MYTHIC DUNGEON - PLANS OF ATTACK & STRATEGY

After working with our fearless leader Aoibheil and other Tuatha Guild members on several long and difficult Mythic Dungeons, it seems to me that strategy and plans of attack prior to launching a dungeon or raid would give better results - quicker, less confusion, more rapid success.

To wit I offer these limited observations -

ONE that comes to mind at this moment is my Monk's Engineering ability - now close to 800.

That gives me the ability to make and use
1) GUNPOWDER CHARGE - This current one star recipe makes a bomb that deals 388 thousand fire damage to the target
The Gunpowder Charge can be used by anyone with no engineering profession and can be use with the:
2) DEPLOYABLE BULLET DISPENSER: This 3 Star current recipe summons a turret that fires bullets at the target that total damage of 200 to 300 thousand

• Need to have 350 Engineering skill to use
• Can use in dungeons
• Deals ~25 hits 8.2-.85k each (can crit)
  200-300k damage total.
• Shared cd with  Gunpowder Charge (they deal 300-600k damage)

3) FAILURE DETECTION PYLON - These resurrect party members when placed within 5 yards "after combat has ended" when spirits have not been released. This would help when all 5 party members die - like with the Dragon & eggs in Darkheart Thicket.

4) PUMP-ACTION BANDAGE-GUN:  this heals party member or allies up to 40 yards away with over 155 thousand healing in 6 seconds. - I don't think the player has to stop action to get the healing

• It does not do the entire heal at once, rather it applys a hot.
• The hot lasts for 5 seconds and does 6 ticks of healing
• The ticks were either of 25923 or 25924 for a total of 155,541 healing.

These two items add healing to the team with any Engineer in addition to the team healers

There must be other professions that offer similar additional damage and healing actions to a dungeon team.

When a group of the guild gets together for a Mythic it seems to me that someone should lead who has familiarized themselves with the dungeon and who can lay out a strategy for the team. I've been lost on the few Mythic's we have done together and some simple but detailed instructions prior to the start would be very helpful for me and I believe would add to the team's chance of success and reduce the time required to complete.

Darkheart Thicket Dungeon Strategy Guide

For instance, in our Darkheart Thicket Mythic attempt, we got stuck at DRESARON the Dragon because team members were blown into the eggs causing them to hatch and some of us got caught in the BREATH OF CORRUPTION.

Reading the Wowhead guide is one solution - a team leader likely knows most of this already so it will be easier to succeed with a strategy based on what the team leader knows and available guides.

Mythic Difficulty

Run against the Down Draft to avoid triggering Whelplings

Dresaron is a primarily single-target fight with heavy movement requirements. If players fail the Down Draft/Corrupted Dragon Eggs mechanics, there may occasionally be small groups of trivial adds to kill.

In Patch 7.2,  Down Draft will push players back with more force, making them play as close to Dresaron as possible. Pets will also not pop Corrupted Dragon Eggs when they stand on them.

The Tainted Burrow in which players fight Dresaron is encircled by Corrupted Dragon Eggs, which, when disturbed will hatch into Hatespawn Whelplings (just like the trash).

When Dresaron uses the  Down Draft ability, players will be pushed away from him.

•  Down Draft is more forceful further away from Dresaron
• If players do not run forward to fight the winds, they will be pushed back into the Corrupted Dragon Eggs
• Move close to Dresaron to minimize the amount of running you will have to do
•  Down Draft also deals heavy periodic damage
• Healers should use mobility abilities, instant spells, HoTs, or raid cooldowns to keep the party alive

A properly executed  Down Draft should spawn zero Hatespawn Whelplings. However, if any Whelplings do spawn, the tank should pick them up.

Side-step out of Breath of Corruption

 Earthshaking Roar will also deal heavy party-wide damage.

• Following the  Earthshaking Roar,  Falling Rocks will appear over a random player's locat1on
• This can be particularly dangerous if it happens just before or after a  Down Draft, or if it targets the tank
• Players should quickly move out of the  Falling Rocks and use a damage-reduction or self-healing cooldown if on low health
• Tanks should move Dresaron away from  Falling Rocks that threaten the melee DPS
• Healers may need to use emergency healing to keep the affected players alive

Maybe I'm way off base here but it's exhausting for me to find myself clueless and useless so I need to be instructed.

This is just a start to coming up with a plan to strategize our Dungeon and Raid capabilities. I will be glad to do some of the research and as Guild Leader, I think you should assign us to tasks for planning Dungeons.

Rushing off to to dungeons is one way - but if a team knows the plan -
1) Which dungeons we are going to do on which level
2) Who on the team has what capabilities - like the engineering abilities shown above
3) As an Engineer I can craftt the items listed above and give them to group members but to maximize the usefulness it requres a bit of a plan

DOES ANY OF THIS MAKE ANY SENSE TO YOU?

TUATHA DE DANNAN LINKS and SECTIONS

THIS IS THE ENTRY POST AND PAGE to the TUATHA DE DANANN GUILD home on the web.

Please offer your comments & criticisms in the comment section and add your name and email address to become an "author" with full post creation privileges.

THE PET PAGE - this section is dedicated to Pet Battles. A list of members who will loan pets & give advice on Achievements and the Celestial Tournament. And links to the best videos and information on what pets to use to defeat the WOW trainers.

ACHIEVEMENTS PAGE - Is there an achievement you are working to complete? Would it be better to have guild companions on this quest?

PROFESSIONS PAGE - Need a Rogue to open a locked box? Find the Rogue here. Need something enchanted? A specific Glyph? A Blacksmith's armor or weapon? A jewel-crafter's ring or necklace? This is where members with those skills can post their offerings and members can request help.

QUESTS PAGE -  Example - I have a level 57 character in the SWAMP OF SORROWS today who just got a Quest from the NPC in the TEMPLE OF AKAU HAKKAR that obviously requires more than one player to compete.   There have been others like this. The ZUL'FARRAK in TANARIS, KALMIDOR for instance that I have been forced to skip since it too required at least 3 players (according to the script) to accomplish.  This page could be used to form teams with times to meet in order to get through these Quests that require teams.

GUILD BANK PAGE - How to make the best use of the Bank for Guild Members

THE RAID PAGE - A list of upcoming RAIDS and how to prepare for them

THE DUNGEON PAGE

THE LEGION PAGE - A look at the upcoming expansion and how we can best prepare to take full advantage as a group

Once these pages have been set up the ALL CAPS TITLES above will become links to those sections and this post will be pinned at the top of the website - the first or second thing you will see entering the Guild home on the web so you can navigate quickly to what you need.  I have created a PET PAGE and done the link to show how it will work.

PLEASE OFFER YOUR ADVICE, COMMENTS, CRITICISMS, and particularly your SUGGESTIONS for pages that would be of use to you in the comment section below 

TUATHA De DANANN - GUILD HOME ON THE WEB

TUATHA De DANANN blog - WOW Guild Tuatha De Danann

Make the LINK tuathawow.blogspot.com a common destination when preparing to play WOW as often as possible. This website will be an easy way to improve and facilitate communication within our WOW Guild that does not require a FACEBOOK membership.

Blogger is a completely independent app from GOOGLE that can be used in concert with Google Plus or additional GOOGLE Apps but does not require any additional memberships or applications. This website is a stand alone method for sharing information, communication, instruction and shared experience.

A quick visit to tuathawow.blogspot.com can update guild members on upcoming events and serve as a sounding board for your ideas and desires for Guild related activities.

Many of us use FACEBOOK to voice our political and religious views along with personal information that has no relevance to WOW. Here we don't have to deal with differences of opinion or perspective on anything that does not relate to how the Guild should function.

The Guild should be a strong resource for WOW play to enhance GUILD participation and interaction.

Any GUILD member who wishes to do so can participate by adding comments OR by requesting 'author' status. To do so simply send add your email address in the comment section and you will receive an email that allows you to access the "NEW POST" option.

One of the great features of Blogger allows image uploads and the capacity to place the image on the page like the inventory on the left

From here you can place text relating to the image making it possible to easily ask a question, make a point, or offer information.

CLICK ON THE IMAGE TO THE LEFT
and you will be able to view a much larger version of the image to make it easy to see everything.

So if you wish to inquire about how something works or the best method to use to achieve a result you don't have to rely on words alone to make your point.

By use of the Snipping Tool available with Windows and a number of other screen capture applications you can easily create images like these to illustrate a point you would like to make.

FOR EXAMPLE: AOIBHEIL our wise and fearless Guild Mistress and I discussed the best use of the GUILD BANK. At present the PET PAGE looks something like this:

It is quite obvious when viewing this that the LEFT SHARK comes in such abundance that it takes up over two vertical rows in the bank. That should make it obvious to all of us that placing these in the bank only serves to eliminate a space that might be used to greater Guild benefit.

At the same time we can find slots on the Enchant page occupied by Glyphs that belong on the SCRIBE Page. Antiseptic Bandages that occupy an entire vertical row here and on other pages are also available in enough abundance to make it obvious that placing them here is of little benefit to Guild Members.

The Guild Bank should serve the guild by offering useful items that are somewhat difficult to acquire.  One idea would be to use this website as a place to ask guild members for items that you need and to offer items you might be willing to trade.

Use some discretion when placing items in the Guild Bank. If more than 7 of the item you are placing already reside in the bank you can do more good by selling the item and placing the proceeds in the bank.

The key is to see if your proposed donation is already available in sufficient quantity to make the donation of marginal value and to try to use the pages as designed so it is easy to locate what you need.

TUATHA DE DANANN - PET COLLECTING AND PET BATTLES PAGE

With 670 unique rare level 25 pets in my collection I am more than willing to offer specific pets by loan to Guild Members who need a specific rare pet or pets to take on the Pandarian Trainers at the Celestial Tournament.

The Celestial Tournament is unique since a player has to defeat 3 trainers and 4 Celestial Pets in succession without healing any pet for the duration of the event. It takes 4 weeks to complete the Tournament and collect these 4 Celestial Pets.

Guild members who wish to borrow some pets from my collection to get this achievement should contact me in the comment section and I will send the requested pets to you via WOW mail and you can return them the same way at the end of the day you choose to do the quest.

CHI CHI 

XU FU

YU' LA

ZAO 

I found that viewing the videos by hazelnuttygames on YouTube was most instructive for most of the Pet Battles in Pandaria. A player can acquire 11 green bags a week from Pandaria Trainers and another 3 doing the Beasts of Fable I, II, and III quests. These bags give Rare Upgrade Stones, Pet Bandages, and a lot of junk worth some gold but most importantly offer the best way to level up pets using the hazelnuttygames videos as a guide. Two great battle pets and one "leveling" pet per battle can yield a lot of levels to your collection.

This site WARCRAFT PETS is one I have found to be most useful in knowing how to find and acquire pets - and how to evaluate which attributes (attacks and mitigations) to apply in certain circumstances.  This is probably the one area of the game where I feel most competent.

NORTHERN STRANGLETHORN QUESTS FOR LASHTAIL HATCHLING

LASHTAIL WITH SKULL WITH BROTHER NIMETZ 

LASHTAIL WITH SKULL WITH OSBORN OBNOCTICUS 

as you can see there is no offer of  any quest - particularly the  "A NOSE FOR THIS SORT OF THING"