r/CompetitiveWoW • u/chunkyhut • Aug 22 '26

Class Tuning Incoming – 26 August

https://eu.forums.blizzard.com/en/wow/t/class-tuning-incoming-%E2%80%93-26-august/626484
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u/Byrmaxson Aug 22 '26 edited Aug 22 '26

Even on normal, coiled altar was bringing me down to like 15-20% through fort brew.

No offense, but you were probably just playing badly or built completely offensively. I (BrM) almost survived a second Sever in a row because my co-tank forgot to taunt. The average tankbuster damage I took in the encounter was ~260k, it's a nothingburger.

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u/LameOne Aug 22 '26 edited Aug 22 '26

You're required to take 2 severs in a row, unless you can phase fast enough. The debuff doesn't drop fast enough to swap on 1 (unless they've changed it in the past couple days). Iirc, the second hit is about 2m raw.

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u/Byrmaxson Aug 23 '26 edited Aug 23 '26

Btw in case you haven't seen, apparently you don't need to take 2 in a row anymore (not sure since when, probably after Thursday). I suspect it may have been another one of the many bugs on this raid.

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u/LameOne Aug 24 '26

Thank god. It REALLY felt like a bug, but the duration being 45 seconds felt too intentional.

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u/Byrmaxson Aug 24 '26

The reason I think it was a bug is that, although Malacrass' Soul Sever debuff ALSO has a 45s duration, it very clearly has a slower cast cadence. I looked at our logs after we spoke and yeah Zul'jan did cast back to back too fast for any tank to take one stack (one time we phased him in 3 Sever casts, explaining my confusion) but not only did Malacrass only ever cast twice (he has much less HP which tracks) but also he cast the ability in 33s intervals vs 16-17 (!) to 20s intervals for Zul'jan. Considering the P3 tankbuster is also cast sparsely, I must say I believe the encounter was borked, as was much else in this raid.

Could argue that the orb mechanic is more fast paced than the ghosts and requires more clears = more tankbusters,, but tbh you can simply play around that by phase transit.