Feral Instinct

Deathbringer Sauerfang

Wed, 10 Mar 2010 10:14:35 +0000

"Saurfang will prove to be quite a challenge, and the raid must stay on top of things to insure that he does not heal throughout the fight. There is only one phase to the fight, but this phase will really strain your DPS and Healers. Two tanks are required for this fight, with the offtank helping to kite the Blood Beasts and taunting Saurfang off the MT when they get Rune of Blood.

All players need to be spread out, so Blood Nova doesn't hit multiple people. Several hits mean Saurfang will gain more damage and energy through Blood Power. Boiling Blood is just a DoT healers will need to take care of - the fact that it does physical damage suggests that it might be removable by Hand of Protection and Iceblock. Use those abilities if you can, they will keep the Blood Power stack lower.

When the main tank is afflicted with Rune of Blood, the OT should taunt the boss at least for the duration of the Rune so that the boss does not heal. When the debuff has faded (or when the OT is afflicted by Rune of Blood), the main tank should taunt the boss back off and continue alternating as such.

Saurfang will also target a random player with Mark of the Fallen Champion several times during the fight. Players marked with it will likely need massive heals and survival cooldowns. Hand of Protection and Iceblock help here too, you might want to save them for Marks instead of Boiling Blood. If a player dies with Mark of the Fallen Champion, Saurfang will heal for a significant amount so it is extremely important to keep focused heals on players afflicted with the debuff.

Throughout the fight, Saurfang will spawn 2 Blood Beasts (25-player: 5). You should kill those as quickly as possibly, because every time they hit a player, Saurfang gains 1 energy through Blood Link, and at 100 energy he casts Mark of the Fallen Champion. Use short cooldowns if you must, but save Bloodlust/Heroism for the last 25%, when the boss Frenzies.

Abilities

Blood Link - Triggers Blood Power every time Saurfang or his Blood Beasts inflict damage with an ability. Also increases Saurfang's energy by 1.

Blood Power - Increases damage and size by 1%. Applied through Blood Link.

Mark of the Fallen Champion - Causes Saurfang's melee attacks to hit the marked target as well as the tank. The marked player takes 4,275 to 4,725 additional Physical damage from each attack. If a marked player dies while the Mark is up, Saurfang heals for 5% of his maximum health. Cast when Saurfang reaches 100 energy through his Blood Link energizing.

Frenzy - Increases Saurfang's attack speed by 30% and size by 20%. Used when Saurfang's health reaches 30%.

Boiling Blood - Inflicts 5,000 Physical damage every 3 seconds for 24 seconds. Used on a random target.

Blood Nova - Inflicts 7,600 to 8,400 Physical damage to a random target and all players within 12 yards.

Rune of Blood - Marks a target with Rune of Blood, causing Saurfang's melee attacks against that target to leech 5,100 to 6,900 health from them, and heal the Deathbringer for 10 times that amount. Lasts 20 seconds.

Call Blood Beast - Summons 2 Blood Beasts.

Resistant Skin - Damage from area of effect attacks is reduced by 95% and damage from Diseases is reduced by 70%."

So they only thing really healing him is Rune of Blood ,meaning we seriously need to keep our distance from the marked player. The hits from added bloodbeasts "only" give him energy ,once his bar is full he casts Mark of the Champion on player and he grows stronger.If the player with Mark of the Champion dies he also heals.

[Hunter] Survival Fer Dummies

Tue, 09 Mar 2010 18:15:32 +0000

Hunter guide

Caveat: This is a guide based on what works for me. Some of it will be (marginally) affected by race and/or profession choices, your lag, your reaction times and whether you lean towards keys or mouse. In short, your mileage may vary!

Talents and Glyphs

I'm just going to talk about Corbetti's spec here. It is by no means the only spec, nor even necessarily optimal, but it seems to work. I'll try to summarise the rationale behind it and you can make your own judgement as to whether that is sound or whether it will work for you.

First off, I spec for 10 mans therefore I provide Replenishment to the raid. That immediately constrains the pool of talent points available, but we can still get most of the good stuff. Note that 1/3 Hunting Party is quite sufficient, something like 87% uptime. In fact, there are several talents in our arsenal which get less worthwhile as you fill them up. Expose Weakness, for example, goes from 97% uptime at 2/3 to 99% at 3/3. The 2nd point in Go for the Throat is also a waste.

Your greatest source of damage - over 33% - as SV comes from Explosive Shot, so be sure to take its glyph. You need *very* good gear before dropping Explosive Shot glyph is worth it.

Next up is Auto Shot at about 25% of overall damage. This is why I choose to put a point in Improved Aspect of the Hawk (and to glyph it). Most guides suggest glyphing Kill Shot here instead, my preference is to do sustained damage throughout the fight. I get a 33% uptime of the IAotH buff, its 2 talent points for 1 glyph and a thrifty troll can't resist a bargain.

Serpent Sting isn't that huge a source of damage in itself (though 2pc T9 does boost it considerably), but having it up gives you an not inconsiderable bonus to all other sources of damage. Glyphing it reduces your use of the global cooldown refreshing it.

For minor glyphs, Feign Death, Mend Pet and Revive Pet are generally the most useful.

Speaking of pets, the pet you need is a Wolf. I use this spec, because it helps keep the furball happy and alive as well as delivering near-optimal DPS.

Stats and Gear

Per point, Hit (up to 263) > Agi > ArPen > Crit > Haste > Int > AP > Sta. Note also that 1 Agi is worth roughly 3AP.

With the amount of hit on gear now, its actually hard to not be way over the hit cap. Just don't stack or gem hit if you have 263 or more. If you temporarily drop below the hit cap due to item churn (i.e. some big upgrades that replace some items with +hit) then its generally cheaper to respec with an extra point in Focussed Aim than re-gem/re-enchant to meet the cap.

Specific itemisation worthy of note:

Rotation

SV uses a priority list rather than a rotation per se. I manage this by macroing my core damage abilities onto 4 buttons. The killer button is No.2 since I tie all my cooldowns onto it. Yes, it means I don't necessarily perform optimally during Bloodlust, but overall I think I do better by giving my long cooldown abilities maximum uptime. Not to mention it saves me forgetting them, and it gives great burst damage on trash.

Button No.1

Button No.2

Hount Mounted Pyro Rocket (Engineering only)

Berserking (Troll racial)

Button No.3

Button No.4

Blizzard Authenticator

Tue, 02 Mar 2010 19:32:26 +0000

It seems no-one is immune to having their account hacked at the moment.

I'm seriously considering restricting bank access to an absolute minimum for those without an Authenticator. Please let me have your thoughts on this.

/bux

PS please feel free to PM me if you have an authenticator and I'll start keeping a note of who uses one.

PPS Useful security info from Blizzard.

/bfk

Sat, 20 Feb 2010 20:15:14 +0000

Bear likely to be AFK from tomorrow (Thu) until after the weekend due to visitors + work Xmas functions.

/bux

Vintage Raids

Sat, 20 Feb 2010 12:31:25 +0000

Hey guys and gals

Seeing our last effort went down cuz of lag i'd like to suggest another try next week friday (26 feb) to have some more payback/achievements.
I suggest to gather around 20:00 again and go straight for SSC and TK (maybe read up the tactics loosely on vasj and kael). post here if you're interested.
Most likely we will need at least one tank and one healer.

Not Able To Get In

Fri, 19 Feb 2010 21:11:00 +0000

nope, I can log in today (friday 19 feb) but i get stuck at loading screen. i noticed ealrier today a severe lag issue on thunderhorn. anyone have similar problems?

Old School Enchants

Wed, 17 Feb 2010 13:27:59 +0000

Does anyone have the old http://www.wowhead.com/?spell=22749 +30 spellpower enchant.

Would like it on my new alts Headmasters Charge.

Not Sylvanas?

Fri, 12 Feb 2010 21:48:45 +0000

Ok, I was not allowed to call her Sylvanas, Queen of the Forsaken, but anyway...our daughter Amélie was born last sunday, the 7th of february, at 11.07h. She picked a good day to enter our evil world since the south of Sweden looks like Northrend and we were snowed in on friday and saturday. Luckily they ploughed the road on saturday evening. She is more chubby than her brother was, but then again he was born in the middle of the summer...

For the Horde

Johan aka Zan aka Helloween

To Raid Or Not To Raid!

Mon, 01 Feb 2010 12:37:07 +0000

I wondering whether there are more, like me, who would like to continue the weekly raid that Kint organised earlier? Please let me know if you are interested or not!

Does not have to be on the wednesday. Maybe tuesday and/or thursday is handier?

/Zan aka Helloween

Feral Killers

Fri, 29 Jan 2010 15:09:23 +0000

I'd like to introduce a new coalition, Feral Killers, the spiritual successor to Tribes of War. Its open to members of Feral Instinct, Silent Killers and The Blood Blades and the idea is to provide some gentle raiding for those who would like a bit more of it. You probably know most of the folk involved.

Note that this is in addition to the current guild heroics/10 man raids on a Wednesday night (although it also gives us an extra pool of people to call upon if we are short on numbers).

The raids are at a somewhat later time to accommodate those with youngsters and go on until people are able to manage. So far Feral Killers have cleared Naxx 10 in 2 runs (by extending the lock).

There is a separate Feral Killers website at http://feralkillers.guildlaunch.com/.

/bux

Norwegians In The Guild?

Fri, 29 Jan 2010 14:48:39 +0000

I work for a small company that picks and sells wild herbs, berries and mushrooms to restaurants in Sweden, Denmark, Finland and since November also Norway. I have made a small website in swedish and soon also english. Parts of the website will also be in dutch, finnish, danish, norwegian, german and french. The dutch, english and german i can translate to myself and i have others helping me with the finnish, danish and french. I have managed to translate most of our products to norwegian, see here and here.
However, I need someone to translate some other (small bits) of text to norwegian. Any norwegians in the guild and could you help? It should not be much work...

Thanks!

/Zan aka Helloween

Account Compromised

Mon, 25 Jan 2010 16:09:15 +0000

Hay guys,

I got an email today that my account might be hacked (battle.net doesn't seem to be that much safer after all )
Will see what about it now and hopefully i don't login to see my friendslist cleared, bank raided etc.

regards,
Kintoll

Edit: I checked armory and Kint, Fever & Zinjoll's sellable gear is all gone (and cash most likely). account is suspended for 72hours. aylun checked the forums and apparently more mac users have had similar issues despite manually handling addons, etc

summary: I don't have a friggin clue how this happened

Hope To Be Back Soon...

Fri, 22 Jan 2010 12:09:48 +0000

Hey guys,

I have not quit the game nor the guild, but been busy renovating the top floor of our house. We are expecting our second child in a couple of weeks, so it has been a race against the clock. The new room should be ready next week and I hope to pick up WoW then and join you for some adventuring.

'Till then,

Zan aka Helloween

Lord Marrowgar

Thu, 21 Jan 2010 17:02:55 +0000

I suggest to try Lord Marrowgar 10 man tonight at 2030.

2 tanks needed

2-3 healers

5-6 dps

1. Lightningjon - DPS

Rogue Stuff

Mon, 18 Jan 2010 13:04:23 +0000

Firstly I know there is a class sub-forum but I suspect most people dont look at that too often.

After a change in direction from PVP to more PVE stuff I find myself in the need of some advice from the PVE FI rogue community . I'd rather rely on your advice than the contradictory stuff on the web. PVP was easy - stack Resiliance and AP. PVE obviously requires something different.

Current stats for me:
Hit = 358 [Hit Cap for Yellow attacks = 99, Posions = 315]
ArP = 309
Haste = 180
Exp = 170

Questions are:

1. Is having a Hit Rating above the Poison Hit Cap of 315 a waste? Eg I could gem slightly differently.
2. Expertise I understand is not really required as most of the time Rogues are behind the Boss and therefore bosses cannot dodge or parry. Agree?
3. Would you recommend concentrating on Haste / ArP or just keep trying to stack AP? Or all 3!!!

Rotation for Assination

Currently attempting:

Stealth (with Overkill) ->Garrotte for Bleed Effect
HfB
Mut
SnD
Mut
Envenom @ 4/5 CP's
Mut
Rupture @ 4/5 CP's
etc..

Always keeping up HfB and SnD where possible.

just like your critique pl.

Cheers

Neil

Break

Sun, 17 Jan 2010 20:05:29 +0000

Hi all,

I am back from holiday and maked a desision to take a break for a while on horde site.
Maybe I shall pop up from time to time, or soon back :)

Regards,
Zemi

Raid Tonight ?

Wed, 13 Jan 2010 07:40:20 +0000

Will there be a coalision raid tonight, if so when does it start ? and where do I sign up.

Another Email Scam

Sat, 09 Jan 2010 10:31:35 +0000

Quote

Greetings! dear players

Today, we are do all activities of the World of Warcraft accounts a routine check.
We have evidence to show that your account transactions involved in the disputed.
Please visit our web site as soon as possible to clarify http://www.worldofwarcraft.com otherwise we will lock your account.

Regards,
The World of Warcraft Support Team Blizzard Entertainment

The link is actually www dot worldofwowarcraft dot com. This was sent to a disposable email address I'd set up for use with worldofwar.net ages ago, so clearly their email database has been compromised (or unscrupulously sold).

/bux

Emblems Triumph

Wed, 06 Jan 2010 08:00:24 +0000

Maybe u know already or not, but u can trade your emblems for T9 gear at Triumph master by TOC arena!

Please share your tips ........

Spellweave Cooldown

Mon, 04 Jan 2010 17:48:55 +0000

Heya ,

I have to get a batch of spellweave and was wondering if anyone has a cooldown free to make me one.

Koren