Comments on: Hunting Auriaya!

By: Shooter

Shooter — Tue, 04 Aug 2009 12:37:53 +0000

Our guild has tried many ways of pulling this fight. Used to use traps but found boss and 4 kittys didnt all come up at exact same time. now use sacrificial pet with pheonix CD up. all 4 kittys + boss react at same time. all raid hides behind pillar stacked and MT ad OT’s grab boss and kittys. count to 3 and 4 hunters drop explosive traps and volley and all dps AoE. kittys down in few secs, and easy part of fight begins.
We also ignore feral defender, just AoE adds and this generally kills defender once in fight. Tank then moves cat lady about 10 yards and faces her away from void zone and fears normally run people away from it.

By: euripidesoutdps

euripidesoutdps — Thu, 16 Jul 2009 14:19:09 +0000

Leaving 9 stacks of feral essence means feral rush and feral pounce will risk one shotting your cloth healers.

By: Greenmile

Greenmile — Thu, 16 Jul 2009 01:23:20 +0000

Our core ten-man has repeatedly dropped Auriaya by ignoring the Feral Defender. It just gets off-tanked while we focus-fire on the big girl.

We’ll be using that strat on our 25 this weekend.

By: euripidesoutdps

euripidesoutdps — Mon, 15 Jun 2009 17:51:14 +0000

I see, so you place the trap in her path, and nobody pulls directly. Smart :)

Well my tank insists on pulling himself, and to be honest, I’ve never seen him make a mistake and he has never been pounced here. I’ll remember your trick though.

By: Khatian

Khatian — Mon, 15 Jun 2009 17:35:14 +0000

I place the trap down ahead of her, run back and cast MD on the tank and hide out with everyone (including the tank) out of los. The trap agro is MD’d to your tank. Once the trap is triggered I then fd. At this point the tank is the only person on the agro table. The cats don’t pounce and everyone just comes running up to your raid aimed at your tank.

By: euripidesoutdps

euripidesoutdps — Fri, 12 Jun 2009 14:44:47 +0000

I don’t know… I get ridiculously high numbers as SV on this. The fears cost me less than 3% DPS compared to my high water mark. Beast master spec with my gear caps out at around 15% lower than my spec.

Also, BW is on a long cooldown, and she casts fear two or three times a minute.

By: Dhorvin

Dhorvin — Fri, 12 Jun 2009 13:24:28 +0000

If you can spare the dual spec, BM does pretty competitive dps here, and requires much less hassle. Just pop BW whenever she’s about to fear and you (and your pet) can just plant your feet 5-6 yards in front of her and pew-pew from the same spot for the entirety of the fight.

By: euripidesoutdps

euripidesoutdps — Thu, 11 Jun 2009 17:37:05 +0000

I'm no dwarf, but I passed on that bow because the other hunter with us had arrowsong, and I have envoy of mortality :)

By: Kataron

Kataron — Thu, 11 Jun 2009 16:54:06 +0000

I’ve always been the one to do the first pull. But to my glory, I have always done it perfectly and not wiped the raid. If we DO wipe because of how hard the crazy cat lady hits when all four kitties are up, I always make note of “Yeah, we may have wiped…But wasn’t that pull GLORIOUS?”.

I also don’t see the point in the other commenter using a trap. /shrug

My guild seems to love MD pulls, so the other hunter and I are always the ones initiating encounters. It’s kinda fun.

lol, the first time we fought crazy cat lady, it was late and we had no idea how the mechanic worked. We thought we had to kill all the lives of the cat as soon as it spawned. I think that’s how you activate hard mode. As soon as we wiped (and we got like five, six cat lives down), we realized, and then came back in and immediately killed her.

She drops a bow. I am a Dwarf, I do not use bows.

By: euripidesoutdps

euripidesoutdps — Thu, 11 Jun 2009 16:16:46 +0000

If you’re misdirecting, what’s the purpose of the trap? The whole pull is linked, so once a tank has agro, the job is pretty much done.

I was thinking about misdirect, but unless I’m mistaken, tanks’ ranged pull abilities will have the same range as ours, and since their final position is quite close to where the puller has to be, the only difference would be us moving out of line of sight or them.

By: Khatian

Khatian — Thu, 11 Jun 2009 15:41:12 +0000

I’ve found hunters work well to do the initial pull. Place down a trap (I usually use immolation trap) in her path, then run back to the raid and misdirect to your main tank or whomever u want to take the most initial burst. Feign death when the trap is triggered. Not as necessary now with the nerfs to pounce, but still makes for a nice clean pull.