Nefarian Heroic World First Kill by Paragon
Paragon defeated Nefarian in Heroic mode a few hours ago and was the first guild in the world to achieve that! Congratulations to them for spending so much time and fur shampoo on that kill!



Addon Review - Archaeology Helper (by chaud)
Archaeology Helper is the perfect compliment to Archy. It enables nodes to be displayed on a HUD using GatherMate2. You need both addons enabled to fully utilize ARH.

After installing the addons, you will first notice the addon toolbar that appears in the center of your screen. Click and drag anywhere on it that is not a button to reposition it. Mousing over each button or area will tell you what it does. Using ARH is simple, just survey and select the color you got after aiming your character in the same direction as the telescope is pointing. You can either use the buttons on the included toolbar or bind keys in the settings. Making sure not to move until after marking is important to increase the accuracy of the overlay zones.

Generally the fastest way to clear a digsite is starting at a randomly selected node on the off chance that you actually pick the right one. The fragment is very rarely on the red line when surveying, so pick a side close to where the red area starts and check for that fragment. When looking at the HUD, the red circle surrounding your player arrow shows approximately how far out you can find an object, make sure to stand on the center of known nodes as they are not positioned perfectly.

Here is a database that is more complete than any other I have found that includes data from Archy, GatherMate2Data, other people, and my own digging, it is still missing a few nodes from higher level Archaeology, so don't be surprised when you find one that isn't included by default. If you are running Archy alongside ARH, make sure to submit your Archy.lua file from SavedVariables to the author's website (after he fixes it) to increase the nodes in the database!

Below you can see the HUD overlay during a normal survey and an example three red survey results that lead directly to your fragment.

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This article was originally published in forum thread: Nefarian World First Kill, Archaeology Helper, MMO Report, Comics started by Boubouille View original post
Comments 175 Comments
  1. Alaska's Avatar
    I hope its Potion of Illusion
  1. schiwing's Avatar
    Quote Originally Posted by Spazzer View Post
    I want to make it clear I am 99.9999% sure that they did not have that many druids if they do I take it back however I sniff Potion of Illusion.... Yummy.

    Potion of Illusion, More Bearz!

    ~Spazzer
    For this guy and all the others too lazy to do a quick look; from left to right in the kill shot:

    01. Feor
    http://eu.battle.net/wow/en/characte...de/feor/simple
    02. Lappé
    http://eu.battle.net/wow/en/characte...p%C3%A9/simple
    03. Xephros
    http://eu.battle.net/wow/en/characte...xephros/simple
    04. Väliliha
    http://eu.battle.net/wow/en/characte...4liliha/simple
    05. Sejta
    http://eu.battle.net/wow/en/characte...e/sejta/simple
    06. Xodan
    http://eu.battle.net/wow/en/characte...e/xodan/simple
    07. Synjin
    http://eu.battle.net/wow/en/characte.../synjin/simple
    08. Anaram
    http://eu.battle.net/wow/en/characte.../anaram/simple
    09. Xaar
    http://eu.battle.net/wow/en/characte...de/xaar/simple
    10. Aquaelie
    http://eu.battle.net/wow/en/characte...quaelie/simple
    11. Div
    http://eu.battle.net/wow/en/characte...ade/div/simple

    They are all Druids, and all have recently received http://www.wowhead.com/achievement=5116.
    Until someone hacks the armory data, it is impossible to argue against it.
  1. Frostetc's Avatar
    Quote Originally Posted by wigg1es View Post
    So much for "bring the player"...
    do you intend to down 25 man hard mode nef anytime soon?

    when it comes to that kind of progression it will never be balanced enough to be "bring the player" every class has to be unique to SOME extent.

    god, the things people will bitch about
  1. aggression's Avatar
    Just started to use this addon. Took my surveys down with 50%, easy. When I get green survey, I never failed so far to go to right spot. ++++++++++ to the maker of it. If you're lucky you get 2 red that overlap a tiny zone with a dot, simple!!!!

    Scratch that. I'm IN LOVE with this addon!
  1. Gnomity's Avatar
    Quote Originally Posted by Reemix View Post
    Yeah, that disappeared when Cata hit.
    This would imply that it was ever really true. It hasn't been. Sure they move up and down the spectrum, but its NEVER been just "bring the player."
  1. Kazlehoff's Avatar
    Wth is with half of paragon's 25m being druids?
    ......
    something smells fishy.....
  1. Dazzy's Avatar
    Meh, I understand the race to world firsts, but I'll be more impressed by the guild that has a set 25-28 man team and does it with that comp, figuring out a strategy for your raid > stacking for specific mechanics.
  1. mmoc006fb91b8d's Avatar
    Many of that Paragon Druids alts are better gear then 99% of Druids population and part of them never did one radi before cataclym.
    What this mean? They have this tactic from beta and they're well prepare to do all bosses so like they did on concil with no melees if next boss ask to stack 10 holy palas for aura mastery or aLocks they will use it because they're racing for this world 1st before cataclym hit.
    I supose all fights can be done by anykind of player and combo when they are in proper gear so bring the player and not the class is not apply to world 1st. probably 95% of us will kill that boss when overgear that fight. They still are undergear many of them still have blues and its Heroic mode not design for casuals so pro ppl will use any advance they can get and maximize all class. Remember lk heroic? How many melees did they have? How many of them were dk? How many were palas with auramastery spec?
  1. tariel36's Avatar
    gratz, i had hope you'll be the first with killing him)
  1. Exiled's Avatar
    gratz to them!
  1. zYN's Avatar
    Quote Originally Posted by Kazlehoff View Post
    Wth is with half of paragon's 25m being druids?
    ......
    something smells fishy.....
    No. The raid definitely smelled more like a wet dog.
  1. Vestig3's Avatar
    I was planning to say gratz paragorn but after ive seen the screenshot i will take that back i wont see this as a world first.
  1. mmocac610ba31b's Avatar
    This.

    Stop the "lol they used potions of illusion, noobs" crap when you clearly don't know what you're talking about. It's not that hard to make out the names in the screenshots. Especially when you got the names of all their druids.

    Whatever, not that I care...
  1. cyrusm's Avatar
    Quote Originally Posted by Endonyx View Post
    I was planning to say gratz paragorn but after ive seen the screenshot i will take that back i wont see this as a world first.
    first off, youre a nobody
    second, its Paragon
    third, no one cares if you say grats or not. if you dont like the fact that they used x number of class y, then cry quietly in a corner.


    gz
  1. Vestig3's Avatar
    Quote Originally Posted by cyrusm View Post
    first off, youre a nobody
    second, its Paragon
    third, no one cares if you say grats or not. if you dont like the fact that they used x number of class y, then cry quietly in a corner.


    gz
    Creating a acount just for that? fanboy much.
  1. Snorri's Avatar
    If a guild needs 11 druids for 25 man heroic Nefarian it might mean Blizzard are gonna change or nerf the encounter a bit.
  1. aggression's Avatar
    Hmm, so they used druids for alot CC then I guess? I would not say it's cheating, they used what they had, simple as. I'm presuming that Nef got loads adds (only know vanilla fights), or hard beating such, that needs CC. if they don't want other guilds to do same, they probably have to change some of the adds. Might be to late now tho.
  1. FattyXP's Avatar
    It wasn't a "trick", it was a bug that they didn't even have an idea was going to happen, and they didn't know it was causing it, either.
    Quote Originally Posted by JohnnyTKF View Post
    Around NORMAL PvE progression and NORMAL PvP fight, aka no 1v1 bullshit, and sometimes not even 2v2 arenas.

    This is NOT normal PvE progression, it's hardcore... Remember ICC's Saronite bombs trick? Blizz didn't change that because, since it's bleeding edge progression, they won't know what raiders can do.
  1. Reemix's Avatar
    Quote Originally Posted by CrimsonP View Post
    that addon is bullshit ,

    gathermate2 doesn't do anything.
    Your rage is astounding. A lot of people haven't had any issues with the addon, perhaps you have an addon conflicting with it? Calm down before you hurt yourself or others.

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