First Heroic Boss Down

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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

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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!