Tuesday, August 17, 2010  Guest Post: Halion's Cutters  My guild
leader (and our shadow-phase dragon tank) had a brainstorm for a
post she wanted to make, so I offered up some rant space for her
:) So, here I have a guest post by Alyae:  Dear Blizzard: You
are making good raiders feel fail for no reason!  Why Blizzard
why? Why did you make a fight like Heroic Halion, and a shadow
realm full of instant death?  My case for why this mechanic
sucks - Alyae: GM of Vortex of Turalyon  I’ve been doing some
thinking, and I think I know the reason. It’s been really
puzzling to me why I see my fellow raiders get cut up by the
beam of death. These are people that have very good situational
awareness, on pretty much every fight. They know how to get out
of fires.... But for some reason Heroic Halion is probably
harder conceptually for us then even Heroic Lich King.  Why?
Because, the Halion fight expects you to do several things at
once:   • Find a purple blob of death.   • Figure out your
location corresponding to the p