One Rogue's Journey

Hey there! Did you miss me? I missed you.

No one missed you, just give them the damn information. People come here for advice and strats not to hear about your mundane life. If you must talk about that, throw it at the bottom.

Valid point, though very meanly said.

So awhile back I did a post on Feint in Ulduar. Some time has past since then and I’ve actually seen a lot more of this little instance.

You mean more than 5 bosses?

Yes, Mr spiteful, I’ve actually seen 12 of the 13 bosses at this point.

Still haven’t killed Yogg yet though, huh?

You’re as much to blame on that as I am.

…

Nothing to said to that? Good. Back to the business at hand, let’s go through the bosses of Ulduar and see where Feint can make your healers love you. I’ll be rating the usefulness of feint on a scale of 1 to 5 stab wounds, where 1 is basically a waste of your time and 5 is a must must must use always, because everybody loves numbers.

Flame Leviathan

Usefulness: N/A

Obviously you’re in a vehicle here, so no feint.

Why did you waste space on this then?

It’s called consistency, I’m listing all the bosses.

It’s called padding your post.

Razorscale

Usefulness: 1 Stab Wounds

While using Feint will help you take less damage from the whirlwind of the adds, I don’t consider that a very viable use.

Just say it, if you get hit by the whirlwind you’re noob and even if feint saves you you’ll clearly noob it up in some other way and die anyways.

Don’t be mean. But yeah, don’t get hit by the whirlwind.

Ignis

Usefulness: 5 Stab Wounds

Flame Jets is your target here. You should be using cloak of skill to avoid it whenever possible but you won’t be able to cloak them all. Whenever cloak is down, throw a feint to decrease the load on your healers.

No lame math this time?

Well, since you asked. On Heroic mode, Flame Jets does 8,483 to 9,517 damage and then 2,000 damage every second for 6 seconds. A well timed Feint can halve the initial damage and about 4-5 ticks of the dot, preventing anywhere between 8,241 to 9,758 damage (8,483-9,517 /2 = 4241.5-4758.5) + (8000-10000/2 = 4000+5000)

XT

Usefulness: 5 Stab Wounds

Keep your eyes open for Tympanic Tantrum because it does 10% of your hit points every second for 8 seconds for a total of 80%. With Feint you can knock that down to 50% ( (10% *6)/2 + (10% *2) ).

…Well? No comment?

What, huh? Were you saying something? I wasn’t listening.

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Assembly of Iron

Usefulness: 1 Stab Wound

It is possible to use Feint when a rune of death is dropped on you to negate a few of the ticks, however, I wouldn’t recommend it, it is better that you just GTFO, as they say.

As who says?

You know, they.

Oh…right…loser

Kologarn

Usefulness: 2 – 3 Stab Wounds

This big Santa Claus looking guy’s right left arm will cast shockwave periodically which does (on heroic) 13,875 to 16,125 damage to the entire raid so a successfully timed Feint will save you 6,937 – 8,062 damage. The reason this doesn’t score higher on the usefulness scale is that is very unpredictable and you really have to guess when to feint to get it off right.

Too much work, let the healers handle it.

It can feel that way, yes and if the healers aren’t struggling on this fight then sure, don’t worry about it but if they are struggling (particularly when the fight is being learned) you can help take a little bit of the strain off of them.

Auriaya

Usefulness: 3 Stab Wounds

Her sonic screech ability does (on Heroic) 190,000 to 210,000 damage divided equally among all enemies standing in front of her. This seems like a ton but divide 25 ways (as it should be) it is only 7,600-8,400, your Feint will knock this down to 3,800 – 4,200. Not essential but a nice bit of help to your healers.

I like kitties.

Yeah me too, I guess we can finally agree on something.

‘Bout time.

Hodir

Usefulness: 3 Stab Wounds

Frozen blows will cause (on Heroic) 4,000 Frost Damage to the entire raid every 2 seconds for 20 seconds. Feint will reduce 3 ticks for a total of 6,000 frost damage. It may not seem like a lot but it can really add up in the course of this (healing intensive) fight.

I like this fight, it’s cool.

I thought I said no puns?

Yeah, like I listen to you.

Thorim

Usefulness: 1-2 Stab Wounds

Like on Razorscale you can use Feint to take less whirlwind damage (a lot of which is unavoidable when in the pit) but that’s hard to time and you’re much better off just dismantling the champions before they whirlwind.

When Thorim himself is engaged you can use Feint to take some of the sizzle off of chain lightning but it is very hard to time which is why the usefulness rating is as low as it is.

This fight is the pits.

I hate you so much.

<3

Freya

Usefulness: 1 1/2 Stab Wounds

If you find yourself too close to detonated lashers and your cloak is down…

AKA, you screwed up

Please don’t interrupt, if you find yourself in this situation a quick Feint can save the day but you’re best just avoiding this situation.

In phase 2, you can Feint the explosion from the bombs she drops but, again, she should just be avoided.

Mimiron

Usefulness: 1 Stab Wound

You’d think there would be more to Feint on this fight that contains so much crazy AOE but the truth is you really just need to avoid all of that. In phase 2 he casts Heat Wave. You can Feint the initial damage but not the DOT, it’s hard to time and not worth it.

God. I LOVE robots!

Me too!

I still hate you.

Right back atcha big guy.

General Vezax

Usefulness: N/A

You shouldn’t be taking any damage in this fight.

Enjoy your kicking duty.

I’m leaving Yogg and Algalon off the list for now since I don’t have enough experience (or in the case of the later, no experience) to speak on them.

Noob.

No, you.

Touche

So that is that. Feint in Ulduar. Use it, love it.

So, where the hell have a been? Short answer is I just took a little unannounced break.

Lazy Jerk.

Shut up you. Medium answer is that life just got a little hectic for awhile and I was just really busy.

Again, lazy jerk.

The long answer is well, long, so I’m not going to go into it.

QQ more.

Shut up.

Anyway, I make no promises but I’m going to be doing my best to get back on track.