Starfire crits for 7490!

Fearsome War Engine raids Serpentshrine Cavern on Wednesday evenings. At this stage of the year we are farming it, taking down the bosses that we need to and leaving those that we don’t need anymore. As a casual guild we are quite far behind on the PVE progression ladder, we 25-man raid three times a week when all the stars and planets align on a blue moon. Sometimes a blue moon is hard to find and nothing happens.

The goal of the raiding team at the moment is to take down Vashj. She is proving to be quite a difficult cookie and since the attunement requirements for Mount Hyjal and Black Temple have been lifted we have been sneaking in there for a look. I must say that Mount Hyjal is a whole load of fun – the mobs come to you rather than the other way round!

Slayfoe’s part in the raiding team is currently to give one group a nice fat 5% spell crit bonus. Naturally this means that 1 group, the raid leader, ends up with all the goodies (Shadowpriest mana-battery, shammy bloodlust goodness and a chicken). Naturally this group die all the time to aggro problems.

But as part of the everquest of perfection and thanks to the badges of justice, damage is being tweaked all the time, upwards. Slayfoe finally got the Idol of the Unseen Moon (Moonfire can proc additional damage for 10? Seconds) and the badge bracers enchanted with +15dmg. Unbuffed Slayfoe has just over 1100 spell damage.

Trinkets used are the Icon of the Silver Crescent (base spell damage + click for additional dmg) and Sextant of Unstable Currents (base spell crit + proc of additional spell damage). Combined with the Idol of the Unseen Moon the following can happen.

First Sextant of Unstable Currents procs (+190 for 15secs)
then Idol of the Unseen Moon procs(+140 for 10secs)
Activate Icon of the Silver Crescent (+155 for 20secs)

Pray that the next Starfire crits (double damage) in the next 2 GCD.

Last night these all added up to a new max damage Starfire crit of 7490. This is the first time the 7k barrier had been broken and obviously won’t happen too often with the amount of procs that must come of in order. Thankfully – Nagar is the highest DPSer in the guild and he spends a LOT of time on the ground waiting for Korut to get lucky with the jumper cables.