Mother Shahraz

Guild is going to be trying her pretty soon, I have read various other posts mentioning her briefly.

But what kinda setup are people using whilst tanking the sabre lash? I read that people are healing a load whilst doing this so I'm confused as to what gear other than my SR set to wear. Just wondering because if you are healing you can't avoid attacks unless sabre lash is special in that you can't avoid it? Thanks in advance for the input.
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it's a special attack, you can bubble through it in case of emergency, but it can be dodged/miss/parried
Combination of stamina and +heal apart from SR

But well, after nerf she become a trashmob, you should kill her first night of attempts, so it doesn't matter that much if you gonna just stay there or heal...

Our last kill - 1 person had DC, tank was AFK on pull, hunters misdirected to wrong person, noone had consumables, 3 people died on 95%, she was tanked by tank in full SR by mistake etc... and we still killed If you don't believe, here's WWS http://wowwebstats.com/lhb11lyd52cuo

Good luck

Edit: clarified a bit
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Fiorina -retired-
Stephen Hawking of AV tanking

As far as i know, if you are tanking, you should just stack stamina, since you will not take any of the special abilities: you will only have to stand there and take the damage. Then if you want you can get a healing mace+shield and heal i guess.
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lol, yeah the guild we are competeing with killed her on the 4th pull then owned illidari council, it's rather sad they are nerfing some bosses so much, it's not like BT is suppsoed to be a walk over...

Thanks for the info
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I wear my normal stam heavy tank set with a full Shadesteel set in the available slots. Position yourself right with the MT and just heal people as best you can. Gimping your stamina with +heal gear is risky, given that a FA near the tanks + saber lash is significant burst.

Judge wisdom for your casters and immediately turn off your autoattack afterward so you don't cause a parry. Mana is a non issue if you don't go crazy with Holy Lights as you're getting plenty back from being healed after a lash.

It annoys me how easy she is now. When we first killed her if we had 3 people dead over 30% we just reset it. There was no way to win. If you weren't perfectly lucky with your teleports... reset it. It was seriously the hardest fight in that place.

Now it's just more free epics in an instance that's full of them. The hardest part of black temple is attunement now
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Official tankadin of <The Core> Tichondrius

Old FFXI signatures are FTW. Miss my hot mithra

I am glad I have my battle scars and can claim I beat her multiple times beforethe nerf.... but the nerf was necesarry. She was not hard because of what you had to do, she was hard because a little lag and a couple unlucky 25% partial resists meant you died. Not to mention her penchent for dealing 25k damage in .6s to the MT. It was a fight on which you could do everything perfect and still wipe.

As far as off tanking her, just max stam best you can after hitting SR cap and then do whatever you can to help out healing between silences.
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Lansky BE Paladin Mannoroth
http://www.wowarmory.com/character-sheet.xml?r=Mannoroth&n=Lansky

Cons on paladin mting this btw? MT doesn't wear SR right? Since I'm the best geared tank in my guild I will probably end up MTing her unless there's some ability she has that makes a paladin tank inferior.
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LoL, a paladin tank!

As far as i know the tank doesn't need SR since he will not be targetted by her abilities, and will be taking lots of damages due to her attacks anyway.
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She's a demon and hits pretty fast, so threat should be a non issue you for you. You definitely don't want to be wearing SR as the MT, as she hits extremely hard and you can't gimp stats at all. It's important to stress to the Lash eaters that they not attack her, as the parries will pretty much tear you apart.

You can further spread the lash damage out with hunter pets like Scorpids etc. Like before, just position them there and don't have them attack. It does gimp your hunter damage some, but spreading the Lash out further is never a bad thing. They can also be used as a tertiary tank if you only have 2 tanks available to you.
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There would be two issues for her in her current state for a paladin MT.

1. The MT does not where SR, or wears much less, and she has a point blank AE silence pulse which seems to be resistable with SR. As you will have no SR you won't resist many of them. Granted she doesn't crush, and the rest of the raid will be in full SR so you should still be able to build a reasonable threat lead and HS being down won't be life and death.

2. You will take more damage than a warrior in even close to comparable gear. She hits really hard and really fast. This is one of the few fights I can easily say the difference between RF and Def Stance is greatly magnified and very noticable.

If you are the best geared tank by a wide margin then I suppose you have little choice though. With no SW you will probably want to have a holy paladin hit you with Imp LoH when she enrages. Ironshield potions are your friend when learning this fight with any type of MT.
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Lansky BE Paladin Mannoroth
http://www.wowarmory.com/character-sheet.xml?r=Mannoroth&n=Lansky

What about the prismatic shield? If you're nuking her with holy damage you'll get a large reduction in holy dmg output --> screwed threat?
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