Elementium Monstrosity / Ascendant Council

Elementium Monstrosity - NPC - World of Warcraft

Familiarize yourself.

It won't be that bad. Just looking at that list of abilities it looks pretty overwhelming, but so did Val/Ther when I first looked at it.

Twilight Ascendant Council

It's similar to Omnotron in that it is an execution fight. Killing it or not killing it will depend on acute raid awareness from all 10 of us. Watching your buffs/debuffs on phase one and being able to find a tornado or gravity pool on phase 2. If people can learn the twin dragons and can learn omnotron they can learn this.

Phase 3 doesn't worry me at all, we have more an ample dps for that.

Haha, yeah.

We were making pretty steady progress learning it until one of our tanks mysteriously DC'd and it went downhill from there.

The think the only thing we were really having issue with was getting the hydrolance interrupted (had a pally tank on the water guy, need to put a warrior there for the mobility to get out of glaciate then charge back and and be able to interrupt) and we underestimated the sheer amount of aoe dmg in phase 1 so there was a learning curve for the healers.

Yeah the only moving the Feludius tank has to do is when he casts Glaciate you have to get a few yards away or its a 1-shot. Our pally tank was having issue because he would move out of glaciate, then immediately there was a hydrolance to interrupt and he didn't make it back in in time. I eventually went prot and was tanking it and had no issue getting every hydrolance (except lack of hit rating please hurry 4.1) because I could run out of glaciate then charge back in for a hydrolance interrupt.

Also I realized just a bit ago reading up on it more that apparently the AoE from Ignacious applies a stacking debuff to make you take more fire damage? We kept losing our Ignacious tank to Flame Torrent right after Flame Aegis because we weren't coordinating cooldowns, and we also weren't switching DPS to Ignacious soon enough, looking back.

Yeah we had all that covered I think, the thing that was fucking us was that I didn't realize Ignacious stacks a debuff on himself that increases his fire dmg done each time he pulses his AoE, so while we were surviving the AoE with the way we were shield switching, Krun was NOT surviving the following Flame Torrent, so we need to do one of two things to make it into phase 2 reliably and actually learn the next portion of the fight:

1) Switch to the fire guy earlier so there is no "ramp-up" time for DPS - they're already going full on by the time the shield comes up w/dots and things.

2) Use tank CD's for the next Flame Torrent after the shield. It's only a 2 minute phase and he casts his shield/aoe every minute so 2 CDs will be used, and should be back up by the time phase 3 comes around if they're needed.

Yeah I'm really not understanding why we had <10% wipes on this.

It was either a lack of healing or a lack of DPS. The phase really felt like it lasted long enough we should have killed him and we have never suffered from a lack of DPS on any other burn-phase boss and I doubt this one is tuned any differently. We had some perfect 25/25 or 24/26 transitions and still didn't get it.

Perhaps it was a kiting path issue. One of our DPS will have to weigh in on that since we have 100% ranged DPS. Were you guys getting out of range in p3 so you couldn't DPS? By the end of the fight on a couple of those attempts we had some people under 10k DPS which normally I'd stay GTFO of my raid but Arion and target switching to even out HP in phase 2 can make for some awfully shitty DPS so I didn't worry about it.


If there were range issues in P3 though I need to know about it we will make a plan. I'd read about the kiting around in a circle in the center before so we'll have to try it. And I'm going to look at it again and make sure there is no reason to spread out in p3 for healers/dps... if there isn't then I'm going to place a marker for everyone to stack on that should be in range of the kite path we will set up so we get max DPS and can AoE heal the DPS.

We had an attempt that we wiped at like 5.5-6% where doop had frozen up and DC'd and I think Steve was dead from pulling aggro at the very start of the phase... if they'd both been there that quite likely could have been a kill but even so we were still struggling with p3 far more than we should have.