Dragon Soul PTR Testing – Madness of Deathwing

Let’s hope blizzard tunes this up a bit before the actual release!!

Exordium and Pillow Fort managed to unlock the Madness of Deathwing encounter on test realms and actually went through most of it! Obviously it’s pretty spoilery and you shouldn’t watch it if you don’t want to (almost) see how the last fight of the expansion ends.

Keep in mind that this fight was not supposed to be tested and is still incredibly bugged and possibly very undertuned.

Description from Youtube (Spoilers)
Blizzard decided not to open this fight to testing because the jumping from platform to platform was extremely buggy, as you’ll see at the end of the video. Basically what you have to do is kill the appendage that’s on each platform after killing a big tentacle. Each aspect has their own platform, and when you destroy the appendage on that aspect’s platform, you lose the buff they give you. This makes the fight harder as you destroy each platform.

Due to the bugs with jumping, we were forced to destroy the best platforms first, which made the fight harder (though it’s still incredibly undertuned). Once we finally cleared all 4 platforms, deathwing slams his head on the middle platform with only 10 mil health, you get all the buffs back, and I assume it’s just supposed to be like the last 10% of the Lich King, as it would have been a ridiculously easy burn if we could get over there.

via MMO-Champion – World of Warcraft News and Raiding Strategies.