Angelo's Take

Email sent by Angelopappas. Anyone that would like to post on the site please get me (Jutah) your email address and I'll add you as a contributor. Here's Angelo's thoughts:

Great times this week in kara fellas.. tonight we downed illihoof after a lot of stressful tries and got prince down to maybe the low 30%'s or something. we could have done better on prince if we had been more prepared with pots and shi. these long fights definitely test your ability to properly manage your pot intake properly. which brings me to my first order of business pots. these things will add up to a lot of g fast. i think our guild bank's priority #1 should be making sure Jim has the G he needs to supply the guild with ample pots.. hopefully pug members will bring their own shit. burning 3 mana pots, elixirs, etc., per attempt at a boss for each caster will add up to a lot of pots fast. unfortunately the spell damage caster flask isn't introduced until 2.2, so i can't use a flask... but, if you can use a flask, it will probably be a lot cheaper than individual pots that buff you but drop every time you die.

Mana seemed to be a big issue in the long boss fights.. i have a ton of mana options, but the one thing i learned was how to better prioritize them for maximum effect and trying to burn my mana pot cd first and then every 2 mins after. Healer mana was going down fast at times. One other thing that could save healer mana is if Juts tries to use a health pot every 2 mins (probably already does) and maybe say so before he does, so he doesn't get over healed. If jim has an alchemist's stone, fel regeneration and fel mana pots can be great in the pinch.. fel mana pot would also be good for grommet . On the illihoof fight, if he enslaves somebody that doesn't need critical heals to live (non cloth), we should not heal the enslaved target at all. any heals on the enslaved demon will also heal illihoof. According to wow wiki, i was probably taking 2.5k damage per second from the imps. I should have put on my fire resist neck and also packed some major fire protection potion. as far as my seed goes, i should have just put it on illhoof himself, and not the imps. The problem with putting the seed in the imps is that finding an imp with adequate health to plant my seed in.. my cast times started going to shit when i had 10 imps laying into me interrupting my cast, so sometimes the imp i was casting on would die before i got my seed off and it just wasted time. planting it in illhoof guarantees that everyone around him is constantly getting damage and less downtime with my seeds.

Lastly.. the prince fight was epic.. many consider him the last boss of kara, so i think we did pretty tits. considering that nobody was fully buffed with guardian/battle elixirs, food buffs, and most didn't even have mana pots, lasting that long was awesome.