Glory of the Cataclysm Raider – BWD 10N

I want a pretty dragon, so I checked with the guild for interest in the Glory of the Cataclysm Raider meta achievement. Luckily for me and my dragon-wanting, my guild is awesome and consists of a bunch of helpful people and nerdpoint whores (which I mean in the most loving way possible, being one of them), so we actually have enough interest for two groups. \o/

I put together a game plan (i.e. a color-coded Google document that I shared and demanded that everyone look over), and our Guinea Pig group made their first foray after the T11 nerdpoints on Saturday. We cleared Blackwing Descent and Bastion of Twilight on normal mode, raking in all of the not-heroic-mode achievements along the way, only stumbling on Valiona and Theralion a bit until we figured out that we weren’t quite as OP as we like to think.

We’re using two tanks (at least one with a DPS offspec), three healers (at least one with a DPS offspec), and five DPS. The group consisted of people in a mix of mostly 378-397 ilevel gear and mixed experience in T11 (some of us had raided it weekly when it was current and some of us hadn’t stepped foot in there at all).

I plan on doing a series of posts about these for the three T11 dungeons, with the 10-man normal-mode (10N) achievements and with the 10-man heroic-mode (10H) achievements (with the assumption that the reader is familiar with the fights’ normal mechanics). This post goes over BWD 10N achievements (with a BoT counterpart to follow within the next day or so), and we’re going back to clear To4W 10N achievements and start poking at heroic-modes next Saturday.

Blackwing Descent 10N

Magmaw – Parasite Evening
Defeat Magmaw without anyone in the raid becoming infected with a parasite

Difficulty: Easy! (Execute mechanics properly and you should get credit.)
Notes: Used 2 tanks & 2 heals.
Make sure ranged are moving when the Pillar of Flame spawns, and that they’re nuking the parasites before they reach anyone.

Omnotron Defense System – Achieve-a-tron (Can be done over multiple lockouts.)
Defeat the Omnotron Defense System while neutralizing the following attacks:
– No player hit by Static Shock
– No player hit by Arcane Annihilator
– No player hit by Poison Bomb
– No more than one player hit by each Flamethrower

Difficulty: Relatively easy. (We only had one round of the four of them, and got the achievement on the first try.)
Notes: Used 2 tanks & 2 heals.
Static Shock – don’t let anyone hit Electron once his shield goes up (we stopped dps on him once his energy was almost down to 50)
Arcane Annihilator – keep the tank and an interrupter on Arcanotron to interrupt these casts
Poison Bomb – don’t let the poison slimes from Toxitron make it to any raiders
Flamethrower – when Magmatron targets someone for this, make sure everyone else gets away

Maloriak – Aberrant Behavior
Kill 12 Aberrations within 10 seconds and then defeat Maloriak

Difficulty: Relatively easy.
Notes: Used 2 tanks & 2 heals.
We didn’t interrupt any of the Release Aberrations casts (you do still want to interrupt the Arcane Storm casts though). We had to stop dps to let him go into a green phase (so that we could melt all the Aberrations) before he went into phase two at 25% health.

Atramedes – Silence is Golden
Defeat Atramedes without any raid member’s sound bar going over 50%

Difficulty: Easy! (Execute mechanics properly and you should get credit.)
Notes: Used 1 tank & 2 heals.
The gong person on ground phase should watch for any excess sound (if anyone gets clipped by a Sona Pulse or Sonice Breath). We only had one air phase and killed him shortly after he landed.

Chimaeron – Full of Sound and Fury
Defeat Chimaeron with no more than 2 raid member deaths

Difficulty: Relatively easy. (Execute mechanics properly and you should get credit.)
Notes: Used 2 tanks & 3 heals (to be on the safe side).
We had to stop dps until the first Feud (and top everyone up after the following Massacre) before letting him get to phase two at 20% health.

Nefarian – Keeping it in the Family
Damage Nefarian below 50% health before he lands for the final confrontation and then defeat Nefarian

Difficulty: Less easy, but not difficult.
Notes: Used 2 tanks (and a turtle pet for adds in phase 1) & 3 heals.
For phase 1, push three crackles and get Nef to 65%, then nuke Ony (the timer was a little tight for us). In phase 2, push Nef through two crackles and past 50%, then kill the adds to make him land. Execute phase 3 like normal.