this is the beginning of the 3rd week progression and we are coming close to a 100 wipes on mythic archimonde.
Changing Strategy
during the first week, we are planning for 3 doomfires in phase1 because most guild did 3 doomfires for their first kill too. due to our current gears and legend ring, we need to stop dps at 86% hp, then wait for the shadowfel burst, and push below 85% so that archimonde will use 2nd desecrate instead and further delay the 2nd doomfire. we practise this 3 doomfires strategy for the whole week and managed to progress into phase2.
during the second week, we decided to plan for 2 doomfires because we feel that dps have improved after 1 more week of farming, in addition, we also cut 1 healer (down to 3 healers now), and using bloodlust on pull, we wanted to push the boss to phase2 before the 3rd doomfire appear. this new strategy was quite unstable because sometimes we managed to push, and sometimes we fail, making no progress for the week.
(yesterday) during the third week, valor upgrade arrives, we decided to upgrade our legend ring and farm all the LFR raids in highmaul, blackrock, hellfire as a guild. it was boring but bosses die in a few seconds and we managed to clear all the LFR within 1.5 hours. we earn around 1250 valor points so i use it to upgrade my mythic weapon and also my mythic EDH trinket. after that, we extend the raid lockout and try to progress on mythic archimonde again. to our surprise, the valor upgrades help a great deal and we are able to do the 2 doomfires strategy in a much stable way. this give us a lot of opportunity to practise p2.
Sequence of Events
for progression on a very difficult boss with over 100 wipes, i will usually memorise all the sequence of events in my brain. consistency is very important because always doing the same thing in the same way will makes one better at doing it. this means using the same CD at the same time, being in the same position each time, eventually all these will become a part of me. practise makes perfect and when everything is already in my muscle memory, my dps rotation will improve, target switching will be fast, environment awareness will be good, etc.
writing it down can be another way help me remember too.
Phase One
on pull - potions, light hammer, ring, avenging wrath, trinket
doomfire - continue focus on boss, only rogues and hunters switch
deathcaller - continue focus on boss, cleave using FV divine storm
desecration - avoid getting hit but stay close to an orb for the buff
shadowfel burst - this mechanics is only for range, but as melee, when i see these 3 purple swirling circles on the floor, i can mentally prepare myself to avoid getting hit by the next desecration.
desecration - if this happen, we made the dps check for 85%
doomfire - everyone must switch and kill it asap, i'll also use avenging wrath for this doomfire
deathcaller - use light's hammer, refresh orb buff, then push archimonde down to 71%, and kill this deathcaller
doomfire - if this doom fire happens, we fail the 2 doomfire strategy and have to wipe
Phase Two
wrought chaos - minimize movement to achieve good position, and use divine protection if in a bad positioning with low hp
shackle - forget about dps and run out in the shortest direction asap
doomfire soak - run to the hunter i am assigned to and cast hand of purity
deathcaller - ring, avenging wrath, potions, trinket, kill it very fast
wrought chaos & shackle - very deadly combo, divine shield may be needed here, in addition there are also many dreadstalkers running around at this time, while wrought chaos is going on in this very chaotic situation, i must already plan ahead for the direction to run out from shackle by looking at the addon.
doomfire soak - run to the hunter i am assigned to and cast hand of purity
wrought chaos - trying to get back to boss carefully
shackle - this one kill me a few times because i always feel a bit dis-oriented due to running back and fro
doomfire soak - run to the hunter i am assigned to and cast hand of purity
wrought chaos & shackle & doomfire soak - this is a killer combo, and our strategy to avoid this is by pushing archimonde to 40% asap
Phase Three
we only reach p3 a couple times, not enough practise yet
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