PTR Testing Day 4: Lady Deathwhisper

Good evening everyone and welcome to yet another episode of my PTR testing liveblog.
Yesterday went pretty bad, due to blizzard bringing down the servers just as we were about to start, we missed alot of our members aswell as two decent tanks, so we had to pug a tank and a dps.

As you may (or may not) know, the ptr is full of retards who are all pretending they know what they are doing, however they dont, and if you see a war with full stamina gems, that might indicate he knows his class decently, since stamina is indeed the best thing to stack nowadays, or hes just a retard who just turned all his blue gems into +20 stam ones and then randomly smashed them around his armor.

Ofcourse, both of the tanks we were forced to pug fit into the second category, so like I said, yesterdays raid was kinda ****** up, but lets not linger at the past and look forward to the future.


                                       Lady Deathwhisper

Lady Deathwhisper is the second boss in ICC, and is right after Lord Marrowgar.
Her trash layout slightly resembles that of the second boss of Shadow Labyrinths, the 5-man instance in auchindoun we all hated during TBC.
Lady Deathwhisper has already been tested once, there you can also find all of her (and her adds) abilitys.

The fight is basicly seperated in two phases: In phase all she does is randomly shoot shadowbolts into everyone, trowsDeath & Decay around and has a huge mana shield that absorbs all incomming damage.
Every once in a while she will spawn a set of 3 adds on either side of the room: 2 casters and 1 melee add, these all have special abilitys and can be powered up.
While killing the adds, you also need to damage the boss to burn her mana and thus remove the mana shield.

Once her mana reaches 0% phase 2 will start.
In phase two she is a really weak copy of KT in naxx:
She mindcontrols (cc those who are mc) and she casts frostbolts that hit for 41k, these frost bolts must be interupted at all costs.
Since the adds will now stop spawning everyone should just concentrate on the interupting and on the boss herself, ofcourse you still have to keep moving out of the Death& Decay

My Xfire stream is still: http://www.xfire.com/live_video/nomennescios/
Also, were still looking for a new vent server to use, so if anyone owns one/knows one we can use please contact me or leave a comment

                                               The Liveblog

19:33 Raid opens up, things are looking good we got ourselves a vent server and a good balanced group

19:45 We cleared first 2 groups off trash with np, everything going nicely so far even though dps is slightly slackish

19:58 We just wiped twice on the two big mobs, they have a raidwide aura that makes everyone take ~5k damage/3 secs, which is kinda hard to heal trough, aswell as a debuff which explodes for 15k to whoever is near the debuffed person

20:07 We just killed both of the big mobs by having one of our tanks go healing so we could heal trough the huge dps she does

20:18 We just had our second try on her, we tried just rushing down her health with BL up, but that didn't really work to well, since having more then ~5 adds up at a time really instakills your tanks

20:27 We got her mana pool to around ~15% this time before we wiped, so were defo making progress, but having random raid members get instagibbed is just really hard to get trough.

20:57 We just came back from a period of alot of dc's, fake dc's and people leaving, we have finally filled the raid back up again and I have now logged onto my protection warrior, think were looking fine as we got her to 1 mil mana left, but then one of the tanks (me) got oneshotted and it was a wipe

21:08 We just had one more try but it didn't really matter, as soon as we charged into the boss blizzard teleported us out of the instance: testing is over

I personally doubt that there will be much more testing and I expect the patch to land either this wednesday or the next.

If you have any questions regarding pve balance, pvp balance, new items or new quests on the ptr, feel free to ask them here and ill answer them to my best possible effort.