Deathbringer Saurfang Brought to Justice!

Woohoo, 2010 opened with a big bang for the Red Devils as we easily put Deathbringer Saurfang down for the count! We started with our first attempt as we had before, tanking him on the portal and attempting to knock the bloodbeasts off the ledge. This time, the skybreaker had despawned leaving open space where it once stood and we were hopeful our knockbacks would push them into open air. This turned out not to be the case, and the beasts hit an invisible wall allowing them to return to battle.

We abandoned that strategy on our second attempt, and tanked Saurfang on the steps where he spawns. This provided a lot more room for us to spread out and avoid chaining the blood novas. I also felt like we hunters had more room to kite them around our frost traps. We made sure one hunter on each side had assist so that the following macro allowed for focus fire on a specific target:

/cleartarget
/targetexact Blood Beast
/stopmacro [noexists]
/script SetRaidTarget("target", 4);
/cast Distracting Shot
/y Nuke {Triangle}!

The 4 is the raid symbol, just change it to get a different symbol (don’t forget to change the yell):
1 = {Star}, 2 = {Circle}, 3 = {Diamond}, 4 = {Triangle}, 5 = {Moon}, 6 = {Square}, 7 = {Cross}, 8 = {Skull}

If the other ranged dps on each side assist the marking hunter, those bloodbeasts go down fast, allowing everyone to get back on Saurfang as quickly as possible. It’s a dps race, so that’s very important. Once we got the assist part down pat, Saurfang was killed easily.

There was not a lot of loot in the chest, one mail belt with spellpower, and two Protector’s Mark of Sanctification (Warrior, Hunter and Shaman classes). Those that have been saving their Frost Emblems are drooling over the Tier 10 armor! As a hunter, I am not all that excited about the tier bonuses and chose to pick up some of the non-tier items first. I already have the Longstrider’s Vest (chest) and am looking closely at the Logsplitters (gloves) for my next upgrade.

This week, another wing of the Icecrown Citadel (The Plagueworks) is rumored to open up with three new bosses: Festergut, Rotface and Professor Putricide. Now I have heard all kinds of crazy rumors, like an average dps of 7,500 being needed to down Festergut. Taken out of context, that number means virtually nothing, and without some kind of serious dps buff I doubt many raiders can consistently hit that level of damage. But - it’s a big number that the ‘leet like to spout off simply for its intimidation factor.