Faction Champions

Anyone down this yet?

Any strats you can share?

we had a
pally(holy)
Shammy(resto)
Warrior (arms)
Hunter
Mage
Dk

and can get the Shaman down but the warriors Bladestorm is taking down our dispellers

we got squashed by it, retarded encounter...

only tried 10 man, haven't done 25
10 man 2 shotted it, had 3 mages in the group though, and 2 druids

can rotate CC, sheep until they are immune, then cyclone

lusted early, dps'd the shaman, then the lock (I think we still had the paladin on lockdown, same with disc priest), then disc priest, paladin, then random dps

Wiped the first time, killed it the second pretty easily (25 man).

We did our best to keep the guys with the healing debuffs (warrior, hunter and rogue) CCd while burning down the healers. Keep in mind that it's like Delrissa from MGT. Everything works like pvp. Everyone is CCable, interruptable, stunnable etc with the same diminishing returns that apply in pvp.

That said this fight is not fun.

Edit: And like TheGhost said, lust early. The fight gets easier as it goes along.

And run from the Warrior if he Bladestorms (duh).

We got the achievement for killing it all with in 60 seconds. Thank god that is done and over with. Also, thank god that there isn't a separate achievement for hard mode.

World of Logs somehow won't count Faction Champs as a boss yet so I guess you'll have to take my word at it. I did it as a blood DK so I can only imagine how retarded unholy/frost dk would be on this fight.

A word of tip. If you want the "Resilience Will Fix It" achievement, I suggest you do it this week as the rogue fok interrupt will be nerfed next week. It makes shit massively easy for interrupting everyone.

1 shot it with 15 mains and 10 alts since we are running 2 groups to maximize Tokens. I thought it was pretty easy, we used bloodlust off the bat and burned the healers. Deathknights would grip the warrior/rogue off of people. Basically just play smart and not have the RAWRRR DPS mentality that people seem to have.

Aoe fears, disarms, death grips, (mass) dispels and good healers make it trivial. I thought it was pretty fun

We 1 shot the 25man version with the 3 healers(pally, resto sham, resto druid) but we made it really hard for ourselves. We took out the warrior, rogue and DK first instead of a healer... raid leader strat. But if you use all your cooldowns right off the bat to knock out a healer or two the rest of the fight is mucho easy.

We'll probably do the achievement next week. We just used the tried and true "kill stuff" strat this week. Easy 1-shot with no deaths.

/sigh at CC.

I'm not sure why every one has been crying about how you need alot of CC. The more important thing is that you keep all the dispellers and cleansers locked down. When they are all left to do as they please they neutralize any CC you have very easily. We had very little coordinated CC at all, just fear bombs and and supplemental CC when something got on a healer and such. I felt the fight was pretty simple, though a bit hectic.

it's not a tough fight at all, make sure you have hunters dropping frost traps everywhere and shamans dropping earthbind, keeping their melee slowed is pretty important at staying alive, burn healers, kill squishies, profit.

wound poison on your main target is win.

like most, we one shot it on 25 man. believe we had 3 healers in ours too, if there's any variations that can happen in it. probably one of the worst fights put into the game. not difficult at all, but makes you feel like punching yourself in the dick over and over would be more fun

how's everyone doing on this encounter now? my guild can only take down two healers at most before wiping in both 10 and 25 =/

Well the NH version is just zerging down the healers and everyone and their mother is throwing ccs around. Atleast thats how we do it, sadly we downed them first try every time so far.

We kill the healers first. Keep a tank on the rogue. Heavy CC on the Boomkin and Warrior.

Depends on what you get. We had a rough raid makeup for 10 hardmode last night (spriest/lock/enhance/ret/protwar (arms for this)/feral/mage/elemental/hpriest/tree) and wiped a few times since we were short on CC, but our raid that had 2 hunters/rogue/warlock/mage/ret/war/boomkin/hpriest/restoshaman plowed through like it was easymode. My group just focused the shaman first while locking down the holy paladin and cc'ing DK+Warrior (later on kiting the war while we killed everything else).

We ran 3x 10mans last night so everyone could see all of the hardmodes so the groups weren't ideal (raid makeup, plus bads spread 1-2 per raid). I don't think any of our raids killed Anub though, my raid quit with 35 attempts left after a dozen tries.