The same group from Thursday hit Lost vale for the remaining bosses in wing 2. Little did we know what a problem Gorak was going to be.
Now don’t get me wrong, I don’t mind bosses which take some thinking to down, but this is really not a well thought out boss.
For those who don’t know, Gorak is a giant Dragon Ogre and as such, hits like a truck. He also has an UNDEFENDABLE frontal cleave, as well as casting lightning bolts on party members in phase 2.
The problem herein lies with that cleave. On the initial pull both his normal swing timer and his cleave timer are off of cooldown, which pretty much means he will blow both at once. Im 5/5 Greater Wards but would still die from this burst. My defensive stats aren’t shabby, im at 30% block and 16% parry (before Suppression and Mixed Defences) and over 10k hits but I would still go down.
The only way anyone has figured out to get passed him is to use your rank 2 morale, Shield Wall (100% block for 10 seconds) on the pull!!! Now even this is problematic, if there are no mobs around to “charge up” on.
But why should it have to be done this way? Surely this isn’t good game mechanics.
Well Gorak kicked our ass all over the shop, eventually downing 2 hours after starting. ZERO loot for our group though….. fucking system.
We then moved onto the final boss, the big tree thing. This was a lot easier, we simply ironed out some teething problems with positioning and on the 4th pull he was dead. No loot once again, I believe it was Black Orc and Squig Herder shoulders.
So we all got our update and are now ready for the 3rd and final wing. Ive done some reading up and there are a couple of interesting fights, im sure our group will get them done its just a case of working out the kinks of them as usual.
Fingers crossed for tonight.
I also did something I didn’t think id do, I resubbed to Warcraft! I know, I know why did I go and do that? Well to be honest I know the reason, WoW isn’t an inherent bad game, just the old raid system didn’t fit my playstyle so I got fed up. But ive owned WotLK since release and barely played it, now I can get my PvE on again to level.
I transferred my Warlock from Twisting Nether to Wildhammer (reasons may get revealed in a later post) which is a PvE server and I managed to make level 71.
Who knows whats in store for me there.
