Toravon the Ice Watcher
will be the final raid boss in Vault of Archavon, and will drop Tier 10 gloves and legs, as well as PvP boots and belts. Toravon will be introduced when Arena Season 8 launches on January 26, 2010.[1] He will also drop 2x Emblem of Frost in both 10 and 25 man.
Attacks and Abilities
Frozen Mallet - "Attacks have a chance to apply Frostbite" buff on the boss. Each time he attacks the tanks, it has a chance to apply stacking dot that does frost damage every 2 seconds. Lasts 10 seconds.
Frozen Orb - Every 30 seconds, he summons one Frozen Orb(3 on 25man) which first appears as a blue circle before actually spawning the orb. In 10man, it does 2438~2562 frost damage to targets within 8 yards radius.
Whiteout - Every 45 seconds he casts Whiteout and puts stacking debuff to the entire raid. Each stack increase frost damage taken by 20%. It works as a soft enrage timer.
Strategies
Tanks switch whenever the Frostbite debuff is off. At the start, tanks can handle some number of stacks but as the raid gets more Whiteout debuff, it makes harder for healers to keep tanks alive.
Raid position is not an issue here. all dps and healers have to watch is Frozen Orb. Whenever a blue circle appears near you, just move away and range dps kill any orb that spawns.
Healing will get more difficult as raid gets more stacks of Whiteout. Healers focus more on the tanks as the fight lasts longer. Watch out when you see Frozen Orb heading towards the tanks.
Linky to Vid
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4J3_U2-T5kI&feature=player_embedded#
Also might be a idea to be taken in to consideration by you officer types to add this to a thursday night line up say at the start if we have WG and if people are not saved. or make it a guild run on 25man, because the 2 frost emblems and the chance at t10 gloves and legs could be a big bonus in helping people get sorted for ICC.
Easy boss tbh, just free T10 and frost in my opinion.
Can we have a 10 men guild run on wed and a 25 men guild run on thursday, please?
Since last night we said that upgrading the raid was needed, i see this as a very easy way to accomplish it
It would indeed be sensible to have this as a locked run as it drops i264 T10 items.
aye shud definatly do this as a locked run, i mean most people have some sort of gear plan in long run, and the T10 would help in moving along the raids (10 or 25) plus for the loverly suicidals that wanna start TOTGC 25man, it defiantly be needed
When we doing this one 25man? I've held out till now for a guild run ;)