cloud 9 blog

so last night i was in my first general vezax kill! daaaaaaamn what a fight! our guild 2 shotted him last week but this week it took us a few attempts to down him.

one thing that makes this fight crazy is the fact there is NO mp5 (mana regeneration) so for healers this fight totally sucks ass! the only way to get mana back is from a green go that drops to the ground from the dps killing things called “saronite crystals”. but that not where it ends, when you stand on it, it not only restores a bit on mana, it damages you too! so you need to get a few ticks on you and not too many otherwise the next tick might just kill you.
e.g
1 stack – 100 mana 200 damage
2 stacks – 200 mana 400 damage
3 stacks – 400 mana 800 damage
4 stacks – 800 mana 1,600 damage
5 stacks – 1,600 mana 3,200 damage
6 stacks – 3,200 mana 6,400 damage
7 stacks – 6,400 mana 12,800 damage
8 stacks – 12,800 mana 25,600 damage
9 stacks – 25,600 mana 51,200 damag

other than that there are a few abilities he does such as “mark of the faceless” ( need to get away from people within 10 yards otherwise each tick deals 5k per second to them and also heals vezax for 100k hp each tick), “searing flames” which does damage to everyone in the raid for a crap load which needs to be interrupted!, “shadow crash” which you need to avoid and it leaves a black goo on the ground which ranged dps needs to stand in to be able to get some faster attack speed and reduced ability costs, and it’s bad for heals and last but not least “surge of darkness” which gives vezax a 100% damage increase which the tank needs to use a cooldown or kite him or have healers heal him alot (but remember the mp5 issue? bad idea)
other than that, it is actually an easy fight if you can watch out for shadow crush and mark of the faceless and control your mana and make sure the tanks don’t die.
last night’s kill the tank died with about 2mil of his hp left and the rogues did some wicked evasion tanking.
halfway during the looting our tanked decided to ninja engage yogg, lmao that was funny!

next week: yogg-saron