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ZOMG TITLE!!! Raid content releases, Wrathgate, and moar!?!?

   Posted by: Skeleton Jack   in Cataclysm

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Heya guys!! ;)   What’s up?

So I’ve been going through a lot of WoW information recently and recently came across this quote in reference to Cataclysm, “”More raid content” than previous expansions.”

BC was the biggest raid content release at:

Single Boss Raids

  • Magtheridon’s Lair (1 boss)
  • Gruul’s Lair (2 bosses)

10 Man Raids

  • Karazhan (10man)
  • Zul’aman (10man)

25 Man Raids

  • Serpentshrine Cavern (25 man)
  • The Eye (25 man)
  • Hyjal Summit (25 man)
  • Black Temple (25 man)
  • Sunwell (25 man)

So if we count two 10mans as one 25man, then that would imply that we’ll be seeing 6+ 25man raids and 3+ single boss raids.  Seems a little unbelievable to me personally considering that Blizzard seriously cut a ton of corners with the raid content in LK.  But hey, I’m open minded.  Maybe they’ll surprise me.

Outside of Death Knights, I’ve found all of LK to be lack luster.  The two shining gems have been Ulduar and Wrathgate.  For me anyways…

Speaking of WRATHGATE!!! Anyone feel like a gander?  I sure do. 

HD Wrathgate INC!!

SJ’s Specs!!

No breakdowns guys, just the down and dirty.  These are my personal specs, not the ultimate end game perfect specs.

SJ’s 2.2 Unholy

15/0/56

SJ’s 2.2 DW Frost

3/51/17

Now these are by no means perfect, or even 100% matching to what you might see on my armory atm…  >.<  Heh.  But at a glance they match basically what I did online, with maybe a minor personal change in there.  I’m also not so sure about that SS Glyph…thought it still proc’d fresh diseases.  Just noticing this added duration crap.  Bleh.

Oh yeah, and I’m a selfish Frosty!!  I don’t raid buff in that one.  :P

SJ’s Outdated DPS!!

Uhm this has been more of an interesting point.  If it’s an AoE fight at all I can hold my own and stay in the top5 so long as I don’t die or screw up.  If it’s not, I’m in a bit of trouble.  But on Heroic 25 ToC I was hitting the 9k DPS mark on several occasions at Anub’arak even with my crap gear.  I’ve still got like 5 pieces of Naxx level gear on SJ (BISI for Naxx level, but Naxx level all the same).

It’s been interesting though…  I’m used to seeing other DK’s out there and getting to stand there all “smug and snobby” as my roomie Garroc likes to say.  He calls me a “WoW Snob”, lmao.  But as I was saying, I’d look at other DK’s (on my server) and know I had better gear.  Always.  I had the very first Betrayer of Humanity on our server, and many other first time item drops.

But not no more!!  I’ve seen random newb PuG DK’s who make my gear look bad, rofl.  And it’s AWESOME!! I can’t express in words how much fun it is to finally have more content to tackle than I can dive into!!  But more on that later.  That’s a post all unto itself.

I’ve basically decided to not be as stingy on spending DKP like I normally am.  But it’s probably going to be another 2-3 months before my gear is a proper level (at least in my eyes).

-Suffer Well Brothers and Sisters.

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10 comments so far

Kryss
 1 

As of Blizzard saying Cataclysm will bring more raid content, it may well be true : not with the sheer number of raids but with the content in it and the amount of time needed to finish it.

SSC and TK were small instances with few bosses as was Hyjal? Those raids were tailored for a 1 night clean up, as soon as the encounters were managed.

to this regard, Ulduar (as was Karazhan in its days) is much more rich in terms of bosses than, say, SSC and TK altogether? and last longer (Ulduar commonly still takes 2 nights for even overgeared raids to clean it).

I, for one, don’t find raids with tons of trashes and 3/4 bosses more content than a big fat dungeon with 13+1 hard mode only bosses.

December 3rd, 2009 at 4:50 am
Kaylee
 2 

You’ll be surprised. It only took about 3 weeks for me to gear up my alt hunter that was below Naxx level gear. You’ll be decked out sooner than later, especially after 3.3 hits next week.

December 3rd, 2009 at 8:52 am
Skeleton Jack
 3 

SSC and TK were not tailored for a 1 night clean up, lol. Vashj and Kael were notoriously difficult encounters that took many guilds weeks to learn. And even once learned, wipes occured. And that’s just the really good guilds. Most guilds took months. It’s a shame you missed out on them as they were superbly created fights.

December 3rd, 2009 at 9:40 am
Hobbsy
 4 

Vashj was probably one of the best designed encounters out there ever really.

December 3rd, 2009 at 4:22 pm
Kryss
 5 

Sorry my english isn’t really good. They were not tailored for 1 night run but, still, when guilds knew the fights and were sufficiently geared, they could finish each instance in 1 night. That’s what we use to do and it is hardly the case with Ulduar 25, as example.

Karahzan : 14 bosses
Grull : 2
Maghteridon : 1
Tempest Keep : 4
SSC : 6
Zul’aman : 6
Hyjal : 5
Black temple : 9
Sunwell : 8
-> BC had 55 encounters

Naxxramas : 15
Eye of Eternity : 1
Archavon and others : 4
Sartharion : 1
Ulduar : 14
ToC : 5
ICC : 12
-> WotLK will have 52 encounters in 10 and 25 versions and in normal and hard mode for the most part.

So, yes, we can expect Blizzard to propose more raid content in Cataclysm : 55+ encounters with several playable modes?

December 3rd, 2009 at 6:37 pm
omgwtfbbqwhererallmehpotsz!1
 6 

iight` thx sj for speccz but werex r rotzzz i hav no idea how 2 play unholy w/o reaping so rot plz and what about blood spec? i`ve been doing 7k dps on dummy w/ blood havent tested it in a raid enviornment wich iwant to do but im just spammn random stoff so plz blood spec plox!1111!

December 3rd, 2009 at 9:14 pm
dlamar1017
 7 

SJ, I have been WoWing since the beginning of the world… of warcraft, and like you I am also a huge death knight fan (otherwise I wouldn’t be posting this). The spec that you have for Frost DW is probably not the most ideal spec, but the 0/53/18 spec is probable the best, because of the IIT. The fact that you have hungering cold and improved frost presence is pretty bad. Although useful in PVP environments or some fights heavy on AoE raid damage, they are both pretty useless when it comes to a raiding environment. IMO you would need both IIT and the points in Butchery in Blood to make the best spec. Any Ideas?

December 4th, 2009 at 9:30 pm
dlamar1017
 8 

For a quick build of the spec above, could you try out something like http://www.wowarmory.com/talent-calc.xml?cid=6&tal=2305000500000000000000000000320053503500031123000331013510300000000000000000000000000000
This might be pretty viable. I have seen a couple people using a spec of similar build. I’m not sure how to test it, I have pretty bad dps gear because tanking is my mainspec, and I only have about 4100 gearscore for my dps spec. Please get back to me if you can (via e-mail or this site)

December 4th, 2009 at 9:35 pm
dlamar1017
 9 

Above, for that spec, you would lose Epidemic, so that might not work out. Haha, sorry bout the multiple posts, it’s been a long day :P

December 4th, 2009 at 9:37 pm
Knever
 10 

IIT is skipped when another person in your raid provides the same haste buff…. at that point it is completely useless to take is what hes getting at (i think). I use the same spec and do 7k+ in ToGC 25M

December 6th, 2009 at 12:51 pm

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