cloud 9 blog

this brings me to our latest kill and last boss of the trial of the crusader. firstly let me start off by saying we would have one shotted him but had the misfortune of not getting him to 30% before his 4th burrow and we hit his enrage timer with him on 3% but alas 2nd try was easier and we got some loots. i must also add that this past week the loot drops were all in favour of plate and clothies and i didn’t get any new upgrades

anub’arak is exacly the same boss you fight in the dungeon azjol-nerub. wonder what makes him so special that the lich king uses him. hhmmm…anyhoo back to the strat.

you need a tank and 2 offtanks for this fight. the main tank will tank anub and the other 2 offtanks will pickup adds that spawn and each offtank will take 2 adds. these adds place an expose armor debuff on the offtanks which increases damage taken and can stack up to 10 times. in the room there are frozen orbs flying around which when dps’d down ( can assign 1 or 2 ranged dps to do it ) leaves a permafrost on the ground which the tank needs to tank anub on and then the offtanks will bring the adds to the ass of anub so that dps can aoe, cleave, swipe and whatever else. if an add is not tanked on on permafrost, this add will burrow and will pop up at a random time which could result in havok later.

every 90 seconds or so anub will burrow and this starts phase 2. he starts chasing people with spikes. when he is chasing you try to kite him away from the raid but very importantly, stay on permafrost otherwise when he impales, you will die from it. being on permafrost prevents him from impaling you but make sure you stand in the center and not on the sides.  when he does a impale on a permafrost it will despawn and you will have to continue going to the next permafrost which should not be a problem as the assigned dpser for it should leave enough of these laying around. while anub is burrowed, little scarabs will spawn which should be taken down as well. after about a minute he will come back up and you are back to phase 1.

at 30% phase 3 starts. it is advisable to kill all the adds before he reaches 30%. in this phase he will cast leeching swarm. what this basically does is the more health the raid has, the more anub heals himself. so the lower your health is, the better. this does get very tricky when you have 7 or 8 healers raid healing because it’s just too much damn healing and you keeping everyone topped up. you would ideally want to have raid memebers health at around 20%-40%. what we did was assign 2 or 3 healers on the main tank. the main tank has to be healed all the time  of course. we assigned 3 healers to only raid heal with 2 druids using wild growth and a priest with circle of healing which did the trick. even a shammy’s chain heals will do the trick.

the only this about this fight is that it is very important to watch his enrage timer. make sure you get him to 30% before his 3rd or 4th burrow otherwise anything after that you will reach his enrage timer.

so it was a good week for our 25 man and also our two 10 man groups downing anub on normal. we are currently in progress of 10 man heroic and next week will start on 25 man heroic mode.