[10N] Tortos

[Donatist]

Sorry yes i mistyped un, glyph DP for this fight and you have can have CDs for every bat phase on top of Shotr for all bites. Before I tanked the boss i was on the adds and while it wasnt hard to pick them up necessarily, it was annoying since they descend, i just told dps to wait until they had landed and i was able to get one hammer off.

When i swapped to tanking the turtle tho the bats just came to be cause of the healing i did which is why i think we may one tank it for heroic this week.

[Magnilda]

We ended up two tanking this. Our DK was having trouble taking the bats off me when I was tanking the boss so we swapped roles. The only Bats I had trouble picking up was the first wave, without vengeance stacks it was easy for one of them to wander off to the DK tank or a healer or a trigger happy DPS. But after the intiial pack my Vengeance stacks were high enough for me to aggro them with Battle Healer.

Hopefully try and solo tank it next week, would make the fight a lot simpler.

[Sagara]

Hmmm... Maybe I'll try and tank the turtle myself and see if i can get healer aggro to help our warrior on adds.

[Zothor]

On 25 at least I specifically stopped dpsing to AVOID picking up all the adds with Battle Healer while tanking the boss. Every time the whole bat pack came to me they did that crazy thing where their swing timers all line up and I got basically instagibbed for 400-500k damage... while dealing with the bite, which even after Shield of the Righteous still is definitively non-zero damage. Curious how (or if) people are surviving having the adds on them in 25.

This whole practice confused the hell out of my raid leader, because I couldn't AOE pick up the adds in the first pack like that, so I moved to the boss. Are people seeing vengeance dropping off between bat packs? I would have assumed it would, but if it doesn't, maybe I'll go back to add tanking and just worry about the first pack.

[Belloc]

Those of you having vengeance issues preventing you from collecting add: Have you tried taunting the boss right as the bats spawn (and having the tank immediately taunt back, of course)? You'll get half of the tank's vengeance, which should be somewhere around 60-70k.

[Promdates]

On 25 at least I specifically stopped dpsing to AVOID picking up all the adds with Battle Healer while tanking the boss. Every time the whole bat pack came to me they did that crazy thing where their swing timers all line up and I got basically instagibbed for 400-500k damage... while dealing with the bite, which even after Shield of the Righteous still is definitively non-zero damage. Curious how (or if) people are surviving having the adds on them in 25.

This whole practice confused the hell out of my raid leader, because I couldn't AOE pick up the adds in the first pack like that, so I moved to the boss. Are people seeing vengeance dropping off between bat packs? I would have assumed it would, but if it doesn't, maybe I'll go back to add tanking and just worry about the first pack.

I just swap from tanking the boss to tanking adds. Chances are the bats will always come to me, so I mark myself with a raid icon and yell at people to run to that icon if they get bat aggro at any time for easier pick up. Being a block tank is beneficial on the adds, not to mention you can stand right in front/next to the boss to be able to get melee cleave/aoe and double dip your aoe's as well. Be sure you also have a spare turtle to shoot through the bats into the boss so you can the damage increase on both with cleaves.

[Zothor]

Those of you having vengeance issues preventing you from collecting add: Have you tried taunting the boss right as the bats spawn (and having the tank immediately taunt back, of course)? You'll get half of the tank's vengeance, which should be somewhere around 60-70k.

That's a really good idea... that I'm pretty certain would infuriate the fuck out of my other tank, who happens to be my GM. Sad day...

[Nikachelle]

Anyone have a problem where a snare is being overwritten and removed by another spell on the little turtles? We're getting chilblains up and using them on CD, but it seems to be getting overwritten and removed and we have no idea why.

Raid makeup:

Tank: paladin

Healers: druid, monk, paladin

DPS: enhance shaman, assass rogue, frost mage, lock (demo?), frost dk, shadow priest.

[Rhiannon]

I'm destro, and I reckon it is me after looking at other destro logs, at least some of the time, but there might be something else doing it as well. Unglyphed conflag and won't aoe conflag, see if that helps.

[Schroom]

In order to collect the adds we had our Holy Paladin use Righteous Fury, he got a mark on his head, as did I.

the bats spawn after the Boss has been interrupted by a turtle, every time this happened the Holy Paladin run into me an my consecration = no worry with the bats anymore.

I went full stamina for this (almost 800k HP) to make it easier for the healers to top me over 350k.

for the stomp we made a Bubble / BoP rotation with clemency on the healers, so at least one of the two wasn't interrupted.

also I started tanking the Boss from pull until the first Bats spawned in order to have a nice vengeance buff for those Bats and HA/AW/LH them to the ground.

almost 200k DPS at the end of the fight. boohyaaah.

[ramboschox]

tried glyph of blessed life on our kill try ( http://www.worldoflogs.com/reports/rt-e ... 277&e=8602 ) guess isn´t worth recommending it, only got 4 holy power out of it.

[Fenris]

Anyone have a problem where a snare is being overwritten and removed by another spell on the little turtles? We're getting chilblains up and using them on CD, but it seems to be getting overwritten and removed and we have no idea why.

Raid makeup:

Tank: paladin

Healers: druid, monk, paladin

DPS: enhance shaman, assass rogue, frost mage, lock (demo?), frost dk, shadow priest.

Light's hammer snare?

It's the only "short time" snare i can think of right now

Since the debuff actually last 1 second and gets re-applied each time the aoe ticks on the enemy,if the turtles jump into it that could cancel the other snare and then they'd be left with nothing on when the get out of the area of effect








And once again,like on the bosses before,my guild is having stupid problems on this one too and i can't understand how to fix them
Kind of sad to be left with 50% as best try when guilds that are usually below us already have it down

[Nikachelle]

Sorry, I should've come back to clarify the issue. We found out what the problem was... it seems the slow from Chilblains was actually bugged for DKs. Was hotfixed on US servers Friday night but hadn't been done to the EU servers yet. Not sure if it's been resolved, but we ended up having our rogue use crippling poisons (or whatever is the one that slows stuff).

[fuzzygeek]

One thing we did was set up two ranged camps, kind of. Like, "you three try to stay on the right side of the map, you three try to stay on the left, so you're not all naffing each other with blue shit and clustered for blue turtleshell knockup." It changed the entire fight from "holy shit what the fuck" into a kill a few pulls later. Melee also moves as a group from one side of the turtle to the other.

I tank the turtle and bats, and try to position the bats so a kicked shell can debuff all the bats as well. We have a DK who does the AoE stun thing, and bats are usually dead by the time the stun wears off. I still pop a CD when the bats first come in, just in case. When we're feeling cheeky we also try to time the bat shell with the next wave of turtles so everything gets debuffed.

We also lust around 50% to clean up a bit as well.

We have melee switch to the first turtle that needs to die just to make sure we have one ready for the breath, then they go back to tunneling on the boss. Our first kill we had a 481 lock in the group, so the requirements are pretty forgiving once people get used to the flow of the fight.

[lakhesis]

Did it with one tank this week. Much prefer that version.

I caused a couple of wipes when I tried to actually mess around & tab target through the bats, which distracted me from Tortos and/or meant I tabbed to a bat/whirlyturtle I couldn't get a SotR off on just as Tortos snapped (ouch).

However when I just completely ignored the bats (beyond facing them somewhat) and stuck to tunnelling on snapping bite it worked great. Used Holy Avenger on the pull to get going, then used Avenging Wrath on the first group of bats (who always seemed fractionally more problematic than the others on the aggro). Trinket/DP/HA the bats and save other CDs for the end or ohshits.

We run 3x melee & 2x ranged (horrible comp, in process of adjusting), plus my OT made for an extra melee.

The two ranged were enough to deal with the turtles completely solo. They do nothing but turtles until they've got a solid backstock of dead ones to kick, using CDs on the first round of turtles to guarantee they've got one down in time.

The two cleave melee (frost dk & fury warrior) handle the bats. When I was solo tanking my feral druid cotank joined in with them. Our rogue tunnelled Tortos the whole time.

If anyone wants to check how they're doing on that fight, try:

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(spell = "Shield of the Righteous" and targetName != "Tortos") or spell = "Snapping Bite"

in expression editor for Worldoflogs. It filters out the damage portion of SotR & shows all snapping bites.

There should be a "Paladin gains Shield of the Righteous", then one (or more if chaining due to lvl75 talents) snapping bites, then "Shield of the Righteous fades from Paladin". Should be relatively obvious at a glance just from the 400k hits versus 200k hits, but having the SotR in there lets you be sure.

If you're still wiping and want to add in death events, so you can be sure the pally was dead when someone else got hit rather than just accidentally outranging the boss, it'd become:

(spell = "Shield of the Righteous" and targetName != "Tortos") or spell = "Snapping Bite" or (targetName = "REPLACE-WITH-NAME-OF-THE-PALADIN-TANK" and type = TYPE_DEATH)