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WASHINGTON - Nearly every year, WTOP's David Burd makes a point to poke fun at Fleetwood Mac singer Stevie Nick's version of "Silent Night."
And, with the addition of Octomom Nadya Suleman and fam's "Roctuplets" Christmas music video - "I'm Ready for Christmas" - Burd didn't think it could get any worse.
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Patrick purchased this house in 2004
Why Patrick chose Fort Lauderdale
I fell in love with Ft. Lauderdale many years ago while touring the country in Broadway shows that played at the beautiful Broward Center for the Performing Arts in Lauderdale. Ft. Lauderdale's pristine beaches, world class shopping, superb dining options, and multitude of attractions make it one of the most popular resort destinations in the country. And did I mention the weather!! There is nothing quite like a week long retreat to Ft. Lauderdale.
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Among the many reasons I fell in love with this home would be it's unique layout and open loft-style floor plan, the spectacular 1,200 sq. ft. sun terrace, premium upgrades throughout, the quiet, residential neighborhood, and proximity to 'everything' - shopping, dining, white sand beaches, Publix grocery store just blocks away, theaters, the airport, and of course Las Olas Boulevard. As you read through the many guest reviews, you will notice that previous guests love the neighborhood and the 3rd floor sun terrace, which get's direct sun all day. You will enjoy stunning views of downtown from the terrace. But mostly, this property will feel like 'home,' not a rental property, and certainly not a cramped hotel room.
If this property is booked for the dates you are seeking, check out my other home here on Homeaway. It is listing 3813563.
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Great house, very clean and well located in Fort Lauderdale. The area is pretty quiet and the terrace is great for relaxing during the day and evening night. I rented many houses the last few years but Patrick's house is one of the most fully equipped I saw so far (lot of kitchen tools and super BBQ with extra gas!). Worth the price.
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We start off with equipment problems tonight. No bass. So Fishman is hanging out by himself for a minute then they play an ok My Sweet One basically without Mike. They use the pause at the end, which Trey dubs "Capitol Punishment", to remedy the situation. Right into a good Foam. Solid, no real problems, just getting settled in and very dynamic. Stash is really good, nice and tight. Esther has everyone chiming in on the circus theme during the intro. Trey does an offical signal too. Esther itself is good as is Chalk Dust. Rocking as usual. Trey flubbs a pinch of the intro to a standard Sparkle. Fast Enough is quickly getting tight and hot every time they play it. Great song. The creepy ending fades as Fish leads them right into a pretty tight ATR. Trey gets off a pinch in the middle. Mike's is solid but, not very adventurous. Pure rock. Sounds like the smoke machine is on at about six minutes in. Hydrogen has it's usual problems and sounds very tentative. Not very tight at all. Weekapaug is great but again nothing too special, just straight up rock and roll to make a great closer here.
Suzy starts the second set and has Fishman kind of shifting tempos up and down making it a bit disjointed at times. Page rips a sweet solo though. Paul is the other bluegrass call of the night and again Page rips it up. Tweeezer brings the funk with a different type of start and a little rough over the Ebeneezer part. Great jam though. TMWSIY is ok but rough towards the end as this one is kind of rare. Avenu is great and has a great Cactus solo. Fish cuts ahead into a Maze intro leaving the reprise until later. Maze is solid! Page again, and Trey do excellent jobs on their solos. So then we are back to TMWSIY reprise which sounds even more rough than the first installment did. Fish leads them into a supper fast Bouncing, which you can tell Trey is trying to slow down. It remains faster than normal and is average at best. Coil is pretty tight and gives Page another chance to shine. While lost in his solo Trey and Fish switch to go right into a super charged Love You. Complete with band intros, a rocking vacuum solo, and Woody's Gong. Having skipped the intro we have the usual HYHU before the switch back. If that wasn't enough! Oom Pa Pa, Oom Pa Pa...We have ourselves a Harpua! This one musically starts off kind of rough from Page's part, but is great by the end, and has a great continuation of the voyage inside Fish's head from the Forbin's story the night before! Very, very funny stuff from Trey. A second Golgi for this tour gets called up to close the show in style. Nicely done.
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(AP) - They are called "homegrown terrorists," citizens of Western countries highly prized by Islamist militant groups because they can move across borders and carry out attacks easier than people from Middle East and South Asian countries closely identified with terrorism.
Two such people _ one Canadian and one Australian _ are believed to have been involved in the July bus bombing in Bulgaria that killed five Israeli tourists and a Bulgarian driver, according to Bulgarian investigators. Bulgarian Interior Minister Tsvetan Tsvetanov said the two were members of the Lebanese Shiite Muslim militant group Hezbollah, which is in turn linked to Iran.
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Four young Britons _ three of Pakistani and one of Jamaican origin _ carried out a series of suicide attacks July 7, 2005, on the London public transport that killed 56 people. More than 700 people were injured. All four had lived normal lives under the police radar and had no criminal records. They carried home-made bombs carried in backpacks. Al-Qaida released video testimonies of two of the bombers who denounced the West and declared their allegiance to Osama bin Laden.
Richard Reid was a British citizen who converted to Islam in prison. After his release he traveled to Afghanistan and Pakistan, where authorities say he trained with al-Qaida. More than three months after Sept. 11 attacks, Reid boarded an American Airlines flight in Paris bound for Miami and tried to detonate a bomb in his shoes. He was subdued by passengers and crew and the plane landed safely in Boston. In 2002 Reid was sentenced to life without parole after pleading guilty to eight counts of terrorism and attempting to destroy a commercial airliner.
Headley, a Pakistani-American, used his U.S. passport to travel frequently to India, where he allegedly scouted out venues for terror attacks on behalf of the Lashkar-e-Taiba terrorist organization. The al-Qaida-affiliated group used the information to plan and carry out the 2008 attacks in Mumbai, India, in which more than 160 people died. Last month Headley was sentenced by a U.S. federal court in Chicago to 35 years in prison for his role in the Mumbai attacks.
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Al-Awlaki was born in 1971 in New Mexico where his father was studying agriculture as a Fulbright scholar. The son was educated in the United States but left in 2002, eventually returning to Yemen where he became a key figure in the local al-Qaida branch, which U.S. authorities believed was the most dangerous of the al-Qaida franchises. Al-Awlaki's fluent English and articulate speaking style won him a huge following among disaffected young Muslims in the West. He and another American, Samir Khan, who edited al-Qaida's Internet magazine, were killed in a U.S. drone attack in Yemen on Sept. 30, 2011.
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Is it possible to equip and use the normal and heroic version of this trinket at the same time?
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Altho you can get only static benefit... "on use" share CD with other one so you can use only one of them in 3 min time frame.
You can look @ it this way.
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I have both versions of Vengeance of the Forsaken - Item - World of Warcraft and the stats stack and the on uses do NOT share a cooldown. One trinket will be on temporary cooldown while the other is active which is just like any other 2 trinkets both with on uses.
And yes I know that is WAY too much expertise, I didn't actually pick up these trinkets to use, no one else wanted them and I was hoping to get both specifically to test if they stacked.
From a tanking perspective, assuming you have the heroic 25 man trinket, your next option is likely either:
192 stam from the normal 25 man trinket
Or 162 stam from the Heart of Iron, along with 432 dodge on use for 20 seconds, every 120 seconds.
Trading 30 stam for an average of 72 dodge rating is a huge upgrade in overall itemization value, although admittedly (like most things tanking) is fight dependent. For TOC, because there's quite a bit of magic damage in almost every fight, I'd probably take the extra stam in this case. But it's not cut and dry, and for DPS I suspect most of them time they'll lose quite a bit of overall DPS not taking the on-use.
edit: If it turns out the above poster saying they share a cooldown was incorrect, the point is moot. and.... everyone and their brother will be trying to stack their best in slot trinkets. faaaaaantastic.
I have both trinkets check the armory link.
The World of Warcraft Armory
I can tell you for a fact the stam trinkets SHARE a cooldown.
Thank god you told us twice.
It was a good clarification since the dps trinkets appear to be different.
The HP trinkets are categorized as Battlemaster Trinkets. It's stupid, and will probably get a change at some point.


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DPS is significant for this fight in a number of ways:
1) DPS needs to quickly burn down the first two adds that spawn during p1. They then need to DPS Anub as much as possible before he submerges.
2) As soon as Anub submerges and p2 begins DPS needs to quickly do 2 things. First, they need to burn the 2 adds that have been OTed through p1, and then they need to quickly kill scarabs as they spawn throughout p2.
3) DPS needs to get Anub into p3 in 1 or 2 submerge phases, otherwise it's likely a wipe due to Anub's enrage timer.
4) Lastly, if you do make it to p3 with sufficient time left on his enrage, you need to do enough DPS to outdamage his HOT/leech effect which is constantly healing him. This is noticeably less extreme in normal mode, but still a factor if DPS isn't up to par.
Everytime I PUG Anub (in either 10 or 25) wipes are a direct result of poor DPS. DPS need to not die to dumb things (as in, anything that hurts you in p2) and they need to be able to pump out high levels of efficient DPS while switching priority targets quickly.


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Hollywood's most reliable funny girl, Leslie Mann, finally takes the spotlight in This is 40, an uproarious send-up of marriage and motherhood. (Guess whose life it's based on?)
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As far as accessories go, Leslie Mann has everyone beat as she hobbles into Fig, the airy farm-to-table restaurant in Santa Monica's Fairmont Miramar Hotel: She's wearing a giant moon boot on her right foot. A day before, she broke her toe on the set of her Marie Claire photo shoot. The photographer was going for a "deconstructed gown kind of thing" and asked Mann to jump back and forth in an attempt to get her Gucci dress to billow. "I felt like such a dork," says Mann, dressed far more low-key today in a black-and-gray-striped shirt and black skinny jeans. "I'm leaping, and the fans were blowing, and the dress would fly up, and I was barefoot. That's the other thing I have giant feet, and they are not attractive at all." Mann didn't say anything when her toe got caught under her foot and snapped; she didn't want to seem like a pain in the ass. Now it's swollen and blue, and she tells me she'll have to wear the boot for four weeks.
Mann is startlingly unself-conscious about the whole broken-toe affair. (She even tweeted a picture of it.) But that's hardly surprising accessibility is her sweet spot. It's why her husband, writer-director Judd Apatow, loves to cast her in his films, including his latest, This Is 40: She comes off utterly at ease on-screen, so much so that even farting (like she did in The Change-Up) or vomiting all over Steve Carell (like she did in The 40-Year-Old Virgin) or, in real life, tripping during a photo shoot and schlepping her foot around in an Aircast for a month doesn't phase her one bit. "I actually had a whole different ending [for that scene in The 40-Year-Old Virgin]," says Apatow. "They get pulled over by the cops, and in the last second, she reveals that she has a gun under the seat. And Leslie said to me, 'No, I really think I need to throw up in his face.' and then she went off and made her own vomit out of strawberry yogurt and some sort of breakfast cereal. And it turned out to be one of the biggest laughs of the movie."
Mann, who herself turned 40 this year, is sitting across from me, wolfing down fish tacos with her fingers. She is warm and friendly, laughs easily, and lights up when she talks about her kids, Maude and Iris Apatow (whom her husband frequently casts as her kids in his movies). Providing a healthy, normal home life for their girls is clearly a priority Mann herself was raised by a single mother in Southern California. "I am always jealous of people" who grew up with married parents in the suburbs, she says. "I feel like they have such an advantage over everyone unless the [parents] are, like, raging alcoholics and beating [their kids]. But to have the parents stay together and have that stability, I just feel people like that are so much more solid. Is that a lie I tell myself?"
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Comcast just announced that it will offer a video streaming service, called Xfinity Streampix, to Xfinity subscribers. Depending on your cable/internet package, the price for the service could be $5 a month or free (depending on how stuffed your subscriber package is).
So far the early news looks like it's just for TV programming, but movies may be included or added eventually. Several news reports have been positioning this anouncment as a shot across the bow to Netflix. I'm not so sure about that. It seems at one level more like a shot across the bow at video-on-demand. On another level an attack on Hulu, and other another it strikes directly against Verizon's planned service with Redbox, though the Verizon deal is more like Netflix than Streampix is.
Verizon already offers its customers a serviced called Flexview which lets you rent a VOD movie and then play it back over a variety of devices. Will the Streampix be much more than that? We don't really know yet, but I think there's a good chance that this plan, and others like it from competitors, are both attempts to stem the flow of customers deserting pay TV for net TV (in part aided by the proliferation of smart TVs and similar products) and to turn their free VOD offerings into something they can make money from.
Consider this, if I forget to record 30 Rock with my DVR I can always go to the free VOD selection and watch the episode—with commercials I can't fast-forward through. But what happens when Xfinity (or Verizon or fill in the blank) decides that since they now have a streaming service, they take 30 Rock away from VOD? It's typical of cable companies to charge you for things you used to get for free (well, not for free, but for your package price). How many times has your cable company changed its channel lineup so that a channel you used to receive now exists only on a more expensive package? As a FiOS customer, I've seen that happen several times, so the effect is that the company slowly chips away at my service all in the name of somehow offering me more options.
In fact, Comcast already has a streaming service called XfinityTV.com, which offers recent episodes of TV shows and some movies. You don't even need to be a Comcast customer to watch some of the programs for free. I wouldn't be surprised if that changes too.
Banks are also well-known for these kinds of tricks—charging for services that used to be offered without additional fees.
I also wouldn't be surprised to find commercials on Streampix programs—commercials you can't avoid. Cable companies hate DVRs, but they feel compelled to offer them.
I don't see Streampix as competition to Netflix. I see it as another thing to drive people way from cable and to Netflix. Of course that's not what Comcast has in mind, but that may be the result.Follow Electronic House on Facebook and Twitter.
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Another few weeks and it will be spring, practically warm enough to go camping and even do a little fishing.
But just in time for warmer weather, the Department of Natural Resources has announced that on March 1 it will close the primitive campground at the Pigeon River Fish and Wildlife Area in LaGrange County.
The announcement hasn't exactly caused an uproar, but a handful of people are upset that the decades-old campground, whose only creature comfort is a permanent Port-O-Let, is closing.
The people at the DNR expected some reaction to their decision, but they say they are surprised at how little reaction there has been.
The people who are calling various DNR officials to complain are mostly upset because the little campground – not much bigger than a large rural lot and a hidden gem, as the reader who contacted me called it – has been the spot where they or family members have camped for decades.
"People's main hang-up is, it's been a tradition," says James Kershaw, public lands program manager with the DNR. "They've been going there for 40 years," and a tradition is dying.
News that the campground would close was announced this year on the DNR website, but a formal news release didn't go out until Tuesday.
I spoke to Kershaw and Nate Levitte, the property manager for the 12,000-acre Pigeon River wildlife area, about the decision to close the campground.
There isn't just one reason, Kershaw said. It's a combination of factors that even people who have called to protest can understand, he said.
When the primitive campground was established years ago, Kershaw says, it was just about the only campground available.
That's changed. There are now about 40 commercial campgrounds in the area, some as little as a mile away, that offer everything from primitive campsites to Class A campsites, which have electrical connections, running water, showers and so on.
The result is that the DNR's primitive site has gotten less and less usage. Its busiest weekends are usually the summer holidays, Memorial Day, July 4 and that, but recently the campground's 44 campsites hasn't even been filled at those high-traffic times.
It costs $8 a night for a campsite, but in the last year, revenue from the campground has been only about $12,000, which amounts to only a handful of campers per night on average.
So starting March 1, the small site, which covers only about seven acres, will convert to a wildlife area.
"We're trying to focus our resources on what we do best," Kershaw says.
People will still be able to go to the area to fish, Kershaw and Levitte said, and conceivably hunt when the hunting season is on. They just won't be able to pitch a tent.
In a way, one does wonder why you can't just pitch a tent anywhere you want. In a way, the image of a tent next to a lake with not another soul in sight is the typical romantic view of primitive camping. But realizing that people do need water and a place to go to the bathroom and facilities for all the other things they do, one does begin to understand.


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Walton: Chamber Music
Movement 01: Allegro tranquillo
Movement 02: Tema: Andante
Movement 03: Variation 1: A tempo poco più mosso
Movement 04: Variation 2: A tempo quasi improvisando
Movement 05: Variation 3: Alla marcia molto vivace
Movement 06: Variation 4: Allegro molto
Movement 07: Variation 5: Allegretto con moto
Movement 08: Variation 6: Scherzando
Movement 09: Variation 7: Andante tranquillo
Movement 10: Coda: Molto vivace Presto
In 1947 Alice Wimborne was unwell, but her doctor could find nothing wrong. That September she and Walton set out for a holiday in Italy, but they only got as far as Lucerne when her condition worsened. Cancer of the bronchus was diagnosed and she was admitted to hospital. In the immediate post-war years obtaining finances at a distance from home presented considerable difficulties and Walton was desperately worried about how the costs of her treatment would be paid. Recalling the situation in a letter to Angus Morrison in 1969, Walton wrote that by chance he met Diana Gould, who was shortly to become the wife of Yehudi Menuhin, and having explained his plight to her she promptly commissioned on Menuhin's behalf a sonata for him and her brother-in-law, the pianist Louis Kentner.
Menuhin duly advanced him half of the commission fee and Walton set to work. Composition on the sonata though was interrupted by writing the film score for Olivier's Hamlet and then by the final harrowing stage of Alice Wimborne's illness. He resumed work on the sonata after her death on 19 April 1948. Although Walton made no outward reference to his feelings following his loss, it is hard not to hear, in at least the first movement of the sonata, a musical reaction. It was first performed in Zürich by Menuhin and Kentner on 30 September 1949, after which Walton made some revisions, and this definitive version was first heard at the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane, London, on 5 February 1950, played by the same artists.
Despite the sporadic nature of its composition, set against such a varied set of personal circumstances, the work is highly concentrated and stands as one of Walton's finest achievements. Over a gentle lapping piano accompaniment, the violin plays a lyrical theme that is full of tenderness. A tiny semiquaver gruppetto heard at the beginning of the melody is important in the subsequent thematic development, not only in the first movement, but in the work as a whole, as is a second version of the gruppetto two bars later. The first paragraph ends with an emphatic phrase for piano, then violin, that thrusts upwards, before the pianist introduces the second principal idea. This is not so much of a contrast, however, and it seems to inhabit the same mood established at the outset, particularly as it ends with its own version of the gruppetto that is shot through with a heartrending poignancy. True contrast comes with an agitated appearance of the gruppetto beginning with an upward major seventh (a Walton hallmark) which initiates an assertive and dynamic passage with accents on and off the beat for violin and piano respectively.
In the ebb and flow of the development both instruments share the exploration of the musical material, with the violin making much of the gruppetto as it strives to soar ever higher. Walton caps the movement in inspired fashion, with an extended, contemplative coda in which the violin takes a final look at the main theme against the arpeggiated chords of the piano played with the soft pedal. Its outward tranquillity masks, nevertheless, an undeniable sense of loss lying beneath the surface.
The form of the second movement is a theme and variations. The eight-bar 'Tema' is self-contained in character, with none of the expansiveness that marked the first movement's principal theme. The piano alone then concludes the main material with a chromatic melody that embraces first ten, then all twelve notes of the chromatic scale. Some commentators have alluded to this as a series, but Walton does not exploit them in any Schoenbergian sense.
In the first variation the theme is heard in the context of a different rhythm, 6/8, and is set in spare two-part counterpoint with the piano. The marking for Variation 2, a tempo quasi improvisando, gives the clue to its character, and it culminates in an impassioned outpouring from the violin. Variation 3 is a spiky march featuring double stopping on the violin and ending with a dissonant extension for piano alone. In Variation 4 the instruments tumble helter-skelter in unison and octaves, whilst Variation 5 has the violin playing steady pizzicato quavers against the piano's florid arabesques. It ends with a short unaccompanied cadenza for the violin. The sixth variation, Scherzando, is appropriately swift and charged with rhythmic energy. Variation 7 is the longest: set to alternating 6/8 and 9/8 rhythms, it has a lilting barcarolle-like quality. The piano begins the coda with what seems like a twelve-note fugal subject; the violin however, does not take up the challenge with an answering subject, merely repeating it cheekily before launching both itself and the piano in a pyrotechnical display of bravura panache.
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They sought to make legislative races a referendum on Brownback and massive income tax cuts enacted this year. Brownback and others who back the cuts contend they'll stimulate the economy.
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Armory link would be good to start with
I dont think Festergut has parry haste enabled as most of the hard hitting ones doesn't.
Are you sure he had the inoculation buff from spores?
We are right now working on Festergut 10, we managed to get him down a few times, with no problems at all. But last night, we had a warrior tank with us. He's gear is fine for 10 mans ICC, but he was oneshottet 3 times within the first or second inhale. He took around 50k - 55k damage over 1 sec, I could understand if it happend on the 3. inhale, as the damage there are masiv on tanks.
This warrior tank have close to no Expertice, but as I checked out the rest of our tanks, they are no where near the (parry) expertice cap. So I'm having a hard time blaming it on expertice.
It would be realy nice to get some inputs or suggestions, since it's alittle frustrating beeing stuck on a boss, we're taking down with out alt teams
Armory link would be good to start with
I dont think Festergut has parry haste enabled as most of the hard hitting ones doesn't.
Are you sure he had the inoculation buff from spores?
Sure, this is the tank in question, I know the gear could be much better, but we had tanks with fare worst gear then this on festergut
And yes, I'm sure he had the buff, and even if he didn't, we didn't make it so fare, that it would matter. He was killed right around the first or second inhale each time.
His hp is on the low side but i see nothing in there that would explain a 1-shot. You really need to look at the combat logs. Until the 3rd inhale there isnt much the tank should be doing anyway, so i cant tie it to a L2P issue even...
...except for this question: Was there a constant attackpower debuff on the boss?(demo shout/vindication)
well after making my way to the wow eu armory i think i found the problem, hes a gnome. but on a more serious note, your saying that he is getting oneshot at about the 3rd inhale. its around this time that the first tank is aproaching 10 stacks of (unknown bad buff here) and once at 10 stacks your tank blows up. ive never personly seen it happen since we have always taunted off at 8 stacks. as far as his hp being to low im not convinced it is. i tanked this (granted we didnt down fester, dps had about 400k when enrage) i believe i had about 42khp buffed with fort sanc gotw and my flask. go back and look to see if your OT was the real problem for not taunting off before your MT got to 10 stacks.
btw. sry about any spelling mistakes or gramer errors.
The tank will simply need to rotate his cooldowns, make sure he pops Indestructible Potion before the pull. Once his cd's are finished get the healers rotating Hand of Sacrifice, Guardian Spirit, Pain Suppresion, Divine Sacrifice etc.
More stam can only be a good thing, using two avoidance trinkets is not advisable.
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I think he did not get an inoculation the first time. Some people are very bad at that. FYI, the marked person MUST be at least directly under Festergut (Between his legs) at a MINIMUM in order for the tanks to receive it. Also, the tanks should NOT be standing at maximum range outside of his hitbox. Tell your tanks to scoot in as far as they can and they should be in range of the inoculation.
Yes he dies before 10 stacks. Think he had about 4-8 stacks. And yes CD should be used, but we always used it around the 3. inhale, where he realy hit's like a truck. and not before the first even happend.
I think I've say something wrong, I sayd he got oneshottet. That is not the case, sorry for not beeing more excact, he takes 2 blows within 1 sec, that kills him (adds up to the 50k dmg). One time it happend 1 min and 59 sec in the fight, the other time it happend just around he had 7. debuffs.
Do anyone know, if the haste buff from parry is disabled from this boss?
I'm in the same boat, getting nuked by some insane burst from the boss (I noticed one time, it was 2x17k hits + 10k from the debuff he puts on me within a short duration). So I'm quite curious aswell what stats people who's downed him has.
My armory: The World of Warcraft Armory - Mibu @ Chamber of Aspects - Profile
Usally my onyxia trinket is replaced by The Black Heart and I run around with almost 50k HP fully raid buffed.
I used a +armour set on our last kill and it worked very nicely. I can AMS through the blights so the only other significant damage is physical (and lots of it). From memory I was at 52k health and 37k armour.
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You might want to check what your melee are up, to, make sure that they are not standing in a position to get parried by the boss. Alot of them will not position correctly to get the inoculation every time and in trying to move in get on the edge of the bosses side. Fester seems to have a fairly large effective parry area
Invincibility lies in the defence; the possibility of victory in the attack.
Sun Tzu