You know, at first I thought Hagara’s ice walls were bad. Saw a lot of people get insta-gibbed by those in LFR back during Cataclysm.
Then Elegon and his magic floor came and caused hilariously large quantities of surprise deaths, and I thought we had a new winner.
But then…came Durumu.
I can honestly say this was the first time I’ve ever seen the entire LFR group instantly perish in the blink of an eye. (Well, other than being tossed off Deathwing’s back, which is kinda different.) And then again. And again! And it wasn’t like people weren’t paying attention or were dying by ignoring the mechanics, as is so often the case in LFR. Quite the contrary! Raid chat was great, offering suggestions, trying to figure out how to survive longer than 0.01 seconds in Durumu’s death maze. Everyone was in good spirits, laughing about this awful new LFR wing, listening to advice, and doing their best.
And it didn’t do any good at all.
After an ungodly number of wipes (sadly, stacks of the Determination Buff doesn’t help you survive instantly fatal Eye Sores) we finally, MERCIFULLY, managed to make it past a death maze phase with something like 6 or 7 people still alive, and then desperately, barely eked out a victory moments before a maze, which would have undoubtedly resulted in further terrible death.
I don’t even know what Primordius or Dark Animus was like, I was just floating along in a state of bliss after that hellish experience.
Clearly Blizzard took note, judging from the drastic changes they’ve made to the fight since Durumu’s LFR wing went live. Unfortunately, despite surviving the maze on my first kill, my second attempt after the hotfixes met in utter failure. We eventually beat him, but I died to the maze every attempt, despite intense concentration and focus. Sometimes twice an attempt, thank to battle rezzes, which was even MORE embarrassing. Ah well. I’ll give it another shot this week and see if I can figure it out.
I wonder if Blizz has stats somewhere of how many people Durumu has instantly murdered. I bet the numbers would be astounding, and hilarious.
Durumuuuuuuuuuuuuuu!!!! *shakes fist*
So far, I’ve yet to beat him, since my LFR experiences have the jerkwads who gripe about this being “too easy lol! WTF u guyz just SUX” who never volunteer to play beacon for the maze phase.
That Durumu face in panel five!
The Path is a Lie >.>
Durumu is easy once you have the maze down. The trick is to stack under the boss when he’s about to start the maze, run towards these little purple squiggles on the ground (marking the safe area), then follow the open path.
https://i.imgur.com/YltD2hl.gif (That was created before the maze nerf)
Wait until you see Lei Shen.
Hagara’s body language is so expressive that I didn’t even notice that the wolf-face of her mask was changing, too, until my second read-through of the comic — well-done, Vid!
Heh, just did this fight for the first time in LFR last night and… yeah. We wiped twice and I didn’t survive the maze phase either time — but at least there were enough survivors to pull off a kill the second time. >.<
…You make me moderately glad I’m not playing anymore, because oh GOD the horror.
I am not good at teh dancin’.
After a year and change of Throne of Thunder being out, the only times I have lived through this fight have been when we massively over-geared the fight. I can never tell where to go. Luckily, I have my cloak now and no reason to go to Throne of Thunder.
First time I went thru Durumu it was a real pain, raid got wiped several times (me and some other players being 1st-timers with no Vent or TS didn’t help much T_T )
To make it short, we finished him and I got that cool-looking-tentacled-horror of a crossbow I still keep for trans (still looking for the eye-balled shoulders)
The best strat for him is moving the screen to look from above (that and an addon to see from a farther distance) helps lots when the purple maze is on.