N'Zoth LFR nerf please

That’s wrong in this case. The rest of the raid is reasonably easy, but not N’Zoth. LFR N’Zoth seems to have all the mechanics of normal N’Zoth, with the numbers tuned down. You really should queue up and get a kill before you talk about something you know little about. Maybe you can even carry the raid and parse (LOL).

The first problem is that you need strong leadership and organization in order to: 1) organize groups of tanks/healers/dps; 2) dictate who goes down to kill psychus; 3) spam raid warnings and mark kill targets to “assist” people without DBM; and 4) identify why you are wiping and inspire people to votekick the problems. I guarantee if you just YOLO it with no leadership you’ll just build stacks all night until you ragequit in frustration and/or die of boredom while tanks, healers, and your high ilv dps cycle in and out of the group.

As a complication to the first problem, you won’t have discord and few will join the in-game voice application, so the raid leader will have to type out instructions. I’ve made macros to speed things along, but it is hard to get people to read when they are focused on dpsing/healing. Nobody is going to watch a video, even late at night when you wait 10-20 minutes between tanks (tried it).

The next problem is that you need 2 tanks that know what they are doing or learn quickly, and one group of people who can survive long enough to target 5-6 tentacles before turning to Psychus and finding their body afterwards. The tank upstairs needs to be aware enough to run to the bashers before any dps die and the undergeared/inexperienced/bad dps/healers you put in the upstairs group need to be competent enough to kill most of the bigger tentacles before N’Zoth turns attackable (sans damage reduction shield).

The last problem is that the minimum iLv of 410 + rank 1 cloak entry requirement means some of your raid will be 410 bag ilv with rank 1 cloak. It’s hard to do enough dps/hps with such a low ilv, and rank 1 cloak means they probably don’t have the good corruptions or they have some stupid level of corruption that will more likely kill them than magically make them into a dps/hps powerhouse. You’ll need high ilv characters with Normal/Heroic/Mythic N’Zoth experience to help carry the raid and bring the aggregate ilv of the raid closer to the gear level that drops there. You aren’t going to carry LFR N’Zoth at 440 ilv.

Come back and report how easy it was when you do get your kill, and make sure to log it so we can see if you were carried by high ilv dps and/or had to drag along a bunch of 410-425 ilv folks. Also state how many hours it took from start of queue to boss death.

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