Xeneres Mythic+ Videos

[daanji]

Xeneres, do you have a video of you Serpentrix kill? I don't see it listed.

[Xeneres]

Xeneres, do you have a video of you Serpentrix kill? I don't see it listed.

I didn't make a video of my Serpentrix kill on Mythic+4. It was basically my paladin soloing and kiting the boss mehcanics for 10ish minutes. I one shot the rest of the bosses as they were not too bad. There is simply too much damage on mythic+4 going out for my slaves to have a chance at surviving. I basically try not to die and get as much damage out as I can but eventually the DKs will die and ill have to solo it with my paladin from then on.

[Lyonheart]

I didn't make a video of my Serpentrix kill on Mythic+4. It was basically my paladin soloing and kiting the boss mehcanics for 10ish minutes. I one shot the rest of the bosses as they were not too bad. There is simply too much damage on mythic+4 going out for my slaves to have a chance at surviving. I basically try not to die and get as much damage out as I can but eventually the DKs will die and ill have to solo it with my paladin from then on.

When i finally killed the Serp, i stopped trying to do the most dps and just focused on the "running away little girl" part. I just kept my eye on the damage and trying to avoid it, while doing "drive by" damage as i ran around the boss and adds as fast as i could. In my head i think i was screaming like a little girl the whole time as well..but in the end it worked..only one paladin died! ( the toon lagging the furthest behind.)

[Xeneres]

Some updates from this weeks Mythic+'s

This weeks +3 Affix is Sanguine for the US and Volcanic for +6. This one is pretty bad but its far from the worst I've experienced so far.

I still may run a few tomorrow but with trick or treat tomorrow I wont have as much time because I'll be handing out candy to kids in my neighborhood.

Mythic+2 BRF 3 Chest:

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I did this dungeon 2x and got 3 chests both times.


Mythic+5 Blackrook Hold Within Timer:


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I got a few minutes faster on this dungeon but not fast enough to get a 2nd chest. Im getting closer each week.


Here are 3 of my toons getting there legendary for the first time. In US we had 3 emmisary caches on our Tuesday and i opened all 3 at once and they all now at least have 1 legendary. One toon has 2 Legendary (Xenerus). Xenerus and Xeneris got the legendary about 4 weeks earlier so I'm hoping to see Xeneris's 2nd legendary in the next few days. I do about the same # of dungeons each week.

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I tried to do Vault of the Wardens+6 with Volcanic and Sanguine. It was going pretty well until I got to the inquisitor boss... Volcanic happens because of the damn eyeballs he summons which you cannot do anything about. Worse yet he summons adds and you can get stunned if you don't face the eyeballs. Volanic was going out every 1-2 seconds. Each toon got their own placed under them. It does 1.5 million damage each time you get hit by it. It was too much to deal with and the more eyeballs that spawned the more volcanics. I was not able to beat this boss and got too frustrated and quit. The best I got him to was about 30%. Id wipe shortly after the 2nd set of adds spawned. The imp mother on +5 was interesting...

I think for future mythic+s I need to sit down and think how these affixes will work out.

I also did a Court of Stars+2 and got 2 chests from it. It was very close maybe 30 seconds off missing the 2nd chest. I forgot to take a screenshot of it.

My remaining keystones are Arcway+5, Halls of Valor+5 (not going to even bother with Sanguine) and Eye of Azshara+2 and Vault of the Wardens+2. I should be able to do Arcway+5 tomorrow but I may not be able to do any due to Halloween and trick or treat. I can basically 2+ chest any timer on any mythic+2 except maybe Eye of Azshara due to Serpentrix being well Serpentrix...

Next week my keystones will be +3 and will all have the first affix. Hopefully, I can get some good ones so I can keep securing that 865 ilevel piece out of the weekly chest. If I beat a +6 It turns the weekly cache into an 870 piece. I'm getting there but not quite strong enough to beat those +6 dungeons with difficult affix combos. I need to get to +7 to get that 860 baseline loot and need to go all the way to +8 bump the weekly chest up to 875.

For now I'm just gonna keep doing what I'm doing and keep attempting +6 dungeons as I get them. At least Karazhan will allow us some more loot options but I think those bosses are quite a step up over even Mythic+7-8 in terms of damage and HP. At least there are no awful affixes!

Toon ilevel Update:

Xenerys - 867

Xeneres - 867

Xeneris - 864

Xeneros - 865

Xenerus (2 Legendary) - 869

[davidmage]

Nice going in BRH, some sweet timers. I have only barely managed a 2 chest timer on +1. Do you do any double pulls? Also you must be pulling some decent dps on the boss fights. Do you have any BRH 3 chest run recorded?

[Xeneres]

Nice going in BRH, some sweet timers. I have only barely managed a 2 chest timer on +1. Do you do any double pulls? Also you must be pulling some decent dps on the boss fights. Do you have any BRH 3 chest run recorded?

I don't think that I did record it. I do largely the same route as my +5 video but may do my trash pulls a bit safer in +5 vs a +2. I may double up on a few pulls in +2. You can see my boss timers for when I killed a boss in the screenshots.

Here is an overview of how I clear the dungeon:

Before the first boss I always go for Lady Velandras. She may hit hard but its much easier to deal with her than to deal with the Soul Echos from the other mini-boss. I pull these packs one at a time I do not double up or mess around with the multiple councilors except for that 3 pack after the first 4-5 pack.

On the first boss I do enough damage that the boss only casts soul echos once and I immunity it with AMS and magic bop so I do not have to move except for the 1 swirling scythe. I always drums the 1st boss and save the drums for the last boss. He may cast reap soul but my damage is so high it pushes him to the ghost phase and he cancels reap soul. Its not that deadly anyway on Mythic+2 even if it did go out. I then continue dpsing the boss and get him to around 15-20% then I grip at least 3 of the ghosts up and kill them when they get close then I use a minor CDs to survive the explosion and go back on the boss. He typically dies right after that and may cast 1 more swirling scythe.

For Illysanas trash - I always separate the room into 4 pulls on Mythic+5. One at the start with the 2 melee mobs pat + the first 5 packs. Then the 2nd 5 pack pat with the cat pat then the 3rd group and then finally the 4th group with the guys that jump down. On Mythic+2 I have pulled the first two pulls together maybe 10-15 mobs and AoEd them down which saves a lot of time but is risky if you get AoE stunned. I have lost 3 chest before doing when this pull went wrong. With icebound back on DKs now I can use that to not get stunned or to break stuns and focus on killing the arcane adds and arcanists first. Deathgrip can interrupt the AoE stuns for both these commander mobs and the lancers going towards the last boss which is nice.

For Illysanna I have enough dps to ignore the adds and burn her down on Mythic+2 without lust. I may repentance the melee add but if I don't then I taunt with the pally to keep the melee add facing the pally so I can dodge its stuns. Illysanna dies 10-15 seconds after the adds spawn. I think I killed her in like 50 seconds on Mythic+2 this week. On mythic+4 or higher I have to kill the adds because she has a lot more health and everything does a lot more damage.

I 100% never ever screw with that Scavenger, Trickster and Wrathguard room. I pull those individually or at least get rid of the patroling Felguard and Felhound. I may double up 2 demon packs as they are not very dangerous without the threat of the wrathguards assuming I do not have an awful affix.

Smashspite is very easy with 5 tanks so nothing to do here but burn him down.

After that event there is the felbat and felguard gauntlet. I always pull 3 felguards at a time so there are only 2 pulls to do the gauntlet. The felguards do laughable damage even with 3 stacks of their buff the main threat for your typical group are the bats killing a squishy which is not a problem with 5 tanks.

For the lancer pulls I pull the two swords men at the start with the lancer and swordsmen togeather. Then I handle once lancer pull at a time which I believe there are two more lancer+ swordsman pull before the final pull. On the last pull it is possible to get 2 mobs only but it doesnt happen very often. Sometimes I'll repentance the close lancer and kill the other one that comes down. If icebound is up ill pull both and use icebound as soon as the first stun goes out so i can continue to dps.

For the last boss I've found its best to use drums midway through Kur'talos him and then to use CDs and potions as soon as you get the buff for the demon. There is no point waiting until the demon is out to use drums because it will go to waste when the boss is unattackable for the laser circle.


Overall, I've gotten more gear and started to use potions so its allowed me to do much better on timers. I pull about 350-500k burst on bosses on all of my characters while my old war potion is running with drums. My DKs essentially do triple damage + the echo from old war with double dancing rune weapon. My paladin actually can put out respectable ST burst but it is ultimately slightly lower than my DKs. The DKs demolish my paladin in AoE, its not even fair.

I think it is better to just use potions for damage than it is to invis pot since it puts your potions on cd for 10 minutes unless the pack you are skipping will save you a lot of time.


This week I'll get Mythic+3 chests with an affix so depending on what I get I will probably only beat the timer but on some I may be able to get 2 chests.

[davidmage]

Thanks for a detailed answer

I have to say, damn! That is some crazy single target dps you are pushing on the bosses. I'm fully dealing with all mechanics, many times over, for all bosses. And if it is as you say that DK have much higher AoE damage, that must make trash go down very easy as well.
You are pulling trash about the same way as I do, so I guess that it's just the sheer dps output which will speed me up in that (and probably most) mythic+ dungeons.
As mythic+ is all about the speed, and where AoE might matter more in the end than single target, DK:s should definitely have an edge.

You said you started using potions. I had a potion of old war in my bag, and tried it on a dummy. I logged that it did 2 mill damage in total. With Avenging wrath it should do 2.7, and with drums it should do like 3.3 and x5 its 17ish mill.Even with or without drums, that will lower the boss fight duration significantly.

However I'm not even fully enchanted and gemmed yet, and don't always use flasks. So before I start chugging the old war pots I should get those things sorted