[Anub'arak] Preperation for Boss #5

Any info about the fight before we have to do it Tuesday?

there will be floating "adds" above the arena called permafrost or something along those lines. Killing them makes a permafrost area(a frozen ground, roughly the size of hunter frost traps or slightly larger) appear under where they died. you need at least 4 of those for every burrowing phase(at least I think it's 4, correct me if wrong) and at least 1 during the normal phase to tank the adds on, so having a person dedicated to bringing down permafrost is not a bad idea. I do not know if the permafrost areas disappear with time. Standing on a permafrost area will slow down your movement speed by 80%

Think the boss himself is tank & spank to begin with, but there will be some adds that will need to be dealt with. There are 2 different type of adds, 1 is scarab swarm and is probably rather harmless. Other I do not recall what are called, but they need to be tanked on top of a permafrost, else when they reach, I think it is 20% hp, they will burrow underground and regen their hp to full, un-burrow and attack again. By tanking them on the permafrost you prevent them from burrowing making them killable.

At some points in the fight(not sure if it's time based or % based) anub'arak will burrow. This can not be avoided by tanking him on permafrost. When he is in the burrowed phase he will target a random raid member and send "Pursuing Spikes" after them. These are a aoe ground effect that "crawls" across the ground towards whoever is marked until they hit him. To avoid being hit by these the player that is marked needs to run so that there is a permafrost field between him and the pursuing spikes. When the spikes hit the ice, they will stop and the permafrost will disappear. He will do this a number of times so make sure to have enough permafrost down. After the burrowing phase he will emerge and the fight will go on like normal...

...until he reaches 30% or 20% at which point he starts channeling Leeching Swarm. Leeching swarm will damage everyone in the raid for 20% of their max hp every second until they reach 20% of their max hp at which time the spell stops doing damage to them. He continues to channel the spell until he dies. There is no way to interrupt or silence the channel. Anub'arak will be healed for all the damage he does with Leeching Swarm. At this point no one except the tanks should be healed since it merely results in anub'arak healing himself. Handle adds and burn down the last 20% and the boss dies.

Think that is all there is to him.

Don't heal the raid. I've never seen the mechanic before. Pretty interesting.

Threatco wrote:Don't heal the raid. I've never seen the mechanic before. Pretty interesting.

AQ20, general whateverthing. Although you weren't really penalized for healing the raid in that case, you just didn't because it increased the damage they took.

What about the boss quotes? Does he tell that AN was merely a setback?

If he's anything like the other bosses, you'll barely need to know a strat to down him.

KT was a fool. AN really was a setback.

I included Anub'Arak in my strategy highlights in the other thread: viewtopic.php?f=36&t=25642

He really does not seem to be very hard. If you can get a large enough patch of permafrost down, without any gaps, you can keep him from burrowing and get a very fast kill.

As I mentioned in that thread, I've never heard any guilds that actually tested him say anything like that. Where is that information from? To be honest, I don't believe it.

I didn't see any mention of Anub being prevented from burrowing in that thread, so I am going to assume that you either misinterpreted my post or that you were confirming that he will always be able to burrow no matter what.

edit: Your post in the other thread confirms it. Thanks.

I pulled that peice of info from tankspot: http://www.tankspot.com/forums/f218/546 ... unter.html
We shall soon see if it really works on live =D

Mogget wrote:Leeching swarm will damage everyone in the raid for 20% of their max hp every second until they reach 20% of their max hp at which time the spell stops doing damage to them.

This is a bit different than what the Tankspot strat says. I wonder which one is true -- in this strategy, you need to just NOT HEAL ANYBODY until they get below 20%, in the Tankspot strat the damage is based on current health% and not maximum health% but there is no point at which the spell "stops doing damage" so you just need to keep everyone healed up, but at a low percentage of their health (so the leech ticks for less and the boss receives less healing).

I assume the leeching swarm will eventualy kill you if you have just 1 hp left, right?

I saw it mentioned somewhere that leeching swarm does have a minimum damage in the hundreds (something like 250). So, yeah, it will kill you eventually.