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.

[Gadzooks]

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!!!!!

I got my face eaten off by the mobs on the way to her - the pulls, even with a sheep, are insane for healing. One on one, they're fine, but 3 at a time, I'm pounding the heal keys. I gave up (I was exhausted from a long day) at 2am last night, when the last pack got past my pally and one shotted the Lock, Mage and Priest, and took me and the druid down about 30 seconds later. Ugh. That was a horrific wipe, it happened so fast.

Can you Shackle Undead them? I sheeped one, which held, but the three who got past just stomped me, and oneshotted my 3 before I could pick aggro up again.

[Niley]

I got my face eaten off by the mobs on the way to her - the pulls, even with a sheep, are insane for healing. One on one, they're fine, but 3 at a time, I'm pounding the heal keys. I gave up (I was exhausted from a long day) at 2am last night, when the last pack got past my pally and one shotted the Lock, Mage and Priest, and took me and the druid down about 30 seconds later. Ugh. That was a horrific wipe, it happened so fast.

Can you Shackle Undead them? I sheeped one, which held, but the three who got past just stomped me, and oneshotted my 3 before I could pick aggro up again.

whoa, you're having bigger problems than when i did that place first time with tank that had less than 21k hp.
Armory link?

[Gadzooks]

whoa, you're having bigger problems than when i did that place first time with tank that had less than 21k hp.
Armory link?

http://www.wowarmory.com/character-s...aenor&n=Kiresa

I have the Icebane pieces, but I went back to the tempered set for the defense.

She's taking too much damage, I can't keep up on the heals a lot of the time - I took Moorabi down again, but wiped on Eck and the friggin mana wraiths or whatever they are later on, bad pull.

I know my trinkets suck, and I need more strength, but I need that defense cap too.

[Targ]

http://www.wowarmory.com/character-s...aenor&n=Kiresa

I have the Icebane pieces, but I went back to the tempered set for the defense.

She's taking too much damage, I can't keep up on the heals a lot of the time - I took Moorabi down again, but wiped on Eck and the friggin mana wraiths or whatever they are later on, bad pull.

I know my trinkets suck, and I need more strength, but I need that defense cap too.

This a game of inches take a look at protection_paladin_field_manual great source of information. Your gear needs a few tweeks.

Gear wise your should be looking for anything that helps build defense don't worry about Crit or Hit (as long are your at the hit cap) Parry, Dodge, Block and Stamina are your tagets to build.

You need to Glyph Divine Plea:
Quote from protection_paladin_field_manual
"Divine Plea: Since the Guarded by the Light talent allows you to keep Divine Plea active full-time as long as you're hitting something, this glyph effectively amounts to a flat 3% reduction to all incoming damage. This is probably the only glyph universally considered a "must-have" for tanking."

Also take a look at the section on starter gear this will give you some pointers on gear you can get easily.

Farm Normal ToC the gear in there is very nice, next find a few Heriocs boss you can take out for the Conquest badges you don't need the whole instance just farm a few bosses till you can gear up a little more.

Move up to Heroic ToC even if you can't clear it just farm the first two bosses, Skip the second boss if you get the women she is tough.

Like I said I was where you are just a few months ago most of the Heroics are pretty easy now after I geared up a bit http://www.wowarmory.com/character-s...lakrond&n=Targ