Oh wow, - wish I had luck getting that too 
Hymnal is another good one that scales well.
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RNG is not on my sideā¦ 
Trinkets is a running rude-joke in my friend-circle by now cause I just never get what I need.
Iāve gotten the cube 8 times tho.
Iāve found Hymnal to be super hit or miss. Sometimes it does 0.5% of my damage and maybe 1% of my healing, other times itās like 4% damage and 6% healing.
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Ugh, 0.2% wipe. Again, the horrors got Velen because of the slows and pushbacks and I couldnāt get to all of them. Yikes.
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May have to try it as gaurdian druid
Tried as vengeance DH and the mechanics were laughably easy to deal with (knock me off and I just glide back) but Kruul hits like an absolute truck on DH. The 3rd annihilate hit me for 29k and thats with demon skin up.
ya ive accidentally typhooned horrors a second late so i didnt interrupt the cast and knocked them onto velen or korvas and 1 shot themā¦ oops!
Really? I one shot the vdh one with no idea what i was doing. Iām p sure I had demon spikes for every annihilate and used nothing on 1-2 and just had fiery brand for 3 i killed him as he was casting #4. DH just does SO much freakinā damage its insane. If anything P1 felt harder because variss had like 50% more hp than the bear iteration
Damn yeah opposite experience for me. Phase 1 is ez mode and then Kruul just one shots me with his 1 second cast annihilate. 1st one brings me to 20% HP (with demon spike) then the 2nd one almost one shots me with meta form.
I just considered the 3rd annihilate to be the berserk phase aka DPS check. Are people actually making it to the 4th and 5th without getting hit for 50k? Iām considering just popping unbridled fury pot right after 2nd annihilate
Really?? no idea what the difference is; whatās your verse? I have like 30% outside of MT from pvp gear, maybe thatās it?
First one brought me to like 45 and 2nd brought me to 20 o.O
@Nasrajin, at this point i need some stats or video of you getting P1 done with 1 infernal up because I cannot believe that you could do that outside having the worlds BEST RNG and getting 0 drain life casts and 1 set of adds at most. Iāve tried a 25% crit, haste, and vers build and each time there is no way to get him below 30% with 1 infernal up. so either you got cheese gear, got super lucky, or didnāt phase with less than 3 infernals up
Edit: Iām not trying to be a dick about it, im just at 75+ pulls now and each time the attrition gets me
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I donāt have a video of it, but i hotw on pull and just wizard him. Heās at ~60% by the time the first set of adds get to velen. This just starsurging off cd, maintaining dots, and wizarding in between.
my gear was almost entirely haste/versatility.
Do you cast just Wrath for the shorter cast time, or do you follow the Lunar/Solar procs?
Starsurge>Maintain Dots>follow lunar/solar procs!
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500 DPS without pot is definitely not enough for this time around in itās current iteration. I am doing almost 900 DPS overall and got P2 down to 5%.
What you can do is just keep in balance form, regrowth when you need it and when the adds are about to spawn put a regrowth on yourself, it brings them over to you so you can sunfire them. But the hard part is just as they finish their cast bar and start doing the AOE damage, if you are fast enough to incap roar them they will stop casting and never cast again. And incap roar in moonkin form will put you back into bear form so you can thrash them down and get back to moonkin faster.
You 100% have to get the first boss down by at most 2 infernals or P2 will be hell both with 3+ infernals and not enough DPS to beat it.
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Just got back to it again today, still suffering here.
I appreciate the responses, but the mechanics in p1 actually arent the issue. I can incap the adds right as they cast, and thrash them all down. But when i open the encounter, pressing hotw and boomkin, opening with starsurge, moonfire, sunfire, and spam wrathā¦i do 400 dps. Thatās it. Even clearing the quickly netherstorm adds in ph1, and swapping back to moonkin, Iāve gotten the boss down at most 20% without unbridled pot (50% with it but then i dont have it for ph2). Thatās why I am very surprised people are saying they are hitting p2 before 2 internals.
I actually had crystals and swapped my ilvl gear 187 for a bunch of ilvl 50/60 dauntless gear, and noticed it did actually make a sizable difference in dps. IDK if its due to scaling or secondary stats, but with 187 gear i couldnāt get the boss in the opener past 90%. In the new gear iāve gotten him down to 80% in the opener. But never to 60% as nas did .
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Also if your ally side, and need unbridled pots, hmu. Am an alchemist
Aha!! So thatās how it works! I wasnāt sure what was needed to stop the casting a second time (some times I get bad RNG with crits and they get into their second cast sequence, although hardly does it ever go off).
And I keep forgetting Incap Roar will put you into bear modeā¦Iāve been wasting a GCD this entire time!!!
Darn it allā¦now Iām tempted to go and try it again instead of working on M+ score lol
Quoting to +1 and second this. Am Alchy and will supply pots if needed!
This is the gear on Broken Isle right? I may try that. Have you tried the covenant gear? You get the 8 piece set bonus and it actually works. People claim its an oversight, I claim itās clever wording of āable to be done in SL gearā.
i didnt do the campaign on this char, not sure i can buy it. Iāll check though.
We are all scaled down to ilvl 50 obviously, but higher end gear has more base stats and secondary stats. Yea i bought the dauntless stuff, which can upgrade to ilvl 60) and had some left over legendaries from Legion, around ilvl 60. I checked and my secondary stats are much higher than in my i187 gear, and i have slighlty more hp in bear.
I think itās renown based (and renown āwasā locked behind campaign in 9.0).
WOOOOO HOOO! Got it!
- Went with Hymnal and Ravaged Seed Pod. I also tested the Infallible Tracking Charm and Golgannethās Vitality. I ended up killing it with Hymnal and Golgannethās but I think Hymnal and RSP would have been my best combo.
- I tried multiple enchants. I personally didnāt think Lighless Force was the move. I had better results with Sinful Brand and Celestial Guidance. CG was used for the kill.
- Used vers food, a heavy armor kit, the augment rune from Argus rep, drums, shadowcore oil, and unbridled fury. Prot tip: You can use one right before you enter to get about 25 seconds of uptime with one on Variss and the CD is back for Kruul.
- Talents were 1-3-1-3-2-2-1. Used boom and HotW at the start to get Variss down with 3 infernals. The third had just spawned but if you can do it with 2, that would be ideal.
- Abuse the orbs at the end. Always be aware of where they are.
- I also used both the WA pack and DBM for timers.
Damage was my issue with Kruul. I ended up getting a Prydaz and tossing in an agi socket with a hidden satyr enchant, picked up argus world quest gloves and tossed on an agi enchant, and snagged a few other items for sockets.
Hope that all helps some. Took around 65 tries.
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