TotC: Faction Champions

[Souca]

So I got to run the 10 Man TotC today and see the new encounter for this week. It's very similar to the PVP style encounter from Magister's Terrace. In 10 man you get 6 random NPC with about 400k HP, in 25 I hear it's 10 with 2M(?).

There was a lot of bitching from guildies about not wanting PvP in there PvE, but honestly I just thought it was chaotic. we got them down after a number of attempts, so it is doable, but it was rather frustrating due to the random nature of the encounter. The NPCs seem to drop aggro very easily and worse it is common for three of them to focus fire. Add in that two of them are healers and a number of silences and interrupts ( the shammy interrupted me with Earth Shock!) and it can be a healing nightmare. The NPCs also bubble, use deterrence and the shadow priest dispersed; at least the shammy didn't ankh.

They do drop nice loot, but every week will be different depending on the random nature of the NPC comp.

Anyone else had a poke at it and wanna share you thoughts? I'm trying to get a decent parse of my logs, but WowWebStats is giving me nothing and I'm not sure what else there is anymore.

- Souca -

[offive]

Grats on beating them!

My wife's guild took down the 25 man version after a few attempts last night. I walked in on one of the failed attempts and saw them get owned.... so I said "why don't you CC the crap out of them?" They cleaned up on the next attempt. I know, I know... CC in PvE content... who'd a thunk it. She runs a holy priest so she was in spirit form pretty fast.

[Multibocks]

So this sounds easy with plenty of mages? I mean unless they have a trinket escape every 10secs you can just sheep them all? Not speaking from experience obviously.

[Fat Tire]

Yea was fun. I did it 25 man, but it was so funny at first. "Hey, we are a PvE guild!" "I dont like PvP!" blah blah blah....

What made me laugh so hard was one of our raid leaders said in vent. "Ok, shamans I want you to lay down your stoneclaw for the pets and also earthbind totem. Oh and also lay down your tremor for fears. " all at the same time. They are not used to PvP encounters and yet it was so funny to us few pvpers in the guild. Was a blast of a raid night.



Still was a cake boss, we wiped on the first attempt, but the 2nd we wiped the floor with the alliance!

[Otlecs]

I get my first look at this on the guild 25-man run tonight. Sounds exciting! This is the first time I've REALLY looked forward to a raid in a very long time

[voodoogriff]

This fight on 25 is insane. My guild didn't bring enough CC and we were getting squashed. The fact that the CC suffers from Diminishing Returns is a major factor.

[Souca]

So this sounds easy with plenty of mages? I mean unless they have a trinket escape every 10secs you can just sheep them all? Not speaking from experience obviously.

Since it's faux PvP CC only lasts 10 seconds and is on diminishing returns. Second sheep will last 5 seconds, and eventually they become immune.

- Souca -

[voodoogriff]

Hai Souce!

[Souca]

Hai Souce!

Hai to you! Now you know all my dirty secrets. And I won't be able to call Swift a noob anymore in my posts

- Souca -

[Eloxy]

We just beat this on 25 man with my guild, and i got the spell shield =) we had one dude on each of the casters to cs, and one cc on each mele to keep em buzzy. It want slowly down the first two champions and the rest was piss easy =)