Welp...I just one upped myself tonight. I multiboxed Court of Stars+4 within the timer and got a +5 Blackrook Hold and was able to beat that one within the timer!
This dungeon went fairly well. I had to make extensive use of battle rez from time to time on trash and a lot on the last boss. The trash would simply gib a toon especially when the 2nd bosses area was one staggered giant pull, surprise patrol trash and mini bosses one after the other.
I think raging is my favorite tier 1 affix so far as a multiboxer. This dungeon does not have that much trash but it has some nasty trash mobs with higher hp than most trash in other dungeons. With raging and the nature of all of the patrols in this dungeon it led to a lot of unexpected pulls and very damaging abilities at the end. The imps and arcane anything mobs were annoying. Thankfully, I play 5x master race for all of those AoE silences and interrupts.
I was very sloppy on the last boss and hit way more wind lines than I should of have. I was not able to spread out because its easier to dodge the wind lines if I'm clumped. Any fight with DoTs severely punishes my DK by removing bone shield stacks faster than I can apply them which lowers my damage and overall mitigation/healing. The last boss is one of the more difficult mythic bosses. (still no where near as awful as Serpentrix)
Blackrook Hold+5 Within Timer (Got Keystone from Court of Stars)
This dungeon went better than my +4 a day earlier. It was a lot cleaner, especially on the last boss. I didn't beat the timer within as high of a margin but 11% more damage and health will do that.
I am sick of Blackrook hold I ran it 5x this week on Mythic+2 or higher. I also got it at least 4x this week as my heroic daily.
I had to use a brez from time to time as the trash did a lot of damage especially on special attacks at low hp with raging. +5 was 47% more hp and damage which is basically the same as the difference between Normal to Mythic, not even factoring in the affix.
I hate those damn Felguards with the Scavangers and Trickster demons. If I got 2 scavengers that enrage they would almost insta gib a toon with raging and their damage buff they get. The felguards and their brutal assault even with 5x stuns I could not keep them both locked down.
I largely laugh at the bat gauntlet with 5x tanks as It is super easy and those felguards do like 0 damage even with 2-3 stacks of their empowerment buff.
It was a fairly close timer. I didn't expect to beat the timer and was more interested in the next step up 855 loot. I also ran a +4 a bit before this and it went horribly wrong on the first boss and demon trash. I don't think I was very focused.
In the coming weeks I'm going to start using combat potions and invis pots. I believe I will need these to beat any higher timers than +5 with my 5x tank damage. Hopefully I'll get some good loot this week. I gained about 5 item levels across the board and my 3rd golden relic slot on all of my toons this past week which helped tremendously.
Darkheart Thicket+6 Raging and Necrotic Comments:
I got a +6 Darkheart Thicket with Necrotic and Raging from the Blackrook Hold+5. I decided to opt out of that, I've heard horror stories from darkheart with necrotic and raging and its getting close to my bedtime. I'm a bit scared of necrotic. I'll give +7 another go this week and hopefully I'll have more time and better affixes.
Necrotic is a particularly unfair affix for Death Knights as it combines a double whammy in awful for them. Sure, it sucks for other tanks too but sucks a lot more for deathknights. 1st, it lowers healing and absorbs they receive. So it affects their ability to self heal which in turn affects their mitigation and ability to not just be a meatshield. 2nd, its also a damage dot that causes them to lose bone shield stacks faster than they can gain them. Boneshield functions as an absorb for 16% or 24%, with a critical bone shield absorb, so it will also be lessened by anything that lowers our healing % absorbs as well it also gives us cheaper deathstrike and more haste so that also affects our damage and mitigation. Its amusing to watch other tanks try to tell DKs to suck it up on the forums when they have % damage reduction CDs and other forms of mitigation. A popular method of dealing with this affix is to kite, which is not a multiboxer strong suit. DnD has a nice 70% snare with a de facto talent "choice" but DKs themselves are very slow.
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