Heroic Rhyolith

[Weye]

We are missing a few things on this fight. Hidden mechanics we don't understand, and, well, gear.

1) Driving Rhyolith over a dormant (maybe also active) Volcano gives him a stacking 5% damage buff. This buff fades or is consumed somehow as well. This is not in the raid journal. Shouldn't stack above 2 I think.

2) Rhyolith 'prefers' to activate volcanoes in front of him. Also not in the raid journal.

3) Turning Flame. No explanation in-game or on wowhead. Some guy tries to explain it here: us.battle.net/wow/en/forum/topic/3082211708

"This is great for when a volcano becomes active on the other side of the platform from where Lord Rhyolith currently is. Turning him towards the newly activated volcano, and then straightening him out will grant him 50%+ movement speed, allowing him to reach and stomp out the volcano faster." -bonechatter


So basically the driver should aim Rhyolith toward an inactive volcano right before he is going to activate one, if possible, but not drive over any inactive ones if he can help it. DBM has the cooldown timer for volcano activation at 25.5 seconds. When a volcano is activated far away, turn towards it and immediately balance the dps on the legs.


Rhyolith stomps every 20 seconds, so here is the timing for the add spawns:
0:00 Pull
0:20 Fragments 1
0:40 Spark 1
1:00 Fragments 2
1:20 Fragments 3
1:40 Spark 2 -
2:00 Fragments 4
2:20 Fragments 5
2:40 Spark 3
3:00 Fragments 4
3:20 Fragments 5
3:40 Spark 4
4:00 Fragments 6
4:20 Fragments 7
4:40 Spark 5


Thadrana, check out Ike's post here for how to do insane DPS with fire nova: totemspot.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=48&t=1231&start=25#wrap


I am still confused about DPS assignments. I've read in some places that one mage can solo all the sparks and one boomkin can solo all the fragments. Some people say tank the spark for a while before swapping to it with all ranged DPS. That would mean fragments would need to be frost nova'd and then misdirected while the spark is getting finished off.

It seemed to me we could hardly get the spark down even with all ranged on it from the moment it spawns. It may be a gear issue.

On wed I'll be running EnsidiaFails to help us with magma flows, as well as Lord Rhyolith Footers, to help us with balancing DPS.

[Thadrana]

Me standing under foot and tstorming on cooldown will help keep the liquids off Rhyolith and his armor low so we get him down faster.

I'm not really reading in that thread how to do insane dps with Fire Nova. Although its not very, "this is how you do it" so maybe i missed something and should read it again. Also can you kill the slimes? If so, sweeeeeeeet.

I like the idea of prioritizing and splitting dps for legs left, right, sparks, and fragments. We should also know the fight by now and dps should already be steering toward an active volcano with out us having to shout out right or left. (we will probably still shout it out but still do your job) Also we need to stop hitting inactive volcano's.

I haven't been on in the past 2 weeks so I'm not sure where were at with group 1 or the players new and old in the guild. We still having the same issue of not having enough geared people for heroic modes? If so, what ideas do we have to over come this obstacle?

As far as gear, 14k-16k you got your 359 4 piece bonus. 18k 378 2 piece set bonus. Around 20k+ 378 4 piece set bonus. You should be near full (1-2 pieces off) to full firelands normal gear and very knowlageble of your dps rotation and cooldowns, ready for heroic modes.

Those numbers may be way off tbh. Take it as a rough estimate.

[Weye]

We have 2 new DPS at the moment doing around 18k, which is good for their gear, but low for heroic modes. Also this is a 2-heal fight so we need a healer to go DPS, and none of them really can atm (something we're working on).

Here's Ike's post copy and pasted:

"Re: Heroic Rhyolith

Postby Ike » Wed Aug 17, 2011 4:56 pm
www.worldoflogs.com/reports/vaxa00d37nfddk09/details/2/?s=3412&e=3749


For that parse, and how i do the fight, is basically just stand in the middle, and try to tab target fs and fire nova on cd. i prioritize new flame shocks>fire nova-ing>knocking back obsidiums>Chain Lightning>slowing obsidiums with totem>flame shocking fragments>flame shocking spark>Killing Spark if there is literally nothing else to do.

A lot of it is luck... gotta have obsidiums clump up really well to get the insane numbers, which generally happens when you hit multiple volcanos back to back. You're also gonna draw a shit ton of threat from fragments once obsidiums start appearing, so you might die from that if your tank and healers arent quick at saving you.

But if you get it right, where there are huge clumps of obsidiums right behind the boss, you do so much damage via firenova to the legs that its insane. My flame shocks on the legs were at 14 minute durations when he went into phase 2, which means they were 14 minute durations 5 minutes into teh fight. 19 minutes worth of novas hit them, which is hilariously awesome.

Ike

Character: Ikez
Server: Dragonmaw
Region: US"

[Thadrana]

Oh ok. Now i see what your saying. Very cool.