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[PvE] OMG Challenge modes are awesome!

that is what they wanted you to get from them, awesome i am glad you had fun.

reply to Immer
Who was in the group?

Tiermordius / Angrende / Skylara / Sanctisimo / Drlocktopus

so much fun... so much dmg... the carnage was glorious!

For those of us with no pride and wounded egos, what classes/specs are those?

(Drlocktipus better be a warlock. I raided with a warrior once named Warlokk and it was VERY confusing)

reply to Nick D

i love that, my face hurts from laughing

reply to Immer

that name is pure win... I don't think any will surpass it in this expac

Yeah man, he was sitting at my dining room table when he was customizing his toon after faction change. I was playing with our sons and looked up and said, "You should name him Dr. Locktopus, that'd be awesome." At that point, he had already chosen Drlockstick, but immediately decided on a paid name change as soon as he got home that night, haha.

...wow...

much better than Drlockstick.

I'm really looking forward to these, as well. I need 2 more upgrades from heroics (helm and pants), I'm hoping to get some guild help this week stacking the deck to run the 2 dungeons I need directly (one is a first boss, one is a third boss).

My ideal comp (based on what we have to play with):

Blood DK (high self heals + insane AOE dps + 6 sec stun lock on a 1 min CD - essential for AOE pulls with no CC + Army of the Dead)
Priest (atonement priest for added dps) or Shaman (tanking totems + damage reduction cd's)
Warlock (good AOE dps + AOE stun on 1 min CD)
Elemental shaman (great DPS + knockback + damage reduction CD's + offheal)
Mage (not sure about spec here, maybe frost?) McBrain can correct me on this.

All of the best groups I've been seeing are using invisibility pots, no CC, and carefully rotating interrupts and AOE stuns to survive double and even triple pulling groups between bosses.

Any Mage spec will be sufficient really. Anyone can access Ring of Frost now, and we all obviously have Polymorph. We can also glyph into Improved Counterspell which allows us to cast it while we are casting another spell.

If there are going to be big AoE pulls, a Fire Mage specced into Frost Bomb will probably give you the best damage.

Maybe someone can answer this for me, are the bosses in challenge modes still lvl 92, like in heroics?

If so, only 12% hit will be required to reach cap, allowing a huge amount to be reforged into another, more beneficial dps stat.

Yes. They say to hit gold you need to reforge hit off and min/max. All of the team videos I've watching pulling gold were pulling the trash 2-3 packs at a time - the healer was NOT healing much, except under heavy damage spikes. He was using holy fire/smite spam. The group was very precise in using their interrupts and AOE stuns to mitigate tank damage.

reply to McBrain
No don't reforge, in challenge modes you're gear will auto scale down to 460, blizz is still tweaking it but they've said if you're just at the raid hit cap you'll be just at the challenge mode hit cap.

reply to clawfury
Now that I think about it, Fire would be the best spec because of Dragon's Breath. An AOE disorient would essentially be another stun/interrupt.

Just remember it doesn't work on bosses.

reply to DarkLogix
This confuses me.

So, they plan on scaling our gear down to 460, but requiring raid boss hit cap?

If gear is scaled to 460, it would make most sense for the challenge bosses to be level 92, thus requiring 12% hit to never miss.

At ilvl 460, unless you are sporting gear that just so happens to be itemized perfectly, there's very little chance you're hitting 15% hit without reforging everything you can to hit, having a couple of hit gems, and reforging some dps stats on gear with hit to expertise.
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reply to Immer
Unless your are going for Gold, CC must be used on almost every pull, gear here doesn't matter, is pure skill...

For speed runs, invis potions are a must... although you must meet a mininum of enemies killed so you don't skip the whole trash