[NPC][Karazhan]Prince Malchezaar

[Picajzla]

I'm gonna open a new issue as the last one got closed before i commented on it. The closed issue is "only" complaining about 9k axe hits on prince,but that's only 1 of many issues that fight has. I'd like if you could link me those "prenerf" value sources because I'm seriously struggling to find a video where tank gets hit for 19k with ironshield pot on as it happens on this server. The following kill video from retail happened on 4/2/2007 (less than 20 days from release of TBC): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wHyqB2Ruqyk where you can clearly see a 1.5k crit on cloth. Normal hits are 700. On this server clothies get hit for 9k insta. You can see the priest getting hit on 6:20
I'm not even gonna get started on the cleave in this video. None of the melees get cleaved like they get on this server and they're running all around the boss. Getting cleaved on prince on this server happens when you're behind the boss and you get 1 shot. I'm gonna shut up and never complain about Prince again if you can counterproof me with some legit evidence that you claim to be your source. A server that has bugs and tries to fix them is a server that i can play on, but server that refuses to admit their mistakes and won't work on fixing them is not worth wasting time on.

[Mewmewww]

Personally, our group didn't have any problems with flying axe phase and it was our first prince run. Cleave didn't hit anyone behind if you positioned yourself correctly behind him at max range (we had a rogue and a enhancement shaman)

[Firroth]

You can counter cleave by standing at max range. Axes aren't that much of a problem if group expects it.

"I'm seriously struggling to find a video where tank gets hit for 19k with ironshield pot on as it happens on this server." - Maybe because your tank sucks? 19k is only possible if he gets crushed during thrash (thrash is insta 3 hits, so if 2 of those are crush for 6-8k then no wonder, he got rekt) or comboed with cleave. I'm tanking him with 14k hp and died only once to him by insta-killing me in 4 Id's, so fault lies in your tank not boss mechanic.

[femdead]

if you get 2 crushes during enrage it's more like 27K than 19K and shield block doesn't have infinite charges, you've gotten lucky so far firroth so good for you i guess

[Firroth]

@femdead
Thing is i'm not stama stacking, so I simply don't get hit by thrash at all (he can't even stack sunder armor on me (max 2 stacks), since he misses most of the time (35-40% chance to hit me), so if he lands his thrash on me, all 3 hits from it are on roll - hit me or not with this low hit chance, so far only once all landed. Also since he has low hit chance on me, my shield block charges aren't taken in 1-2s, like it is for other tanks who prio stama. (that's my playstyle and way of countering this boss, I swap gear depending on boss, so I don't stick with 1 set).

One question though: "if you get 2 crushes during enrage it's more like 27K than 19K" - what do you mean by enrage? you call p2 this way? Crush blow is 5-6k without sunders, with 5 sunders it goes up to 10k I guess.

[Picajzla]

I guess if you expect the axes happening, they aren't much of a problem right?https://i.gyazo.com/thumb/1200/838deff1b7c03e273f1ee3b3a2d2b868-png.jpg
Unless this happens on a target that doesn't really have 9k hp. Might as well watch the video that i linked if you're saying that we're getting cleaved. Pretty sure they'd be cleaved as well running all around the boss. Not to mention the fact that priest in the video gets hit for 10x less. This fight is a complete RNG as it is now. One time you kill it with no problems, other time tank rolls over and dies, and then the next time axes just come up to you and hit you in the face with amount larger than your hp.

[Firroth]

I'm not questioning nor stating it should be that way. My healers priest and paladin never cried about it nor died to it, so I don't really knew it was this way and it had such dmg to begin with. But you're right it shouldn't hit for this much, so it should be fixed.
As for cleave, 2.0 had 360 cleaves, so be happy it isn't like that here. It's propably because of it's bounding radius or smth along those lines which make it look like 360. If your meele will stay at max range, but still in range of meele attacks they won't get cleaved I assure you. Devs should look into it anyway I guess.

[Tenoutoften]

I guess this is slightly off topic as some mobs use different cleave spells but the range of it does look strange at times. Here is me taking a cleave from a Lurker add when I am quite far away from the tank.

[Tenoutoften]

I also think it is important for people to understand that this server does intentionally use custom values. Entire SSC is filled with custom health values, expect the same for Tempest Keep and other dungeons

[femdead]

@Firroth you are aware that shield block charges, sunder stacks, and crushing blows are all down to rng? No matter how you gear your avoidance is only going to be within a few points of another tank unless you're unironically gemming parry (on-use trinkets nonwithstanding but the phase lasts much longer than your cooldowns are available)

[Neophrone]

The problem is that this cleave and axes damage ARE NOT BLIZZLIKE. I know that a lot raids kill it with those custom changes. But dews of NW aiming Blizzlike quality. So fix it or prove that it's Blizzlike. I know that melee can avoid this cleave, but than tank will eat those cleaves. Second phase is completly rng. Our tank died 2 times because of trash and this cleave happened at the same time.

[Firroth]

@femdead

This is my set for prince atm.

I'm not even t4 geared except, t4 gloves (gems are agi+stam / agi+hit / 12 stam), and yet I have 50% avo (dodge+parry+miss, without block). Adding buffs to it Major agi elixir, BoK, wild, heck even 20agi food buff, I'm then on 24/25% dodge (55% total avo), add to it hunter's sting +3% miss and agi totem +3-4% dodge = 61-62%. We lust at p3.
My hp is at 15k full buff with all this. So like I wrote he has 38% chance to actually hit me, I don't even bother stoping to attack him during p2, since parry haste isn't an issue. Feel free to ask my healers too, how hard healing is for them (we 2man heal it), and they don't even need to spam heals. That's how we do prince. Other bosses ofc. I don't use such high avo stats, I'm not a retard.

[Easyfraggy]

Just a slight correction your chance to be hit by a lvl 73 boss is actually 102,4% (as your avoidance is lowered slightly by his higher level). Just in case you're not aware.

[Firroth]

Yeah, I forgot about the 73lvl, but still it doesn't change the fact I don't get oneshooted, like other tanks tend to get. Anyway @Easyfraggy does alcohol reduce boss lvl too?

[Easyfraggy]

Some tips for Prince for Warriors:

• Make sure your dps take it easy in phase 1 so they dont get threat capped in phase 2.
• Bloodlust in phase 2.
• Keep Thunderclap, Demo and Shield Block up at 100% uptime during p2. Especially thunderclap helps your Shield Block uptime tremendously. (together they are over 40% damage reduction to the boss).
• Use minor cooldown (trinkets etc) early at 1-3 stacks of sunder armor.
• Use Last Stand at 4-5 followed by immediate Shield Wall when Last Stand fades granted you still have 5 sunders on you at this point - if they dropped, great!
• Furthermore don't use windfury on the tank during p2. Tank can even stop melee attacks during high sunders (3-5) to avoid parryhasting the boss. This last part puts even more emphasis on dps staying low on threat in phase 1.

If you're a Paladin it helps a ton to have a dps warrior debuff him with TC/Demo.

[PolarCookie]

Regarding Prince one-shotting tanks, is he really supposed to triple hit them?
I know he's supposed to double hit because dual wielding, but before you scream thrash consider this

@Easyfraggy I'm just curious, would a 2nd thrash have hit me there if I was a WotLK tank and could actually take 20k+ damage, i.e. 5 attacks in one instant? and just for clarification, do you have sniffs of Prince triple hitting, double thrashing and cleaving the tank in one instant?

[Firroth]

So perhaps prince should have 1 from proccing + 3 from from the ability?

[PolarCookie]

look closer, it's called melee and melee (thrash) in the log; the triple hit was not obviously a thrash.

[Firroth]

Just because an addon doesn't call it thrash, doesn't mean it wasn't. Addon's aren't 100% dependable in this sort of cases. Instant 3 hits in 0.01 is Thrash for me, since obv. he doesn't have attack speed 0.01

Edit: from what I see he hitted you for 6-7k non crush, so you had some sunders on you for sure.
Tank from my guild had similar thing happen to him, and only last hit is "called Thrash". So like I wrote addon isn't dependable in this case.

[femdead]

still not sure how this guy dropping 200 stamina for 3% extra avoidance is magically uncrushable

[Easyfraggy]

You cannot get uncrushable unless you get 102,4% avoidance+block which is only possible for paladins (holy shield) and for warriors with shield block (only 2 charges).

[femdead]

he meant that gearing for avoidance means you're less likely to have your shield block charges fall off before you re-cast it which, yes, is a good strategy for prince, but no matter how you gear it's still possible to get bad avoidance rng especially since the enrage phase is too long to simply chain your cooldowns at this gear/dps level

so the fight is basically "hit phase 2 and pray that you don't get unlucky enough to get thrashed for full damage until you push through the phase" because the dmg potential of the boss is easily 20-30K in one swing if you lowroll

[Firroth]

If you have a chance to avoid more than 50% of all his "total" hits, then it increases your chance to not get "thrashed", and even if thrash lands in worst case scenario, then again all 3 bonus hits from it are on roll if they will hit or not (with higher chance to not hit). So even if I get thrashed, I have a chance to dodge/parry/miss the attacks from it, and it won't cummulate to 15k+ total. Shield block charge's aren't taken from you this fast too, which is a good thing. I always used 27%-30% dodge/17-18%parry/11% miss strat on this boss and it very rarely failed me.

We don't lust on p2, so I need to live good 2min+ on it. (60% trinket for 900 hp + LoH for armor+ Ironshield pot , 55% trinket from JC, 45% LS, 35% ShWall). That's how my rotation goes.

If you really don't believe me it can change this much on this boss, then feel free to test it for yourself. I'm done in this topic, since I took it offtopic too much, call me lucky if you wish, since this RNG didn't affected me yet.

[femdead]

do you not understand the concept of rng

[Anonyxx]

Somebody actually knows how to play TBC warrior tank (not stam stacking) and you question his ability to tank... wow...

[Easyfraggy]

Chaining cooldowns is the way to get through phase 2 without dying and your dps doing as much dps as possible in this phase. There is little to no rng if you do this properly. Read the tips I gave earlier for warrior tanks. You shouldn't get rng'd if you do all of those things.

About the cleaves - chain cleaves were how most cleaves worked in patch 2.0 where it just has a set jump distance causing you to sometimes get hit behind the target. This only happens with bad positioning e.g. tank being too close to the boss.

In patch 2.1 chain cleaves were removed and all of them turned into regular cleaves you all know from the remainder of wow history. Same will happen on NW in 2.1.

Bosses are set to their pre-nerf state which means even if they only used a specific ability for a few days in tbc Shade of Aran - Dragonsbreath, Curator - Astral Armor and Prince Malch - Cleave for example - you wont find any videos of these (except dragonsbreath).

[Picajzla]

Don't know why I even bothered writing this thread and tried finding an old enough video :) Here's a meme to end this issue accordingly. https://imgflip.com/i/2u0qeo

[5f3759]

@Easyfraggy Your arrogance and ignorance will be the death of this server.

you wont find any videos of these

Literally the first post in this thread.

Your values are plain wrong. You claim your sniffs from MoP is more reliable than actual video evidence from pre-nerf bosses. There is no evidence good enough for you, and there's NOTHING anyone can do to convince you that you are WRONG. You're the Trump of private servers.
I give up. You can keep playing around in your sandbox, but it will never ever be blizzlike if you ignore the facts.

[Easyfraggy]

I haven't said anything about the hp/dmg values just the abilities usage fyi.

I'm not a dev btw.

Notice how I haven't closed this issue just been trying to help you do it in its current version by giving you tips and explaining how tank mechanics work (Crushing etc).

[5f3759]

I haven't said anything about the hp/dmg values just the abilities usage fyi.

#4958 (comment)

The axe damage is correct.

[Easyfraggy]

I haven't said anything about the hp/dmg values just the abilities usage fyi.

#4958 (comment)

The axe damage is correct.

The axes - yes not the phase 2 damage - theres actually a bug report open on that issue where I explain a bug that happens under certain conditions - wolf hasn't fixed it yet.

[Wolffenstein]

There is a bug that causes Prince to get unreasonably high damage in Phase 2 under certain circumstances. It has nothing to do with our prenerf/tuning/whatever you call it.

[gabbat]

There is a bug that causes Prince to get unreasonably high damage in Phase 2 under certain circumstances. It has nothing to do with our prenerf/tuning/whatever you call it.

if this is known to devs, can we get a Bug report on this and an ETA on the fix for it? As of right now, some guilds disband and quit the server due to malch beeing an unbeatable RNG fest

[knasen88]

i like this one

How this is considered reasonable damage is beyond me.
oh and axes have personally 1shot me at 8,8k. Sure is fun and involving mechanic.

[Easyfraggy]

The issue has been open since open beta:

#3004

It only really happens if you fail to keep him debuffed the whole time though. E.g shout drops off during phase 2.

[Anselm123]

We did it for the 1st time last night and P2 was literally just RNG if we got through it or not. Flurry attacks seems to have a high proportional ability to always hit as well which seems weird. I have no problem with these mechanics but when tanks get 100-0'd it just makes it shitty to do the boss tbh

[Anselm123]

What i mean by always hit btw is that if one of them gets through they all seem to

[Tereneckla]

Thrash got removed since