Illustra PUGs Heroic Mechanar

Another day, a few more badges. I’ve found the out all my (non-healing) toons, the Warlock is the most likely to be invited to a PUG. But maybe it has something to do with the utility of the Warlock in the easier heroic instances. For heroic Mechanar, this is no exception. Enslavement and banishment are outstanding tools against the demons. Seduction can help delay a mob’s involvement (I don’t really care for it myself). But definitely dousing Nethermancer Sepethrea with DoTs is the way to go.

This group for heroic Mechanar was comprised of myself (70 affliction Warock), Iakona (70 protection Paladin) and Foneyboney (70 Mage) of Shameless Elite, Milye (70 holy Priest) of Deadly Intent, and unguilded Sookie (70 Hunter). It’s always interesting to watch Paladin tanks at work, because the good ones must know exactly what they’re doing. It’s not hard to spot the bad ones.

We did have an early wipe…the Mage wasn’t paying attention to the optional patrollers (which we skipped of course) and their enhanced aggro radius. We had a perfect clear to Mechano-Lord Capacitus, as I would expect, since it’s Warlock time. Mechano-Lord Capacitus dropped the Hammer of the Penitent (Iakona won the shard). The Cache of the Legion dropped Capacitus’ Cloak of Calibration (Sookie won the shard). I’m not sure if I’ve seen that cloak drop to date.

The group would end up skipping the second boss, saving her for last. Several of these trash pulls call for two forms of crowd control. I hate using Seduction, because I don’t think it’s very good…I’m glad we had a Mage and Hunter for these. The fight with Pathaleon the Calculator was pretty straightforward. Milye performed the first fear on the adds, and I had the second. Pathaleon burned quickly. Someone ended up being mind-controlled, but I’m not who it was (I think the Hunter). Pathaleon the Calculator dropped a Primal Nether (won by Illustra), Handguards of the Steady (taken by Sookie), Defender’s Tanzanite (needed by Iakona), the Abacus of Violent Odds (sharded), and Baba’s Cloak of Arcanistry (needed by Foneyboney).

With such a successful outing on the final boss, we moved back to engage the second boss. I’m not sure everyone had seen this fight before, at least in heroic mode, there were some poor examples of fire elemental kiting. It seemed like everyone was bunched together and ended up getting multiple Hellfires from the elementals. We had one wipe here. The second attempt was really excellent, for most of the fight I had two elementals on me. I stayed on the opposite side of the fight, kiting the elementals in a half loop. I also like to make liberal use of the platform where the boss initially stands. Nethermancer Sepethrea dropped the Nethershrike (Milye won the shard).

The damage output was the following:

January 20, 2008 | Filed Under Instances, Journal, Mechanar 

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