Blood Legion Heroic Heart of Fear 25 Man World First, All Difficulties Garalon Hotfix

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Blood Legion Heroic Heart of Fear 25 Man World First
Blood Legion killed Grand Empress Shek'zeer and cleared 25 man Heroic Heart of Fear. Congratulations to them!

There are now 11 guilds at 5/6 in 25 man difficulty and only DREAM Paragon at 5/6 in 10 man difficulty.

Raid Composition

Riggnaros Acrol Bushino Notdiggz Zoomkins

Truefire Ataxus Logoz Zonker Affinichi

Ninecatz Absalom Bobina Grant Nodzz

Hyacine Maladii Wishesz Brightleaf Cirrax

Optyy Xariis Coogz Shinafae Soy

Garalon Changes - Raid Finder, Normal, Heroic Difficulty

We’ve recently hotfixed the Raid Finder version of Garalon, reducing both his health and Furious Swipe damage. In addition, and also exclusive to the Raid Finder version of this encounter, Garalon's Crush ability now has a cooldown, and we’ve corrected an issue with his aggro radius to prevent players from drawing aggro until a player has entered a ring.

With regard to all raid difficulties, after further testing the encounter, we realized that certain abilities were having unintended effects. Blade Flurry, Inferno Blast and Sweeping Strikes were doing double damage to Garalon's body while attacking his legs, which was not intended. We are currently implementing a hotfix, which should take effect after realms are restarted, that will cause these abilities to do normal damage to the body while continuing to do double damage to the legs.

The real question is, is this a change to underlying bf mechanics or just a special case change to garalon.
Sort of, and something we should take this opportunity to clarify. In Cataclysm, cleave-type mechanics double-dipped on damage bonuses, but we changed that universally in Patch 5.0 on a fundamental level. If you go back to Halfus or Wind Lord Mel'jarak, you'll find that cleave effects that derive their damage from the initial hit now only award the bonus damage on the target that is receiving increased damage.

Note that this works both ways. If you Sinister Strike a target that has a 50% damage reduction effect on it, your Blade Flurry will still do full damage to a secondary target, which previously would not have been the case.

The pending hotfix addresses a bug specific to the Garalon encounter which cause these new rules to not apply. Abilities that can hit a leg and the body simultaneously will still be extremely effective on the boss.

You realize that without stacking, a 6min enrage was really tough to meet--for a normal mode, right?
Garalon's berserk timer on Normal and Heroic modes was adjusted from 6 minutes to 7 minutes last week. So far, we've seen many Heroic kills (10H and 25H) where a balanced raid composition was utilized, many of which were well ahead of the increased berserk timer.

[gunhound45]

Hell, its about time!

Hope BL keeps it up through Terrace.

[jimlow]

I think everyone saw that Garalon fix coming. Groups were wiping left and right.

[Notarget]

10 man is now harder?

[Crabby]

http://i.imgur.com/KglVm.jpg dps meter

[Archdruid Dehydrate]

Murica !!!!

[Paulosio]

10 man is now harder?

Seems so but i'm sure that wont stop all the 25 man guilds acting as if 10 mans don't exist when announcing their ranking (eg a 25 man rank 40 wowprogress guild saying they are world top 20 because 20 of the guilds above them are 10 man).

[Onzay]

10 man is now harder?

depends on the boss. What one is harder is not based on the tier.

[Grevie]

The only serious 10 man guild is Paragon seems so, the other are amateurs seems so.

[Mikehuntz]

and here come the fanboys!!

[Dasn]

Usa usa usa usa usa usa usa usa usa usa usa usa usa usa usa usa usa usa

[Sim]

inb4 peoplestartcaringaboutworldfirstsagain

[NatePsychotic]

Only one DK, this makes me sad.

[Leyre]

Only one DK, this makes me sad.

you sad about that?? dude, they dont even have a SINGLE rogue ffs

[xfreeder]

And not a single Rogue was brought. 8[

[PBitt]

Grats to BL! Not their first world first but they really deserved this one as they are always very close behind but always seem to fall a bit short. I wish them well in the final raid of t14, as well, would love to see more US 25 man heroic world firsts.

[Kyok]

How much % of Garalon's hp were reduced?
Also GratZ Blood Legion

[shiftze]

they must have bugged it.. they are not better then either method or paragon even if 10 man is harder for paragon. nuff said..

[Mercadi]

you sad about that?? dude, they dont even have a SINGLE rogue ffs

Meh, rogues aren't currently FotM. Their time is over until the next tier or one after that.

[Rezhial]

they must have bugged it.. they are not better then either method or paragon even if 10 man is harder for paragon. nuff said..

This is the most amusing thing I've read all day.