The flag ship raiding guild Nihilum has released a great video of them taking on Brutallus, one of the new 25 man Sunwell Plateau bosses. The video is available from several sources, and the downloaded version is of quite high quality. The version provided above, a stream from File Front, is also pretty good.
The video itself is taken from the standpoint of their main tank, Kungen, and runs for just over seven minutes. Most interesting is the additional pieces of information Nihilum provides about their raid setup. For guilds attempting him, looking at a successful raid composition can be a major piece of information. The raid setup Nihilum uses is:
- 1 Protection Warrior: Kungen
- 1 Feral Druid: Sanduckhan
- 1 Retribution Paladin: Gaap
- 1 Enhancement Shaman: Zanzijan
- 1 Fury Warrior: Starym
- 3 Warlocks: Clinkz Buzzkill Jinxarn
- 3 Mages: Darmor Hath Vyrre
- 2 Shadow Priests: Muqq Melghor
- 2 Resto Druids: Marilyn Sykostig
- 2 Holy Paladins: Gd JohnnyR
- 3 Resto Shamans: Neg Ghorok Bananeen
- 3 Rogues: Epi Cloze Inthya
- 2 Hunters: Toorum Ahoq
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4-06-2008 @ 7:54PM
Hokuto said...
Resto druids? Nilihum? *snort*
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4-06-2008 @ 8:31PM
Nogun said...
Have to fill the void Holy Priests left behind somehow.
Oh where are the days we ran successful naxx raids with 8 Holy Priests.
4-06-2008 @ 8:12PM
dan said...
Last I checked Nihilum wasn't even in the top 40 worldwide guilds on wowjutsu....
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4-06-2008 @ 8:17PM
Kryptonls said...
You do realise guilds on there are also ranked by the drops they get - so if Nihilum haven't been farming BT 24/7 for the last 10 months, (which nobody in their right mind would do) then other guilds will gain more points and be listed higher than them; and it also depends on drops.
If a guild gets lots of Warglaives drop, then guess what - they will earn more points on the WoW Jutsu site.
You know, the FAQ's are there for a reason.
4-06-2008 @ 9:33PM
dan said...
Yes. And if you read the faq for it you'll realize wowjutsu awards marginal points for repeated kills.
4-06-2008 @ 9:35PM
dan said...
Besides, Nihilum was top of the list before 2.4. Which means they got credit for farming BT etc as much, moreso, than anyone. All this means is other guilds have pulled ahead of them post 2.4. Perhaps momentarily.
4-06-2008 @ 10:34PM
matt said...
Not in top 40!? Then this video on how to beat Brutallus is totally worthless!
4-07-2008 @ 5:18AM
Kryptonls said...
"And if you read the faq for it you'll realize wowjutsu awards marginal points for repeated kills."
Yes - but if guilds repeatedly get the top drops then they will earn more points.
You will also recall how then the Illidan race was on that when other guilds killed him, they were only fractions of points away from Nihilum anyway.
So your new point is...?
4-07-2008 @ 5:39AM
dan said...
Not a new point. The same point.
The quality of drops have nothing to do with the points you're awarded. Only evidence of the first time boss kills. And then infinitesimal incremental points per kill after that.
All of that is made pretty clear in that faq you mentioned.
4-07-2008 @ 9:46AM
Kryptonls said...
Let's go back to your original point because you clearly have some issues with this topic...
"Last I checked Nihilum wasn't even in the top 40 worldwide guilds on wowjutsu...."
And?
4-07-2008 @ 7:12PM
dan said...
Pretty sure that's covered off in my post from 4-06-2008 @ 9:35PM.
but if you want more clarity here goes:
Nihilum is not the "flagship" guild at this point in time as the author suggests. Say what you will about wowjutsu but it is objective, unbiased, and the closest thing to a popularly accepted leaderboard for pve content in WoW. It's certainly historically accurate to give that crown to Nihilum for all their consistent and persistent excellent effort and will likely be so again but right now that honor goes to another guild(s). That's all.
4-06-2008 @ 10:15PM
Nevets said...
LootFTW has had a video up for awhile now, from their GM Mar's (mage) POV on the Brutallus kill. Just a FYI really, if u wanted to see the fight from another perspective.
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4-06-2008 @ 10:23PM
Rocnroll said...
Interesting that they do not have a Holy Priest, I had heard that they did not usually run with one. I would swap out one or two of the resto Shamans for Priests. The utility that Priests bring to a raid is hard to replace.
Yes, for the record my main is a Disc/Holy Priest (31/30). Improved Divine Spirit and Power Infusion FTW!
But, if it works for them, then it works. There is more than one way to take down a boss. :)
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4-06-2008 @ 11:11PM
Dryss said...
The best stream of the video is definetly from Vimeo:
http://www.vimeo.com/859520
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4-06-2008 @ 11:41PM
vildand said...
So I guess all the guilds who's already done this can now welcome Nihilum to last month? Neat.
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4-06-2008 @ 11:59PM
Alchemistmerlin said...
Sorry, 3 and 8 already beat you to, generally, this same comment.
Welcome to a few hours ago.
4-06-2008 @ 11:48PM
khaynu said...
One of the main reasons they probably bring 3 resto shaman instead of subbing in a priest etc, is not just only for the heals but they can bring a lot of dps buffs for dps intesive fights that other healers cannot. So, including the enhancement shaman, thats 4 heroism/bloodlusts, along with totem buffs for multiple groups.
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4-07-2008 @ 2:22AM
Nosophoros said...
Actually, Nihilum feels that resto shammies are excellent healers. It has something to do with the way Chain Heal scales with +healing or whatever, but anyway, they seem to be all over the shammies nowadays.
4-07-2008 @ 10:38AM
Charles said...
They bring so many shaman to Brutallus because they want every group in the raid to be covered by Grounding Totems if possible.
4-07-2008 @ 12:22AM
Derick said...
could have at least changed the fucking viewing angle....
this video is boring.
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