#1 use 3 healers if you are not and people are dieing. Shade can do extremely high burst fast. The best fights are when he casts flame wreath alot instead of blizzard. Blizzard sucks especially for paladins and shamans.
#2 tanks should be going healing or dps. Hopefully one tank can put dps gear on and another put healing gear on to be the third healer.
#3 interrupt arcane missles(assign one or two people). It hurts the most and is rather fast.
#4interrupt fireballs when you can if you have enough interrupts(assign one person if you can). It hurts more than frostbolt.
#5 Dont worry about frostbolt interrupts.
#6 Stand still during flame wreath
#7 During blizzard move close to the center of the room and stand on the opposite side of blizzard. The closer to the center you are hte less distance you have to travel to keep out of the rotating blizzard.
#8 Of course run to the wall during arcane explosion after he pulls everyone to the center. Dispel those roots.
#9 CC elementals with fears and banish if you have any. Pretty sure stuns and aoe fears can work to help. Also use CDs during elemental phase. But DO NOT DPS ELEMENTALS. It is a waste of time as trying to kill elementals results in Shade going close to oom and does aoe sheep then aoe pyroblast. Just cc some of the elementals and save dps and healing and defense cds for this phase. Also that 3rd healer really helps now.
Edit: Also have that tank in dps gear pull elemental agro off healers if needed.
#10 Hunters make sure your pet is inside the door.
nah ignore that
Just have everyone go big dick on the boss. GG.
If the group is undergeared, then yea, you’ll need at least 2 locks for banishes/fears
And FFS, nobody MOVE during flame wreath
One lock is pretty essential. I also recommend marking a raid member who is familiar with the Blizzard cast to stand in the spot where they wont get hit and tell everyone else to migrate there.
If you are a hunter don’t have your pet attack during Blizzard. If the boss is even near the center of the room your pet will most likely be on the boss’s back side and in the center of the blizzard and die.
With all the movement in this fight you don’t want to have to spend even more time trying to figure out a safe space/time to rez your pet.
Very good advice. Elementals coming with Flame Wreath or Blizzard can be nasty.
yeah I didn’t even know about this pyroblast phase, never got anywhere close to it. And we aren’t that geared either
We run two rogues/ two locks when we’re lucky.
Interrupting the frost and fire attacks help significantly, as well as dedicating a tank as the gather and move point for blizzards. We cut blizzard dmg by 75% this way.
Also if you can swing two locks, our strategy is each lock uses a banish and a fear and burn boss while maintaining CC.
Main issue we have is occasionally the blizzard will literally cover the entire room and just sit there for a minute + which is REALLY hard to heal through. We kill him still but it doesn’t feel right.
Blizzard spreads to cover about 50-70% of the room, you need to try to stay near the tail of it rather than the front so that it isn’t constantly catching you in it as it rotates.
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It sounds like you want that nightmare to be over.
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Warlocks are just really important here. Last week our Kara group ran without any and we ended up just skipping him after several attempts, which sucked because then we couldn’t teleport after wipes.
It was an alt run, so we just took odds and ins to fill the group and we mostly struggled. With my normal group however, we have 2 Warlocks and we 1-shot him every single time. Just seems like the correct class composition really makes or breaks you there.
that’s how it is supposed to work… last night it covered 100% of the room and just sat there for the last 20s of the fight
Thank you everyone for your advice!!! Hopefully this will be our week!!!
Remember: He is not some simple jester. He is Nielas Aran!
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Keep one tank on him in the center of the room. He has an aggro table for his melee swings. Keeping him in the center of the room makes blizzard movements easy. He does melee between cast. I always just stay bear for him.
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Fear the elementals, don’t DPS them down though. Zugzug the boss. Keep doing the mechanics and don’t get yeeted by blizzard or flame wreath.
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GL! Let us know how it goes!
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I respectfully disagree. There’s no real point I reckon. Just put most your high dps in the centre(ish) but not in the Blizzard. Tanks really can’t generate much aggro when they’re not copping regular blockable hits, better to have your tanks go all out dps and focus on interrupts and stuff.
While there technically is an aggro table on some hits, for all intents there isn’t. You wouldn’t throttle dps or such for it.
Laughs in Bear. I can see the problem as a war/pally. This works for bears just fine.