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#1 User is offline   WoRBot Icon

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Posted 30 October 2009 - 04:50 PM

3.3 PTR Testing - Valithria Dreamwalker

  • Update #4: The details should be mostly complete for now. There were as few bugs with abilities, but overall this encounter looks very awesome. Special thanks to Might of US-Turalyon for tips on abilities, and all of the guilds who streamed tonight: Blood Legion, Gong Show, Might and vodka.
  • Update #3: Testing is over, tons of details incoming...
  • Update #2: Testing is mostly over. Expecy a full recap shortly.
  • Update: Added initial details on Valithria. This looks like an encounter healing classes have wanted for a long, long time.

This news will be updated throughout the night with streams and details on the Valithria Dreamwalker encounter. Join us on IRC if you want to discuss the encounter, have any information you'd like to share, or want your stream embedded on the main page.

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Valithria Dreamwalker
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 Health: 30m (25) / 10m (10)  Other: ??
Valithria starts at 50% health and the objective is for players to heal her to full. This is accomplished through player heal spells. While you do this adds spawn and rush you to try and stop you from healing her / damage her. The adds spawn progressively faster as the fight goes on, so it's important to have a good mix of DPS to keep the adds down, as well as healers to heal Valithria.
 
Please note that the abilities listed under Valithria aren't necessarily cast by her. They simply don't have an NPC they're associated with and occur during the encounter.
Abilities
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Column of Frost
Marks the location under a random player target. After 2 seconds a column of frost errupts from this location, dealing 9425 to 10575 Frost damage to all enemies within 3 yards, knocking them into the air.
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Dream Slip
Valithria uses this to leave Icecrown after you save her.
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Dreamwalker's Rage
Deals 10000000 Nature damage in a 50000 yard radius. Valithria casts this once you've healed her to full. Does not deal damage to players. This means you won! Pat your healers on the back.
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Emerald Vigor
Regenerating 200 mana every 3 sec, and increases damage and healing by 10% per application for 30 sec. Stacks up to 20 times. This is cast in a 10 yard radius when a Dream Cloud is killed in Valithria's dream state.
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Summon Nightmare Portal
This allows players to port to a dream state where Dream Clouds are spawned.
Blazing Skeleton
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Fireball
Inflicts 4713 to 5287 Fire damage to an enemy.
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Lay Waste
Surrounds the caster in flames for 12 sec, pulsing 5655 to 6345 Fire damage to all enemies every 2 sec.
Blistering Zombie
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Acid Burst
The caster explodes, dealing 14138 to 15862 Nature damage instantly and 1000 Nature damage per second to all enemies within 15 yards. Lasts 20 sec.
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Corrosion
Whenever the caster lands a melee swing, the target takes 2500 Nature damage every 3 seconds and their armor is reduced by 10%. This effect can stack up to 5 times. Lasts 6 sec.
Gluttonous Abomination
Gut Spray
Deals 3000 Nature damage per second and increases Physical damage taken by 25% for 12 sec.
Risen Archmage
Corruption
The Risen Archmages cast this on Valithria. This is likely for visual flavor at the beginning of the encounter.
Frostbolt Volley
Inflicts 3770 to 4230 Frost damage to nearby enemies, reducing their movement speed by 50% for 8 sec.
Mana Void
Summons a Mana Void at a random enemies location. This Mana Void burns 1000 mana per second to all enemies within a 6 radius. Lasts 30 seconds.
Rot Worm
These spawn from Gluttonous Abominations when they die. They have no abilities, but hit for around 4-5k damage each.
Suppresser
Suppression
Reduces healing received by the target by 10%. Lasts until cancelled. This is cast on Valithria by suppressers. 6 spawn per wave of adds.

Achievements


Below are the achievements Valithria Dreamwalker is directly involved in so far. Healbot is, as usual, a placeholder at the moment.

Achievements
Healbot
Heal Valithria Dreamwalker in under 31 minutes in 10-player mode.
The Frostwing Halls
Defeat the bosses of The Frostwing Halls in Icecrown Citadel in 10-player mode.

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Posted 30 October 2009 - 06:07 PM

Looks lika a really neat encounter first time ever you can have so much dps that more wont speed things up :D (if I understand things right)
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Posted 30 October 2009 - 07:23 PM

Excuse my ignorance as I am not currently on the PTR to test things, but wouldn't an encounter like this lead to hybrid stacking to dual spec healing?
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Posted 30 October 2009 - 07:34 PM

Valaelea said:

Excuse my ignorance as I am not currently on the PTR to test things, but wouldn't an encounter like this lead to hybrid stacking to dual spec healing?


I haven't been on the PTR to test either, but from the sounds of the description


"Valithria starts at 50% health and the objective is for players to heal her to full. This is accomplished through player heal spells. While you do this adds spawn and rush you to try and stop you from healing her."


I would guess that the spawn rate of the adds is increased in-step with the overall HPS that Valithria receives.


Also that would make the achievement more understandable (obviously the time is placeholder as the news says), because you would have to balance your number of healers with healers that heal the boss/adds/tanks and dps/tanks to handle adds. Throws a much needed twist into boss encounters imo.


Again, I've not been on the PTR or tried the fight so this is all speculation.
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Posted 30 October 2009 - 08:31 PM

Evil3lf said:

I haven't been on the PTR to test either, but from the sounds of the description


"Valithria starts at 50% health and the objective is for players to heal her to full. This is accomplished through player heal spells. While you do this adds spawn and rush you to try and stop you from healing her."


I would guess that the spawn rate of the adds is increased in-step with the overall HPS that Valithria receives.


Also that would make the achievement more understandable (obviously the time is placeholder as the news says), because you would have to balance your number of healers with healers that heal the boss/adds/tanks and dps/tanks to handle adds. Throws a much needed twist into boss encounters imo.


Again, I've not been on the PTR or tried the fight so this is all speculation.


You've pretty much got the general idea of it.

Updated the details; they should be mostly complete for now.
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Posted 30 October 2009 - 08:56 PM

Encounter video is up:
[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W_T_zm2qG8s"]YouTube - Guild Cuties Only Icecrown Citadel PTR 25 Normal Mode HQ Valithria Dreamwalker[/ame]
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Posted 30 October 2009 - 11:25 PM

I think Healbot is a brilliant name for the achievement for this encounter. Maybe the healers in the encounter should also get a title: , the Healbot!
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Posted 30 October 2009 - 11:28 PM

Bludstorm said:

I think Healbot is a brilliant name for the achievement for this encounter. Maybe the healers in the encounter should also get a title: , the Healbot!


This is a great idea :)
Give it to just the top healer each time to keep them working! Screw class balance factors...



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Posted 31 October 2009 - 12:50 AM

rofl! i about had a heart attack when i read the achievement time. hehe
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Posted 31 October 2009 - 06:25 AM

Eulo said:

This is a great idea :)
Give it to just the top healer each time to keep them working! Screw class balance factors...



Jaded dpser thinks it's about time!


Even more reason to keep taking the paladins portals before them.

Screw those guys.

Also, a healer PoV for anyone interested:

[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TcHI7eEUDSA]Might vs PTR Valithria Dreamwalker. Holy Priest PoV[/ame]

This post has been edited by Wispa: 31 October 2009 - 06:27 AM

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Posted 31 October 2009 - 07:08 AM

Evil3lf said:

I would guess that the spawn rate of the adds is increased in-step with the overall HPS that Valithria receives.


It would be a lot cooler of a fight if this were the case, but currently it is just a set time on the adds. The soft enrage just overwhelms you with adds at the end.
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Posted 31 October 2009 - 11:36 AM

Dream Slip: Its the spell that Valithria uses to get out of the Citadel when you save her.
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Posted 31 October 2009 - 11:43 AM

Yeah, didn't have a chance to edit it yet. Got confirmation on that last night right before I went home.
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Posted 31 October 2009 - 06:18 PM

...lol.
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Posted 31 October 2009 - 07:29 PM

Anyone know the UI being used here?

Looks fantastic, WTB.
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