Razorscale & Toravon: 3/9
Hello Everyone!
Great job and lot's of fun getting all the TF'ers together and taking down Razorscale in short order. From there we went on to Toravon and got close to beating him. I just wanted to discuss the differences between the two quickly and why we just couldn't get Toravon down.
- Razorscale is in Ulduar and on 25 man he is an iLvl226 Boss (Tier 8).
- Toravon is an ICC boss equivalent and on 25 that means iLvl 265 (Tier 10 and quite a step up).
I am not a fan of gearscore, but let's suffice it to say that your "gearscore" on an ICC 25 fight should be in the 4,600 - 4,800 range as a minimum. However, I don't use gearscore 100% to evaluate raid level readiness. For example, our group last night was pulling 75,000 DPS as a raid on Toravon. We had our high DPS (Adam's rogue - shocker) at 7,600DPS or so and 7 DPS over 4K. That was not enough to beat Toravon. I just finished him this AM on my hunter and our overall raid DPS on my 25man PUG was north of 95,000. Top DPS was 8,900. I was a slacker at #7 pulling 6,500DPS and we had 11 toons pulling over 5K DPS. That's a big delta and really what's needed for that lvl boss.
Can we smite Toravon as a guild - most definitely.
In order to do so we need everyone maximizing their toon to its fullest. Grind heroics, buy
Emblems of Frost gear, get yourself outfitted in Tier 9, enchant/gem your gear, and be consuming raid flasks for that lvl raid (Endless Rage, Frostwyrm, Stoneblood, etc.). Eeking out every drop of performance from your toon and we can do this as a guild (which would be tons of fun).
I did notice that Toravon's Frost Orbs were going down in short order - which is awesome. Blizz has stated there will be no more "Tank & Spank" no movement fights. After your toon is all geared up, raid awareness, proper targeting, shot rotation make the difference from wiping to success.
Thanks for coming and see you all next week!!