is there a 1680x1050 version of the ui?
Zum, What's the target's addOn?
Thanks!
Hey yo.
Hvordan får du dit KgPanel til at forsvinde rundt om target, når du ikke har et target ? Tak på forhånd :)
Jesus! guys, don't be so foulmouthed lol
15:13 OMG all those bars went so low!!! Nice comeback.
Why did you stop playing?
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i7-2600 K CPU @ 3.7 GHz
8 GB Ram
GeForce GTX 580
Which addons are those? That is so crowded, I'll go crazy just trying to follow all that lol
Dude, just wow
what addons are used for your dot tracking and your cast bar?
i wish that i could play wow again, my dads been in a tough spot with money because he almost got fired, but he made it up and all that. but he wants to get moved to a different store, (he works at apple computers) and so he can't pay for the Wow Subscription, and neither can i obviously cause i'm a kid. i've only done this Raid once that was actually successful (no one leaving or anything) and it was awesome.
Yes.
Did you have any romanians in your group? Saw some guy there saying "ESTE MAAA" =)
GTX 580*
@buzzerkrb
Apparently those nabs can't kill a boss without me so i had to step in :D
You guys were good.
SOON! Not Mage PoV unfortunately. I rerolled Monk *CRY*
i going to get a job and start playing WoW, i miss my Dk
PERFEECT
Well, my UI is available for download. Download it, follow the instructions in the README file and you should be good to go. :) I know it's outdated, since I haven't played since we killed Madness, but just update the addons with Curse Client.
I have cleared all PvE content, and PvE is all that interessts me in WoW. I'm playing some Diablo 3 at the moment, and don't know whether I'll return to WoW come expansion or just stick with Diablo or other future games.
Would you guys be interessted in some Diablo 3 vids?
GTX 680, 8GB RAM, i7 processor.
whats ur addon?
Are you fucking kidding me, you must comeback when mop hits ! Already missed your vids.
Who is still watching in 2022 guys?
Type /rbuff unlock
Sorry, my WoW account is inactive untill MoP lands. If you follow the instructions it WILL work. Read 'em carefully.
It's callled kgPanel.
you might wanna censor your email account during the outakes just saying
want your ui :(
GRATS!!!!
Download og installer min UI, og stjæl settings.
insane dps....