Perfect Run Through Heroic Underbog
Illustra picked up a PUG tonight that was looking for an extra dps…the goal was heroic Underbog. The party consisted of myself (70 Warlock) and three members of Voltage. Tanking was Haume, a 70 Paladin. Healing was Elendrill, a 70 Shaman. Livgren, a 70 Druid, and Mysticknight a 70 Shaman from the guild Endless rounded out the dps crew.
Running with two Shamans is an interesting experience. That makes for a lot of totems. I’m never sure what the range of the effects those totems provide is, or even if they vary between totems, but it seemed like the tank never brought the mobs close enough to the area of effect. But everyone certainly knew what they were doing. I honestly couldn’t tell if we were in normal or heroic, until I pried up the first Badge of Justice. Everything was in easy mode…I was free to Shadowbolt away without risk of aggro.
We cleared to Hungarfen pretty quickly…he dropped the Boggspine Knuckles. Apparently Mysticknight is changing Shaman specializations, and was coming in here after this item, so it’s nice to have someone need on it.
As usual, we brought Ghaz’an down from his platform and tanked him against the cavern wall. The casters stacked on top of the resto Shaman, and the poison cleaning went to work. Ghaz’an went down very quickly and dropped the Dunewind Sash. I won the shard on that.
Swamplord Musel’ek was also quite easy, the Paladin tank kept aggro nicely the entire time. Normally I get charged or frozen or something several times, interrupting lots of spells. I think the entire fight, I was frozen in ice traps twice, but the rest of the time I was able to cast away. Swamplord Musel’ek dropped Hands of the Sun.
And of course, just around the corner is the Black Stalker. In the opening phase of this fight, he lifted me high into the air. But for Warlocks, it’s not a huge deal. I got off Curse of Agony and Corruption on him, and then unloaded two Shadowbolts before I landed to the ground. Tanking was not a problem, healing was not a problem, dps certainly was not a problem. The Black Stalker dropped a Primal Nether (won by Haume), the Argussian Compass (needed on by Livgren), the Stormsong Kilt (needed on by Mysticknight), and the Mana-Etched Pantaloons (Illustra won the shard).
All in all, this was a flawless run, it was really quite terrific. The damage output was the following:
- Illustra was at 27% (658 dps)
- Livgren was at 26% (645 dps)
- Haume was at 24% (498 dps)
- Mysticknight was at 23% (737 dps)