We downed him tonight. I will be posting a video of the kill soon, after it's converted and uploaded to youtube. However, some of you guys might be hitting these bosses soon, so I wanted to share with you the information we were using.


Okay, everyone should read this:
http://www.bosskillers.com/cgi-bin/bbguild/index.cgi?action=view_guide&guide_id=738

But to summarize, all we need to worry about is whoever is empowered at the time and the kinetic bomb. I misunderstood the mechanics of one of these things, and so I'm going to list the 3 empowered abilities here so we can be sure how to deal with them.

1. Valanar - Kinetic bomb. The only thing we really have to worry about that's not empowered. When the kinetic bomb comes out, ranged dps has to keep hitting it to keep it up in the air so it doesn't hit the ground. Pretend it's a beach ball at a concert.

2. Valanar - Empowered Shock Wave. This is the one that we have to be spread out for. It targets everyone and puts a shock vortex on them. This behaves like Gruul's Shatter and can stack up if you're too close (less than 14 yds) away from others. Put your range checker on 15 yds to be safe. This will be especially painful on 25 man with all the melee, but on 10 man I don't think we're going to have an issue.

3. Keleseth - Empowered Shadow Lance. Purely the ranged tank's concern. I think we all understand it enough, it's all shadow damage, and is key that the ranged tank have as many stacks of the debuff on them from the orbs.

4. Taldaran - Empowered Conjure Flame. This is the one I sort of understood, but not quite. I kept hearing, run to X (whoever had the flame targeted on them). That's not correct. You absolutely do NOT want to be near that person when it hits as that's extra splash damage you will take. What you have to do is be in front of X, every person the ball passes within 10 yds of pulls a piece of the flameball off, making it less powerful. So we have to move between the ball and X as much as we can so X takes less damage. Basically if Taldaran becomes the one empowered we should try and get arranged in a line so that whoever gets targeted can run to the back of the line. If we had more melee, they would automatically suck off a lot of the flame, so this part will be easier on 25 man, but harder for us with all the ranged.

I know the battle is crazy and there's all sorts of stuff happening, but the key is to keep track of who is empowered and prepare for the empowered ability that boss will cast.


Here's the vid:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BmOD8C074aU

Woot!

That was an awesome kill tonight, on just our 2nd day of really trying the Blood Princes. Congrats to everyone on a fabulous job.

I can't wait to see your video, Stele, cause I can't see much of anything in the fight at all. I'm just staring at the boss health bars and then at my guy's cast bar so I can call out empowered flame. Oh, and if I get too close to Terreis I look around to move far enough way. So that's the whole exciting fight for me! I hope the rest of the fight is more fun for everyone else.

Alright, vid posted in the original post above. Youtube is still processing it, so give it a while if it's still low quality.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BmOD8C074aU

That looks great, and we get to hear you this time Stele! I was thinking last night that all we'd hear on vent would be me saying "empowered flame" and Narlexia calling out heroism.

The fight looks pretty impressive outside of my tanking corner. I saw people scattering for shock vortex, and then moving in front of the empowered flame (except for the one that sped straight to you Stele and one-shot you at the end). We're getting really good at this "stay at x yards" away from each other boss mechanic. Again, congrats and thanks to all.

And thanks to you, Stele, as well for recording and posting this.

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Continuing the "Then and Now" screenshots:

Here is my screenshot during the Blood Princes fight. You can see my limited view as I'm stuck in the corner like a bad bear while all the fun goes on in the middle of the room.



One year ago on 3/15/2009, we got the Undying achievement in Naxxramas. This was an amazing and exciting moment for us. In fact, Kori was so amazed and excited that she forgot to change her title for the screenshot! *hugs*

Here is last night's kill. I wanted to get a second video of it since Koriander wasn't in the first one. She apparently is camera shy and tried ducking off the set right at the beginning of the fight, but I pulled her back on stage, hehe.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mfUzNEnoP6Y

As usual, youtube is still processing it to high quality. Give it about an hour and you should be able to get it in 1080p (1920x1200 full screen or so).

Thanks for recording this again and posting it.

Poor Kori always has something crazy happen in these successful recordings. We're going to start to expect that!

Nathelien was also missing from the earlier recording and is in this one too.

Also, you might want to check the title cause you put "Putricide" instead of blood prince council.

Thanks!

Nestra

Woops, didn't see that.