[10H] Warlord Zon'ozz

[Belloc]

Winkle has it pretty much exact. The scale is a bit wonky, but the idea is represented correctly.

[Bastosa]

Killed this last night.

Just to follow up on the random deaths to the claw, despite it being tanked. We actually discovered last night that sometimes a second claw would spawn (on the other side of the room) during the fourth "dark phase" and it was this claw that was killing our people.

Not sure how we didn't notice it, I guess we just assumed there would only be one and were too focused on the burn to notice on the first few attempts.

Not sure if this is related or not, but it seemed like the second claw stopped spawning when we decided to kill all tentacles during the 3rd dark phase instead of leaving one or two eyes up, which we had done previously.

[madmessias]

Killed this last night.

Just to follow up on the random deaths to the claw, despite it being tanked. We actually discovered last night that sometimes a second claw would spawn (on the other side of the room) during the fourth "dark phase" and it was this claw that was killing our people.

Not sure how we didn't notice it, I guess we just assumed there would only be one and were too focused on the burn to notice on the first few attempts.

Not sure if this is related or not, but it seemed like the second claw stopped spawning when we decided to kill all tentacles during the 3rd dark phase instead of leaving one or two eyes up, which we had done previously.

If you leave one eye up, will you get one extra eye during the later blackphase, or do they have set spawnpoints where there can only be one eye?

[Bastosa]

If you leave one eye up, will you get one extra eye during the later blackphase, or do they have set spawnpoints where there can only be one eye?

You can have more than one spawn from the same "point." Leaving one up does not prevent another from spawning in the same spot.

[timoseewho]

Do spells like Mortal Strike, healing reduced stuff, work on this boss?

[Repartee]

The 'melees' probably shared the damage. The orb damage has quite a big radius and if you do it like us (1 ranged ~15y behind the boss, rest of ranged ~5y behind boss, melees at max melee range) most of the raid soaks all bounces. It also triggers off of the tank most of the time using that tactic.

Can you draw a picture of this is done because I'm really interested to know how to set it up (distances formation etc)

Here's my interpretation, basically the ball bounces between the Tank and the 1 ranged (pink). However they're close enough to the ranged/melee group that the orb bounce is always soaked by 8 people.

In this scenario, the orb passes through boss and the other 8 raid members? Otherwise the tank will have to do some nifty maneuvering to make the orb miss the boss.

[Belloc]

The ball becomes inactive for a few seconds after being triggered. It's fine for it to pass through the boss.

[d07.RiV]

We didn't try healing through the debuff, is it easier than runing out and dispelling? We had quite a few random deaths to dot tick+dispel+orb.

[Bellanka]

anybody have a set CD rotation they are using tanking this heroic? im getting pretty messed up at about 4-5 stacks i will get hit with psychic drain and an immediate follow up melee and die through my DP and i dont think im undergeared for it .
here is my armory- http://us.battle.net/wow/en/character/p ... het/simple
any tips at all would be a great help
also the clipping on the stupid orb is freakin infuriating

I'm having the same problem. I don't think I'm undergeared for it, but he is completely wrecking me. The Black Phase is going fine, each group goes through it without a hitch and we switched it up a bit so we have our DPS spread out to their furthest tentacles and sweep in, so DoT classes can finish off eyes and DoT up the boss and just maximize overall uptime on the Warlord.

I'll admit I could be a bit better with my cooldowns. I'm using MoBI for the first Psychic Drain, I use Shield Block (Prot Warrior, so 20% reduced magic damage) for the second, and MoBI for the third if there is one. I sometimes get trigger happy and pop both for the first psychic drain, leaving me with my 30% health increase/health regen abilities for the second one.

[d07.RiV]

Almost got there, had two close wipes to enrage. Tried doing 5-5-5-5 and 7-5-5-5, our guess is that 7-7-5-5 should do the trick. We simply stand in 2 groups for bounces, and have a fire mage eat the 7th bounces. For black phases we split in 3 groups: 2 melee and a healer one side, tank/warlock/healer for claw, 2 ranged 1 melee 1 healer other side, and we get back just in time to bounce the orb.
Paladins should be the better tanks for this due to block DG - our bear was eating 100k+ hits sometimes (I was healing so he had to tank).

[Juugimus]

I've read the one ranged bounce strat and want to give it a try but I'm not sure how fire mages and shadow priests are able to solo bounce the orb? Are people using cooldowns on them or am I missing something?

[Belloc]

I've read the one ranged bounce strat and want to give it a try but I'm not sure how fire mages and shadow priests are able to solo bounce the orb? Are people using cooldowns on them or am I missing something?

Fire mages use cauterize and shadow priests use dispersion. These can only be used once per bounce phase, though. I get the feeling that you are confusing strategies.

Stacking the raid properly makes the bounce damage negligible. By that, I mean the strategy where you bounce between someone at ranged and the tank, with the rest of the raid within 15 yards of both bouncers. This strategy has been covered in this thread and I have a feeling that this is the strategy you were confusing with another.

[Juugimus]

I've read the one ranged bounce strat and want to give it a try but I'm not sure how fire mages and shadow priests are able to solo bounce the orb? Are people using cooldowns on them or am I missing something?

Fire mages use cauterize and shadow priests use dispersion. These can only be used once per bounce phase, though. I get the feeling that you are confusing strategies.

Stacking the raid properly makes the bounce damage negligible. By that, I mean the strategy where you bounce between someone at ranged and the tank, with the rest of the raid within 15 yards of both bouncers. This strategy has been covered in this thread and I have a feeling that this is the strategy you were confusing with another.

I see now, thanks.

[Adornus]

We killed this last night. We "accidently" took 9 bounces instead of 7 but we went 9-5-5-5 and beat enrage by 1 second (granted, we were missing two of our normal DPS).

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZK4SwG1F ... P0NjF1ELBc
(my view - Holy Paladin)

We split into two groups: 2 melee + 2 healers and 4 ranged + 1 healer. We did the standard motions for bounces. We also found it easier to run out and dispell rather than heal through the debuff. This seemed to stabilize us a little bit. When black phase came, we had every stack on claw to start. From there, we "waterfalled" out to the remaining stalks and eyes. When stacked on the claw, ranged can easily hit the nearest eyes, making it efficient to DPS those down first and have everyone grouped up for heavy AoE healing.

[Valhuur]

We did some explorative pulls late last night and I'm seeing a lot more melee damage then I anticipated. What would be recommended, glyphed DP for Psychic drain, or unglyphed for high stacks boss damage. Was running both the glyph and the mirror last night .