Posting here on parry-haste, the proc nerf and following me on Twitter.
The other day I posted about preliminary findings which show ICC has parry-haste mostly turned off for the raid bosses. Theck’s confirmed that now, and my gratitude to the original writers Tbdsamman (parry-haste addon) and Clifton (wrote the log parser).
Boss Can boss parry-haste? Marrowgar no Deathwhisper yes Deathbringer Saurfang no Festergut no Rotface no Putricide no Prince Valanar no Prince Taldaram no Blood-Queen Lana’thal no Sindragosa
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Instead of writing my own guide, I’ll compile references to those already written.
I have an index of the guides from those sites most people use, plus have tried to include key posts from the blogging community. » continue reading
In my last column for pwnwear, I discussed the mindset of the DPS DK stepping into the role of OT. Today, I wanted to follow that up with a simple summary of fights that require offtanks, and what your role will be. I won’t review Naxx, as that content is being pugged on most servers and isn’t really a ’serious’ raid any more, but Ulduar and T9 content certainly is. I’ve offtanked (25 man) and/or maintanked (10-man) almost all of these fights (except Algalon – we haven’t faced him, and some heroic fights), so let’s take a look and see what we have!
If you get called on to OT in Ulduar/TOC/Ony, what will you be doing? Often fights have several viable strats and I won’t be covering them all. I’ll mention the main adds that need to be OT’d and what to expect. Variations are up to your raid leader. I’ll often skip hard modes as you’ll likely know the fights well if working on those. I also assume some familiarity with these fights from a dps perspective. Warning! This is a fairly long post. 
Ulduar
resist gear is not needed in Ulduar, so OTs should concentrate on the best mix of survivability and threat stats/gear. Exceptions – maybe – would be frost resist on Hodir or Thorim hard mode.
1. Flame Leviathan: no tanks
2. Razorscale: Three tanks typically. Usually, the MT will pull the Sentinels off to the side for range to kill. OTs gather the other Dark Rune dwarves together for aoe, making sure to stay out of fire. As OT, you’ll need to be ready to taunt Razorscale when she stays on the ground and the other tank gets 2 stacks of Fused Armor. Kite her facing away from the raid and out of flame patches.
3. Ignis: We do the burn method of tanking Ignis in the water and kill him fast, but in any case 1-2 OTs should grab the constructs when they spawn and kite them through scorched areas, then to water when they turn molten (10 stacks). Be careful, they hit hard, which is why some guilds use a hunter to ‘tank’ the constructs. If you’re within 10 yards when the construct is blown up, you may die to the aoe.
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Not quite the place I’d expect to find well-written boss strategy guides: wowhead.
The’ve got Jaraxxus, Northrend Beasts and Twin Val’kyrs written so far, plus Ulduar bosses. I’ve updated my Coliseum guide to include these condensed, to-the-point and well-written strategy guides from wowhead. Worth a look.
I have compiled the best boss strategies into a handy page here. It includes videos from Tankspot and written guides.
The two Keepers outside Thorim’s area (ie. arena/gauntlet boss) can be positioned like shown below. This gives you more time to kill the Sphere they pass to each other.
Healers have good line-of-sight to both tanks by standing on the edge of the steps.
The tank on the lower platform needs to stand on the position shown to remain in range and not have them gain the +damage anxiety buff.
We didn’t try this on the platform they start
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You’ll be doing VH heroic a lot in 3.2. There are two bosses people have trouble with:
- Ethereal boss Xevozz
- Void elemental boss Zuramat
Xevozz requires continual kiting. Here’s the path you should take. You go back and forth all the way from one side to the other. With 2.5K+ dpsers, you should only need 1 to 1.5 rounds.
Violet Hold kiting path for Xevozz
Zurmat, void boss, requires you know about two things:
What are the essential differences you need to know about when going from 10 to 25 man Ulduar? Here are the changes. This does not explain hard modes, except on a few.
> Read the full guide here
I assume you have watched TankSpot videos and read strategy guides, so this does not cover those basics.
In the 25-man column I’ll describe if the ability or your strategy needs to change. If something simply hits harder, I’ll still say
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I just told Teza he needs to profile these guides more.
wowraid has really good strat guides for Naxx. Sure, it might be old-hat for some people but if you need them, instead of wowwiki or stratfu guides, you should check these out.
This is hidden gem, the content is excellent. It’s quality is assisted by a little community of hardcore raiders who like helping out and hang out in #wowraid, plus who edit guides like this. (Example, I was
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