It instead, for our raid, spiked at Council of Blood and evened out, with normal Denathrius being much simpler on mechanics for our group, as normal used easily-understood and common mechanics like stacks and spreads with damage tuning that was fairly forgiving. I had a tad bit of disappointment in normal Nathria because it didn’t have a smooth difficulty curve, or even an expected one that continued to rise as the raid progressed. I do think, however, there is a scale to it and that balancing difficulty as you go is crucial.

How much is up for debate – but I don’t find the general concept to be disagreeable. Likewise, gameplay dictates that the time spent on bosses underneath the final one brings more gear, more player skill, and that the final fight of a raid should be tuned to lean a bit on those. That makes sense from both a lore perspective and a gameplay perspective – the head of the household sits atop the throne, the strongest and most capable, while those underneath are weaker and less able to win in the face of our power. Raids should be tuned, I believe, to offer increasing amounts of challenge as your band of adventurers pushes ever deeper into the boss list.

It does bring me to an interesting, longer discussion though. This week, for night one, my group decided to employ the skip to be able to spend a lot more time on Denathrius, and boy, is that fight tricky! On Heroic, that problem is no longer present – you’ll wipe a lot on Council of Blood still, but Sire…he takes far more out of you.Īt this point, my guild’s raid groups have been working on the Heroic version of the Sire fight for nearly a month, with some small handful of attempts closing out each raid week.

On normal, inside the halls of Castle Nathria, I proclaimed the raid overall was pretty reasonably tuned, with a couple of wall fights early that made Sire Denathrius feel a bit weak.

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