Siege of Orgrimmar - strategy and community
So yesterday we tried to pass the first boss in SoO and failed miserably. The main problem we encountered is Swirl damage that basically one-shots anyone that comes in contact with but also the insane amount of damage that mobs who reach the centre do to the entire raid. We tried some tactics that we saw being discussed here on Warmane servers and the countless retail versions you can find online. After getting wiped by Swirl to many times we just decided to call it a day and try some other time. I then went online again trying to find anything that may help us next time. One of the guild members said that he saw a video on youtube from some alliance guild killing the first boss. Apparently they were all stacked throughout the fight and killed him with no problems whatsoever. I tried to find the video but I guess that they took it down because I could only find videos of 2. and 3. boss online with a bug report video of Immerseus from Paradigm guild. There are two explanations I could think of: either the guild took the video down so no one else could "steal" their tactic or Warmane told them to remove it - killing Immerseus while being stacked i nmy oppinion has to be some kind of exploit because stacking on this boss is something you should never do (if everything is working as it should).
That got me thinking: I don't recall that I ever read a boss strategy here. There was one reply on some topic just after SoO was released with some tips on Immerseus and that is it. There are some videos online of ToT, ToT HC and as I mentioned before 2. and 3. SoO bosses. I know that writing strategies can be a pain in the *** and not everyone has the time or the will to do it. I am just wondering if this is due to people just not carring to write strategies on forums or are guilds deliberately keeping strategies to themselves? I actually don't really see the point for the last thing - especially after the realm first achivements are already gone.
I don't want to point fingers at anyone and everyone has a right to do as they please. I just think that by sharing experiences we can strenghten the community a little bit more as we can clearly see that the numbers are slowly declining.