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.
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
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.
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.
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
@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.
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.
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
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.
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.
@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
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.
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.
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.
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)
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!
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
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.
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
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 ^^
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?
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?
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
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Thank you for keeping these videos up, on UA-cam. Certainly some memories here.
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
13 years later; we’re back!
Holy hell, this looks like an incredibly fun fight.
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.
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
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.
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.
Armor Penetration. Distinguished from AP(attack power) by calling it ArP, ArPen, or APen.
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
whats the music on the backgrounds in the ulduar guides
@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.
how do u get SCT to show the combat text scrolling like around the circular health and runic power HuD. rather than straight down?
He's not new, he did the video 'Raid leader's guide to the Death Knight tank' also for Tankspot.
Excellent noob-check fight. One of the best encounters ever designed by Blizzard. This is the fight that stand between many guilds and Algalon.
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...
what is the add ons used that are in the middle of the screen?
What the name of the addon that shows the damage you do on the right and the healing received/damage reveived on the left?
The text only actually displays for the owner of the video.
Just a note, he might get high crits but look at the damage meters. (Right bottom)
@Wowaniac
meh, they are not removing the drakes in cata, it will be a joke at level 85.
No x-perl. Pitbull for unit frames, and Parrot for scrolling 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.
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
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
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.
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.
@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
Great video...this new guy seems like a good addition to the TankSpot team.
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.
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.
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.
why would the melee need to worry about a frost bomb? all the fires are being extinguished.
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.
wich one do u mean? the one with the healthbar/runic power thing?
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)
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!
You should post WWS parses in the description imo lol.
Nice vid, and Grats!
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
what addons is he using besides recount omen and what looks like DBM?
Myself, I see AG_unit frames, bartender, icehud, MSBT and grid. And yes, that is DBM.
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 class is he playing cuz i cant see quality still abit shit since it just got uploaded
it looks so hard to kill, nice work dudes and blizz, great job
this hard mode is really funny, it's a challenge for any guild :)
oh and nice video
what addons are you using?
he changed to frost presence to not take as much damage and tank the adds... he wasnt worried about dps at that time...
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.
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
any of you guys know what is the music on this video? :>
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 ^^
@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 ....
I think u shold make charakter builds for all of the klases like talents armor glips and other stuff
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? ^^
Nice work on this, thanks!
I use Parrot, not SCT. That's actually the default setting in Parrot.
Sorry for stating what I thought was obvious arrogantly (i just assumed it was standard name plates) , I now use one called tidyplates
No. Frost is top DPS right now if you got the gear. And good tank spec. But Blood IMO is best for raids.
its cool,but how do you crit with frost strike for 15 kucking k bro?
actually, donating allows you to download the movie, legally that is.
why does the guildname not showing under their name?
No idea. That's up to a Feral, Warrior, or Paladin.
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?
lol. l2p a DK.
frost presence increases threat generated. blood presence increases damage doen by 15%.
what presence is better for dps?
how does he zoom out that far?
You can turn it off in the Interface.
that was 2 years ago man
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?
damn i seen 4 13k frost strikes in a row XD. Good job on explaining the fight thand thanks for the help :)
Verry good indeed
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
is that guy frost or blood speced?
Good job as allways.Also grats on alagon
@Didtheydieded "Any random scrub" cannot breeze through heroic ICC. You obviously haven't been there.
Dose mimi take dmg from the fires aswell?
woot love these vids!!!!
Aftermath on Mal'Ganis. Recruiting hunters. See ttocs live and in person!
I feel stupid asking this being that i have 2 80's and should know... what is arp?
Dude, it will be HD in a couple minutes. It came out a half hour before you posted.
Have you ever tried killing a paladin as dk?
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
because it is educational. gotta know how to put out the fire the RIGHT way.
man that DK hits hard
lalal, the white hits aren't really topping,
+ i'd love see ur armory ^^
is this guild horde?
5* for the music^^
Thats ALOT of fire :-D
Good video
he was doing 4.6k dps for the fight not 8k
Probably to hit both of the lower 2 parts in phase 3.
that is one realy intimidating hard mode
Awesome work
who's the new guy? =)
Firefighter is annoying, but with a good raid leader and exeptional players, it becomes easier and easier everytime.
what relm is this ?
WOW what are the big fucking crits from in Phase 1?
Then why is he putting them out in p1 and 2?
KM procs for the frost spec