After <Ferocity>’s first few jaunts in Ulduar we’ve experienced trash doing ridiculous amounts of damage, then doing about half that, bosses not doing what they’re meant to be doing, adds not appearing or twice as many appearing. Suffice to say, Ulduar has been hit and miss for us in our little 10-man progression guild. Despite the hiccups and bad luck we’ve managed to down Flame Leviathan and XT-002 and got Razorscale to 5%. We’re doing okay when Ulduar behaves itself but we’ve had to rethink a few things.
XT-002 was a fight which had us really struggling with tactics. Not so much the tactics for XT’s abilities but for our own personal ones. For the most part, the focus was on the healers during tantrum. As a Druid I tried Wild Growth, which did diddly-squat. I tried Nourish, which worked okay on the four or five people I could cast it on before the rest died. I tried Rejuvs and Swiftmend but that only worked for one person before they all died. Lifebloom was the same and would’ve worked okay if people weren’t getting lightbombed, which meant I was healing them (usually myself as it happens) and not popping Lifeblooms on people.
The only thing left to try was Tranquility. We split the groups to have a Druid in each and it worked fantabulously…until the next tantrum came along and Tranq was still on cooldown. Fel suggested a respec so I quickly put one together on WoWhead and we both popped back to Moonglade and implement the new talent build with two points in Improved Tranquility which has brought the cooldown to 4 mins instead of 10. Doing this means we can Tranq the first tantrum, people have to rely on pots and healthstones for the second tantrum and if we get lucky, Tranq the third tantrum but there can be a few seconds left to wait on the cooldown.
Apparently the tantrum on XT has been changed and <Ferocity> are back in Ulduar tonight so I’m hoping we’ll go straight to XT after Leviathan. We’re hoping to one shot both of them and then spend some time on Razorscale and Ignis but I’m looking forward to seeing how the changes have affected the healing.
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