We are having soaking issues on Heroic Elegon.
It killed our bubbled pally. Killed both of our Hunters who are using glyphed deterrence and it killed our DK in AMS bubble.
Any ideas?
We are having soaking issues on Heroic Elegon.
It killed our bubbled pally. Killed both of our Hunters who are using glyphed deterrence and it killed our DK in AMS bubble.
Any ideas?
You need to use dmg reductions or cheat death mechanics not immunities.
Detterence works with Aspect of the Iron Hawk + Glyph, You still take a moderate amount of damage however. Your Dk should survive it without a doubt however. (Or have him spec purgatory if that's necessary)
It goes through all immunities, the only way to do it is with pure damage reduction. Tanks, Warlocks, and Monks are extremely good at this.
Mage - Greater invisibility
Paladin - Divine protection
Rogue - Feint
Death Knight - AMS
Druid - Symbiosis AMS
Hunter - Deterrence
Warlock - Dark Bargain
Monk - Diffuse Magic
There's a ton of ways to do it but many of them involve still taking damage, you just have to heal them. 500,000 damage is not that hard to survive anyone should have 400k raid buffed.
priest dispersion also works.
as do abilities such as power word barrier + pain suppression, stack as needed.
guardian spirit should also work although I've not tested it (and DR is better since you'll also avoid the stun in most cases)
While the residual debuff means you still take damage, it does make you completely immune to all damage sources (tooltip says "Prevents all damage") for 8 seconds. Sure, it's not an immunity in the game mechanic sense of the word (it's an absorb), but that's not what you were saying - your words were "pure damage reduction", which is absolutely not a term I'd use to describe Dark Bargain.
You do not take any damage that will bring you below 80% hp and therefore trigger the stun, which would be the only definition of the word "immunity" that is meaningful for this purpose.
Dark Bargain however, Makes you take damage afterwards. "When the shield fades, 50% of the damage prevented is dealt over 8 sec" Hence it's a damage reduction spell.
The definition of Immunity in my eyes on this encounter is to not take a single amount of damage at all. Absorbing a metric shiton of damage and then take 50% of it as a dot for 8 sec is hardly an immunity.
I believe our soaking is something simillar to this :
Warrior tank blows a CD, doesn't get the stun
Blood Dk blows a CD, does not even drop below 95%
Rogue uses feint/cloak (Im not good with rogues and their cd's, I have no clue)
Warlock with Dark Bargain.
We do have our mage being a reserve with what's his face cd's.
Last edited by mmocec14909945; 2012-12-15 at 08:33 AM.
In fact, what is classified as an immunity is actually recognized by certain boss mechanics, like Unseen Strike, and will purposefully go through them. For those purposes, Divine Shield and Ice Block are immunities. To make it simpler, an immunity is a spell that, when up, attacks say "immune" against is. Dark Bargain is, as you've pointed out, an unlimited absorb with delayed damage. It should be noted that it's quite dangerous to use right before a wave of adds, as Dark bargain will still be ticking for 40kish through the damage from exploding Energy Charges.
Also, Cloak of Shadows does not provide protection against Annihilation, but feint does.
You're lying if you say it's killing your hunters with glyphed deterrence up
Glyphed deterrence is 50%, and the explosion is what, 750k? That's 375k after deterrence, if they're a little bit low it can happen.
Get a good/decent monk. They can soak two in a row if needed with Diffuse Magic and Zen Meditation.
Best soakers available. I do it for my guild.
The explosion is around 500k
So that's 250k with glyph. Should be easily survivable. add -15% dmg with AotIH That's another 75k gone. Boom. You're down to 175k explosions.
I could be wrong. That's just what my brain would calculate after lots of hours with no sleep.
Edit: I realise this might not be correct.I apologize in advance.
Last edited by mmocec14909945; 2012-12-15 at 10:26 AM.
I take around 210k hit with deterrence+glyphed+ironhawk (checked logs). Our disc priest has to go dps because the other 2healers don't have any functional OS. It hurts because disc priests are so completely utterly retardedly overpowered to negate almost every damage mechanic on every boss
we'll use a monk, warlock, priest or 2x mages with greater invisibility, depends whos in the raid.
in the worse case we'll get a tank to use his CDs, but its better when some1 else is tankin.
Also, get the DK to use AMZ and AMS together, if AMZ works it should reduce the damage of the explosion to basically nothing, and AMS will keep him full HP. AMS isnt very strong of a CD, as it only aborbs up to a max of 50% of ur HP (so about 200k).. where as AMZ actually reduces the damage by 75% and has an absorb of around 150k.. far superior!
As a shaman I can soak it on 25m with Astral Shift with no issue, and thats only 40% dmg reduction