Aran Video a la Cayleigh
The Squeekie Priestie was up late and slapped together a spiffy video of our destruction of Aran. Of particular note to us BM hunters is at approximately 7:00 minutes into the video we see the raid pulled to the center and everybody runs away.
Except Hobbes.
Aran was close to death and Hobbes had a boatload of health, Avoidance 2, and Arcane Resist 2. We wanted him to chew Aran’s face off and then piss on his corpse, so we let him take the arcane explosion and keep fighting. Hobbes rocked the house and at the end of the video, you can see his Kill Command make the killing blow.
Other cool stuff…
Before we tried Illhoof, we were standing outside his room working on our macros. We remade our two that we use here:
Attack Illhoof Macro
/target illhoof
/cast auto shot
/petattack
Attack Demon Chain Macro
/target demon chain
/cast auto shot
/petattack
We assign the Illhoof Macro to F5 and Demon Chain Macro to F6. And as we’re all standing in the hallway outside his room, we test our Demon Chain Macro. Works great. Then we test our Illhoof Macro…
We target Illhoof through the wall, it says we can’t fire, but Hobbes LAUNCHES at Illhoof with Dash kicking in!
With lightning reflexes, we recall Hobbes before he aggros the boss. The raid leader says,
“And Bigred, DON’T do that again!!”
We reply,
“Um… we were testing our macro. Good news; it works!”
Yes, we scared the everliving bejeezus out of ourselves.
Edit: The Positive Warrior has published his take on the Aran fight. Protection warriors doing DPS is always a good read.
Toolio on 14 Aug 2007 at 1:53 pm #
Haha… I did one of those “macro” checks last night to one of the 5 warlocks in Mag’s Lair.
Pet owl goes dashing in… Luckily it was the mob on the far wall, so I had time to recall my bird before anything happened. Kinda’ makes my heart skip a beat.
And why is it, that in dire moments like this, I always seem to fumble for the right button, like I’ve never used it before?
“Now where the hell did I put it?”
GM almost $h!+ a brick.
Anonymous on 14 Aug 2007 at 2:40 pm #
Wiping because of someone moving during the flame wrath is really stupid. Make sure everyone in the raids have deadly boss mod or bigwigs, grats on the epic loots
Scathatch on 14 Aug 2007 at 3:15 pm #
Totaly agree with that one, and thats why my guildies will be listening to the first song on the above video so they to will learn “I WILL NOT MOVE WHEN FLAME WREATH IS CAST OR THE RING BLOWS UP”
f’n loved that song:).
PS. feal free to watch why a hunter should always have their pet dismissed before walking in the door on this figh. thttp://files.filefront.com/ShadeMovie.wmv/;7939614;/fileinfo.html
Shutter on 14 Aug 2007 at 3:26 pm #
Hehe, my worst ‘almost pulled early’ story is from Mag too. We’re all getting set to go, and the RL calls that we’re pulling in 15, so I start hammering out my totem set (As enhance: WF, Strength, Mana Spring, Searing). But being on minor auto-pilot for a farm status boss, I hit all four totems, instead of the three I normally do pre-pull. My brain kicks in and all the alarms go off as I see the searing land, spot the nearest channeler all of 5 yards away and start warming up a fireball as the RL hits about 10s to the pull. I start hammering totemic recall and all the totems disappear with the searing’s fireball in midair, which, thank goodness, apparantly disappears with the totem. That channeler’s tank had time to yell “What the hell?!” over vent after spotting a flash of red near his mob, before the the RL finishes the count and we start normally, and I try to pretend like nothing happened.
Btw BRK, I saw a lot of your ranged run in to Aran when blizzard started casting and wait til it had started up before running out again. The blizzard actually drops one shard in the middle of where it will start before it really begins and starts doing damage, so if you can spot that and adjust your position you don’t need to hide next to Aran to see where it’ll end up. That might mean a few more seconds outside the silence aura for your casters.
For the Pie on 14 Aug 2007 at 3:34 pm #
is that a sheep non-combat pet the squeeky healer has?
Stiksy on 14 Aug 2007 at 3:41 pm #
I did an early pull while testing a macro on Maulgar. And yes, my pet aggroed him. Luckily, we were “almost” ready to start, and managed to kill him anyway.
BRK on 14 Aug 2007 at 3:42 pm #
Yes, it’s the squeeker’s sheep. One doesn’t mock healers, but Aran will nuke our snakes, why won’t he blast that sheep?!
Rhust on 14 Aug 2007 at 3:58 pm #
I love his comment “I was able to execute for 2277″
that’s cute!
Guy on 14 Aug 2007 at 4:14 pm #
With lightning reflexes
Somehow I doubt that..
Guy on 14 Aug 2007 at 4:26 pm #
OMG It was the funniest thing ever last night.
So I mentioned we were testing out a couple of nubs who were having trouble on Prince last night.. It was probably our longest kill of Aran ever…
That said, just before he sheeped us and went to drink I had laid down a snake trap..
He sheeped ALL my snakes. It was the funniest thing I’ve seen in a long time, it looked like he was sitting there drinking up in the middle of 10 sheep.
tinwhisker on 14 Aug 2007 at 4:27 pm #
I believe the priests pet is actually ‘Mr. Wiggles’, a pig.
Aran is a tough fight with a lot of randomness. We actually took down the Prince several times before we got Aran the first time.
If you can get everyone to pay attention enough for Aran you should be able to handle the Prince.
Shutter on 14 Aug 2007 at 5:16 pm #
Yeah, tinwhisker is right, Aran is harder than Prince in a number of ways. Prince is mostly about gear and a modicum of coordination between raid members.
In some ways I think Aran and Illhoof are two of the harder bosses in Kara. (Netherspite seems that way until you get the knack of it, then it’s ridiculously fun, jumping in circles like an idiot around the giant banished dragon FTW)
tinwhisker on 14 Aug 2007 at 5:32 pm #
A well geared and properly spec’d warlock and a paladin for emergency bubbles makes Illhoof a joke. Two players makes or break that fight.
And Netherspite is fun… once you get the hang of it. We usually run to the opposite side of the room though to avoid netherbreathe and made rude gestures rather than split up and spread damage. We’ve got enough DPS to cover the lost time though.
Zemulos on 14 Aug 2007 at 6:51 pm #
Prince is the gayest fight in Karazhan. Poorly placed infernals can wreck you. Luck being a determiner is just wasting my time and gold >_< Netherspite is easy if you are coordinated and have good dps. In fact, we 6 manned him from 75% down one night because of a shitty aggro loss that wiped four people. The nice thing about spite is that you CAN recover and still take him down. Unlike nightbane. Nightbane requires you to be on your toes
I like the Illhoof fight btw. I used to main tank both illhoof and kilrek, but since the dps of wifey (lock) has gotten so much higher, it’s not possible to hold enough aggro on illhoof AND kilrek to keep kilrek off her and illhoof off the raid. So now our feral druid tanks kilrek. Kilrek is dead from the conbined dps of the druid tank and my lock wife before illhoof gets to 25%, then rinse and repeat. The fight is easy really.
Traz on 14 Aug 2007 at 7:38 pm #
Good video. Very inspiring.
Great to see Hobbes taking centre stage and stealing the show
Having done (nearly) all of the fights in Kara now, I have to say that becoming Red Riding Hood and running around the stage was my favourite moment
Anonymous on 14 Aug 2007 at 8:51 pm #
grats on Aran BRK ….
i use my pet on all the Kara fights and it’s tough sometimes but i keep my pet recall macro right next to my shot rotation macro …. it takes priority, even over my FD button …
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L2lock on 14 Aug 2007 at 9:39 pm #
I <3 my pet on this fight as a felguard lock. The only thing you gotta remember is to hit Pet Follow to get him out of arcane es'plosion.
Warlocks could make your life much easier on this fight, BRK! During the elemental phase one lock could do the work of the two people offtanking them…banish + fear will take a LOT of DPS out of Shade and keep your people DPS’ing him so you don’t have to face that poly+pyro at the end.
Funny thing is, we destroy Shade, Curator, Maiden, Prince when the infernals don’t screw us…but I’ll be darned if Illhoof doesn’t give us more grief than any other boss in this stupid instance lol.
Nice video.
bad nelf! on 14 Aug 2007 at 11:35 pm #
best pet recall method?
1. passive button
2. Shift-2
3. macro?
From EU forum:
/petfollow [target=pettarget,exists]
/stopmacro [target=pettarget,exists]
/petattack
This macro will send the pet to attack the target you have selected, if you press the macro again it will come back to you.
Thanks for any input!
bad nelf! on 14 Aug 2007 at 11:40 pm #
correction:
2. Ctrl-2