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Sartharion - not so easy with company

We transfered from Teldrassil EU to Area 52 on Tuesday and joined the ranks of Unnamed, our new guild. The guild comes from a high population realm, namely Thrall, but due to serious lags that made raiding near impossible (but still somehow let those guys kill Sarth3D), they moved the whole guild over Area52 where we joined them. Thanks to those guys for being so nice to us.

Tuesday was my first raid with Unnamed and those guys enjoyed lag free raiding very much and 25 man content with Sarth2D was cleared in one night. Wednesday was my first regular raid and I finally got my Sarth3D kill. Running with Unnamed, that encounter didn’t seem as hard as I remembered it, still you have to concentrate and know what’s going to happen. It was good fun, even if somehow it’s always sad if you can’t get a first kill with the guild you were working on a specific boss for weeks. Some quick tips:

• Don’t spread out too much. In my old guild we were told that spreading out was the key to win this encounter as raiders hit by lava bombs would let lava blaze spawn. I think the lava blazes spawn pretty randomly. Do bring an excellent AoE tank that knows where all the adds spawns and calls for help if he gets overwhelmed.
• Positioning is very important. Find a good position for Sarth Tank and his healers. Position yourself somewhere safe, I prefer having a “safe spot” right behind my back, so if lava waves come from behind I don’t have to move at all, if it comes from the front I have plenty of time to move.
• Position your DPS and know where the drakes are going to land! Melees have to be right on the spot the second Tenebron lands. Damage on Sartharion before all 3 Drakes are killed is unimportant.
• Bloodlust on Tenebron to learn this fight but your goal is to get him down without Bloodlust and burn Shadron down with Bloodlust.
• Save some Mana for the time when Shadron and Vesperon are up at the same time! Spread out, heal like crazy, heal yourself if necessary as a dps, just survive and burn Shadron down.

Additional Info:

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How’s your progress with Sartharion, be it on 10 or 25 man version? I haven’t tried 10 man 3D yet but it seems to be even harder than 25 man version. And what do you think about the idea of “hard modes”? I think the idea of making trivial fights extremly hard with just a few tweaks is awesome even if I missed the feeling of progressing through an instance because of incredibly easy Naxx.