The Raid Briefing

Lord Rhyolith 10-man NM

2011-08-23T16:53:00.001+08:00

The Trash

1. Tank charge up the hill and gather at the edge. Hit Kar the Everburning to make him stop spawning the small elementals. He will also retreat and spawn 2 Unbound Pyrelords.

2. Pull the 2 Pyrelords and kill them first before engaging Kar.

3. Melee stay on Kar while range take out the Lava Spawns. They will not multiply if killed while Kar is still alive. Try to leave only one Lava Spawn before killing Kar. Once Kar is dead, stun the last Spawn before killing it.

Lord Rhyolith
Kill Video

1. This is a 2-phase encounter and Rhyo is not tankable in P1. This encounter is a bit dependent on RnG. U may get good spot active volcano spawn or it can be the max range of the previous one.

2. Obsidian Armor
Rhyo starts with 80stacks (80% dmg reduction) of the buff on him. Everytime he steps on Active Volcano, the buff is reduced by 10%. *16% after the recent patch.

3. Rhyo can't be targeted, attacked or tanked during this p1. Rhyo's movement during p1 is dependent on the DPS done to his Right and Left Leg (shared health pool), which will be reflected on his movement bar. It's important for ALL the DPS to see this bar. If Rhyo reaches the lava surrounding his platform, he will Drink Magma and cast a raid-wipe ability; dealing 35k fire dmg through Molten Spew to everyone every second for 4 seconds.

4. Concussive Stomp
Rhyo will cast this ability from time to time and the raid will be taking the most dmg from this ability. It will also spawn 2 -3 Volcanoes. This stomp can be fully resisted which is purely RnG. It used to knock back those within 20yards of Rhyo but it no longer does (the video still has the knock back element in the fight).

5. The Volcanoes

The volcanoes can be in 4 different forms;

Inactive Volcano: Used to have smokes coming out from it but it is now no longer.

Active Volcano: Has smoke and lava coming out from it and also dealing Eruption dmg.

Crater: Volcanoes that Rhyo had stepped on.

Magma Flow Crater: Will despawn once it finish casting Magma Flow.

6. Molten Armor
This is not listed in the in-game raid journal. Every time Rhyo steps on an Inactive Volcano he gains 2 stacks of this buff. The buff will drop @ 1 stack every 15sec.

7. Eruption
Rhyo will occasionally activate an inactive volcano. An active volcano will cast this debuff on 3 random players every 2 sec. However, because there's a slight delay in each eruption, it will look like as if it's landing on a player or two, every second a volcano remain active. Having two active volcanoes up will stress the healers quite a bit.

8.  Below is Concussive Stomp dmg with possible dmg modifier from Molten Armor and Eruption debuff.
Eruption Stacks
0 stack 3 stacks 6 stacks 9 stacks
Molten Armor Stacks 30% 60% 90%
0 stack 32.4k - 37.6k 42.1k - 48.9k 51.8k - 60.2k 61.6k - 71.4k
5 stacks (10%)   35.6k - 41.4k 46.3k - 53.8k 57k - 66.2k 67.6k - 78.7k
10 stacks (20%) 38.8k - 45.1k 50.4k - 58.6k 62.1k - 72.2k 73.7k - 85.7k
15 stacks (30%) 42.1k - 48.9k 54.7k - 63.6k 67.4k - 78.2k 80k - 92.9k

9. Magma Flow
All exposed craters has the potential of causing Magma Flow. This is a very high dmg ability. Players hit by the streams of magma when the flow is starting will take 75k Fire Dmg. These magma stream will soon erupt dealing 150k Fire Dmg. Both dmg are modified by your Eruption debuff stack. DBM will give audio alert for this ability; "BEWARE!!".

10.  The Adds
Rhyo summon two different type of adds during this encounter.

11. Summon Fragment of Rhyolith
Rhyo summons five small Rock Elementals. Those within 7yds of the spawn points will take 15k fire dmg. This fire dmg is resistable and will be modified by Molten Armor stacks on Rhyo and Eruption debuff stack on player.

If Fragment of Rhyolith are not dead within 30sec, they will Meltdown, charging random raid members and dealing Fire dmg equal to their current health. This dmg is resistable and will be modified by Eruption debuff on the player. The fragments spawn with 155k, assigning 2 dps to aoe down the fragments should be enough.

Eg of total DPS on Fragments (Yvainne = Fragments tank, Durhaka = Sparks tank)

These adds doesn't hit that hard and it's possible to assign a plate dps to tank them. However, the mitigation from a traditional tank will be high on these adds.

Eg of Fragments dmg on tank

12. Summon Spark of Rhyolith

Rhyo summons a Fire Elemental add. Those within 10 yds of the spawn point will take 15k fire dmg. This fire dmg is resistable and will be modified by Molten Armor stacks on Rhyo and Eruption debuff stack on player.

The Spark will constantly deal aoe dmg to raid through Immolation to those within 15 yds. This damage is resistable and will be modified by Eruption debuff stack on individual player. The Spark will also keep gaining Infernal Rage every 5 sec until it's killed.

The tank assigned to handle the spark will need to tank it away from the grp. The tank alone should be enough to DPS down the add even though some DoT from any DPS wouldn't hurt. Tank can use Prismatic Elixir to increase resistance to the Fire Dmg.

Eg of Spark's dmg on tank up to 11stacks of Infernal Rage (total dmg taken ~415k)

Eg of total DPS on Sparks of Rhyolith

13. The Burn Phase

Once Rhyo is at 25%, he will remove his shell and start dealing aoe raid dmg through Immolation. He's also tankable now. Range and healers should stay 15yds away. Bloodlust/heroism and burn through.

Baleroc 10-man NM

2011-08-03T19:22:00.000+08:00

Kill Video (1 Tank on Baleroc, 1 Tank on Crystal)

1. There are 3 methods listed here on how to tackle this encounter and the following are the basic mechanics for this fight.

Blaze of Glory
2. This is a debuff applied to the Tank tanking Baleroc every ~7-14sec. Max stacks up to 99, cannot be removed and persist through death. A single tank will have ~30stacks total by the end of the fight and a health pool exceeding 1.1 million. For this reason, a blood DK tank will be able to pull a lot of self-healing with Death Strike, Blood Shield, Rune Tap and Rune of the Fallen Crusader.

eg of Blaze of Glory stacks on tank toward the end of the encounter

eg of Death Strike self-healing

eg of Blood Shield bubble

eg of Rune Tap self-healing

eg of Rune of Fallen Crusader self-healing

Incendiary Soul
3. Everytime Baleroc apply Blaze of Glory debuff, he will gain this buff, meaning as the tank gained higher max health, Baleroc with hit the tank harder with his physical attack (Blaze of Glory debuff) and also fire attack (Incendiary Soul buff).

Shards of Torment
4. Baleroc will summon Shards of Torment (Crystal) from time to time. Where the crystal will spawn is indicated by a purple beam and DBM's "BEWARE!!" warning. It won't spawn on the tank for as long no one else is stacking with him/her. It won't spawn at where the ranges are neither. With 4 players staying outside (healers + hunter) of Baleroc melee range, it is still sufficient to make the Shards of Torment to always spawn behind the boss. There will be only ONE crystal at a time in 10-man.

5. Once the crystal is in place, the person standing nearest to it (min 15yds) will start taking hit from the stacking Torment cast by the crystal. If there's no one near by, the raid will start taking very high AoE dmg.

6. Each crystal lasts ~25-26 sec, and will apply 1 stack of Torment per second. The higher the stack, the more dmg the player will take. Torment dmg can be resisted.

Eg of Torment dmg on dps class player up to 13 stacks without any defensive cd being used.

7. Torment will move to the nearest person standing near the crystal. Once it jumps to another person, the previous player afflicted by the debuff will have another debuff callled Tormented. This debuff makes a healer an unsuitable target to take any hit from the crystal. The player with the Tormented debuff active, should also avoid from taking anymore Torment dmg until the debuff resets.

Vital Spark
8. This is the buff the healers will get after landing a direct healing spell on the player taking dmg from Torment. This buff stacks up to 999.

9. These are the number of Sparks that u will get per direct heal in relation to the Torment stack.

Torment Spark

1-5 1

6-8 2

9-11 3

12-14 4

15-17 5

18-20 6

21-23 7

24-25/26 8

Vital Flame
10. This is the buff the healers will get after landing a direct healing spell on the player with Blaze of Glory debuff. This buff will convert all your Sparks stack into Flame for 15sec and increase your healing done to the player with Blaze of Glory debuff. Each stack will be converted into 5% extra healing. Once the 15sec has run out, your last Vital Spark stacks will be restored and u can continue building up your Sparks again. However, If you continue to heal the person with Blaze of Glory debuff, your Sparks will once again be converted into Flame for another 15sec.

Decimation Blade and Inferno Blade
11. From time to time, Baleroc will empowered his blade with either one of these for 15sec. Decimation Strike is a slow but very hard hitting Shadow Dmg strike every 5sec until the 3rd strike. The Inferno Strike attack is 6-hit fire attack within that 15sec. Both attacks can be Dodged or Parried but only Inferno Strike can be resisted.

Method 1: 1 Tank on Baleroc and 1 Tank or/and a Shadow Priest on Crystal
12. This is the most fun method to tackle the boss for the healers. It's based on how fast can your healers build up their Sparks stack. The objective is to get ONE healer close to 100 stacks from the first crystal alone. This is possible due to the higher Torment stack on the soaker, that will give more sparks per heal to the healers. Only 1 Tank will be tanking Baleroc through out the encounter while the other tank will be used to 'tank' the crystal. A shadow priest also can carry this role well (Dispersion).

Eg of Torment dmg on Prot Pally soaker with defensive cd being used and Mirror of Broken Images (~355k total dmg). Glyph of Divine Protection is a must. These can also be used to reduce your dmg intake - Prismatic Elixir , and Enchant Cloak - Superior Shadow Resistance

13. These are the healing & soaking assignment:

1st Crystal
Will be fully soaked.
Healer A = full time on Tank.
Healer B = full time on Torment and quickly build up stack.
Healer C = on Torment, but must get ready to switch to Tank the moment Baleroc empowered his blade for the first time. Once switched, stay on Tank until the full 15sec Flame.

2nd Crystal

If there's a 2nd soaker, use him/her. Otherwise, rotate between 2 or 3 player. Rotating between 3 players is more forgiving compared to 2 players. If three players are rotating, Player 1 and 2 move out at 8 stacks each while Player 3 will take the remaining balance. If only two players are rotating, the first person should move away from the crystal at 12-13stacks of Torments while the next person get the balance.

Healer A = SWITCH and full time on Torment.

Healer B = SWITCH and full time on Tank

Healer C = switch back Torment to cont rebuilding Sparks once Flame about to expire. Always ready to switch to Tank the moment Baleroc cast Decimation Blade.

3rd Crystal

Defensive CD of the 1st soaker might still be on CD, so it's safe to use 2 soakers here. Prot Pally will have Divine Protection and Trinket up again, but to stay for a full duration is risky. Move out at ~16-17stacks and leave the balance to another player.

Healer A = maintain on Torment

Healer B = maintain on Tank

Healer C = switch back to Torment to cont rebuilding Sparks once Flame about to expire. Always ready to switch to Tank the moment Baleroc cast Decimation Blade.

4th Crystal

Same as 2nd Crystal.

Healer A = maintain on Torment

Healer B = maintain on Tank

Healer C = switch back to Torment to cont rebuilding Sparks once Flame about to expire. Always ready to switch to Tank the moment Baleroc cast Decimation Blade.

5th Crystal

Same as 3rd Crystal

Healer A = maintain on Torment

Healer B = maintain on Tank

Healer C = switch back to Torment to cont rebuilding Sparks once Flame about to expire. Always ready to switch to Tank the moment Baleroc cast Decimation Blade.

6th Crystal

Healer A = SWITCH to Tank

Healer B = maintain on Tank

Healer C = maintain on Torment

7th Crystal (Full soaking)

Healer A = maintain on Tank

Healer B = maintain on Tank

Healer C = maintain on Torment

8th Crystal onwards

Healer A = maintain on Tank

Healer B = SWITCH to Torment

Healer C = SWITCH to Tank

14. Building up quick Sparks. The following are the example of how many Sparks u can get within ONE crystal if there's a soaker.

For a Resto Druid

Holy Pally can build up the stack very fast by using WoG at 1 holy power, Holy Shock when it's up, and Flash of Light. Holy Shock can proc an instant cast FoL and FoL can proc double Shock. With beacon on the soaker, FoL will also grant Holy Power for your WoG, and u'll get more WoG with 2/2 Eternal Glory as well.

Disc priest should be using Penance to build up quick stacks. Penance is the only spell from my observation that can heal 3 times within 2 sec. U can still cast it 3 times within a full Shard of Torment.

Eg for Holy Priest

Resto Shaman

Method 2: 1 Tank to soak all 3 Decimation Strikes

15. With this method, Tank A will be tanking at the start of the encounter until he/she has enough Blaze of Glory Debuff that will take his/her total health pool ~300k. After that, Tank B will take over and Tank A will only be tanking during the Decimation Strikes. The reasoning behind this is, with lower total health pool on the tank soaking Decimation Strikes, it will be faster to top him to full before the next Strike.

Method 3: Tanks rotate Decimation Strikes

16. With this method, Tank A will be tanking at the start of the encounter until he/she has enough Blaze of Glory Debuff that will take his/her total health pool ~300k. After that, Tank B will take over and Tank A will only taunt Baleroc AFTER the FIRST Decimation Strike hits Tank B. Tank A will then take the hit from the second Decimation Strike. Tank B will now retaunt Baleroc, take the 3rd hit, and tank until the next cycle. This method will provide the healers 10sec to top up the tanks instead of 5 sec.

17. Depending on your raid grp setup, strengths and weaknesses, one method might be easier than the other.

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Addon info:

This is an old video, so some of the addons might be outdated. I'm not actively raiding.

The whole UI was customised. The dark column at the top was created using Skinner; Viewport feature --> http://www.curse.com/addons/wow/skinner
I don't however recommend this as there are a lot of default UI that u'll need to move with http://www.curse.com/addons/wow/move-anything if u set the Viewport to top.

Top left corner chat frame is http://www.curse.com/addons/wow/prat-3-0
*i had problem with Prat with MoP, http://www.curse.com/addons/wow/chatter is a good sub

Next to it is http://www.curse.com/addons/wow/basic-minimap

Next to that are http://www.curse.com/addons/wow/bartender4 with http://www.curse.com/addons/wow/omni-cc. This bars host abilities that are not commonly used or just to display some long cooldowns. I have a couple more completely hidden combat bars which key-binds are set also using Bartender and http://www.curse.com/addons/wow/clique
The cooldowns for the combat abilities are shown by the non-interactive icons/aura glow appearing and disappearing in the middle of the screen during combat. Those are set-up with http://www.curse.com/addons/wow/powerauras-classic. Power Aura is however not updated, http://www.curse.com/addons/wow/weakauras is a good sub. Some of the custom sound/voice alert were setup through the addon as well.

Some unit frames directly below it are from http://www.curse.com/addons/wow/shadowed-unit-frames

Next to the bars is http://www.curse.com/addons/wow/skada meter

Next to it is system menu set through bartender.

Next to it is combat zone map (shift+m)

Below that is http://www.curse.com/addons/wow/eaves-drop combat log so there are no distracting flying numbers during combat.

The box to left only appears in raid grp and when out of combat. That's http://www.curse.com/addons/wow/raidbuffstatus

The raid-frame is http://www.curse.com/addons/wow/vuhdo which is only visible during raid

Icons above the raid-frame is http://www.curse.com/addons/wow/rib

The players' buff/debuff at the bottom right and targets' buff/debuff at the bottom left is from http://www.curse.com/addons/wow/raven

The cast bar in the middle is http://www.curse.com/addons/wow/quartz

The bubble speech that announces ability used was http://www.curse.com/addons/wow/rsa but i think it is outdated. Didn't look for sub as not actively raiding... yet :)

I also used http://www.curse.com/addons/wow/tidy-plates but this boss is too damn big :)

http://www.curse.com/addons/wow/deathnote also running.

http://www.curse.com/addons/wow/errorfilter to hide those annoying "ability not yet ready spam" :)

Last but not least, http://www.curse.com/addons/wow/deadly-boss-mods with http://www.curse.com/addons/wow/big-wigs running together with only a few alerts that's not available through DBM

Those are basically what's visible in the video :)

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Shannox 10-man NM

2011-07-14T17:47:00.014+08:00

Kill Video

Kill Video 2 (better strat execution)

Shannox
1. Not tauntable

2. Throw Immolation Trap and Crystal Prison Trap around the area.

3. Carry a spear and when he has his spear, he does Arcing Slash attack which is a 120 degree Frontal Cleave with a Jagged Tear DoT debuff.

4. Has 2 dogs (Riplimb & Rageface) as his pet and both are not tauntable as well. Riplimb can be tanked, Rageface however, will simply attack random raid member. All dps just focus on taking Rageface down asap and then just focus on Shannox, ignoring Riplimb for the entire fight.

5. Both dogs and Shannox himself will gain Separation Anxiety buff if the distance between them is more than 60 yds.

6. Both dogs will get Frenzied Devotion buff IF they WITNESS Shannox reach 30%. Since Rageface should already be dead, Riplimb tank need to make sure Riplimb has Dogged Determination buff active before calling for push DPS on Shannox to bring him down below 30%. Dogged Determination will put Riplimb in 'must get spear' mode and prevent it from enraging.

7. Shannox will throw his spear near Riplimb from time to time after which Riplimb will pick up and bring it back to Shannox. While fetching the spear (after spear hit the ground) and returning it to Shannox, Riplimb will have Dogged Determination buff up which prevents snaring below 50% of its speed. The buff will improve over time and upon reaching 100%, Riplimb will simply sprint/dash to Shannox. While this buff is active, Riplimb can be snared (otherwise it is immune to snare), but it will not trigger the Prison Trap, but can still trigger Immolation trap. If Riplimb is trapped (prison) as Shannox is hurling the spear (the buff not up yet), Riplimb will gain the buff while being trapped, and will probably start dashing later on. If Riplimb is killed before it can return the spear, Shannox will use Call Spear to regrab his spear.

8. Shannox gain a stack of Frenzy when one of his dog is killed.

9. If Riplimb is dead, Shannox throw his spear right where he stand and will cast Magma Rupture. The debuff from this spell stacks but it can be cleared by classes ability such as bubble, bop, cloak, ams etc etc. It can also be cleared off by standing 45yds away from Shannox during a cast. The tank however will have a hard time as swapping tank is complicated. This is avoidable by not killing Riplimb.

The Traps

10. Both traps are almost identical. Immolation Trap is orange in colour with small flame in the middle while Crystal Prison Trap is red in colour with small red crystal in the middle.

The traps

11. Both Riplimb & Rageface can hit the traps. If the dogs hit a trap, they will gain Wary buff which will prevent them from getting hit by another trap for ~ 23-25sec. Immolation Traps deal average fire dmg to the dogs upon contact and also apply a DoT for 3 more ticks. Crystal Prison Traps simply trap the dogs for 11~12sec, clear off any DoT on them and make them immune to all attacks. A trapped dog can be freed quicker by dpsing the trap instead, even though this is not efficient at all. Immolation traps are meant for Rageface, and the Prison traps are for Riplimb. As Rageface will be running around attacking random player, a player should try to make sure there's an Immolation trap is in between of him/herself and Rageface and make sure Prison trap is no where near. The best way to make sure that Rageface will not accidentally triggers a Prison trap is by making sure that it always has Wary buff active. If a player is being attacked by Rageface, and is not pinnned down (can move), just pull Rageface over an Immolation Trap.

eg of Immolation trap dmg on Rageface

12. Both traps should be avoided by players and traps cannot be triggered by player's pets. Rogues can disarm one trap every 15sec which doesn't make any significant different and a waste of dps. Immolation trap does significant amount of dmg, especially the first tick to player eventhough it's resistible and a Prison trap will trap a player until the trap is broken by dpsing it.

Immolation trap dmg on players

Shannox's Spear, Arcing Slash and Jagged Tear
13. Arcing Slash attacks (every ~ 11-14sec) cannot miss, be dodged or parried but it can be fully absorbed. The DoT however is still applied on a fully absorbed attack. Pally's bubble and BoP will not clear the DoT. The slash deals high dmg to a tank especially with a Frenzy buff active on Shannox.

eg of Arcing Slash dmg

14. The DoT from Shannox; Jagged Tear, also cannot miss be dodged or parried but it can be fully absorbed. This dmg is not directly related to Frenzy buff on Shannox. Dmg on a tank @ up to 8 stacks is moderate.

eg of low stack Jagged Tear dmg on Shannox's tank

eg of high stack Jagged Tear dmg on Shannox's tank

15. In order for Shannox's tank to drop the debuff, he/she must not get hit by Arcing Slash for a good ~ 24-25sec. This is done by delaying Riplimb when he's returning the spear to Shannox.

16. When Shannox cast Hurl Spear, he is throwing his spear to somewhere near Riplimb. The spot where the spear will land will be marked with red beam. A player will then have ~ 2-3sec to move away from this beam to avoid the Hurl Spear dmg.

eg of Hurl Spear dmg on clothie (~ 115k)

eg of Hurl Spear dmg on tank (~43k)

17. Once the spear landed on the ground, those within 50yds radius of the initial red beam will instantly take significant aoe fire dmg from Magma Flare (this attack can miss). A player will have ~ 4sec to move out from the blast radius from the time the red beam is in place. Another spell that the spear will cast once it touches the ground is Magma Rupture. Even though the spell name and the animation is the same as the Magma Rupture cast by Shannox if Riplimb is dead, The spear's Magma Rupture doesn't place the stacking increase fire dmg taken by 40% debuff, but it deals more fire dmg. If a player manage to safely move out of the Magma Flare blast radius, he/she don't have to worry about this. However, if a player is caught up in the flares, he/she will have ~ 2sec to safely position him/herself in between the flares before it rupture. Getting hit by both the flare blast and it's rupture is extremely bad and will strain the healers. The most effective way to avoid this is for the Riplimb tank monitoring the Hurl Spear cd on Shannox. When cd is about to reset, get Riplimb inside a Prison Trap and get everyone as far away as possible from it. Shannox will not throw his spear when Riplimb is trapped and will only do that once the trap broke. If Riplimb's tank is a good distance away by the time it's free, Riplimb will first go after the tank and then turn back to grab the spear. This is also a very effective way to reset the Jagged Tear debuff on both tanks.

eg of Magma Flare & Magma Rupture dmg

Video on how to reset the Jagged Tear effectively

Jagged Tear total stacks on Shannox's Tank for the entire fight

Jagged Tear total stacks on Riplimb's Tank for the entire fight

Riplimb

18. Riplimb melee dmg on a tank is average.

Eg of Riplimb melee dmg on tank

19. Riplimb will also apply Jagged Tear on its tank dealing the same dmg as the one being applied by Shannox on his tank. This DoT from Riplimb however stacks faster if compared to the one from Shannox (every ~ 8-10sec).

Rageface

20. Rageface will cast Face Rage on random raid from time to time. This attack will deals significant amount of dmg after 2-3sec. To stop the attack, a player will need to use ability that can deal more that 30k dmg. Once stopped, Facerage will then Rage at the who dealt the dmg and attack him/her for 15sec. His normal attack dmg however is average.

Eg of Face Rage dmg within 2 secs

Eg of Rageface normal melee dmg

-The End-

Beth'tilac 10-man NM

2011-07-11T16:34:00.002+08:00

Kill Video 1 (related to most data images)

Kill Video 2 (better execution of strat)

Strat
1. Stack at start for aoe heal as boss will start casting Venom Rain every 3-sec until a player climbs up to the upper level. Despite its name, Venom Rain is Fire dmg and can be resisted, absorbed and missed. The Rain will stop once someone is at the upper level with Beth and will start again once everyone from the upper level jumps down to avoid Smoldering Devastation.

Eg of Venom Rain hit:

Venom Rain Total Damage:

2. Kill Spinners. They will be hanging and use range attack. Taunt to get them to the ground. Once on the ground, they will leave a web rope that players can right click to climb to the upper level. They cast Burning Acid on random players on the ground level, regardless whether they're being tanked or not. The Burning Acid deals significant amount of dmg, can be resisted, absorbed and missed. Their melee attacks however are weak. Ret pally is very effective against the Spinners. Ret Pally has 2 taunts and both on 8sec CD and Spinners hardly hurt a plate dps with their melee attack. Righteous Defense is a very effective way to bring the Spinners down. If u're lucky u'll get more than one Spinner to come down with one cast.

Eg of Spinner's Burning Acid hit:

Spinner's Burning Acid Total Damage:

Eg of Spinner's Melee Damage:

3. Climbing turn.
Climb #1: Tank --> Healer --> DPS 1 --> DPS 2.
Climb #2: Tank --> Healer --> DPS 1. DPS 2 stay to clear up adds. (optional & only if ground grp is overwhelmed by adds)
Climb #1: Tank --> Healer --> DPS 1 --> DPS 2.

Ground Grp
4. Best tank to stay on the ground would be a Warrior. With Vigilance on the the other tank, a warrior tank will always be able to taunt the spinners.

5. The Cinderweb Drone does frontal cone AoE dmg (Boiling Spatter). The dmg is resistable & can be absorbed but i'm not sure it can miss. From our WoL, there's no miss hit from 22 hits, but 20 hits was partially resisted. The other players on the ground need to take note of the direction that the Drone is facing and avoid getting hit by these. Best is to stay in center with the tank circling it.

Eg of Drone's Boiling Spatter hit:

Drone's Boiling Spatter Total Damage:

6. The Drone's melee dmgs on a tank are low and the attack speed is ~ 2sec per swing. Looking at these figures, some might consider using a hunter with Tenacity pet (Bear, Beetle, or Turtle) to solo the Drone and using Mend Pet with Glyph of Mending + Blood of the Rhino to top up the pet (~13k tick every 2sec). The hunter's passsive skill,Avoidance + Pet talent Great Resistance will mitigate most of Boiling Spatter dmg, but the pet does take additional melee dmg compared to a traditional tank and will still require a healer's attention. Threat should not be an issue with Glyph of Misdirection. If there's a need to move the Drone, the hunter can use the move pet command. Hunter's pet can Block AND Parry but the chance is much lower compared to a traditional tank.

Eg of Drone's (zone mob) dmg on Pet (No 'Consume' Buff) within 46sec (~420k total):

Eg of Drone's (boss add) dmg on actual Tank (No 'Consume' Buff) within 47sec ~310k total):

7. The Drone also cast Burning Acid on random players on the ground.
Eg of Drone's Burning Acid hit:

8. Using a traditional tank to tank the Drone, the tank will need to kite the Drone away from the Spiderlings and taunt any new Spinners to bring them to the ground for more AoE Dmg/cleave. The Drones and Spinners are both immune to daze, silence, stun & root, can block but cannot parry and doesn't seems to have any resistance over magic dmg. Even though they can be afflicted by Mages Slow, the moving speed penalty will not take effect and i'm not sure whether or not the other 2 Slow spell elements make any different.

Eg of Drone's damage taken:

Total DPS on Drones

Eg of Spinner's damage taken:

Total DPS on Spinners

9. The Spiderlings will move towards a Drone once they spawn. They are tauntable and will deal melee dmg and they melee hit harder than the Spinners. Eventhough the Spiderlings have a threat table, they will not move towards the person holding the threat and will keep moving towards the Drone. However, if the person holding the threat on them is within their melee range, they will attack the player. They will also randomly cast Seeping Venom(resistable nature dmg) on anyone within 6yds. Even though the Spiderlings are also capable of blocking, unlike the Drones & Spinners, they can be snared, rooted and dazed. If there's a mage in the grp, make sure to use Ring of Frost on the last Spiderlings pack that spawn before P2.

Spiderlings damage for the entire fight:

Snares on Spiderling

Spiderlings Seeping Venom (not from video attempt):

Upper Level Grp
10. Beth hit a tank quite hard in P1.

Eg of Beth's melee dmg on tank in P1:

11. Beth will also cast Ember Flare during P1 to those on the upper level. Ember Flare is Fire Dmg, CANNOT be resisted but it can miss and can be absorbed.

Eg of Beth's Ember Flare dmg during P1:

Beth's Ember Flare total dmg during P1:

12. Players at the upper level need to avoid the Meteor. Meteor will leave a small burning circle on the upper level web which will later on created a hole on the web. The holes are there for ppl from the upper level to jump down when Beth starting to cast Smoldering Devastation. It's not uncommon for an inexperience grp to have ppl not moving away from the Meteor Burn and later on fall down to ground level. Falling through the holes before Smoldering Devastation cast will normally result in death as the fall will not be dampened unlike jumping down during the cast.

Eg of Meteor Burn dmg during P1:

13. The more dps u can pull on Beth during P1, the shorter your P2 will be.

Phase 2
14. Beth will keep gaining Frenzy stack every 4-5sec. Each stack increase her dmg by 5%. Unless your grp can burn Beth within 40sec into P2, u might wanna save Bloodlust for slightly later into P2 to help the healers with the healing (30-20%).

Frenzy stack during P2:

15. Beth will deals a raid wide dmg with Ember Flare. Everyone except the tanks should be stacking at the tail for AoE heals.

Eg of Ember Flare dmg with low frenzy:

Eg of Ember Flare dmg with high frenzy:

Total Ember Flare dmg during P2:

16. Tanks will get hit harder with higher frenzy as well. Save cooldowns for high frenzy stacks.

Eg of Beth melee dmg on tanks with low frenzy:

Eg of Beth melee dmg on tanks with high frenzy:

17. Beth will apply The Widow's Kiss debuff on tanks which will keep stacking once applied all the way to 10. Each stack reduces healing received by the tank by 10%. Healers need to take note that the tank with the debuff DOES NOT require any healing as long as long as he is not tanking and Tanks need to start rotating once the debuff is applied to the other tank. Take note that, the debuff deals 10k per pulse dmg to any raid members within 10yds apart from himself. HOWEVER, while the debuff is active, the tank WILL NOT take dmg from Ember Flare.

The Widow's Kiss during P2:

Ember Flare not hitting the Tank with The Widow's Kiss debuff during P2:

-THE END-

Valiona and Theralion 10-man Normal

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Valiona and Theralion or the Double Dragon is the second boss encounter in the Bastion of Twilight raid.

Boss Fight

The Pull

Take note of the positions of range classes in the pull. There's a 'dot' floor design marking where they stand (we have 6 including the healers here). These markings are 11 yds apart from one another and standing at these positions will avoid unnecessary aoe dmg. The melee dps takes position at one side of the Drake and the other melee on the opposite side. The 2nd tank take position at the tail. There is no tail swipes for both drakes and this will be the position the stack up for 'Blackout'. Take note that even though it might not be necessary to use 2 tanks, we went with this setup anyway for cd rotations and contingency.

Power Aura Settings

a) For everyone

Activation by: Debuff

Debuff name: Blackout

Sound attachment when started: Yes

Sound attachment when ended: Yes

Tick Box:

1. Raid/Party or Self

2. Any

Usage: When u hear the warning for this setting is up, start stacking up (except active tank), with the 2nd tank at the tail. Quickly dispell the debuff once everyone is at the stack and move out back to positions once u hear the ending sound alert. It's useful to put classes that can move faster (mage, warlock) at the furthest position.

Power Aura Settings

b) For everyone

Activation by: Spell Alert
Spell name: Devouring Flames
Sound attachment when started: Yes
Texture: Recommended
Tick Box:
1. Enemy Target
2. Focus (set Valiona as your focus target)
Usage: When u hear the warning for this setting, check the direction she's facing and quickly move out to the opposite side as she will cast a wide frontal cone aoe fire breath. The setting also works for H-Grim Batol

Dazzling Destruction

No power aura setting is required as the whirl is very easy to identified. U need to make sure that u move out of the whirl asap as a meteor is about to land there. Failure to move away will result in u being transported into the Twilight Zone. If u got ported there, do not panic, just avoid the bright little stars filling up the zone and take the portal to go back to the battle area once u see it. The stars move at a very slow pace. Valiona might cast 'Blackout' during this phase of which the raid needs to stack accordingly for dispell. There's no cleave or frontal cone attack here, tank's movement is not so much a concern. During this phase also, the ranges should start moving towards the opposite side of the middle circle as that's where they will start stacking when Theralion is active.

Phase transition and positioning for Theralion

The 2nd tank will take over tanking duty for this phase. Split the raid into 3 stacks, the 2nd tank on his own, melees forming a stack and ranges forming a stack. This is to avoid excessive aoe dmg during this phase. Range will need to keep moving towards one direction during the phase avoiding the void zone. The player with the Engulfing Magic debuff will need to move out of the stack asap.

Power Aura Settings
b) For everyone
Activation by: Debuff
Spell name: Engulfing Magic
Sound attachment when started: Yes
Sound attachment when ended: Yes
Texture: Recommended
Usage: The moment this debuff is active, u need to move out from the stack asap as you will be dealing aoe dmg to the rest with any active hot or dot from u. The debuff however does not deals any damage to you. Try not to run away too far as you will need to move back to the stack asap once the debuff is gone.

Theralion phase end and repositioning for Valiona

Towards the end of Theralion's phase, Valiona will cast a straight line flame breath. The raid need to avoid getting hit by these or else will be ported to the Twilight Zone area (check Dazzling Destruction for Twilight Zone description). Player with Engulfing Magic during this phase will need to make sure there's no one nearby. There's NO need to STACK during this phase anymore and it's better to keep the ranges spread. Try not to be near any of the raid position for Valiona to avoid any void zone spawning there when u switch target later on.

Repeat the steps.

Magmaw 10 - Normal Mode

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Raid: Blackwing Descent

Magmaw is on the left side after entering Blackwing Descent. There are 2 sets of trash to clear before u engage the boss.

Trash 1: Fairly simple tank & spank, 2nd tank taunt once the 1st tank has debuff.

Trash 2: Try to kill both adds at the same time. Throughout the fight both adds will keep switching target and charges the player standing the furthest away. Range dpses and healers need to stay at a safe distance somewhere in between of the two tanks as they both has a rather nasty aoe dmg.

Boss Fight

Power Aura Settings

a) For Everyone

Activation by: Debuff

Debuff Name: Mangle

Sound attachment: Yes

Tick Box:

1. Raid/Party or Self

2. 10-man & 25-man raid (otherwise u'll keep seeing/hearing the warning when u pvp)

3. Any

Usage for tanks: Immediately after the active tank has this debuff, Magmaw will grab him up. The 2nd tank must taunt immediately as the aggro table for the 1st tank is reset while being grabbed. This is to avoid Magmaw one-shoting any other player after he gets back to upright position.

Usage for everyone else: Magmaw will also target 1 side of the room immediately after he grabs the tank. When u hear the warning for this setup, be ready to change side if required.

b) For Range DPS & the person standing outside of melee range.

Activation by: Spell Alert

Spell Name: Pillar of Flame

Sound attachment: Yes

Tick Box:

1. Enemy Target

2. Focus (set Magmaw as your focus target)

Usage: When u hear the warning, get ready to dps the worms. The person standing outside of melee range can start moving away as well.

Kill Video:

Blood Prince Council 25HM

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Raid will still need to focus dps on the Prince with HP more than 1 as per normal mode.

In heroic-mode, players will get a Shadow Prison debuff everytime they move. The debuff gain a stack per second and the player affected will take 500 shadow dmg per stack WHILE they are moving. Standing still for 10sec will reset the debuff.

Position after pull

H1 & H2: Healers that will be covering T2 or whoever within range and requires healing.

H3-H6: Healers that will be covering T1, T3 and anyone withing range and requires healing.

M1 & M6: Melee DPS that don't have an extreme speed boost abilities. eg: Ret Pallies.

M2-M5: Melee DPS that can run quick or charge. eg: Warriors, Rogues, Feral Druids.

M7 & M8: DKs (unholy would be best for additional pet support). Cover the kinetic ball/disco ball around the stage area when Valanar is active. Use range abilities or send ghoul to stand by.

R1, R2, R6 & R8: Range DPS that controls a pet: eg: Hunters, Warlocks, Frost Mages with pet glyph. *Hunter's pet that has a range attack would be best. Send pet to the stage area when there's one there. Refer to Kinetic/Disco Balls text below. Do not move out of position to get within range of a boss. Only move out for Vortex Energy or the Empowered ball of flame.

R3, R4, R5 & R7: Range DPS without pet. Cover the kinetic ball/disco ball around the door/entrance area. Refer to Kinetic/Disco Balls text below. Do not move out of position to get within range of a boss. Only move out for Vortex Energy or the Empowered ball of flame.

T1: Valanar tank. Tank & spank. Watch out for any nearby vortex.

T2: Taldaram tank. Tank & spank. Watch out for any nearby vortex.

T3: Keleseth tank. Stay and build up threat until the first empowered shock vortex. Then immediately run to pick up the Balloons (Dark Energy) around the room by hitting them. Be sure to stop away from everyone during the next empowered shock vortex. Can help reduced the size of empowered ball flame when possible. Turn off the DBM more than 6 stacks shadow prison (may stack till max with balloons). No harm in stopping to let the debuff reset if there are enough Balloons following. DKs are excellent for this roll.

V: Prince Valanar (always the first active prince)

Refer to the chart/video below for positioning during empowered shock vortex. Glistering spark debuff on the melees need to be cleansed of immediately when Valanar is active in order for them to spread out on time during the Empowered Shock Vortex. The debuff placed a dot and movement slowing effect.

Empowered Shock Vortex Positioning

Good Empowered Shock Vortex spread. Take note that the positioning is a bit different compared to the illustration above. There were only 5 melees and the healers were positioned at a different spot.

Vortex Energy

Valanar will also cast vortex energy throughout the fight. U need to move away from these vortex energy when there's one near u or will take some damage and get knocked back.

Kinetic/Disco Balls
Everyone will get knock back if these were allowed to touch the floor. The Kinetic Bombs will fall down faster compared to normal mode too. Pet micro management is very important here. Pets are to be set to passive. It's very important to not let any Kinetic Bomb reach the floor. 1 Bomb is enough to wipe the raid sometimes. Make sure that your pet in not already on a Disco Ball before u send it to the next. Take note that melee-type pets will wait for the Disco Ball to be within attack range before attacking and preventing it from touching the floor. Wanding is a great way to keep the balls up as well because it doesn't cost mana and the attack speed are fast. The disco balls move up based on hit taken instead of dmg taken.

The yellow/gold glowing dot on the floor indicates a disco ball landing there.

T: Prince Taldaram
When Taldaram is active ALL MELEE dps move in. He will cast Empowered Ball of Flame to random range, and that person need to move back a bit if he is standing too close. Players not targeted by the empowered ball of flame can reduce the dmg intended to the player targeted by it by standing in it and reducing its size. Take note that the player doing this will be a taking minimum fire dmg.

You will get a DMB warning if an Empowered Ball of Flame is targeted toward you. The clip below indicates the distance that will still resulted in an instant death if the flame size were not reduced by melee or anyone else. Always ready to run when u becomes the target!!

K: Prince Keleseth

Melee must not chase Keleseth when he's active and the Tank is running around to pick up balloons. Only attack if he's within range. Stand by at Empowered shock vortex safe zone instead as if the next shift is Valanar, he will cast the empowered shock vortex immediately after the shift.

Target Change eg: Valanar-->Taldaram

Rogues, warriors and druids use speed cd and charged regardless of debuff. Use defensive CD if debuff is too high. Warrior's charge will only add additional 1 stack to debuff, rogue's/feral druid's sprint might add 2 at most. U can stand idle while dpsing later on to drop the debuff. Take note that u will only take dmg WHILE moving

Sindragosa

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Players mount up and ready for the pull. Charge and get into position. Range stack with melee for AoE heal since there raid will be taking constant 3.6-3.8k Frost damage (resistible) every 3 secs from the Sindragosa Frost Aura.

Casters inflicted with Unchained Magic will take damage through Instability debuff. Each spell cast when Unchained Magic is active on you will build up a stack of Instability. Each stack will cause 2k Arcane Dmg after 5 second of spellcast. You can however cast and instant spell right about when you're about to finish casting a long casting spell without building up an additional stack of Instability. For eg: Holy light + holy shock combo. U can also use channeling spell when Unchained Magic is active to avoid building up Instability stack (eg: arcane missile etc). Do not use your long defensive CD (eg: iceblock, dispersion etc) during phase 1 to mitigate the backlash dmg, instead save it for bloodlust phase.

Power Aura setting

Activation by: Debuff

Name: Instability

Timer: Show

Copy paste the first setting and change the stacks to = 5, and attach a sound warning to it. This way u will know when you have high stacks and should probably stop casting and wait till the debuff reset. Consider using your wand instead when u want to let the debuff reset.

3. Melee (inc tank) will take additional dmg through Chilled to the Bone debuff. Each melee attack has a 20% chance of inflicting a stack of Chilled to the Bone. Each stack will deal 1k+ frost dmg every 2 sec. U can however use abilities with spell dmg instead when u have the debuff active (eg: exorcism, volley etc). The debuff will not stack up with melee attack on Frost Tomb.

Power Aura setting

Activation by: Debuff

Name: Chilled to the Bone

Timer: Show

Copy paste the first setting and change the stacks to = 5, and attach a sound warning to it. This way u will know when you have high stacks and should probably wait till the debuff reset.

Blistering Cold

Sindragosa will grab everyone (except for the tank) to her at the beginning of Blistering Cold cast. Take note that the grab is resistible (frost). Players grabbed have 5 sec to immediately move out of an AoE blast (frost dmg). The tank that's staying with Sindragosa need to keep strafing left and right to avoid Sindra from moving position after the blast. Two Pallies with Divine Sacrifice can rotate their CD with one another during Blistering Cold. Sindra will also always throw a Frost Breath to the tank before the grab. 2 Pallies rotating Frost Aura Mastery before the Frost Breath will not only reduce the dmg on the tank, but some players may also be able to resist the grab. Using the cheap Lesser Flask of Resistance for this fight helps as well. Some classes can escape the blast radius faster too, for eg: Rogue - Sprint, Warlock - Port (set portal at safe zone first), Mage - Blink, Druid - Travel Form, Pally - Pursuit of Justice, Warrior - Intervene on the Warlock or Mage

Tanking error during Blistering Cold (tank didn't move). Recover by flipping to the opposite side and reposition.

Air Phase, Frost Beacon and Frost Bomb

During air phase, all players move towards safe zone, players targeted by Frost Beacon get into position based on the DBM warning name order as per illustration below. *There's a more efficient positioning for this, will update later

Power Aura setting

Activation by: Debuff

Name: Frost Beacon

Attach a sound warning.

The rest will need to immediately take cover behind the nearest Frost Tomb and make sure you line of sight the incoming Frost Bombs. There will be 4 Frost Bombs and don't break the Frost Tombs before the 4th bomb. Melee can hop to the next tomb in between the bombs and range can just switch target accordingly to balance up the dps on the tombs. Improper positioning for frost tomb will result in spill damage from the frost tomb next to player when the tombs are forming.

Average positioning for beacon

Good positioning for beacon

Phase 3 (35%) & Mystic Buffet

Mystic Buffet is the aoe debuff that everyone within Sindragosa line of sight (of her center) will get every 5 sec. It will last for 7 sec. A player will take 10-15% extra magic damage per stack of the debuff. The debuff drops when a player los Sindra behind an ice tomb (or frozen himself) during the reapplying wave.

Phase 3 is also Bloodlust phase. Raid position as the illustration below at the start of phase 3. The first person targeted for Frost Beacon in phase 3 will need to move out of the stack and to the right side. The rest need to make sure the frost tomb is forming before moving out behind the tomb to take cover and reset Mystic Buffet debuff. The active tank need to move slightly to the right after the first tomb is in place in order to give room for the next tomb.

--Recently Added--

Range DPS will generally keep DPSing Sindra. A good range DPS would just stand behind the ice tomb and only take cover to LoS Mystic Buffet when the debuff timer is at 4-3sec, stay behind the tomb at debuff remaining timer 2sec and move back out to cont dps at 1sec.

Power Aura setting

Activation by: Debuff

Name: Mystic Buffet

Show timer.

If it's not a drake attempt. Range DPS can even go for an alternate tomb debuff reset.

Melee DPS, generally rogues and fury warriors should be assigned to break the frost tombs in phase 3. Tombs should be ready for break once the Mystic Buffet debuff remaining timer passed '2 sec'.

--end recently added--

The second tomb and tank move into position. First tank move to reset debuff. Repeat the steps. Move out to safety if you got grabbed by blistering cold.