Our first kill of heroic Baleroc.
I haven’t been posting, I know! But I’m still here and still playing and still druid healing and still GM of a 10-person raiding guild. We’re now 6/7 in Firelands heroics, thanks to the nerfs. We’d have reached this stage eventually, I’m sure, but we got there almost immediately once the content got nerfed.
The vid above shows a typical first kill. Baleroc is a fun fight on heroic. It requires close coordination and communication among raid members, because the link mechanic means that the Tormented debuff gets spread around randomly. I wish I could record our Mumble conversation as well as the game footage here, just so you could hear how it worked for us.
This particular kill is easy to repeat. We’re still capable of wiping on heroic Alysrazor, but we one-shot Baleroc the week after killing him the first time. Once you get the concept, the kill is just a matter of smooth execution. So if you’re still working on Firelands heroics, give this guy a shot! He might be easier than you think.
We’ll be pulling Ragnaros on heroic this week. Nobody on our server has a heroic kill of him yet, and the top guilds have been working on him for a while now. I don’t think much of our chances. About half the raid really wants to put in the time, though, so we will be. I confess that normal-mode Ragnaros has become a bit of a snooze-fest. I say this even though we’ve been two-healing it and I’m the healer who has to scurry around keeping the raid healed up.
