In Saturday’s Arcane Brilliance, I linked you to a Ghostcrawler post on the official forums in which he answered a good number of pressing Mage questions. Some of his answers were encouraging, some were vague, but all of them served to give a Mage community very concerned about its future a more enlightening look at Blizzard’s development goals for our class than we’ve had in some time.

On the heels of that post comes this truly epic thread on the EU forums from Vaneras. He begins by reposting Ghostcrawler’s earlier Q&A in its entirety. Five pages of Mage questions later, he presents us with no fewer than four more gigantic posts filled with more questions and developer answers (whether this is direct from Ghostcrawler or not isn’t made clear).

This may be, quite frankly, more direct communication between the developers and Mages in one day than in the rest of the six months of Wrath’s existence combined. I found a lot contained within that was encouraging. I found a few things that concerned me. Mostly, though, I’m just happy we’re on speaking terms again. I was beginning to think that maybe all those things some of us said about “slaps in the face” and “re-rolling a Lock” and “quitting the game” had offended Blizzard, and they’d finally taken our number out of their phone and changed their Myspace status to “Stop calling me, Mages.” My thoughts on this wealth of information after the jump.

Prince KelesethSkills:

Spawn Skeletons – spawns five skeletons with about 7,000 HP. Casts Decrepify on targets

and if all skeletons die, they will all respawn.

Strategy:

After clearing the Vrykul, have the tank grab the attention of Keleseth and the skeletons.

Prince Keleseth uses Shadow Bolt a lot so a shadow resistance buff would be good. Have

your DPS cast good DPS to kill off the skeletons and in time you’ll down this boss.World

Skarvald the Constructor and Dalronn the Controller

Skills:

Skarvald

Charge – charges an enemy, dealing some damage and stuns for 2 seconds

Stone Strike – deals weapon damage and knocks you back

Dalronn

Shadow Bolt – deals 2700-3300 damage

Debilitate – lowers all speed and deals 750 shadow damage every second for 8 seconds

Resets threat

Strategy:

These dual bosses are very similar to Romulo and Julliane in Karazhan; they are both relatively

weak and have to be killed at the same time. Skarvald does a random charge and a fair

amount of melee damage while Dalronn is a Shadow Bolt spamming warlock who gives the

group a casting debuff. If you don’t kill them within a few seconds of each other the other

will summon a spirit of the fallen boss that is untargetable, unkillable, and has all the previous

abilities. Dalronn has random chance to switch targets so healers should be alert.

Ingvar the Plunderer (Final)

Skills:

Phase 1

Staggering Roar – 2,00 damage area effect with a 60 yard radius and silences for 6 seconds

Smash – 20,000 damage in a 10 yard area to his front, 3 second cast time

Cleave – hits 2 players in front for 150% melee damage

Enrage - +5% attack speed per cast, stacks 50 times

Phase 2

Dreadful Roar – 3,500 shadow damage area effect with a 60 yard radius and silences for 8

seconds. Increases shadow damage taken by 5% per cast and stacks 40 times.

Strategy:

Ingvar is the final boss of this instance. He has a few hard hitting skills but all have cast

times. You can avoid Smash and Cleave by running away while he’s casting it. Pay attention

and avoid his melee strikes while keeping track of your HP while he uses AoE skills.

wow(wotlk) Feral(Tank) druid Aoe Grinding in IceCrown.
pally(prot, holy, ret) might possible.

37k armor, 37% dodge, 31k Health in Dire-bear Form.

after 30 minutes
60~90g from looting
20~25g trash grey item
4~7 green loot
60~90 frostweave cloth

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