border said:
Managing adds or avoiding hazardous materials is really that skillful? Particularly when the adds or hazmat-drops pretty much always come in the same phase of the fight?
You asked for dynamic parts to the encounter. I gave them to you. Sure, Magmadar's dynamic element is easy to navigate, but Domo isn't.
I would say managing Domo's adds are nothing to be scoffed at. Especially for undergeared groups who are facing him for the first time. If you haven't fought Domo once, then don't scoff at him. He's easily the toughest boss in MC. When you are facing 8 adds all at once, plus having to kite Domo all at once, and deal with the shield switches, there's a lot that can go wrong and often does for groups fighting him for the first few times.
I'd give props to the groups that originally blazed their way through the instances, but now that there's a tried-and-true strategy for almost everything the difficulty is just keeping a large group functioning properly. Is it really that skillful just to hammer Heal/Frostbolt/Sunder Armor/whatever over and over, occaisionally doing a stance dance or running to a different spot as the situation dictates? Some classes are a couple UI mods a way from being automated, it seems like
Just because you know the strat, doesn't mean you "know" the strat. There are lots of little secrets that people don't reveal when they write up a strat. There are a lot of strats that don't apply to your raid makeup.
There is also more to raiding than just spamming a skill or using a UI mod. There are mobs like Onyxia where the fears are random, and where abilities like deep breath occur as a result of a variety of factors, all of which have to be managed at once.
There are also other elements to raiding beyond the spam. You have to watch your aggro during raiding while also keeping your dps up to a max level. You have to watch your mana while keeping your dps up to a high level. You have to watch your mana while keeping your tank up. Oh sure encounters become cake over time, but when you first start doing them, they are challenging.
If you just endlessly spam a "spell" ability you'll end up oom before the fight is even halfway done. If you use too many mods you'll be lagged up into inefficiency.
Heck, I only use the bare minimum of mods and I'm able to keep track of shit just as fine as people with a shitload of mods to help them play,. when I use my shaman. I attribute this to being "lagged up into inefficiency".
