First Heroic Boss Down

[Gadzooks]

Moorabi bites the dust, major, epic moment for me!

I got my tank to 541 defense, 23k armor buffed, 25k health buffed, got my healing macros sorted out, and my team posted these numbers:

Mage: 1731dps
Druid: 1630dps (while spamming heals, too)
Lock: 1488dps (need to look at that)
Pally: 927dps (who cares, she lived)
Priest: a whopping 127 dps, she healed the entire fight.

It was close at first, then I got the rythm of the fight, healed through 2 impales (or whatever the AOE is), and did a 1-2 beat between heals and dps.

Done!

I'll probably get my butt kicked the rest of the way, but I got a H boss down. One emblem, 74 more to go!

Edited to add: Oh, and no deaths.

Edited again to add: Had the Gorlock boss down to 10%, doing fine, Comcast crapped out. I effing hate Comcast with a burning passion. Had to quit out, I have stuff to do anyway, I'll pick it back up tonight.

[Redbeard]

Aweesome!!

My guys are up to 73 so I am dreading (and excited for!) getting to 80 to try my first as well.

Why did you try moorabi first?

[Gadzooks]

Aweesome!!

My guys are up to 73 so I am dreading (and excited for!) getting to 80 to try my first as well.

Why did you try moorabi first?

Because he's easier than the snake boss.

Honestly, he's a pure tank and spank, so I wanted to get some solid DPS numbers and see how my pally did with 541 defense, even if I wiped, and several people here have said Gundrak is or is one of the easiest Heroics to do.

You can also go in the back door (southern entrance) and you only have 2 pulls to get to him, so I picked him - the Snake boss has several snake packs to get through, and I was getting slammed hard by them in normal. From him you can go down a tunnel and have some really easy pulls to get to the Gorlock bonus boss.

[daviddoran]

Grats! Its been a while since i first started, and I thought it was an impossible cycle, you need gear to down heroic bosses, but you need to down the bosses for gear... It is a very slow start, but it starts to pick up steam and eventually, you will be downing bosses without much effort.

For your lock, check out the macro forum, and find the destro lock macro in Fur's "compendium" my warlock is geared now, but when i first hit 80, i went destro and was already pulling 3k dps in dungeon leveling blues.

Its only gonna get better for everyone else too, my paladin does like 2k dps on some boss fights, more if theres any adds. My mage is arcane and is pulling near 4k dps on the tank n spank boss fights, deep arcane. Hell my tank is up to 40k hp now and my priest only puts a renew on now and then and sometimes does an aoe heal, but is usually just spamming smite for 1.5k dps

[blast3r]

Try the first boss in UP. That is the easiest boss I ever fought in heroics.

Moorabi was a pain in the ass for me until I got geared a little better and learned how to interrupt his transformation. hammer of justice!

Oh, and Congratulations!!!!!

[Velassra]

Gratz.

Can't wait till 80 to try myself.

[simpletom]

totally forgot these instances im currently dabbing into heroics now and let me give you some of my first experiences

HC Hol - after finally working out how to avoid the 30% damage buff on the boss the serker stance was still too much for my druid even with about 35% dodge and 24k hp

normal Hol - putting this in becuase i cant see a real easy boxer way arround this.... The orbs just tear my team apart if i try to kite them it is defently going to end in fail when the boss remerges together and starts nukeing. So any clue how to do this at all would be great.

HC nexus - first boss i thought would be pretty easy.... well the first thing that gives you a badge is easy.. but the real first boss that BE mage is a nightmare, i can handle the fact that you get very little dps on her its the 2 times that she splits up i waste so much mana and time healing and trying to reposition everyone with polymorphs makeing that even harder that i could live past the 2nd split.

been trying heroics for a couple days since i hit 80 my shaman and druid are very undergeared. liturally all in crafted pvp blues. but its pretty depressing how fail these 'easy' bosses are. i really want a mage in the group to trivialise these encounters with dampen magic.

will give gundrak a go tonight

[Oswyn]

I just downed Moorabi last week too for my first heroic boss kill. I had a hard time with the snake boss, need to learn aggro management.

[Niley]

http://www.dual-boxing.com/showthread.php?t=19189

its all there, if you have any specific questions about any heroic, you're more than welcome to join IRC and ask us away.
<-cleared everything months ago, including both new 5 mans available on the ptr. I'll be more than happy to help with strats/talents/glyphs/macros/rotations etc. Come to IRC

[Gadzooks]

totally forgot these instances im currently dabbing into heroics now and let me give you some of my first experiences

HC Hol - after finally working out how to avoid the 30% damage buff on the boss the serker stance was still too much for my druid even with about 35% dodge and 24k hp

normal Hol - putting this in becuase i cant see a real easy boxer way arround this.... The orbs just tear my team apart if i try to kite them it is defently going to end in fail when the boss remerges together and starts nukeing. So any clue how to do this at all would be great.

HC nexus - first boss i thought would be pretty easy.... well the first thing that gives you a badge is easy.. but the real first boss that BE mage is a nightmare, i can handle the fact that you get very little dps on her its the 2 times that she splits up i waste so much mana and time healing and trying to reposition everyone with polymorphs makeing that even harder that i could live past the 2nd split.

been trying heroics for a couple days since i hit 80 my shaman and druid are very undergeared. liturally all in crafted pvp blues. but its pretty depressing how fail these 'easy' bosses are. i really want a mage in the group to trivialise these encounters with dampen magic.

will give gundrak a go tonight

I don't know how much dampen magic will do towards trivializing these fights, the biggest issues I'm facing is keeping the tank alive, and group healing. H bosses hit HARD, and I've learned how critical being defense capped is. I'm at 541 now, and my tank was getting chewed up in UP(H) by the mobs in Raven's Watch (trash on the way to the first boss). I had to put the druid on healing full time to get through it all, and even then, at the last pull, they got past my tank and one-shotted 3 of my slaves.

Crafted PvP gear isn't going to cut it in Heroics, I don't think. My team is in mostly epics, I think the only blues I have left are shoulders on some, and wands. I need some serious trinket upgrades, as well as relics and idols.

I had to finally admit that the tactics I'd learned on the way up, don't mean squat now. I was'nt able to level in dungeons, so the fights are new to me, but it's a completely different world in Heroics. I LIKE it! Questing content is trivial for me now, dailies are boring now, but they paid/are paying for the best crafted gear I could get, and epic gems, and all of the titanium/titansteel gear I need.

From what I can figure, crafted and rep gear will get you into Heroics, but not overgear them, which is an edge we MBers kind of require a lot of the time. The only way to overgear a Heroic is Naxx/badge gear. So I basically have a few weeks of grinding whatever bosses I can get down, to start getting gear, then, it will get easier. That's fine, it's my new goal, and my time will be spent watching videos and trying things out.

I also need to start practicing jousting as a group, because it's TOC once I have badge gear - which will position me for IC when 3.3 comes.

Sounds good on paper, lets see how far I get!