Strategy Highlights

Ulduar Strategy Highlights Thread

This is intended to be a quick list of the important points of a fight a raid leader needs to mention.
It will also serve the average raider by telling you what you need to pay the most attention to. I will update this as I progress, and as this awesome community directs me. So if you think I should add a critical point, or remove one, or re-word one, tell me. I just might do it.

Most of what I currently have looked at is from wowwiki.com, wowraid.com, tankspot.com and here.

#1 Northrend Beasts

• Gormok the Impaler:
  
  1. Spread out (8-10yds). Ranged/Healers stay 20yds away from him.
     
  2. 2 tanks rotate taunts after 3 Impales (watch your debuffs)
     
  3. DPS on the snobolds (melee only get if its on a melee)
     
  4. Stay out of fire.
     
  5. Disarm Gormok.
     
• Dreadscale & Acidmaw:
  
  1. Assign a tank to stick with each Jormungar.
     
  2. Spread out.
     
  3. Kite the mobile worm to avoid poison cloud.
     
  4. Burn Acidmaw first
     
  5. If you get Paralytic toxin run to someone with Burning Bile (Dreadscale tank)
     
  6. If Acid maw is stationary a raid member must run to the tank to remove his toxin.
     
• Icehowl:
  
  1. Spread out.
     
  2. Ranged/Healers stay 20yds away.
     
  3. After a massive crash (knocks you to the wall) Look which direction he is facing (or who he is targeting). RUN AWAY.
     
  4. DO NOT GET HIT BY THE CHARGE. (you will have speed buff)
     

#2 Lord Jaraxxus

1. Dispel/Steal Nether Power often
2. Interrupt Fel Fireball
3. Spread out . (fel lightning, curse of the nether)
4. Incinerate Flesh Must be healed off QUICKLY (60,000).
5. Legion Flame, Do not stand in it. But move slowy, and don't run over other people. (imps & fire come out your butt)
6. Portals & Volcanos do AoE damage, Stay away.
7. OT pick up any adds (mistress/infernal)
8. Ranged DPS focus adds
9. If a floating green ball comes after you, RUN AWAY

#3 Faction Champions

1. Get your PvP skills (and trinket) ready =P
2. Focus Healers, purge dispel like crazy on focus. (druid or shaman first/ banish druid?)
3. CC as many as you can while burning healers (distraction works:disarm,hamstring,stun,etc )
4. BL/Heroism as soon as people start doing damage.
5. You do not need a tank, but they may be useful.

#4 Twin Val'kyr

1. Split in 2 groups, click the portal/well to acquire essence(light/dark)
2. Dark Group on Lightbane, Light Group on Darkbane.
3. Tank each next to the coorespodning portal color.
4. Vortex: Change color to match the val'kyr casting it to absorb the damage.
5. Twin's Pact: Change color to opposite of val'kyr to burn the shield, Interrupt the heal after the shield is down
6. Orbs: (6yds AoE) Grab close like colored, dodge opposite colored (buff or damage)
7. Do not go chasing orbs, stay near your groups.

#5 Anub'Arak

Above Ground

1. He has a frontal cone
   
2. Shoot down frost spheres to drop permafrost.
3. Burn adds on Permafrost to keep them from burrowing and healing full.
4. Stun the burrowers, and burn them fast (they apply a stacking debuff).
Burrowed

1. Drop more permafrost
2. AoE/Burn the adds.
3. Spread out, Stay on tip of permafrost. (spikes can not go through it, but will destroy it)
4. Kite him when he targets you.
5. FoK with anesthetic poison for the swarm enrage.
Below 30%

1. Leaching Swarm: cast @ 30% health, leaches 10-20% health from entire raid (based on current health).
2. Keep raid at 30-40% to minimize leach, keep tanks topped.
3. Blow ALL CDs and Bloodlust/Heroism
You can keep Anub'Arak on permafrost to keep him from burrowing, but his ENTIRE hit box must be on permafrost. No gaps, very difficult.

Anub'Arak info is completely wrong.

Would you be so kind as to give an improved six or eight line synopsis of Anub'Arak, in the same bullet-point style?

-Tank adds on permafrost -- it prevents THEM from burrowing
-Leeching Swarm drains 20% of current health every second for a short period. Counter this by not healing your raiders past 40% and giving them power word shields. Bam, no damage taken at all. This should be a late phase ability.
-When Anub is burrowed, spread out and avoid his spikes. He'll unburrow if he doesn't hit anybody (I believe).

I have to leave work, so I'm going to stop there.

-Keep enough permafrost down
-Tank adds on the permafrost
-Kite the Pursuing spikes over the permafrost
-Don't try to heal through the leeching swarm, only heal the tanks

Yeah, i spent about 2 minutes on anub'arak, figured it would be all wrong.
I'll update tomorrow with info.

Thanks for the help guys.

Ok, I spent some time on Anub'Arak. He should be done.

I haven't heard anyone confirm that permafrost can ever prevent Anub from burrowing, even if he's perfectly positioned. Where did you get that info, and is there evidence?

unless they changed it from PTR i can 100% confirm permafrost does NOT stop him burrowing. It would be stupid if it did.

I did a detailed write up on AnubArak a while back. The thread is somewhere in the general forum.
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