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I was a lucky gal Friday night; hubby wanted to try to get into a heroic but just before dinner I got a whisper: ‘want to join us in 10 man ulduar’?  This is the guild hardcore group who is in Ulduar learning the place, seems somebody wasn’t on; so I jumped on it.   I was doing decently for myself; actually pretty good overall as we cleared the trash on the way to Ignis.  On 25 man, this trash was just brutal on us.  When we got up the the boss, the warlock I replaced logged into vent.  I whispered the raid leader and said if you want me to bow out thats OK with me; he said maybe, lets see.  These rotten add’s of Ignis must be busted by a 5K shot within a short period of time once they become brittle.

On our first attempt, we failed; couldn’t get the adds down.  I told the raid leader I would help with adds if he wanted me to.  Low and behold, we took out the first add and the raid leader said, ‘holy crap was that your 10K crit’?  Uh, I don’t know, it could have been.  I have recount set to not display during a battle and I don’t have my damage set to flash all over my screen.  I try to minimize all that screen activity so I can concentrate on what I need to.  At the training dummies, I turn on damage, so I know that I can crit very high with my Chimera shot; which is what I used on the Molten.

It became soly my job to crack the brittle adds.  Eeek!

These adds are Iron Constructs which Ignis spans to life every 30 seconds or so.  In 10 man we had one OT, in 25 it is recommended to have 2 OT’s.  Our OT was a bear, and he would drag the activated Iron Construct over to the scorched ground where it would start getting hot.   As it approaced 20 stacks of heat (when it becomes molten), our OT would call out over vent ‘approaching molten and heading for L/R pool’.  This gave me advance notice so that I could start making my way towards the water pool while keeping up my shot rotation, and making sure I would have an available Chimera shot.

Once the Iron Construct becomes Molten, the OT drags it into the water where it is stunned and becomes brittle.  As brittle, you have a +50% increased chance to crit, and need to shatter it within 15 seconds with greater than 5K  damage in a single attack.  Oh, and when they shatter they do an immense amount of damage in a 10 yard range; so it has to be ranged DPS who take them out.

Bosskillers recommends a mage or warlock for the shattering duty; for ranged we had 2 hunters, the SV raid leader and me as MM, Marksman.

To hit over 5K damage on one attack, I was going to need to crit, and not miss.  Raid buffed I’m around 40% crit; but I’m not hit capped.  So long as I’m grouped with a Draenei I’m okay, otherwise I would be downing some HIT food to assure I didn’t miss.

I’m counting on a crit from a Chimera shot; but I want some insurance to help me out.  First I dotted up the Brittle Construct with Hunter’s Mark to take advantage of Marked for Death; which increases my damage done by 5% and my critical strike damage bonus by 10%.  Then I dotted it with Serpent Sting; which I’ve enhanced with Improved Stings and with Glyph of Serpent Sting.  If only I had an on use trinket, I would pop it now.

Chimera Shot does 125% weapon damage and with Serpent Sting it additionally instantly deals 40% of the damage that would have been done over the duration of  your Serpent Sting.  Chimera Shot has a 10 second cooldown; and is an instant shot; adding the Glyph of Chimera Shot reduces the cooldown to 9 seconds.  I think I might add some +Crit food to my bag of goodies for future times with the brittle Iron Constructs.

So went the second attempt, where after the first brittle, I busted them all; until I got yanked into the slag pot just as one when brittle.  This was bad, not only did we have a lose Construct, I died from my self heals all being on cooldown.  Third attempt, our healers were awesome sauce, I busted all the brittle constructs and Ignis went down.

Go Team!

Chablis

PS – But just to bust my bubble and totally humble me; the next night we went on farm to Naxx 25 and I did horrid; it was a rotten time that I’ll write about later; including some instructions if you are experiencing the white wow screen of not responding death; I think I may have fixed mine; hubby wants me to apply the same technique to his ‘puter.

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