[Link updated!] Beeq - 5 mages vs. 15 Cataclysm dungeon bosses

[beeq]

Enjoy! :)

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[MiRai]

Completely blocked for me here in the US. :(

[beeq]

yup. fixed :>

[ebony]

says its been removed by user

[Littleburst]

Fun :D

Allthough it's somewhat hard to see what you're doing on the DK's. A vid from a DKperspective would be cool.

[MiRai]

says its been removed by user
It says the same thing for me if I click the link in the OP, however, if you go to his channel and look at his videos you should
be able to watch it just fine.

EDIT: Actually, if you just copy and paste the link in the OP it works, that URL goes to the old video [currently].

[Mamut]

Very cool to see what 5 mages can do! I wonder if if that will be possible in heroics before being over geared for them.

And here i thought of 5 mages as just a fun PVP team.

[Mokoi]

Fun :D

Allthough it's somewhat hard to see what you're doing on the DK's. A vid from a DKperspective would be cool.

lawl?
are you posting on the right thread? hehehe

[Maxion]

Copy and paste worked yeah.

Nicely done, despite being a bit high level (and geared) for the content, it is nice to see more non-tank classes able to do dungeons.

[Littleburst]

lawl?
are you posting on the right thread? hehehe

I don't think so :D

Pew pew power on the mages :)

[beeq]

Nicely done, despite being a bit high level (and geared) for the content
Cheers, though these dungeons are only for warming up the team for more difficult encounters :)
However, cloth tanking is not so easy than it may look like on the video. Amount of Jeeves's used: a few

[outdrsyguy1]

wow, that's just insane.

[Meathead]

So...we were all saying that Cata was going to be hard....from my point of view its easier then WoTLK quests are easier, less collection quests and dougeons are faceroll :P....HiGH! 5 to them mages smashing then bosses!

[ebony]

so cute and yet i would nerver wont to meet them in a dark ally, am starting to think maybe i sould of tryed harder on my warlocks then shammys,

[Kalros]

Dude, that is off the F)(#!^& CHAIN!!!! Now take down a Heroic boss! You can do it!

[Kicksome]

That's nuts how much DPS you can put out.... nice job on all those bosses.

[Mosg2]

I watched this and was like "OMFG" and then I realized that these are not heroics. Le sigh.

[Toned]

He's doing lvl 81 dungeons at 85... Step into a heroic before you say cata is ZOMG EZMODE

[Meathead]

I have stepped in to a Heroic and its just more healing intense then anything else bosses dont change that much and give it a few month the Heroics will be nerfed like they did in WotLK I say WotLK was harder then cata anyday

[beeq]

despite the dissing, I'm quite happy to take down bosses in 81-84 instances without any healing or proper tanking.

moved to heroics now for trash farming, bop sharding, tiger skinning and so on. The Lost City of the Tol'Vir trash around 2 bosses are quite easy to burst with proper cc, last run earned the team around 10k gold and some rep required for head and shoulder stuff.

In theory it could be possible to ping pong the threat, and whichever mage has it, pops up mirror images so the team can dps all out "without threat". Certainly in current gear there is and will be mana issues, and the images, when popped x5 at once, are up only for 30 seconds, so the bosses better be dead in 30 seconds without rotating the images.

That is quite easily in non-heroics, as you can see, though I can nuke heroic bosses only to 50% when the 30 seconds is gone, there's no way to finish them at the moment.

Perfect Mirror Image rotation would hold the boss 150 seconds, but I think that'd be impossible to handle when the threats changes between mages.

So no orbs for me, however I'm happy with the team and what it can achieve.

[Toned]

I have stepped in to a Heroic and its just more healing intense then anything else bosses dont change that much and give it a few month the Heroics will be nerfed like they did in WotLK I say WotLK was harder then cata anyday

WOTLK heroics were 5 boxable day 1

[olibri1]

WOTLK heroics were 5 boxable day 1
I agree. I was doing heroics immediately. I am getting my ass kicked now in cata.

[Toned]

despite the dissing, I'm quite happy to take down bosses in 81-84 instances without any healing or proper tanking.

moved to heroics now for trash farming, bop sharding, tiger skinning and so on. The Lost City of the Tol'Vir trash around 2 bosses are quite easy to burst with proper cc, last run earned the team around 10k gold and some rep required for head and shoulder stuff.

In theory it could be possible to ping pong the threat, and whichever mage has it, pops up mirror images so the team can dps all out "without threat". Certainly in current gear there is and will be mana issues, and the images, when popped x5 at once, are up only for 30 seconds, so the bosses better be dead in 30 seconds without rotating the images.

That is quite easily in non-heroics, as you can see, though I can nuke heroic bosses only to 50% when the 30 seconds is gone, there's no way to finish them at the moment.

Perfect Mirror Image rotation would hold the boss 150 seconds, but I think that'd be impossible to handle when the threats changes between mages.

So no orbs for me, however I'm happy with the team and what it can achieve.

I wasn't trying to diss you. I was just stating the facts that you were out gearing / out leveling the content in the videos. Either way cloth tanks with no healers is pretty cool. People were under the impression that they were going to faceroll through cata dungeons. Was the only reason I pointed out that you were 85 in lower dungeons.

[beeq]

Though, actually I boxed BrC at 81, and Vortex Pinnacle at 84 if that counts. Adding the fact that I leveled from 84 to 85 in VP :)

[Budkin]

That video just shows how hard shammys got played out lol .90k critts lol my shammys cain't even break 30k .

[Toned]

Stacking Arcane Power buffs gives big crits but they will OOM fast.

[Kromtor]

great video, it's great to see people doing things that weren't laid out and preplanned by blizzard. the fact that some jealous RPnerd rated this thread 1 star is quite hilarious. hope to see more... more trash clearing too, thats just as fun to see when it's being done by a nontraditional group.

[beeq]

I wasn't trying to diss you. I was just stating the facts that you were out gearing / out leveling the content in the videos.

So I remembered right and found the screenshots from first kills, isn't too pretty though :)

Blackrock Caverns @80 http://img525.imageshack.us/img525/5634/brwq.jpg
The Vortex Pinnacle @84 http://img339.imageshack.us/img339/1329/64649194.jpg

[beeq]

more trash clearing too, thats just as fun to see when it's being done by a nontraditional group.

Thanks for your kind words :) This video has been posted to these forums already but guess I could throw the link again, here you'll see how I tank non-sheepable trash packs in The Vortex Pinnacle with Ring of Frost rotation :)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5oj2x0n_nRM&hd=1 (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5oj2x0n_nRM)

[Kromtor]

ah yeah, ring of frost is a hell of a tool for trash. still takes a lot of coordination, especially with all the knockbacks.

you going to do any arenas this season?

[beeq]

you going to do any arenas this season?

Nope.

I'm PvEr for the soul and blood. Besides my tiny gnome army would be brutally slaughtered if I entered any arenas whatsoever. With ISBoxer the focused burst dps is somewhat awesome, but no heals so I'd be quite vulnerable there.

Though if there was an addon to have opponents focused by one of each mages, then it wouldn't be problem to PoM+sheep them all at the start and then just burst them down one by one. However even if there were such addons I bet those wouldn't work in arenas anyway?

I used to do 2v2 with my old friend, we both are mages, and always used Invisibility at the start, sneaked behind the enemy and AP+PoM+Pyroblast+Fire Blast the same target for instant 2v1, it was fun until the shared cooldowns changed a little.

Some hordes died mounted since they didn't have time to do a thing :) This happened in vanilla though.

[Zappy]

Though if there was an addon to have opponents focused by one of each mages, then it wouldn't be problem to PoM+sheep them all at the start and then just burst them down one by one. However even if there were such addons I bet those wouldn't work in arenas anyway?


A simple macro can do exactly that. Simply change arena1 through arena5 for each mage and sheep away:

/cast Presence of Mind
/cast [@arena1,nodead,exists] Polymorph

[Kromtor]

ya it's actually even easier in arenas than in pve to coordinate your CC since you can specifically target arena opponents by number like zappy did in the previous post. that will get you thinking :)

i took 5 mages into an arena season 7, horribly undergeared. managed to get a full team polymorph but still ended up losing badly and got discouraged, but it was enough for the team to make a character and message me with a WTF how did you polymorph us all. i'd at least give them a shot in this early stage of arena where people don't outgear you by so much.

[Toned]

Thanks for your kind words :) This video has been posted to these forums already but guess I could throw the link again, here you'll see how I tank non-sheepable trash packs in The Vortex Pinnacle with Ring of Frost rotation :)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5oj2x0n_nRM&hd=1 (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5oj2x0n_nRM)

The ring of frost makes me lol. That's crazy how much CC you have. You really should take it into arenas just to see what kind of crazy strats you can pull out.