World of Warcraft: Current Year

After how many pulls KJ took us, killing H Argus in 6 was the best Christmas present ever.

Also accidentally tanked varimathras with dampen harm. One shot still

H Argus dying at the exact same time the raid died was great. A little part of me was hoping the rest of you died before me and I got to BOP kill the last 10m, but I'll settle for the kill anyways.

I died at 2 stacks of scythe so hmmm wondering if you did it on purpose

during argus :

Still can't find a DPS class i enjoy, Sub rogue is the closest i've found. i leveled a shaman to try out enhancement or elemental and remembered how shitty it was being GCD locked, and elemental just feels lack luster (probably the gear level i have atm).

i did give my DH a go that i haven't played since prenighthold (still had 910 tank legos on him) i did lfr, a few invasions and the argus questline and got him to 930 and 72 points over the weekend, ill give him a try in normal/heroic alt runs this week and see what i think. i also decided to finish the mage tower appearances for havoc/vengeance while it was up. these were the easiest challenges ive done other than faceroll assassination.

i'd rank the tank challenges from hardest to easiest as Monk ~200 attempts(did it prenerf at 904 ilevel)>Warrior @30ish attempts(at 908ilevel, with good legos)>DK~20ish attempts(910 good legos)>Bear~20ish attempts(940, shitty legos)>DH 3 attempts(925ish)

for dps challenges from hardest to easiest Sub rogue 30ish attempts (this is mainly because i was bad at slowing the adds in the final phase) > Fury Warrior 30ish attempts (legos saved me here but it was shitty swapping targets) > WW Monk 20ish attempts(10 attempts after i made a macro that solved all my problems) > havoc 4 attempts with no dps legos, only issues i had was reaching xylem when he teleported away if he chose a particularly bad spot, and the last boss even ate 2 adds to heal for 30% and i was able to meta stand in the aoe and still kill him. > assassination 3ish attempts (this shouldn't even be a dps challenge since i did it on my wifes rogue at 890, fight is a complete joke).

so now i have all the tank challenges done except paladin (one of the 2 classes i dont have along with mage).

Warlock became my favorite dps class. Challenge for afflic took 7 tries

a c i d.f l y said:

Failed the balance one once at 880'ish, didn't try again until 940 and basically moonfire spammed to beat it in one attempt. Guess I should give the manbear run an attempt since I managed to get the two ideal legos... I'm sad you can't use the alternate forms in other specs or I'd give the feral ones a go.

Click to expand...

I haven't tried the balance one since i was like 902, i didn't have the dps to kill the purple portals before they got a cast off. For balance legos i only have ring and prydaz but i should give it a try im sure 40 ilevels probably makes it face roll easy.

Guardian is even easier with luffa's+pants, or moonfire shoulders + cape. Saw a video of someone doing it with luffas at 940 where they didn't even get an infernal spawn they just hit incarn and spammed thrash until kruul came out.

DH was a complete joke as well, you have a 40% dmg reduction for every other cast of mind rend (4 secs of immunity every 20 secs) and you literally cant die since you have 2 "heroic leaps" to grab orbs and if you get knocked back your glide instantly cancels the push back. only difficult part was keeping Velen and the DH alive since they like to hang out in puddles or follow the boss around swinging when adds are running around.

For sub rogue i ended up just burning 2 phases of adds and then killing boss after the third set spawned but before they reached him. i was using shoulders+cloak, if you vanish with 30 stacks you can just about 1 shot a wave and then you only have 1 wave to nightblade.

for the Havoc challenge the guide i read recommended going chaos blades / felblade after the xylem part, but i tried that once and didn't quite have the burst. going demonic build you can just save an eyebeam and then a deathsweep and the adds are pretty much dead, i fucked up on the third wave and wasted a fel eruption early and had 2 adds get through and heal the boss, the entire platform was covered but i was able to pop meta and just stand in the bad and kill 20% of his hp.

the tank challenge can be shitty with the knockbacks since its not always exactly where it puts the graphic (for the infernals) and the eyeballs are oddly specific at the angle you have to face. for the DK i ended up downloading a WA that had a big airhorn whenever a knockback was about to occur and a different noise when the eyeballs were casting. I think Prot pally is still the harder of the tank challenges atm. I would be interested in trying BrM again now that i overgear it, i dont remember the nether adds actually casting their AoE on the BrM challenge either, so either they dont have that ability or i killed them too fast.

There are a few changes ive noticed between the tank ones, I dont know if the other challenges change slightly depending on the class

Eye's cant be damaged except by moonfire on the guardian druid version
Adds don't move when casting on the DK challenge
I dont *think* the adds cast at all on the BrM challenge
Kruul has double the HP on the paladin challenge

anyone know of changes between the non-tank challenges?

That's right on brm they don't do the aoe cast

Source: did the challenge about 200 times

Noodleface said:

That's right on brm they don't do the aoe cast

Source: did the challenge about 200 times

Click to expand...

Now I don't feel as bad. About 150 attempts in, was like, 'god I'm trash'. Saw one BrM do this shit pre900 ilvl with one leggo. The Monk challenge was by far the hardest for me. I prolly put int 200 attempts too. Not sure why it was so brutal for me. But something I will say about these, is that it made me play my class better. Sort of shined where I was weak on awareness and ability usage. Have done all the tank challenges, sans Pally and I'd say in terms of difficulty, for me it was: BrM >>>DH>Warrior>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>DK>Druid.

Beat DK and Druid in like 5-10 attempts at ilvl 915. Maybe I was just too used to the challenge after 400+ attempts between teh BrM/DH/War.

And yah, BrM adds dont cast, but will fuck you up if you don't blow them up quick. The druid's DnD zone is fucking huge. If you have the bracers though (I did not) it's trivial. Just sit and thrash/swipe at the edge and the fucker dies. Despite that it felt like a longer fight to me than the rest of the challenges. Maybe because you can do everything at range as the druid and its just far more boring and less active than the rest of the tanks.