Last week I did Uldir normal with my guild, Erratic, as feral.\u00a0 I complained about feral already but this raid got me thinking about mechanics.<\/p>\n
I’ve raided from ICC until ToT, including some heroic progression before mythics were even a thing.\u00a0 I can only think of a few mechanics I absolutely hated and this raid seems to be full of them.<\/p>\n
The first one, which is probably number one with just about everyone, is the vehicle fights.\u00a0 Amber Shaper for example, one random person gets picked to go in the Amber monster thing and control it to do something so important if\u00a0 you don’t do it right, you wipe the raid.\u00a0 And you get something like 10 seconds to figure it out.\u00a0 Not even remotely pleasant and most of us just crossed our fingers and hoped we wouldn’t have to do it and get a kill and move on.\u00a0 Haven’t seen it in Uldir yet though.<\/p>\n
Watching stacks of a buff or a debuff.\u00a0 Nevermind how such a thing is actually possible, but fights where you have to watch your stacks and then do something. Baleroc had one where the healers had to watch stacks of something and swap off because building the stacks was the only thing that would let you heal hard enough to keep your tank up.\u00a0 So do it wrong and you lose.\u00a0 Or Majordomo, at one point you’re grouped up and if your stacks hit a certain value, you had to run out of the group BEFORE your exploded.\u00a0 Do it wrong and you kill the group.\u00a0 \u00a0I swear at least 2 fights had that junk.<\/p>\n
And of course “group up” and “spread apart” or “join up with one specific person” or “run away from that person”.\u00a0 \u00a0Blood Queen Lanathel in ICC was one like this, if she bit you, you had X amount of time to bite someone who wasn’t already bitten or you got permanently mind controlled and ran around killing your raid. A few other fights had things like a line connecting you and someone else, and you either had to group up with them to bust it, or run away from them to bust it.\u00a0 Neither were that much of a problem but when you’re in the thick of things and you can’t stand next to so in so because of whatever, it’s frustrating.<\/p>\n
I really don’t think running feral is going to work for me in raid either.\u00a0 Babysitting a difficult rotation while watching all that other stuff, is more than I can handle.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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