Sunday, July 19, 2009

1% Steelbreaker last wipe

Roydon happened to catch one of our best wipes ever on Fraps.



To give you some details of what's going on. In Steelbreaker last the main tank gets a debuff called Meltdown that causes him to explode after 30 seconds, killing the tank and anybody within 15 yards of him. In addition Steelbreaker performs Static Disruption and somebody not at melee range every 10-15 seconds. Static Disruption affects not only the target but everybody within 10 yards and is pretty much a wipe if more than 1 person is affected. Finally, anytime somebody dies during the final burn phase, Steelbreaker heals for 10% of his maximum health.

To handle Meltdown you need to plan on using a tank rotation. You are going to lose a tank every 30 seconds, and you have to burn through all his health before you run out of tanks. Whisperwind eleven uses Bigunit (Warrior), transition to Isisnile (Paladin), combat rez or soulstone Bigunit, who then takes it for a third tank set. If we haven't killed Steelbreaker by the time Bigunit blows up we lose.

To handle Static Disruption everybody stacks at melee range on top of each other except for the hunters. The hunters space themselves out at range so that they are the sole targets for Static Disruption.

Finally, in order to deal with the 10% health gain, nobody can die other than the tanks blowing themselves up. Since a tank blowing up takes out anybody near them, we form a triangle around Steelbreaker. 20 people in the raid form one point of the triangle, Isisnile is at the second point, and Bigunit is at the third, 15 yards apart from one another.

Which brings us now to this video. During the transition from Isisnile (tank phase #2) to Bigunit (tank phase #3), somehow (we're not sure how), Sychotic momentarily got aggro, but wasn't getting melee attacked. There are rumors of it being a bug with Fusion punch if the target of the Fusion Punch is no longer valid. Whatever the case may be, Sychotic got targetted with Meltdown, then Bigunit was tanking and got targetted for Meltdown. At 60,000 health left on Steelbreaker Sychotic's 30 second timer was up and he exploded in the middle of the raid, taking out 20 people and causing Steelbreaker to heal to full.

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