Tuesday, March 19, 2019

Kul Tiran Recruitment, Heroic Rastakhan

Kul Tiran Recruitment

The quest line to unlock the Kul Tiran Allied Race was really well done. It had you revist all the zones in Kul Tiras, and had several callbacks to the levelling experience.

Being able to name the new Alliance flagship was a very nice touch, especially as Blizzard got the location names to match what you picked. I went with Tiffin's Melody.

The only issue I had is that Blizzard tried too hard to "surprise" you with the fact that shipwright was female. In fact, it was really obvious because a lot of the sentence construction and word choices used were unusual, and served no purpose beyond veiling the shipwright's gender. And whenever writers do this, they invariably make the character female.

Whenever authors do this it feels as though they are condescending to the audience. Like the audience is so obviously prejudiced that they cannot possibly conceive of a female shipwright, and so it falls to the enlightened writer to educate the audience.

Heroic Rastakhan

We also killed Heroic Rastakhan. Surprisingly, this was the first night we attempted him, and the previous boss had taken a while. But Heroic Rastakhan isn't that different from Normal. We actually tried a different strategy to start, but then we gave up and went back to our Normal positioning.

The only real difficulty is the phase where the raid is split in two, and once you have that down, the fight is pretty much done.

We then tried Heroic Mekkatorque for an hour or so. I think that fight may take us a few nights. It seems pretty obvious that we aren't executing correctly on Normal, as we had a lot of gigavolt charges blowing up in the middle of the raid. That should have been a mechanic we mastered previously.

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  1. We had some people try to time the gigavolt charges to maximize their dps and then screw up getting behind one the pillars. That got fixed over time as folks got specifically reminded to move themselves.

    Our biggest difficulty is the bots. We have too many 'shy' members that don't want to call out colors/names to do the bots. We eventually just made sure our more vocal members would call things out when they got into a bot. It still was a problem when a 'shy' group got put in all the bots, but we managed to survive those, thankfully few, times.

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    1. Yeah, I've been thinking about voice and raiding lately, because I don't talk on Discord. You could easily call out colors in raid chat, but so many people have addons which output to raid chat that it is hard to see chat any more.

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  2. We are actually using an add-on, because our guild does not even use voice..... currently on he LOA's HC (nice to knwo rasta won't be that much o trouble), but really not looking forwards to Mekka....

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    1. What addon are you using?

      I think if there was nothing else in raid chat, it would be easy to type "Name - Color". But there's so much addon spam, that those lines will be lost.

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    2. Endless raid tools.. you need to have default raidframes on though.

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  3. The supposed big reveal that the shipwright is female ought to not be big at all. I'm not talking about the equal rights angle, but because Warcraft lore has tons of examples of women in positions of power. Have they forgotten their own lore?

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    1. Yeah. It's especially weird because you get the quest from Jaina herself.

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  4. My guild is currently working on Heroic Jaina. We have to extend the lock out from previous week to work on Stormwall Blockade (only down that once before). Heroic Jaina is less forgiving than normal.

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    1. Congrats! I'm looking forward to Jaina. It's such an excellent fight.

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