[10/25] Hodir: How often does Frozen Blow occur?

Trying to figure out how we should setup a Taunt+CD rotation between our tanks. Just need to know how often he casts his Frozen Blow-ability. Is it once per minute, or even more often?

/7of9

Its ~once per minute but in actuality it tends to run closer to 70-80 seconds in my experience. Why, however, you want to swap tanks in this fight at all is a bit beyond me...

Arigise wrote:Its ~once per minute but in actuality it tends to run closer to 70-80 seconds in my experience.

Thanks alot, exactly the kind of infirmation I was looking for.

Arigise wrote:Why, however, you want to swap tanks in this fight at all is a bit beyond me...

Aaaw, sorry, I'll try and enlighten you then: we thought that one way of doing this, was to use each tanks CD(Bubble-/Shield-wall) and/or Priests Guardian Spirit, etc.(insert any of the plethora of damagereducing stuff out there), to maximise tanksurvival during the Frozen Blow.

Is this required? I'm sure it works in a number of other ways, but we want to try it this way.

/SevenofNine

Most people like a big fluffy druid in FR gear to just solotank it, or failing that practically anyone else to solotank it.

Just to put a flaw in this. If you have a mic and talk on vent. It's pretty simple, you can one tank this entire fight without FrR gear. I pretty much picked up after our frost tank died, and called out HoSac and PS during frozen blows. The occurence is enough if your dps is either mediocre or really good, you never have to worry. Your healers just need to be ready to heal through 15k to 20k blows opposed to his normal 10k.

I solotank it in full frost gear. Works fine (other than threat issues with makes breaking 20k DPS).

Uhm, i allways solotank him without FostR. gear. What we do is to use CD's if available. Bubblewall/Wings/Aura Mastery. If there is nothing, we just heal through the damage.

It's rarely that i die. Unfortunally we have some braindead dd's who forget that they COULD stay by an fire to not get the debuff, or that they HAVE to move if they got the debuff. Flash Freeze? Whats that. That makes us wipe at Hodir to often.

(Same shit at Yogg P1, "oops, i think i just hit a cloud by mistake"..)

There's a fairly good trick you can use: requires a strong block set and either rotation CDs or a disc priest.
The point is that if you avoid/fullblock+absorb the 70% reduced melee hit, you won't get the 30k frozen blow hit.
He hits for about 3k in 10man and 4k in 25, during Frozen Blow, with demo shout even some less.
Full block gear, +armor where you can (perfect trinkets are Lavanthor's and Defender's code) and get a disc priest throwing a PW:S at the start of the Frozen Blow, and then to spam you hoping for Divine Aegis procs. CD rotation makes the thing just better.
We got it with 1 MT healer and 3 raid healers on our first kill on hodir 25, after 3-4 wipes (after two nights on thorim, where we "forgot" about CL >.<)
Oh, and don't get damned kills on 3:02 like we do.

Tubben wrote:Uhm, i allways solotank him without FostR. gear. What we do is to use CD's if available. Bubblewall/Wings/Aura Mastery. If there is nothing, we just heal through the damage.

It's rarely that i die. Unfortunally we have some braindead dd's who forget that they COULD stay by an fire to not get the debuff, or that they HAVE to move if they got the debuff. Flash Freeze? Whats that. That makes us wipe at Hodir to often.

I don't understand why you would solo tank it without using frost resist gear. I can basically whack on the 3 pieces of icebane + FR aura puts me at 417 frost resist and I still sit at 445 defense with thaddius' trinket on. It's just making life more difficult for your healers when you could just as easily reduce that damage by getting that gear crafted.

My two cents anyway.