[Beta Videos] 5man's from a warrior tank POV

[Devlin1991]

To watch any of the videos in 1080/720p please right click then "view on youtube" and watch it in fullscreen.
Tacklist is on each video's description on youtube, please no comments on my music taste you can mute it if you wish.
720p looks best in this small window on the forums if you choose 1080p it over sharpens the image and it looks horrible

Clean kill of Temple Guardian Anhuur the 1st boss in Halls of Origination normal mode 1080p


Clean kill of Earthrager Ptah the 3rd boss in Halls of Origination normal mode 1080p


Clean kill of Setesh the "shadow" boss in the 4 elemental bosses in the upper tier on normal 1080p


Scrappy kill of Isiset (dps ignoring kill order)the "arcane" boss in the 4 elemental bosses in the upper tier on normal 1080p


Scrappy kill of Rajh the "fire" boss in the 4 elemental bosses in the upper tier on normal 1080p


Overview of my gear and stats watch this one 1080p fullscreen on youtube or you cant read the text


Warrior Mastery Bonus watch this one 1080p fullscreen on youtube or you cant read the text, you also may have to pause it to read.


incoming:
1080p of HoO: Aummunae [Scrappy kill, Dps ignored me again and attacked the little add instead of staying on boss]
1080p Mouseover of each piece of gear I current have equiped so you can see the stats as well as my total avoidance, block etc
1080p Footage of all 3 bosses and a nasty trash pull in Grim Batrol 5man normal.

[Otakira]

Kill orders and strats in five mans? I'm glad I'll only have to do them with friends for the first week or two because if I went through the dungeon finder I forsee many, many wipes. (Battle group isn't great and GL getting people from one of the servers to do anything useful. I almost cry when one of my dps alts gets a tank from the server in question)

EDIT - By the way on a scale of 1 to 10 how fun are the bosses 1 being a stick and 10 being an empty box?

[Devlin1991]

Entrance boss - 3/10 Annoying mechanic. Boss hits for nothing and Then puts up an immune shield and starts casting a stacking aoe pulse channel, 2 players must jump down and pull 2 levers to remove his shield then runback up. When you jump down there is lots of snakes that respawn they can easier overwhelm a lower hp player and kil them so its frustrating when someone dies to them when out of healing range. He has 2 faces that attack ppl like the HoS even but they do insignificant damage. On heroic it might be a hard boss if they up the damage from the faces by 500% or so.

Vault of lights boss - 4/10, easy yet annoying, gauntlet of trash that loves to respawn stupidly making it take ages. 4 Minibosse each with a gimmick mechanic (Root+Dot, WW that knocks up, boss aoe channel, targeted hit on random member) this boss itsself is easy. Boss has 2 attacks Alpha(Targeted void zone you need to jump out or take 5-6k a tick which is crap imo) and Omega(group wide aoe hit needs good healer). I think It would be a lot more interesting if he had the abilities of the minibosses. A root(which combined with the alpha rays would be interesting).

Earthrager Ptah - 5/10 mainly for the camel Gimmick ,which buggs for warriors so don't bother with it. Pretty easy fight

Isiset - 6/10 - Pretty easy boss, splits into 3 (think nexus) and you kill 1 copy the copy you kill removes an ability of hers and I think the other 2 get buffed slightly, will make for an interesting heroic achievement perhaps. Also does A "turn away or get hurt" aoe.

Aummunae - 7/10 - Easy boss, Dps kills seeds to stop boss buffing, tank kills spore on top of add to kill add. I did like the spore mechanic.

Setesh - 7/10 - Tougher boss, shoots chaos bolt. Spawns 2 portals which release adds randomly 1 type has a 75% shield so we ignore it and Zerged the other adds and let me hold the Shielded ones. On heroic Could be sweet as a sort of Stacking Enrage style mechanic.

Rajh - 8/10 - HARD, needs a damm good healer. Boss has an AOE DOT called Sun strike, this hits pretty dam hard and if he does it just before his mini-phase change which does an aoe fire Storm on the raid then insane aoe healing is needed to stop everyone dieing. His other 2 abilities are fairly simple, Targeted stomp (Think Ulduar adds but with a target before they jump) and a Meteor that hits everyone near for 20k so Stacking is BAD.

Id say for normal modes It is right for the avarage player. Myself I would like them to be made a lot harder and more complex so that the normal are hard for player in appropriate gear just like the Heriocs should be hard for Players in normal 5man gear. Right now a competant guild group with no lag(US beta realm for EU players :S) would destroy the place just like we do with the wotlk heroics now. Im hoping the heroic is a massive step up from normal.

I can not stress how AMAZING the place looks aestheticly. It is by far the single best looking instance blizzard have ever done, it puts every 5man and raid in current live wow to shame.

---------- Post added 2010-09-05 at 05:08 AM ----------

Added 1080p version of much cleaner Earthrager Ptah kill. should be live in 10-15minutes once processing is done.

[Alianthos]

All i can say is... HELL YEAH BATTLE CAMEL ! xD

I literally fall from my chair laughing when i saw this SP strafing on his camel (which doesnt move legs, fun factor there too) why channeling.

Looking good so far, also you seemed to be in pain trying to pick up adds on fire marrowgar

[Otakira]

Ok sounds cool and looking forward to new 5 mans to get bored with after 2 months and if those are the mechanics for normal I guess (or at least hope) that heroic is going to be at least some fun even if you've done it already. And the camels bug who? Weird hit box that screws with tanking?

-Just to be clear my range wasn't being sarcastic I was one of those children who frakking LOVED empty boxes

EDIT - Yeah the strafing SP camel made me laugh too.

[Devlin1991]

When your on the camel as a warrior your auto swings seem odd And you can not charge/intercept etc, Also thunderclap and shockwave seemed to keep missing completely when I was on camel.

I loved the Ptah adds, they where handled very well by the group. I taunted 1, HS the other, Shockwaved them both then ran into the little ones and aoe taunted them. Then for some crazy reason I clicked on thunderclap even though I have it keybound. The shaman used his aoe that periodicly stuns the mobs which helps keep them from moving about to much which was nice.

[kinetiks]

Thanks for the videos, Devlin.

How do Warriors in Cata compare to now? In terms of survivability, damage blocked, aoe tanking, and single target tanking?

From what I gather self heals are off the charts. Single target tanking is "wonky" as Totalbiscuit put it. I also hear that Rend + thunderclap for Blood and Thunder is an annoyance.

P.S. You just introduced me to a new genre of music

[xebtria]

the first thing I thought when I saw the second boss was ...
BONESTOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOORM. ;-)

anyways, thanks for the videos. Looks fine. Its nice to see how at least the trinkets are not changing that very much... especially the new 252-dodgerating-trinket (the only new tank trinket so far?) looks rather crap compared to 192 stam or even the 228 stam trinkets from ICC/badges. I also think, that the ~2k armor trinkets from ICC/RS/triumph badges are continuing doing very well up into cataclysm for quite a while.

[madmessias]

I dont like the party interface ive seen from all the movies in the beta, do you have to use that one or can you use the one that is on live right now?

[Devlin1991]

yes you can use the old version but this one is MILES better than the old one. Being able to see incoming heals,debuffs, Buffs,shields,hots ETC ETC makes it far superior i feel really bad for any guild that lets a healer use the default UI in a raid environment