Theloras

http://wowwiki.wikia.com/wiki/Viscidus Viscidus is an optional boss in the Temple of Ahn'Qiraj, a giant slime that can be accessed after the death of Fankriss the Unyielding. This boss requires a high Nature Resistance as it uses AoE poison bolts which have direct damage along with DoTs. He resets if taken outside his room, much like the bosses in Zul'Gurub. If you are about to wipe, run outside the room and you may be able to save your life. Abilities Poison Volley: AoE spell cast every 10 seconds that hits for ~1500 resistible Nature damage on hit and will apply a dispellable DoT that does ~500 Nature damage every 2 second for 10 seconds. Similar to Lord Kri and Princess Huhuran. This volley ignores LoS and has a range of 100 yards, therefore it is very difficult to avoid it. Nature Resist gear can greatly mitigate the direct damage, but the DoT is unresistable and therefore highly lethal. Poison curing must be set up for the raid so that no one is hit by more than one tick of the DoT. Strategy Ideally, all raid should drink a NR potion 2 minutes before starting, so the cooldown fades. Then, refresh NR potion on every chance. Aim for enough dps to kill your assigned Glob, and then balance stamina with NR equipment. Low stats due to wearing green NR armor may not be the best to stand NR damage. If your raid uses CT_RaidAssist, the raid leader can check the NR resistance, and the number of NR potions on each member. Once you master the encounter, you may try drinking a pot only when you are low on hp. Viscidus is vulnerable to Frost (spells/abilities and Frost damage), therefore mages are at a premium for this fight. Warlocks equipped with a Frost damage wand, i.e. Wand of Biting Cold (usually 1.5 sec) will be nearly as effective as a mage (1 sec casting on rank 1 frostbolt with improved frostbolt still faces the 1.5 sec global cooldown). The raid is required to get as many frost attacks into Viscidus as possible so that he will go through his several emotes and freeze. After he is frozen, a number of melee attacks must be done to shatter him into 20 or so small blobs. The raid must then kill these blobs in order to reduce Viscidus' health. The triggering for his normal state into frozen seems to be a hitcounter of ~200 Frost based attacks/spells/abilities. The triggering for him to shatter once frozen seems to be a hitcounter of ~75 (in 1.12) melee hits, regardless of damage. So what are Paladins supposed to do for this unique Boss encounter? They need to stack the following stats in order to have enough HP/MP in order to not only survive the fight themselves, but to also CLEANSE the rest of the raid from Viscidus' Poison Volley: + Stamina + Intellect + MP5 + Nature Resistance Seal of the Archmagus Binds when picked up Unique Finger +11 Intellect +11 Stamina +11 Spirit +6 Fire Resistance +6 Nature Resistance +6 Frost Resistance +6 Shadow Resistance +6 Arcane Resistance Requires Level 60 Equip: Restores 3 mana per 5 sec. http://db.vanillagaming.org/?item=17110 Specific Boss Encounter Itemization The job of every Paladin (and Druid) is to constantly spam Cleanse as fast as they can, while maintaining auto-attack active on the boss with the main hand weapon equipped, enchanted and with Frost Oil applied as directed below in order to assist getting as many +FROST dmg attacks to go off against the boss as possible in order for him to freeze and then shatter: Hammer of the Northern Wind Binds when equipped Main Hand Mace 58 - 108 Damage Speed 2.10 (39.5 damage per second) Durability 105 / 105 Requires Level 49 Chance on hit: Launches a bolt of frost at the enemy causing 20 to 31 Frost damage and slowing movement speed by 50% for 5 sec. http://db.vanillagaming.org/?item=810 Enchant Weapon - Icy Chill 5 sec cast Tools: Runed Truesilver Rod Reagents: Small Brilliant Shard (4), Essence of Water, Essence of Air, Icecap Permanently enchant a melee weapon to often chill the target reducing their movement and attack speed. http://db.vanillagaming.org/?item=16223 Frost Oil Requires Level 30 Use: When applied to a melee weapon it gives a 10% chance of casting Frostbolt at the opponent when it hits. Lasts 30 minutes. http://db.vanillagaming.org/?item=3829 Boss Fight Rotation for Paladins In order to keep your mana up to maintain a near constant Cleanse spam, all three ranks of Judgement of Wisdom should be applied to the boss with each Paladin casting Seal of Righteousness to allow double procs for all 3 Judgements of Wisdom as well as the Frost damage proc from Hammer of the Northern Wind, Icy Chill enchant and Frost Oil. This will allow your raid's Paladins to successfully regenerate enough mana in order to maintain the Cleanse spam for the duration of the fight and therefore allow your raid to survive to the end. Seal of Righteousness Rank 8 200 mana Instant Fills the Paladin with holy spirit for 30 sec, granting each melee attack an additional 20.528735632184 to 71.44 Holy damage. Slower weapons cause more Holy damage per swing. Only one Seal can be active on the Paladin at any one time. Unleashing this Seal's energy will cause 162 to 179 Holy damage to an enemy. http://db.vanillagaming.org/?spell=20293 Seal of Wisdom Rank 3 200 mana Instant Unleashing this Seal's energy will judge an enemy for 10 sec, granting attacks and spells used against the judged enemy a chance to restore 59 mana to the attacker. Your melee strikes will refresh the spell's duration. Only one Judgement per Paladin can be active at any one time. http://db.vanillagaming.org/?spell=20357 Seal of Wisdom Rank 2 170 mana Instant Unleashing this Seal's energy will judge an enemy for 10 sec, granting attacks and spells used against the judged enemy a chance to restore 46 mana to the attacker. Your melee strikes will refresh the spell's duration. Only one Judgement per Paladin can be active at any one time. http://db.vanillagaming.org/?spell=20356 Seal of Wisdom Rank 1 135 mana Instant Unleashing this Seal's energy will judge an enemy for 10 sec, granting attacks and spells used against the judged enemy a chance to restore 33 mana to the attacker. Your melee strikes will refresh the spell's duration. Only one Judgement per Paladin can be active at any one time. http://db.vanillagaming.org/?spell=20166 Cleanse 8% of base mana 30 yd range Instant Cleanses a friendly target, removing 1 poison effect, 1 disease effect, and 1 magic effect. http://db.vanillagaming.org/?spell=4987

https://www.reddit.com/r/ElysiumProject/comments/5x6gsn/brock_salad_bakers_the_thunderfury_paladin/ 1Hand Ret Spell damage DPS inc in patch 1.9 :)

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New bug folks: Death Talon Wyrmguard, Death Talon Overseer and Chromaggus in BWL all have permanent -75% Holy spell school damage shield

can you post a bug report on the tracker with screenshots if you have them plz

common issue when you spec into Imp BoMight - it only displays the base attack power

Just wanted to ask if AQ is still on track for release in February on Anathema?

Post your thoughts to my thread in the suggestions forum on bringing back the original Paladin Tier 1 Lawbringer stats: https://forum.elysium-project.org/topic/37406-bring-back-original-paladin-tier-1-lawbringer-stats/

sup holmes - my ingame toon is actually Theoloras on Anathema cuz some arse stole my name lol

The drama surrounding Alex aside, I haven't said anything on the forums until tonight but the folks here at Elysium can't expect any of the loyal Paladin theorycrafters, bug reporters and class community liaison people such as myself or Killerduki et al to be giving you guys the big thumbs up for getting into bed with Asura and Drakrasp et al from Crestfall. I'm not going to litigate the sheer volume of reasons why we have immense reasons to distrust them and their values ad nauseum here, but the fact is that we chose to play here on Elysium and we chose NOT to help Crestfall in any way, shape or form for very good reasons. On face value, the current situation looks incredibly muddy after what began with such good intentions from Nostalrius.

bump for people who may not know about it

http://www.mediafire.com/download/3aw939ny2a1f2i2/ReckCounter.rar

In reference to http://www.gamersdecide.com/pc-game-news/what-s-all-hype-vanilla-wow-it-really-better that Elysium posted on their twitter feed this morning. This was the original lament that made me leave retail WoW for private Vanilla servers several years ago now: Agree?

I had originally posted this back on Nost and I also know that this could be considered a "slippery slope" type situation but was wondering if it would be possible to revert the stat allocation on Tier 1 Lawbringer back on Anathema to how it was originally on Nostalrius and how it is currently on the fresh servers here on Elysium? As it stands, the stat allocation is completely ridiculous for a "healing" set as every single item slot has a much better green or blue alternative from 5 or 10 man instances: http://db.vanillagaming.org/?itemset=208 compared to how it was originally setup stats wise: http://web.archive.org/web/20050207013827/http://wow.allakhazam.com/db/itemset.html?setid=208 #BringBackOriginalLawbringer!

I will say this, the original beta Paladin with Crusader + Holy Strike would be an interesting playstyle to at least try out and compare to live vanilla so much so...that it might even be worth putting Holy Resistance back in the game lol :P

No one uses the set with the itemization it has now seeing as there are much better green/blue +healing gear from 5man dungeons. Try reading posts before automatically lolret commenting on them...

it's a long shot and I know that this could lead to a "slippery slope" scenario with other requests, but I think the entire Paladin community would embrace a change like this

Judge Wisdom instead and yes, you can still use SoR/JoR while spamming max rank consecration

unfortunately MacDaddy, it is blizzlike I'm afraid - all the previous private vanilla servers didn't code it properly and that video is from feenix Emerald dream

other than the 8/8 set bonus, the entire Tier is kinda useless overall is the point though

yes, get AV exalted as soon as possible for TUF and Don Julio first - then grind bgs as either full reck bomber or go for some premades as a holy reck build so you can throw heals out and still be able to 1shot horde nubs

Seal of Righteousness was never on the client side during Vanilla - it was always a Server-side script effect due to the fact that it was changed so many times and was a unique spell.

yes, you can

well you could PvP and get either the blue or epic pvp sets as those have +spell dmg on them but yes not really doable otherwise until 1.9 lands and Tier 2 is changed to spell dmg plus Tier 2.5 is released