The counting is the metronome for the cleric heal chain, theres 14 clerics casting complete healing or "CH" on the main tank every 3 seconds, you can see in the main chat "CA 014 CH-Furoar" it helps keep pace as each complete heal cast is 10 seconds so they need to be timed correctly to land at the 3 second interval. Here I'm playing a necromancer, we have a spell that lets us transfer mana to the clerics or "twitch" to keep them mana positive, bards also play songs to replenish mana. Shamans slow the mob aswell allowing a slower heal chain. There's AOEs Vulak casts "Ancient Breath" that need to be line of sight or LOS so the DPS hides behind the wall in the back of the lair to miss it but you can hear in the video the timer was missed and the whole raid ate the AOE so shamans etc need to start curing the whole raid as the AOE is a 60% slow. DPS is rogues monks etc. Vulak has Guards that need to be kited out of the room with wizards who maintain the kite the entire duration of the fight, if the they go down or lose "spirit of wolf" a running speed buff and the kite is dropped the guards will return to the room and wipe us if not picked back up. when we first engage we have rangers drop in and bump, the wizards pull agro on the guards, the raid gets set up and they kite guards to another room running in circles well the raid takes down Vulak, after the dragon dies we all run to the castle in the back hallway and zone in to plane of mischief then once clear the wizards sky neck out and drop the kite. edit: looking at the sheet there was 91 raiders on the raid tick for this encounter. but it was a draft target, every 2 months on the server theres a draft to get raid targets uncontested as theres no instancing and these targets are competitive with other guilds.
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Love watching EQ raids! Can you explain what the counting is for? And what some of the main mechanics for this fight are?
The counting is the metronome for the cleric heal chain, theres 14 clerics casting complete healing or "CH" on the main tank every 3 seconds, you can see in the main chat "CA 014 CH-Furoar" it helps keep pace as each complete heal cast is 10 seconds so they need to be timed correctly to land at the 3 second interval. Here I'm playing a necromancer, we have a spell that lets us transfer mana to the clerics or "twitch" to keep them mana positive, bards also play songs to replenish mana. Shamans slow the mob aswell allowing a slower heal chain. There's AOEs Vulak casts "Ancient Breath" that need to be line of sight or LOS so the DPS hides behind the wall in the back of the lair to miss it but you can hear in the video the timer was missed and the whole raid ate the AOE so shamans etc need to start curing the whole raid as the AOE is a 60% slow. DPS is rogues monks etc. Vulak has Guards that need to be kited out of the room with wizards who maintain the kite the entire duration of the fight, if the they go down or lose "spirit of wolf" a running speed buff and the kite is dropped the guards will return to the room and wipe us if not picked back up. when we first engage we have rangers drop in and bump, the wizards pull agro on the guards, the raid gets set up and they kite guards to another room running in circles well the raid takes down Vulak, after the dragon dies we all run to the castle in the back hallway and zone in to plane of mischief then once clear the wizards sky neck out and drop the kite. edit: looking at the sheet there was 91 raiders on the raid tick for this encounter. but it was a draft target, every 2 months on the server theres a draft to get raid targets uncontested as theres no instancing and these targets are competitive with other guilds.