Atramedes HM - Searing Flames

[Coolfox]

So, on our last visit to Atramedes hm his Searing Flames absolutely annihilated us, each time it ticked twice and would drop us so low that we couldn't top people up before the modulation. We play on an oceanic server and it seems like lag is affecting our timer for searing flames, when we did it on normal DBM was out by 2 seconds (Searing Flames came 2 seconds before the timer said it would) was wondering if any other boss mods had a more accurate timer for it, seen as atm, we cant progress til we get past it =(

Cheers for the help

[hikamiro]

You can try bigwigs, i haven't personally used it in quite a long time as dbm is usually more up to par with timers... but if your timers are off give it a shot!

[Jeleh]

Had issues with this at the start of the raiding period, move away from watching dbm and use the boss emotes to know when it's comming.

[Nillerr]

You could have someone standing ready at a gong before it's gonna fire, so you don't have to rely on the timers. Even if they are off by 5 seconds, just compensate for that time. It's better to lose the DPS by having a ranged standing ready a short while before it hits (e.g. 10 seconds), than it is to wipe and pay repair bills, we all hate those repair bills =)

[Jalatiphra]

there is an addon called atramedesclicker

you might wanna try that out.

basically - it puts a frame in the middle of your screen where no mouse presses are recognized
align this window over the gong and spam rightclick tull 3 sec before timer is out.

then the window will disappear and your right click willa ffect the gong -> congratzt 1 tick of searing flame

use on own risk -

although i think getting two ticks is most likely to result in a whipe it does not justify use of this tool.
anyways.. i cant manage to affectively guarantee one tick if iam clicking based on reaction time. therefor i used this addon in our kill

[dyalad]

Do you have a paladin to aura mastery with elemental resistance aura? That helped us tremendously and made topping up post-searing flame / pre-modulation healing trivial... on top of it, you should have it ready on each ground phase.

Plus, it lasts long enough that you can cast it a few seconds before the actual cast comes out.

[Grondath]

I am also struggling to click the gong without getting 2 ticks. I'll get 1 (or even none!) if I try to pre-empt the cast, but more often than not this ends up in me wasting a gong by doing it before he's actually cast the flame so it's not really a viable tactic.

None of the bossmods are accurate enough...so I guess I'll try out that addon too...seems kinda cheating though

[Dundebuns]

It's all down to the clicker. I would suggest you use a barrier and aura mastery though to mitigate as much damage as possible.

[Xabris]

Boss mods only show the Cooldown of most spells, not when they actually cast it.

[dyalad]

Boss mods only show the Cooldown of most spells, not when they actually cast it.

Atramedes casts searing flames as soon as the cooldown is over. I'm not sure I understand where you're going with this.

[ikopitz]

I also have this problem, I'm usually the bong clicker in my group, but sometimes i want to pretend to be a pro and use the bong like .2 seconds before the cooldown of it is ready, and sometimes i just waste a bong and need to run to the next bong (its more likely a wipe), now, i just wait to see the cast bar of the boss and hopefully we only get 1 tick of it.

[Hybred]

Rotate cds. Single Searings should be a bonus, not baseline.

[Shaiel]

Rotate cds. Single Searings should be a bonus, not baseline.

Not true at all. Your clickers should only let one searing go, every single time.

Nevertheless, just about everyone's short defensive cooldowns should be available and used for every single searing.

[Blacksen]

I'm the clicker for my guild, and I use the Atramedes clicker mod: http://wow.curse.com/downloads/wow-a...ldclicker.aspx

It puts a frame in the middle of your screen that intercepts all mouse clicks about 5 seconds before Searing Flame is out. This lets your clicker spam right click incredibly fast. When Searing Flame actually is cast, the frame disappears. Essentially, the "reaction time" on the part of your clicker is cut out, which is a good chunk of the overall time from the first tick to second tick.

You'll always get 1 tick. If you have a holy paladin or disc priest (and you should have at least one of these), you can use aura mastery or PW:B at every one.

[Belbrog]

It puts a frame in the middle of your screen that intercepts all mouse clicks about 5 seconds before Searing Flame is out. This lets your clicker spam right click incredibly fast. When Searing Flame actually is cast, the frame disappears. Essentially, the "reaction time" on the part of your clicker is cut out, which is a good chunk of the overall time from the first tick to second tick.

You'll always get 1 tick. If you have a holy paladin or disc priest (and you should have at least one of these), you can use aura mastery or PW:B at every one.

Wow, this alsmost feels like cheating ...

[Blacksen]

Wow, this alsmost feels like cheating ...

Certainly not. It's not like the mod is clicking for you or something.

[G l o w y r m]

was wondering if any other boss mods had a more accurate timer for it

Use the DBM alphas from http://deadlybossmods.com/. Look to the right of the page and grab the alpha. They are accurate and extremely up to date.

As for the damage from Searing Flame, you should really be using cooldowns, preferably stack a few seconds before it and then use Power Word: Barrier or at the very least Divine Guardian/Aura Mastery.

Make sure to stack a decent distance away from the boss so the Sonar Pulses don't scatter the group too much when trying to stack.

Kinda like this, watch the first Searing Flame http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a5AigZPXeV4

You don't have to stay stacked the way they do the whole time, but make sure you do what they did for Searing Flame, dodge the Pulses then get in Barrier asap.

[Darsey]

I is really hard to catch it on 1 tick even on normal mode, even with a timer. I tried following the timer blindly and sometimes it ended up in 1 tick but most the time it ended up in a to early gong leading to a wipe.

When I hit the gong when the boss emote it, I almost always get 2 ticks, however I have DG up for every searing flame and it does help the raid, also noticed that there are some fireballs that fly in the air during searing flames, and you should dodge them.

Overall , the fight feels a bit buggy , searing flames and gongs sometimes not reseting sound properly come in mind.

[Coolfox]

Thanks for all the reply's, will take a look into using them =)

[Dorfie]

I have nothing against the mod since reactionary stuff like this is a bit too unforgiving with latency. But don't try to kid yourself into saying it isn't cheating.