This fight killed me a little inside everytime when my guildie decided to spread the fire all over the room. On top of that you have the enrage time as well. One of the hardest boss i have ever fight in WOW
I went frost for this (and for my DPS spec) because I was originally spec'd (and geared) for Unholy. Managing a pet on that fight is a pain for someone who isn't used to it, so I switched. Frost gears more similarly to Unholy than Blood does, which made it the easier choice. It also gives the benefit of windfury without a totem, which is pretty big on a fight with a lot of movement.
yep all these are correct except i believe it is pitbull for the character target frames. the archs to the side of his screen is called ArchHud and the damage scrolling on the side is called MikScrolling Combat Text.
I'm not sure I want to remember this fight. What a cluster this was for our 10 man group. Took us weeks to get this boss down on Hard Mode. People who struggled to get out of the fire were a liability.
he also has the glyph of vengful heart and since he most likely has the 2 set bonus for T8 he increases FS's damagae stacked onto the sigil of the vengful heart not to mention KM procs and other talent points that increase damage of abilities
@Tentacleed at the time of Ulduar's release, Koralon didn't exist. But as of ICC's release it is pugable. The idea behind the hard modes was to pose a higher level of challenge to raiding (i.e. the Heroic level raids of today.) However, your comment is based mainly on quick pugs for VoA that have new 80s, people that can't raid ICC and ToC 4 times a week and actually NEED the gear that drops from it, as opposed to super guilds that get 100 frost badges a week.
Pitbull, but basically the same thing. I also use Parrot instead of MSBT. That was DBM, though DBM is bugged - you have to do a reloadui every time you do mimiron hard mode for some reason. I forgot to reset it that time, so it still had the phase 4 health bars on screen.
The 17K howling blast "crits" during phase 4 weren't single target crits. It's a focused AoE (think living bomb/Seed), so it was actually 3 hits/crits. The 17K number comes from Parrot, which just reports the aggregate number on AoE/cleave abilities - not the individual hits.
This is pretty hard attempted to do this achievement with guild for the drake all icc10/25 geared and we wiped many times (the healing setup wasn't the best for this fight but still these guys were doing it in ulduar gear that proves skill>gear) ,overall hard fight harder than many icc encounters and one of the hardest in ulduar, hope to get it soon
well if your DW then frost is the guarenteed spec for it because of the talt that makes your strikes hit with ur OH so if ur going DW save urself the hassle and just go straight to frost don;t worry about tryng other specs
Firefighter is harder than One Light in the Darkness. It's probably about as difficult (now) as 3xKnock, though sometimes I wonder if 3xKnock is harder than Firefighter now.
wow seems like hes hitting really hard? does mimiron give him a buff or something?im a lvl 80 but im still in 25 man naxx and a ltitle 10 man ulduar thanks!
I'm assuming they're including more narrators for the benefit of the different tanking classes. Having only Lore and Cider explain their tactics lets only Warrior and Paladins see how they tank endgame encounters. If you didn't notice, the Algalon narrator was a druid, and this guy's a DK. That's the only explanation I can imagine.
Unholy is best if you don't have good gear. Frost will be highest DPS WITH gear until 3.2 patch. Unholy and Frost are being attacked. So Blood will be best for both tanking and DPSing.
You can still do fairly juicy dps as frost though. I pushed 5k on most of the more straightforward naxx fights (meaning the fights with no downtime and little movement. Like patchwerk for example) in ilvl200-213 gear. It's not that sick, but it's by no means low for my gear.
ttocs - are we gonna see a continuation of the guide to the Death Knight tank series? As a raid leader and having not played a DK myself, I found it useful and informative.
His epic hard hits are with Frost Strike. DW Frost dps spec. He gets his hits that high because they have Curse of Ele (well formerly CoE) Which helps scale the already retarded high damage Frost Strikes deal, part of which is frost.
Yeah, those videos are a ton of work - a lot more editing and such involved than making a video guide. Unfortunately, I fail at backups and lost my RAID twice since I've made the first video - so I'm having to start on that all over again.
Hey, I currently play a dk ATM. But I'm wondering if it's even worth it to keep my tank dualspec with the upcoming dk nerf. I'm also used to dpsing but I'm unsure of when my gear is high enough to respec to either frost or blood...I've heard both of those specs have higher gear requirements but how do I know when I'm geared enough? Please reply..thanks...blackjackd of antonidas(horde)
I thought so too... Unlike that dude on the Algalon vid... He sounded way to excited... This guy has a much calmer voice like Ciderhelm. Good job to you... Ttocs?
@Didtheydieded I Somewhat agree with you...BUT Icecrown HEROIC modes are most of the time amped up ALOT more than the other regular fight, but the 25% buff is....wow makes it REALLY EZ
for his unit frame... x-perl i think and sct for the combat text, grid for the raid unit frames. omen3 for the threat showing thing. bartender4 or bongos for the action bars, recount for the damage showing thing in the box at the bottom right of the screen and deadly boss mods (DBM) for the boss move things. :) hope this helped ^^
Ouch. I feel your pain sir. Can't wait to see when you've got them ready though. Do you know if ya'll will be doing similar guides to Feral, Warrior, and Paladin tanks?
mostly depends on ur gear cuz if you ahev a shit-load of armor pen. go blood if your a mixe between armor pen. and other stats go frost and for unholy well that does ok dps no matter what gear you have but for types i weapons i'd have to say blood for 2 handers and for DW frost for sure i just got my OH mace for DW and it des some pretty nice dps if r specced correctly and have the right runes
The reason taht he is doing all taht is because he is frost, frost spells are really strong lately. plus death knights are well balanced lately. I got an 80 warrior and 80 dk,
of course it's low to HB HB is just a spell while oblit does 100% weapon damage + 12.5% more for each disease currently on the target so if youuse both diseases then you will be doing 125% weapon damage and i imagine he has a good weapon
i just got 2 80 on my dk alt. there now nerfed beyond belife they now deel the same cinda dps as other classes as when they where fairly new they would out dps any other class by atleast 2k meaning they could reach staggering 10k dps unbuffed
13 years later; we’re back!
Was one of the best fights I have ever done in a MMO. It took us 3 weeks to down him in HM.
+1
Cane here randomly all these years later to commiserate with people, this was harder than one light yogg but so much more fun
Thank you for keeping these videos up, on UA-cam. Certainly some memories here.
This fight killed me a little inside everytime when my guildie decided to spread the fire all over the room. On top of that you have the enrage time as well. One of the hardest boss i have ever fight in WOW
Holy hell, this looks like an incredibly fun fight.
I went frost for this (and for my DPS spec) because I was originally spec'd (and geared) for Unholy. Managing a pet on that fight is a pain for someone who isn't used to it, so I switched. Frost gears more similarly to Unholy than Blood does, which made it the easier choice.
It also gives the benefit of windfury without a totem, which is pretty big on a fight with a lot of movement.
yep all these are correct except i believe it is pitbull for the character target frames. the archs to the side of his screen is called ArchHud and the damage scrolling on the side is called MikScrolling Combat Text.
Thank you. I was not sure if fires in melee range were extinguished quick enough to prevent this.
I'm not sure I want to remember this fight. What a cluster this was for our 10 man group. Took us weeks to get this boss down on Hard Mode. People who struggled to get out of the fire were a liability.
he also has the glyph of vengful heart and since he most likely has the 2 set bonus for T8 he increases FS's damagae stacked onto the sigil of the vengful heart not to mention KM procs and other talent points that increase damage of abilities
@Tentacleed at the time of Ulduar's release, Koralon didn't exist. But as of ICC's release it is pugable. The idea behind the hard modes was to pose a higher level of challenge to raiding (i.e. the Heroic level raids of today.) However, your comment is based mainly on quick pugs for VoA that have new 80s, people that can't raid ICC and ToC 4 times a week and actually NEED the gear that drops from it, as opposed to super guilds that get 100 frost badges a week.
Pitbull, but basically the same thing. I also use Parrot instead of MSBT.
That was DBM, though DBM is bugged - you have to do a reloadui every time you do mimiron hard mode for some reason. I forgot to reset it that time, so it still had the phase 4 health bars on screen.
The text only actually displays for the owner of the video.
Great video...this new guy seems like a good addition to the TankSpot team.
The 17K howling blast "crits" during phase 4 weren't single target crits. It's a focused AoE (think living bomb/Seed), so it was actually 3 hits/crits.
The 17K number comes from Parrot, which just reports the aggregate number on AoE/cleave abilities - not the individual hits.
He's not new, he did the video 'Raid leader's guide to the Death Knight tank' also for Tankspot.
This is pretty hard attempted to do this achievement with guild for the drake all icc10/25 geared and we wiped many times (the healing setup wasn't the best for this fight but still these guys were doing it in ulduar gear that proves skill>gear) ,overall hard fight harder than many icc encounters and one of the hardest in ulduar, hope to get it soon
Armor Penetration. Distinguished from AP(attack power) by calling it ArP, ArPen, or APen.
why would the melee need to worry about a frost bomb? all the fires are being extinguished.
I'm trying to get started on it again - I've had to restart from scratch after a few RAID failures.
The dangers of RAID 0 with no backups...
You should post WWS parses in the description imo lol.
Nice vid, and Grats!
well if your DW then frost is the guarenteed spec for it because of the talt that makes your strikes hit with ur OH so if ur going DW save urself the hassle and just go straight to frost don;t worry about tryng other specs
Just a note, he might get high crits but look at the damage meters. (Right bottom)
you need to do all of the keeper's hard modes for algalon right? this is the only hard mode my guild has left.. just wonderin
Excellent noob-check fight. One of the best encounters ever designed by Blizzard. This is the fight that stand between many guilds and Algalon.
No x-perl. Pitbull for unit frames, and Parrot for scrolling combat text.
how do u get SCT to show the combat text scrolling like around the circular health and runic power HuD. rather than straight down?
Firefighter is harder than One Light in the Darkness. It's probably about as difficult (now) as 3xKnock, though sometimes I wonder if 3xKnock is harder than Firefighter now.
wow seems like hes hitting really hard? does mimiron give him a buff or something?im a lvl 80 but im still in 25 man naxx and a ltitle 10 man ulduar
thanks!
I'm assuming they're including more narrators for the benefit of the different tanking classes. Having only Lore and Cider explain their tactics lets only Warrior and Paladins see how they tank endgame encounters. If you didn't notice, the Algalon narrator was a druid, and this guy's a DK.
That's the only explanation I can imagine.
Unholy is best if you don't have good gear. Frost will be highest DPS WITH gear until 3.2 patch. Unholy and Frost are being attacked. So Blood will be best for both tanking and DPSing.
What the name of the addon that shows the damage you do on the right and the healing received/damage reveived on the left?
what is the add ons used that are in the middle of the screen?
whats the music on the backgrounds in the ulduar guides
@Wowaniac
meh, they are not removing the drakes in cata, it will be a joke at level 85.
You can still do fairly juicy dps as frost though. I pushed 5k on most of the more straightforward naxx fights (meaning the fights with no downtime and little movement. Like patchwerk for example) in ilvl200-213 gear. It's not that sick, but it's by no means low for my gear.
wich one do u mean? the one with the healthbar/runic power thing?
ttocs - are we gonna see a continuation of the guide to the Death Knight tank series? As a raid leader and having not played a DK myself, I found it useful and informative.
Dude, it will be HD in a couple minutes. It came out a half hour before you posted.
actually, donating allows you to download the movie, legally that is.
His epic hard hits are with Frost Strike. DW Frost dps spec. He gets his hits that high because they have Curse of Ele (well formerly CoE) Which helps scale the already retarded high damage Frost Strikes deal, part of which is frost.
I use Parrot, not SCT. That's actually the default setting in Parrot.
Myself, I see AG_unit frames, bartender, icehud, MSBT and grid. And yes, that is DBM.
lol. l2p a DK.
frost presence increases threat generated. blood presence increases damage doen by 15%.
what presence is better for dps?
Yeah, those videos are a ton of work - a lot more editing and such involved than making a video guide.
Unfortunately, I fail at backups and lost my RAID twice since I've made the first video - so I'm having to start on that all over again.
what happened to lore and cider helm? i mean in the algalon one it was a druid, and this one tis a dk. (whats going on 0.o)
what addons is he using besides recount omen and what looks like DBM?
Hey, I currently play a dk ATM. But I'm wondering if it's even worth it to keep my tank dualspec with the upcoming dk nerf. I'm also used to dpsing but I'm unsure of when my gear is high enough to respec to either frost or blood...I've heard both of those specs have higher gear requirements but how do I know when I'm geared enough? Please reply..thanks...blackjackd of antonidas(horde)
I thought so too... Unlike that dude on the Algalon vid... He sounded way to excited... This guy has a much calmer voice like Ciderhelm. Good job to you... Ttocs?
he changed to frost presence to not take as much damage and tank the adds... he wasnt worried about dps at that time...
You can turn it off in the Interface.
why does the guildname not showing under their name?
No idea. That's up to a Feral, Warrior, or Paladin.
I think u shold make charakter builds for all of the klases like talents armor glips and other stuff
@Didtheydieded I Somewhat agree with you...BUT Icecrown HEROIC modes are most of the time amped up ALOT more than the other regular fight, but the 25% buff is....wow makes it REALLY EZ
it looks so hard to kill, nice work dudes and blizz, great job
Sorry for stating what I thought was obvious arrogantly (i just assumed it was standard name plates) , I now use one called tidyplates
I feel stupid asking this being that i have 2 80's and should know... what is arp?
how does he zoom out that far?
for his unit frame... x-perl i think and sct for the combat text, grid for the raid unit frames. omen3 for the threat showing thing. bartender4 or bongos for the action bars, recount for the damage showing thing in the box at the bottom right of the screen and deadly boss mods (DBM) for the boss move things. :) hope this helped ^^
what class is he playing cuz i cant see quality still abit shit since it just got uploaded
its cool,but how do you crit with frost strike for 15 kucking k bro?
Ouch.
I feel your pain sir.
Can't wait to see when you've got them ready though. Do you know if ya'll will be doing similar guides to Feral, Warrior, and Paladin tanks?
is that guy frost or blood speced?
mostly depends on ur gear cuz if you ahev a shit-load of armor pen. go blood if your a mixe between armor pen. and other stats go frost and for unholy well that does ok dps no matter what gear you have but for types i weapons i'd have to say blood for 2 handers and for DW frost for sure i just got my OH mace for DW and it des some pretty nice dps if r specced correctly and have the right runes
The reason taht he is doing all taht is because he is frost, frost spells are really strong lately. plus death knights are well balanced lately. I got an 80 warrior and 80 dk,
of course it's low to HB HB is just a spell while oblit does 100% weapon damage + 12.5% more for each disease currently on the target so if youuse both diseases then you will be doing 125% weapon damage and i imagine he has a good weapon
Then why is he putting them out in p1 and 2?
what addons are you using?
Nice work on this, thanks!
Have you ever tried killing a paladin as dk?
No. Frost is top DPS right now if you got the gear. And good tank spec. But Blood IMO is best for raids.
that was 2 years ago man
Dose mimi take dmg from the fires aswell?
my raid failed horribly at this... i tried to explain its not a tank spank and burn fight, but they dont listen, they never listen. /sad /sigh
@saucyaussie i think its so somepeople dont like really hate the music, like if it was for example hard rock... some might didnt wanna watch ....
How can the dk crit that high? :P Does the boss have a debuff, that increases damage done to it, or is the dk just pro? ^^
this hard mode is really funny, it's a challenge for any guild :)
oh and nice video
any of you guys know what is the music on this video? :>
i just got 2 80 on my dk alt. there now nerfed beyond belife they now deel the same cinda dps as other classes as when they where fairly new they would out dps any other class by atleast 2k meaning they could reach staggering 10k dps unbuffed
Firefighter is annoying, but with a good raid leader and exeptional players, it becomes easier and easier everytime.
is this guild horde?
he was doing 4.6k dps for the fight not 8k
because it is educational. gotta know how to put out the fire the RIGHT way.
@Didtheydieded "Any random scrub" cannot breeze through heroic ICC. You obviously haven't been there.
Aftermath on Mal'Ganis. Recruiting hunters. See ttocs live and in person!
what relm is this ?
Awesome work
who's the new guy? =)
Probably to hit both of the lower 2 parts in phase 3.
KM procs for the frost spec
lalal, the white hits aren't really topping,
+ i'd love see ur armory ^^
damn i seen 4 13k frost strikes in a row XD. Good job on explaining the fight thand thanks for the help :)
with the nerfs and shit there getting, by the time you get one to 80 it might be totally different
woot love these vids!!!!
Good job as allways.Also grats on alagon
If that angers you, I should post a video of me DPSing Hodir. :)
man that DK hits hard
that is one realy intimidating hard mode
BRING BACK 2H FROST nuff sed
specced into obliterate? Lawl. Search him up in the armory.