Thorim and XT-002 Deconstructor PTR Testing

[Boubouille]

Update 08:00 CET - XT-002 Loot Update

• Pulsing Spellshield (Shield - Spell) - 10-Man
• Armbands of the Construct (Plate - Spell MP5) - 10-Man
• Vest of the Glowing Crescent (Leather - Spell) - 10-Man
• Treacherous Shoulderpads (Leather - Phys.DPS) - 10-Man
• Conductive Cord (Cloth - Spell) - 10-Man
• Power Enhancing Loop (Ring - Melee.DPS) - 10-Man

Update 02:00 CET - XT-002 Loot Update

• Breastplate of the Devoted (Plate - Spell) - 25-Man-Hard
• Plasma Foil (Dagger - Spell) - 10-Man
• Gloves of Taut Grip (Mail - Phys.DPS) - 10-Man

XT-002 Deconstructor PTR Testing (North America)
XT-002 Deconstructor will be tested on american PTR realms on Tuesday Night, March 17, starting at 7pm EDT/4pm PDT.

Boss Abilities (From StratFu)
Health - 25M (25-Man) / 8M (10-Man)
Hard Mode - Kill the heart. Heartbreak - The heart of the XT-002 Deconstructor has been severed, removing the combat limitations of the XT-002 Deconstructor. Damage increased by 25%. Health increased by 25%.
Abilities

• Gravity Bomb: Charges the target with dark energy (the gravity well), causing them to explode and pull in nearby allies after 9 sec. This sucks people in, so stay away from others! It creates Gravity Well on the player: Pulls enemies within 10 yards into a gravity well, dealing 19000 to 21000 damage.
• Tympanic Tantrum: Deals 10% damage every 1 sec for 12 sec. Nearby enemies are also dazed for the duraion. (like VR's earthquake)
• Light Bomb: Charges the target with divine energy, causing them to sear nearby allies for 9 sec. Targetted attack, does 2k-3k damage on nearby allies

He also spawn adds throughout the fight:

• XM-024 Pummeler, just melee. Arcing Smash (~2k), Trample and Uppercut, melee for 1.5k-2k on plate. Minimal dps.
• XE-321 Boombot, bombs the raid. Explode with a 12k-13k hit.
• XS-013 Scrapbot, which merge into him if they reach him ("XT-002 Deconstructor consumes a scrap bot to repair himself!"

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<td width="30">[b]ilvl[/b]</td>
<td width="75">[b]Type[/b]</td>
<td width="75">[b]Slot[/b]</td>
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<tr class="lootline1"><td>239</td><td>1H Maces</td><td>One-Hand</td><td>[url="http://static.mmo-champion.com/mmoc/images/news/2009/march/ulduarloot/item_build_9684_84.jpg"][b]<font color="#A335EE">Sorthalis, Hammer of the Watchers</font>[/b][/url]</td></tr>
<tr class="lootline2"><td>239</td><td>Misc.</td><td>Neck</td><td>[url="http://static.mmo-champion.com/mmoc/images/news/2009/march/ulduarloot/item_build_9684_83.jpg"][b]<font color="#A335EE">Charm of Meticulous Timing</font>[/b][/url]</td></tr>
<tr class="lootline1"><td>232</td><td>Daggers</td><td>One-Hand</td><td>[url="http://static.mmo-champion.com/mmoc/images/news/2009/march/ulduarloot/item_build_9684_119.jpg"][b]<font color="#A335EE">Saronite Shiv</font>[/b][/url]</td></tr>
<tr class="lootline2"><td>232</td><td>Staves</td><td>Two-Hand</td><td>[url="http://static.mmo-champion.com/mmoc/images/news/2009/march/ulduarloot/item_build_9684_109.jpg"][b]<font color="#A335EE">Twisted Visage</font>[/b][/url]</td></tr>
<tr class="lootline1"><td>226</td><td>Mail</td><td>Chest</td><td>[url="http://static.mmo-champion.com/mmoc/images/news/2009/march/ulduarloot/item_build_9684_106.jpg"][b]<font color="#A335EE">Quartz-studded Harness</font>[/b][/url]</td></tr>
<tr class="lootline2"><td>226</td><td>Leather</td><td>Feet</td><td>[url="http://static.mmo-champion.com/mmoc/images/news/2009/march/ulduarloot/item_build_9684_105.jpg"][b]<font color="#A335EE">Boots of Hasty Revival</font>[/b][/url]</td></tr>
<tr class="lootline1"><td>226</td><td>Mail</td><td>Feet</td><td>[url="http://static.mmo-champion.com/mmoc/images/news/2009/march/ulduarloot/item_build_9684_116.jpg"][b]<font color="#A335EE">Brass-lined Boots</font>[/b][/url]</td></tr>
<tr class="lootline2"><td>226</td><td>Cloth</td><td>Feet</td><td>[url="http://static.mmo-champion.com/mmoc/images/news/2009/march/ulduarloot/item_build_9684_107.jpg"][b]<font color="#A335EE">Sandals of Rash Temperament</font>[/b][/url]</td></tr>
<tr class="lootline1"><td>226</td><td>Plate</td><td>Legs</td><td>[url="http://static.mmo-champion.com/mmoc/images/news/2009/march/ulduarloot/item_build_9684_117.jpg"][b]<font color="#A335EE">Clockwork Legplates</font>[/b][/url]</td></tr>
<tr class="lootline2"><td>226</td><td>Cloth</td><td>Shoulder</td><td>[url="http://static.mmo-champion.com/mmoc/images/news/2009/march/ulduarloot/item_build_9684_112.jpg"][b]<font color="#A335EE">Mantle of Wavering Calm</font>[/b][/url]</td></tr>
<tr class="lootline1"><td>226</td><td>Plate</td><td>Shoulder</td><td>[url="http://static.mmo-champion.com/mmoc/images/news/2009/march/ulduarloot/item_build_9684_114.jpg"][b]<font color="#A335EE">Shoulderplates of the Deconstructor</font>[/b][/url]</td></tr>
<tr class="lootline2"><td>226</td><td>Plate</td><td>Wrist</td><td>[url="http://static.mmo-champion.com/mmoc/images/news/2009/march/ulduarloot/item_build_9684_113.jpg"][b]<font color="#A335EE">Horologist's Wristguards</font>[/b][/url]</td></tr>
<tr class="lootline1"><td>226</td><td>Misc.</td><td>Finger</td><td>[url="http://static.mmo-champion.com/mmoc/images/news/2009/march/ulduarloot/item_build_9684_115.jpg"][b]<font color="#A335EE">Crazed Construct Ring</font>[/b][/url]</td></tr>
<tr class="lootline2"><td>226</td><td>Misc.</td><td>Finger</td><td>[url="http://static.mmo-champion.com/mmoc/images/news/2009/march/ulduarloot/item_build_9684_118.jpg"][b]<font color="#A335EE">Signet of the Earthshaker</font>[/b][/url]</td></tr>
<tr class="lootline1"><td>226</td><td>Sigils</td><td>Relic</td><td>[url="http://static.mmo-champion.com/mmoc/images/news/2009/march/ulduarloot/item_build_9684_111.jpg"][b]<font color="#A335EE">Sigil of the Vengeful Heart</font>[/b][/url]</td></tr>
<tr class="lootline2"><td>226</td><td>Totems</td><td>Relic</td><td>[url="http://static.mmo-champion.com/mmoc/images/news/2009/march/ulduarloot/item_build_9684_110.jpg"][b]<font color="#A335EE">Thunderfall Totem</font>[/b][/url]</td></tr>
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Thorim PTR Testing (Europe)
Thorim is being tested on EU PTRs once again tonight! We will most likely discover his loot table today.

Update 20:45 CET - Thorim's Loot Update

• Belt of the Betrayed (Mail - Phys.DPS) - 25-Man
• Scale of Fates (Trinket - Spell) - 25-Man
• Leggings of Lost Love (Cloth - Spell) - 25-Man

Update 20:30 CET - Thorim's Loot Update

• Hoperender (Polearm - Phys.DPS) - 10-Man
• Legacy of Thunder (Mace - Tank) - 10-Man
• Warhelm of the Champion (Plate - Phys.DPS) - 25-Man-Hard
• Belt of the Blood Pit (Leather - Phys.DPS) - 10-Man
• Guise of the Midgard Serpent (Leather - Phys.DPS) - 10-Man
• Handwraps of Resonance (Cloth - Spell) - 10-Man
• Leggings of Unstable Discharge (Cloth - Spell) - 10-Man
• Vestments of the Piercing Light (Cloth - Spell) - 10-Man
• Sif's Promise (Ring - Melee.DPS) - 25-Man

Achievements

• Don't Stand in the Lightning (Defeat Thorim without being affected by Lightning Charge on Normal Difficulty.)
• I'll Take You All On (Defeat Thorim, the Ancient Rune Giant and the Rune Colossus on Normal Difficulty.)
• Who Needs Bloodlust? (Defeat Thorim while under the effect of Aura of Celerity on Normal Difficulty.)
• Siffed (Force Thorim to enter the arena and defeat him while Sif is present on Normal Difficulty.)

Strategy (Slightly outdated, will be updated in a few minutes)
Health Points - 16.7M (25-Man) / ? (10-Man)

The fight takes place in The Clash of Thunder, an arena overwatched by Thorim himself. As you enter the arena you will see a Jormungar Behemoth (~1.2M HP) fighting a captured alliance/horde (opposing faction) team composed of 1 tank, 1 healer, and 3 damage dealers. Killing them is fairly easy, just make sure you take care of the AoE healing from the healer while fighting the NPC and try to avoid the large poison breath while fighting the Jormungar.

Once the NPCs and the Jormungar are dead, a lot of constructs (melee, casters, and healers) will jump into the arena from the stands and you will have to handle them with only one part of your raid while Thorim throws Stormhammers at them. He will also randomly activates the lightning orbs surrouding the arena, they will deal strong AoE damage to anyone near as soon as they are activated: run away from them!

The 2nd part of the raid will have to go through the hallway to the left of the Arena and fight its way to Thorim. This hallways is also full of constructs and will also have you deal with two mini bosses (about 5M HP each), you only have 5 minutes to reach Thorim before he goes berserk and kills your raid.

When Thorim is pulled by the hallway team, he will jump into the arena and the last part of the fight will begin. He's got 11M Health Points and hits a well geared tank for 8k damage but will also use two abilities: the first one is an Unbalancing Strike reducing the defense of the tank by 200 for 15 sec (100 for 6 seconds in normal). He will also casts Lightning Charge every 15 seconds, just like with Grull this effect will stack and Thorim will deal more and more damage during the fight. (Thanks to Wraith for the help on the description of the fight)

[Wolfmarine]

First!

[Xacez]

First!

And such a waste...

[Elysium]

Anyone know if there is a cooldown to Unbalancing Strike?

Consdiering there is msot definatly 2 tanks during the fight. One in the hallway and one in the room. When THorim jumps down and starts being tanked.. is it possible for the OT to taunt for the duration of Unbalancing strike on the MT and they just keep taunting off each other or does he cast it so often that there is no point?

Thank you

[retinol]

Meh, every fight explained... it's like go to the cinema to watch a film that someone else fully explained to me before i go and watch it.

WoW lately, easy, boring and fault of sites like this one, not surprising as it was few years ago :-\

(By the way i perfectly know that none force me read these sites, however i come here to see if there's big changes on game play, not to know in advance everything).

[SFJake]

Meh, every fight explained... it's like go to the cinema to watch a film that someone else fully explained to me before i go and watch it.

WoW lately, easy, boring and fault of sites like this one, not surprising as it was few years ago :-\

(By the way i perfectly know that none force me read these sites, however i come here to see if there's big changes on game play, not to know in advance everything).

So? Remove these news and you won't have more news on gameplays. No reason at all to whine. I also just ignore all that crap, as I don't want to ever really see it until I'm actually there in game.

[Devidose]

First!

I could have sworn people used to get banned for doing that.

[rcastudios]

You do realize that you can come to this site and read the changes in gameplay without reading the info on the bosses?!?

Would you rather go into a boss without having a clue what he does and die numerous times before you even get a good grasp on what attacks he's doing? I sure as hell would not enjoy that at all but each to his own. :P

[Toiran]

I could have sworn people used to get banned for doing that.

Hopefully they still do.

[Maisto]

Will it be possible to watch the US testing via streams? and if so anyone got links to where they are.

[Newor]

You do realize that you can come to this site and read the changes in gameplay without reading the info on the bosses?!?

Would you rather go into a boss without having a clue what he does and die numerous times before you even get a good grasp on what attacks he's doing? I sure as hell would not enjoy that at all but each to his own. :P

So, you do actually read everything, everywhere, before playing a game, just so you can finish it really fast? No fun solving a puzzle by yourself?

Like reading all the faqs avaiable for a Resident Evil game to know every boss, route, item locations & puzzles, etc... just to repeat that on the game? Wouldn't be better to just watch a movie or even someone else playing the game, like ending cutscene on youtube, etc.? Weird...

[Wolfmarine]

Oh sry it was my brother. do i have to erase that?

[Drzog]

So, you do actually read everything, everywhere, before playing a game, just so you can finish it really fast? No fun solving a puzzle by yourself?

Like reading all the faqs avaiable for a Resident Evil game to know every boss, route, item locations & puzzles, etc... just to repeat that on the game? Wouldn't be better to just watch a movie or even someone else playing the game, like ending cutscene on youtube, etc.? Weird...

Why fly a kite when I can watch a youtube video of someone else doing it? Different strokes for different folks, I don't think that's all that bizarre. Besides, just because you know what a boss does and how the fight should play out does not translate into an instant victory particularly when you are counting on 9 or 24 other people to help you out, some that might not have read up on the strategy. To pseudo-steal from GI Joe, knowing the strategy is merely half the battle.

[retinol]

I think would be nice that Blizzard don't allow these sites to post strategies, abilities and details of every new patch.

It just my thought nothing more.

If I was a company like Blizzard, well established now, in the entertainment market, I would try to surprise most of players and try to test new zones/bosses and games change with internal tests.

Beside what I said, I will play WoW thou, however I'm just bit bored that i saw almost everything new, from a website, that don't have anything related to warcraft or blizzard brand.

[weirdingway]

LOL you just know that poor sap in the first stream does it so he can show off his Scarab Lord mount.

[Drzog]

I think would be nice that Blizzard don't allow these sites to post strategies, abilities and details of every new patch.

It just my thought nothing more.

If I was a company like Blizzard, well established now, in the entertainment market, I would try to surprise most of players and try to test new zones/bosses and games change with internal tests.

Beside what I said, I will play WoW thou, however I'm just bit bored that i saw almost everything new, from a website, that don't have anything related to warcraft or blizzard brand.

Internal testing for a game like this is not feasible. Even Blizzard has limits to its resources, PTR testing is absolutely necessary. Really I fail to see the issue. Don't like spoilers? Don't go to strategy websites, or better yet, don't read the posts about the strategies on the strategy websites. Seems like a simple solution to me. It's churlish to suggest that because you don't like spoilers, no one should have access to them.

[Wolverinè]

Hi,

just have one simple question.

What an UI is Dragonkinbah (sry if im wrong!!) in the "Numen-stream" using? And whats the add with the pictures and the two bars near the middle?

I use nUI but this seems to be better....glad if anyone can help me out here...

[Jochan]

Haven't seen any mention about this, but shoulder token droped for us from Thorim, sadly we had no hunter warrior or shaman to check the stats. And yes, he respawned on top of us.
http://img8.imageshack.us/my.php?ima...1709202029.jpg

[Amgyn]

i <3 achievement names.

[Amgyn]

LOL you just know that poor sap in the first stream does it so he can show off his Scarab Lord mount.

its working! ... lol....

much appreciation to these live streams... spectator mode ftw! ole ole ole!