Magmaw Trash Guide - Magmaw Guide in Cataclysm

Over the holidays I as gone and working on gearing up for heroics then for raids. Now that im close to raiding i hoped into a guild raid run. We started on Magmaw. Although we didn't down the boss (only got 5 attempts in) I felt really good about the our preformance. We just had some position and DPS issues. I'm a healer so things were pretty smoothe and the area of mechanics. I do have a couple items I'd like to share about the raid.

1st - The are three mobs before you take a shot at Magmaw. One mob can be pulled solo. All 3 have a charge stun and HIT LIKE A TRUCK. They also stun the tank after charge stun. So the first add just stack near tank and heal and dps it down.

For the next 2 mobs, they are pulled together. We used 2 tanks, 2 heals (myself(shaman) and resto druid), and 6 dps (5 ranged and 1 melee). Have each tank hold an add on the other side of the room. The charge stun is on the furtherest person away from the mob. This why only the 2 tanks are getting charged on oppisite sides of the room. Have your heals and dps stack in the middle between the 2 tanks. That why they are never being charged. Heals will need to use BIG heals and dps will need to dps fast to cut down on the number of charges aswell as downing the adds before the healer go OOM (because they are using large healing spells). There is some addition damage to other raid memeber but tank are taking the most.

2nd - Magmaw has a LARGE hit box. BE VERY CAREFUL not to right click around the room becuas eyo umay accidently aggro the boss

3rd - Magmaw did alot more raid damage then expected. Be ready for that heals. We single DK tanked Magmaw. After 2 attemptes we added pally heals. This was to help with just tank heals who taes a considerable amount of damage.

4th - When piller of flame lands on the ground you have 2SECONDS to move; so GTFO. You need to snare the larva when spawned. We used the frost mage and hunters traps. Typhoon and thundrerstorm would work but we didnt have any. DPS them down ASAP as pillar of flame is every 30 sec. This was our down follow, the DPS of the adds and people not moving even when announced on vent.

Thats it for now. Here are a couple of videos to help you with the fight and the adds.

MAGMAW TRASH




MAGMAW GUIDE (this is the 25-man version, it is the same as the 10-man)

NEW PETS!

So over Christmas I was on the hunter for some new cataclysm pets. I was successful. I obtained 3 new pets. Ghostcrawler, Sambas, and Madexx (Green).

UPDATE:

Just snagged Terrorpene tonight. Man does he hit hard but at 85 I was down to about 14k HP of 105hp. I did not use any to help tame him. I just popped deterrence and tame. He hit for like 10k a sec. BE WARNED.

Here are the pics:

Christmas Brake

Sorry for the lack of post all. I am in minnesota on XMAS brake. After January 5th I'll be back up to the usual posting.

New Cataclysm Mounts

Here is a list of some of the new Cataclysm mounts.

Spectral Steed - Alliance Mount	Spectral Wolf	Fossilized Raptor
Drake of the East Wind	Drake of the North Wind	Drake of the South Wind
Drake of the West Wind - Horde	Phosphorescent Stone Drake	Vitreous Stone Drake
Sandstone Drake	Brown Riding Camel	Grey Riding Camel
Dark Phoenix	Abyssal Seahorse

Ultramarine Qiraji Battle Tank          
 
Drake of the West Wind - Alliance

Volcanic Stone Drake

Tan Riding Camel

How do I get Recipe: Vial of the Sands? The alchemy drake mount!

After much research I think I may have found out the topic I have been looking for. (PLEASE NOTE: the drake and recipe or BoP as of the recent hotfix on Dec.17, 2010. It is no longer BoE.)

How do I get the drake mont from alchemy?

Well couple of things you need to know. First, it is VERY exspensive and rightfully so. Its a mount that can carry a friend. And second, you need to find the recipe.

Well, you ask, how much is it? Where is the recipe?

Price

Pyrium-Laced Crystalline Vial (1x5000g)
Vendor Item - "Sold only by Yasmin in Uldum"
Sands of Time (8x2700g)
Vendor Item
Truegold (12)

• Pyrium Bar (3)
  

  • Pyrite Ore (2) OR {Elementium Bar (4) + Volitile Earth (4) }
• Volitile Fire (10)
• Volitile Air (10)
• Volitile Water (10)

Flask of the Winds (8)

• Volatile Life (6)
• Azshara's Veil (12)
• Whiptail (12)
• Crystal Vial

Flask of Titanic Strength (8)

• Volatile Life (6)
• Cinder Bloom (12)
• Whiptail (12)
• Crystal Vial

Deepstone Oil (8)

• Albino Cavefish

~~~ TOTALS ~~~
Pyrium-Laced Crystalline Vial x1
Sands of Time x8
Albino Cavefish x6
Crystal Vial x16
Whiptail x192
Cinder Bloom x96
Azshara's Veil x96
Volatile Life x96
Volitile Fire x120
Volitile Air x120
Volitile Water x120
Pyrite Ore x72 OR {Elementium Bar x144 + Volitile Earth x144}

Time costs:

• 35+ hours leveling/searching archy in order to hit max and find the pattern in uldum.
• 10+ hours herbing to level alch/produce the flasks and violatiles involved.
• 2 hours fishing to get the fish for the deepstone pots

Gold costs/opportunity costs:

• 29k vendor mats
• 16k+ in Truegold (Just post launch prices)
• 2k in flasks
• 160g in oil
• 10 blown transmute cooldowns (around 5.5k gold on my server at the bare minimum)
• unable to sell truegolds for 5k+ first day of expansion.

so just taking these base costs I put my grand total at:

• 52,660 Gold
• if I add Gold per hour opportunity cost from my farmer ( around 500g/hour on average) in order to accuire the pattern/craft it.
• 76,160 Gold!  (taken from WarcraftEcon)

So as you can see, this is very exspensive. Now one thing to note. If you are a goblin, vendor items will less exspensive due to the goblin racial. Also, once your guild reaches level 24, you will then rescieve an additional 10% discount. (It wont be for a while till your guild reaches that level due to the blizzard guild level mechanics.)


Recipe Discovery

The Recipe: Vial of the Sands is found through "discovery". Now what does that exactly mean? Well if you played BC or WotLK like I did, it typically mean some sort of research you level throgh leveling alchemy. There is always a random chance to learn a random recipe. The cool down on the research is usually long so it could take days or weeks before you discover the recipe since its random. In catayclsm though, THIS IS NOT THE CASE!!! You will not find out Recipe: Vial of the Sands through Alchemy.

Recipe: Vial of the Sands is found through ARCHAEOLOGY!!

(PLEASE NOTE: It says it in the Quick Facts. "Smart loot: Only available to players that have the profession and don't already have the recipe." You have to be an alchemist to discover this recipe.)

You need to be at least 450 archaeology and in Uldum/Tol'vir.
(see the short guide below)

A Handy Guide for those who haven't started Archaeology:

• Training Arch allows you to see Dig Sites on the two old world continents.
• There will always be 4 Dig Sites on a continent at any given time
• Once you mine out a dig site it respawns at a randomly selected location on that continent
• The Canopic Jar that drops this recipe is completed from Tol'vir Digsites
• Tol'vir dig sites are only in Uldum, and require a skill of 450 to spawn
• There are 4 Tol'vir dig sites and 52 across all of Kalimdor, meaning when you mine out a Kalimdor dig site it has a 1/13 chance of spawning a Tol'vir dig site which contain 9 or 12 fragments
• There are 6 common Tol'vir artifacts requiring 45 fragments each to complete, you will not be able to get repeats until you've completed them all once
• The Canopic Jar has a, currently unknown, % chance to drop the recipe. Most reports are of people not getting it on the first or second try, so likely less than 50%

So, what does this mean? Well, pick you Archaeology and start saving money. My plan is to start creating my mats and saving money. Find the recipe and create the mount when my guild reachs level 24. It will cost less and I am not in need of the mount right away.

Good luck to all! Hope this helps. As always, if I am off on any of my reseach please inform me.

Slowed Playing Time

Recently I have need some slowed playing time. Time to spend with my wife. Time to catch up on Job Training, ect. With the holidays starting up. One would think I would be on more. After all I am a teacher and have alot of time off. But you may see a decease in post. There shouldn't be but you might not see as many. Just keep checking back. I'll let you know how the WoW experience is going.

I rolled a 3! REALLY!

So last night I had some time to play on my hunter (cheapskate) and I happened to get into The Vortex Pinnacle. I must say it is an awesome dungeon. As I was running through the dungeon the Healer and Tank ended up leaving after the first boss. (I am willing to bet they where farming some sort of loot from the first boss; as they here indeed guildies.) Anyways, I teleported out to quest as we know that 3 dps in a group will take a awhile to que up again. After about 15 minutes I popped back in and started the rest of the dungeon. Altairus was the next boss. Now according to Atlas Loot he has a chance to drop [Reins of the Drake of the North Wind] on heroic mode. SO.... it dropped to my surprise. I ROLLED A 3!!! WTF!!! end of story.