It is an interesting feeling when you come into a fight for the first time but you have never done it before. Certain people have done it and have a strategy that works and they tell you "kill the big guy, stand out of the fire, win". You always know that there is something more to the fight then just that. What causes the fire to happen and how often does it happen? Does the big guy do anything special I need to watch for? Do I need to move to a designated safe spot when I run out of the fire? Are there any tricks to maximizing my dps/healing/survivability during the encounter?
Blizzard has done an incredible job with a lot of the encounters in Ulduaar. They have many components to them that need to be dealt with and there usually is a lot of different tricks that can be used to maximize dps while also not blowing the raid and surviving. Hodir is a wonderful example. To someone new my guild would probably tell them "Avoid the blue circles on the floor, keep moving, break the flash freezes and get on the mounds". If you have done a fight like Hodir before you know exactly what that means. Every part of that statement is understood and that is basically how the entire fight works. If you are doing this for the first time you might not understand what the hell is going on. The pull happens and you notice you have a debuff but as your reading what the debuff is doing the stacks start building up. You also need to dps to not get yelled at so you start doing your normal rotation. You see the rest of the raid attacking frozen blocks so you go ahead and do that as well. Over vent you hear the words flash freeze and people start scrambling. You see his cast bar but not sure what to do. You may think to get behind him, or spread out, or to stop attacking. Next thing you know you are in a block of ice and have no idea how you got there or how to prevent it from happening again. And all the while not knowing what all the buffs and debuffs going on throughout the encounter.
Then the other side of the argument is that if you are coming to a raid you should have read up on the strat or watched some movies. Fair enough you should be prepared to do a fight and have everything you need to make the fight easier for the raid as a whole. But when is the last time you read a strategy for how to beat a boss in God of War before actually engaging him? Isn't the concept of a video game to learn the fight and the abilities and use what the programmers gave you to figure out how to fight the encounter. Also I'm sure you have watched many movies form different guilds on how to fight an encounter. How many of those guilds have done it the same way compared to the last video you have seen. Also depending on the site you may have different positions or requirements to make that specific strategy work. Plus we all know that there is a big difference between reading up and watching strategies vs actually being in the battle doing your part. Otherwise every guild would watch 1 video and go in and 1 shot every boss.
Blizzard has done an incredible job with a lot of the encounters in Ulduaar. They have many components to them that need to be dealt with and there usually is a lot of different tricks that can be used to maximize dps while also not blowing the raid and surviving. Hodir is a wonderful example. To someone new my guild would probably tell them "Avoid the blue circles on the floor, keep moving, break the flash freezes and get on the mounds". If you have done a fight like Hodir before you know exactly what that means. Every part of that statement is understood and that is basically how the entire fight works. If you are doing this for the first time you might not understand what the hell is going on. The pull happens and you notice you have a debuff but as your reading what the debuff is doing the stacks start building up. You also need to dps to not get yelled at so you start doing your normal rotation. You see the rest of the raid attacking frozen blocks so you go ahead and do that as well. Over vent you hear the words flash freeze and people start scrambling. You see his cast bar but not sure what to do. You may think to get behind him, or spread out, or to stop attacking. Next thing you know you are in a block of ice and have no idea how you got there or how to prevent it from happening again. And all the while not knowing what all the buffs and debuffs going on throughout the encounter.
Then the other side of the argument is that if you are coming to a raid you should have read up on the strat or watched some movies. Fair enough you should be prepared to do a fight and have everything you need to make the fight easier for the raid as a whole. But when is the last time you read a strategy for how to beat a boss in God of War before actually engaging him? Isn't the concept of a video game to learn the fight and the abilities and use what the programmers gave you to figure out how to fight the encounter. Also I'm sure you have watched many movies form different guilds on how to fight an encounter. How many of those guilds have done it the same way compared to the last video you have seen. Also depending on the site you may have different positions or requirements to make that specific strategy work. Plus we all know that there is a big difference between reading up and watching strategies vs actually being in the battle doing your part. Otherwise every guild would watch 1 video and go in and 1 shot every boss.
Also it gets complicated when dealing with the strategy that you end up using. most of the time the strategy you decide to use is never the strategy that you end up using to kill the boss. You will often times find little tweaks that work better with the composition of the raid. The more involved the battle the more tweaks you need to use until you get it right. A lot of arguments usually arise at this point on which one is feasible while dealing with all other components as well. Sometimes the problem is not doing it enough to get the strat down right and if you change it to much it just means learning it all over again. But if you don't make the necessary changes you may never down the encounter.
"Just do it" is something I hear thrown around a descent amount in guild. "This is not that hard" "Get the bosses health to zero before he brings your to zero" is one of my favorites. Every player has a set of tools that he has to use to make the encounter work. The fights in Ulduaar were meant to be challenging and not tank and spank. There are many nuisances to figuring out how to handle each aspect of an encounter individually. Whether it be how to time heals in between flame jets or how to get the different buffs in the hodir encounter its all something we have to learn in the heat of battle. Learning is a big part of progression and I get upset sometimes when I hear "this is not that hard just do it". There is more to it then just do it but you have to trust the people who are fighting by your side. To understand how to push what they do to the max to be able to finally hear those screams on vent when he boss dies.
"Just do it" is something I hear thrown around a descent amount in guild. "This is not that hard" "Get the bosses health to zero before he brings your to zero" is one of my favorites. Every player has a set of tools that he has to use to make the encounter work. The fights in Ulduaar were meant to be challenging and not tank and spank. There are many nuisances to figuring out how to handle each aspect of an encounter individually. Whether it be how to time heals in between flame jets or how to get the different buffs in the hodir encounter its all something we have to learn in the heat of battle. Learning is a big part of progression and I get upset sometimes when I hear "this is not that hard just do it". There is more to it then just do it but you have to trust the people who are fighting by your side. To understand how to push what they do to the max to be able to finally hear those screams on vent when he boss dies.
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