Hey all,
Last night we tried to do something a little different on normal version of the Grand Empress for fun and wondered if anyone else had done it this way to confirm it works. We have and can kill it normally, we just wanted to make it faster, less boring and make it more fun
It was our first time trying with 2 healers on this encounter, so we tried to add some extra spice to things to see if we could get Empress to 3rd phase without getting any adds! Our best attempt was 29.7%, however, this was about 1 second before she retreated, so I was wondering if it is possible to get this done before she retreats and actually goes straight to phase 3? We wasn't sure if we are still to slow (as no one looked to see if she was casting retreat when we reached the 30% mark, or if we just can't skip that part of the fight).
I'm interested in what you guys have to say about this and would be awesome to hear that it can be skipped with confirmation!
As for our setup we have:
2 DK Tanks
1 Fury Warrior
1 Enhance Shammy
1 Ass Rogue
1 Survival Hunter
1 Elemental Shammy
1 Warlock
1 Disc Priest
1 Holy Pally
- It's a very good setup for a full set of buffs we find and we all pre-pot + pot asap with Heroism 2 secs into the pull... We could better DPS after the next lockout reaching ~30% easier, but we wanted to know if anyone could confirm it's possible before we attempt it again on a fun raid :P