Magister's Terrace

[Bigfish]

Gotta say, the place was fun to box. Got a 20 slot bag out of it too! As far as bosses goes, boss one is easy (SV clone), boss two just require someone with "/target Pure energy" in their DPS macro and healing, boss 3 I had to kill the boss before the adds (amazingly low HP, just likes to heal), and for Kael'thas, include "/target Phoenix" after the /assist in the DPS macros. My set up was Pally tank, Priest healer, Elemental Shaman, Fire Mage, and Boomkin.

[Ellay]

Sounds like a lot of fun, I want to try it out

[Fragmad]

Argh, EU maintaince is going on right now and I got nothing to do. Gief 2.4.

[sway]

The devil takes the hindmost. :thumbsup:

[opt]

i had a crack at it and seemed awfully difficult :S my t4/5 warrior was getting hit harder by trash than any other non heroic 5man going around

[Emo?]

Im lucky have have 1 tank and 1 healer friend, otherwise it would be hard to do intances on my own with 3x mages :P
I am really looking forward to the new instance, especially sins its a 5-MAN instance finnally!

[elo]

Thanks for the post fish. I got called in on my priest (single box) to help kill final boss in there and after the fight I was really doubting if he could be 5 boxed. I was going to post this morning to see if anyone had. I'm definitely going to need a significant gear upgrade before trying though. My +1600 healing priest (not a ton I know) had to work reasonably hard to keep everyone going (did lose someone who ran through the bubbles though).

[aetherg]

Thanks for this post; I was wiping on Vexallus trying to target the adds with my pally; adding a /target right in their DPS macros made the fight significantly easier. This is probably a better way to go on many other fights too; I just need to remember to change the /target whenever there's a fight that requires killing something first.

The trash does hit pretty hard; you have to be on the ball with CC or grounding totems, and be careful about who you kill first. I found it was best to kill the Sunblade Mage Guards first, to avoid them using their dampening field or glaive-throw stun.

[marvein]

I didnt box the place just did several guildie runs on my resto druid and those boss fights are really fun lol. The last fight was a blast (mostly because I, for the first time ever, could move really fast in treeform lol) It was pretty difficult to heal through on the last fight but didnt lose anyone (around 1400healing) and I got the healer ring to drop our first go around so that was nice combined with the epic gem from the quest. I will ay this though. oh my god was pvp insane, there were piles and piles of skeletons outside the instance lol. Oh and the 5man fight was fun too lol, I really love hectic fights like that. Its basically like an arena fight. your 5man group against their 5man elite group and its a blast. As for difficulty I would say think a hard, non-heroic shadow labs and you would be about dead on. Heroic is kind of rough but the instance servers crashed again after the first boss kill and never really recoverred so we call it off for the night lol. (and I proceeded to do gobble up daily quests like nobody's business hehe)

Some stats about those for those interested (since ive now done two full iterations of dailies there) The first go around all the quests give 250rep with shattered sun, the 2nd go around the 2 quest in qual'danas only give 150, however, the 3 in shattrah give 250rep each. So that is 1050rep, per character, per day without even setting foot in the instance. Also I can confirm that the shattered sun supplies bags have a chance to give you a badge of justice as I got one on my rogue this morning. As more dailies open up (which offer this bag as a reward) I would say expect 1-2 badges per week from these dailies on the low end, definately not a source of leet epics but a few extra here and there never hurt. All in all between quests and dailies I pocketed about 700g last night easily across 2.25 characters.

On that note what is everyone's servers at now? As of a few hours ago when I logged out Kel'thuzad was at 45% in phase one

[geoffdavison]

we found that on the last fight the best thing to do is have a healer or two stand in the entryway and everyone use a macro /target <name> / follow.. once this got them oriented toward the door then they could just move around and avoid the orbs.. people seemed to get really disoriented by the gravity well.. otherwise just keep healing everyone through it and avoid the spheres.