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1 month ago Tuning comments on Kaz'rogal The main problem with this fight at the moment is the Malevolent Cleave that is hitting for 12k followed by normal 5k swings, meaning a BiS tank will be receiving damage spike of about 90% their health.
For Kaz'rogal Cleave , i don't think it needs any "nerf" btw as for this boss , you are suppose to have 2 tanks at least on the front to share the damage from that Cleave , this boss cleave is shareable between everyone in front of the boss (i believe shareable only with players)
Azgalor Cleave is not shareable so that one might cause a problem if the damage is too high
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Mechanics comments on trash mobs
Mechanics on the trash seem to work for the most part. We didn't check them one by one, but they all seemed to be casting their abilities.
Tuning comments on trash mobs
Considering that if you wipe on the boss, you have to redo all the trash pulls again to retry, which can take around 20 minutes a try, the amount of health these packs have could be reduced to make them less tedious thus reducing the DPS checks needed to clear the waves. This is especially true for the summoned adds from the Necromancers, do they really need to have 3 times the amount of health when they cast these summons repeatedly?
Mechanics comments on Rage Winterchill
The boss seems to be doing the mechanics correctly.
Tuning comments on Rage Winterchill
This boss is doable but overtuned as the increased amounts of damage taken is making mechanics much more unforgivable than they were originally designed. More details in this other report: https://github.com/chromiecraft/PTR-review/issues/14
Mechanics comments on Anetheron
This boss has a few issues:
Confirmed
Tuning comments on Anetheron
While manageable, this boss has also the reaction times from mechanics being reduces as a side effect of the increased damage values.
Mechanics comments on Kaz'rogal
The boss seems to be doing the mechanics correctly.
Tuning comments on Kaz'rogal
The main problem with this fight at the moment is the Malevolent Cleave that is hitting for 12k followed by normal 5k swings, meaning a BiS tank will be receiving damage spike of about 90% their health.
Regarding the amount of health, it seems doable with a good execution of mechanics.
Mechanics comments on Azgalor
The boss seems to be doing the mechanics correctly.
Tuning comments on Azgalor
This fight seemed to be doable with a very good execution of the mechanics.
Mechanics comments on Archimonde
Getting fear while in the air is problematic as people die without a way to successfully do the raid mechanics
Tuning comments on Archimonde
The fire damage from Doomfire is doing way more damage than 2400 every 3 seconds and more with something like 3000DPS which is problematic to heal as multiple people can be burning at the same time. Clearing this boss will require a perfect execution if at all doable.
Overall comments on raid mechanics
All bosses seem within the realm of possibility except for Archimonde which seems pretty difficult with the current state of Doomfire which breaks the fight unless people avoid its damage the whole fight which is unrealistic meaning this raid might not be clearable on release.
Give a rating out of 10 for the state of the mechanics in the raid
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Overall comments on tuning
The amount of abilities doing too much damage due to how the global tuning scaling is making the encounters feel spiky and unforgiving and its showing more and more as we move into more complex raid fights.
This is not something new as we reported it back in June 4, 2023 in our Heroic Dungeons PTR report:
source: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1CkpIDYQixYlnFH8Me-AEyXP9gHikHgigy5i6G6Jai0E/edit#heading=h.2jad6ayraj2y
Hopefully some of most affected abilities can be overridden to make some of the fights less frustrating.
Give a rating out of 10 for the state of the tuning in the raid
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