I am a 70 paladin tank, 490 defense, 10500 hp, 285 spell power. This guy is melee hitting me for 6500+, and despite having a stop attack macro, I am still getting smoked during his shell phase. Any tips or tricks here? Divine shield and taunt during shell? It was my first heroic run and got crushed 3x in a row.
Probably a bad one to start with. This boss is one of if not the most brutal heroic bosses. The rest of MT isn’t too bad but you should try to get better gear before fighting this dude as a tank.
Get shadow resist gear. All of his damage is shadow.
As an elemental shaman, I can turn this boss from hard to easy by just being a second healer.
I literally just stand there and spam max rank healing wave on the tank until the fight is over and we win with complete ease.
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I was thinking since I hit the 490 defense cap it wouldnt be so bad. 1st pull I asked if anything was different from normal and group said no. I melee attacked during shell phase and died instantly. 2nd pull i did a stop attack macro, but still died to 6500 melee attacks. 3rd attack, I pulled when shield and ran in and judged and died instantly.
We did him earlier. Wiped once cos his dmg came from nowhere. Second attempt we had secondary off heals and pally used his cd’s better.
Brutal boss though
like mentioned earlier, just get a few pieces of Shadow Resist gear, not even sure it matters whether or not its plate since it isn’t physical damage. put it on during this boss and then put on regular gear after.
as a paladin as well i believe you have a shadow resist aura? priests can also give a shadow resist buff too if you bring one.
We did double heals for mana tombs, a priest and myself, made a vast difference.
I use about 260 shadow resist for this guy and it’s a cakewalk.
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Imagine not using grounding totem to eat the bolts from the volley. Git gud.
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grounding doesn’t work on aoe… nice troll though
Yeah I had shadow aura on, and priests with shadow resist buff. Still 6500 through that per melee.
They don’t stack
Imagine thinking I’m not using totems during the fight.
It works on the void bolt. If you have two shamans, you can completely negate the entire void bolt mechanic. A single shaman can grounding 75% of each void bolt volley, the last 25% make it through unless you pre-time your grounding for cooldown and cast it half way through the volley, then you can get about 95% of the bolts but the timing wont be there for the second void volley if you have one.
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Shadow resist Aura and priest buff don’t stack.
At least they didn’t in Classic, did tbc change that?
90% sure they stack now
Stack SR. Doesn’t matter if it’s cloth.
This boss is a perfect example of the flaws of BC. It wasn’t challenging in a “good old days!” kind of way, things were just overtuned and/or overpowered. The tank should not be getting globalled, with or without shadow resistance gear. No other heroic boss has that kind of requirement, making this an anomaly. Besides, can you even craft shadow resistance gear in this phase - and even if you can, is it appropriate to warrant such a thing for anything less than a raid boss (like Mother Shahraz?)
If you need to spend thousands of gold crafting a speciality set for one boss in one normal dungeon (heroic, whatever, but it’s not a raid is the point) then count Mana-Tombs as a heroic daily to skip and wait for something better.
inb4 “go back to retail” for the ignorant ad hominem types.
Shadow resist. His damage is all shadow, just get some greens with SR.
Same for the first boss in Arc.
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Pally aura and Priest buff do not stack. 200+ SR makes this fight much easier.