Farming the Outlands

[plonq]

Wow, you mean I can extract a whole bar of Khorium from this little deposit? w00t!



In other news, we downed Al'ar for the first time last night. We got in a few tries on him on Sunday before re-spawns forced us out, and last night we downed him on the third attempt. This is not a particularly hard fight once you get your placement and timing down, and I don't expect that it will take us very long to get him onto "farm" status.

The hardest part from a healing perspective was following the action from tank to tank during the second phase. The two warriors and druid who were handling him were playing catch with aggro, often without letting the healers know that they had just taunted him off the other tank. This is not a good thing when you are trying to keep the warriors alive, because Al'ar tends to hand out some pretty big damage spikes. Often the only way we would know that he had switched targets would be to see one of the other tanks suddenly drop to 1/3 health while we were in the middle of casting a big heal on the one that had previously been holding aggro.

I think that I will enable the "target of target's target" feature in x-perl. That renders the interface a bit cluttered for my liking, but it would make a fight like this a lot easier since I could easily see when a boss changes targets.




I got a nice healing ring. I only picked up an additional +4 healing from it, but the +24 Int, and boosted mp5 will really help in the longer fights. It will also let me finally retire the last bit of old-world gear that I was still wearing (a healing ring from Naxx).

Comments

[pfcottontail.livejournal.com]

That xperl addon you're looking at always points to Kevin Bacon.

"Often the only way we would know that he had switched targets would be to see one of the other tanks suddenly drop to 1/3 health while we were in the middle of casting a big heal on the one that had previously been holding aggro." This is what I miss most about healing in WoW.

[aldisara.livejournal.com]

i wound up switching from relying on the xperl highlight to show who had aggro to looking at al'ar's target in the MT targets window. it did seem to help a bit! (the xperl was a little slower to show the highlight plus you had to sort out who had alar's aggro and who had the adds)