Deathknight Wing 1: Instructor Razuvious

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Instructor Razuvious
 
Abilities:
 
* Unbalancing Strike : Inflicts 350% weapon damage and leaves the target unbalanced, reducing their defense skill by 100 for 6 sec.
* Disruptive Shout : Razuvious yells every 25 sec. Everyone who gets hit by it looses all his mana and and deals same amount of damage as you had mana when you got hit by the shout. This ability is affected by Line of Sight (LoS).
 
Deathknight Understudies Abilities:
 
Understudies can be mind controlled by priests and used to tank Razuvious (more info about it in strategy section).
 
* Taunt : 20 sec duration, 60 sec cooldown. Once used on Instructor Razuvious he attacks the mindcontrolled Deathknight Understudy and the raid doesnt have to worry about aggro. After 20 seconds Razuvious uses his normal aggro list again.
* Shield Wall : Same as warrior's ability, it lasts 20 sec, 30 sec cooldown.
 
When the Mind Control ends or breaks the Understudy gains a debuff called Mind Exhaustion that lasts 45 seconds and makes it immune to Mind Control.
 
Class Role:
 
* Druid : Heal&Hot your assigned target (Either Mced Understudy or offtank).
* Hunter : DPS (All out), make sure to feign death (from time to time) to make sure Razuvious wont aggro you, otherwise his Disruptive Shout might hit mana users.
* Mage : DPS (All out), each 20 sec run out of sight from Disruptive Shout.
* Paladin : Keep your assigned target (off tank) alive.
* Priest : This is their fight, make sure to have enough priests, split them in 2 : Healers assigned to Mcing and others to heal off tanks. Check strategy section for more details.
* Rogue : DPS (All out), dont use feint, so you get aggro in case of mind control breaks, then evasion tank Razuvious until another Understudy is mind controlled to pull aggro from you.
* Shaman : You will be assigned to heal Either off tanks or mced understudies, make sure to be in a dps group (warriors, rogues, hunters) so they get totems (wf, agi, str) but you wont have to heal them since they cant be healed (oneshoot from Razuvious).
* Warlock : All Understudies should have a Curse of Shadow on them, so priests get less resist on mind control. Also go all out on Razuvious.
* Warrior : Assign 4 warriors to offtanks Deathknight Understudies, rest can go dps razuvious (also pay attention to mc break if you get aggro try to survive as long as possible with shield wall until another mc mob pull aggro off you).
 
The pull:
 
There are few ways to pull this boss, we chose to use a hunter (or warlocks imp pet) pulling a student as Razuvious is at the far end of his patrol path from the ramp leading down to him. A rogue will intercept him and evasion tank him for 15-30 seconds (preparation might help there) while students are moved into position.
 
Another way of pulling, we have one mage, shooting on the nearest left add, then iceblocking. The first priest uses up all his mana, so he only have enought to do 1 MC, positions himself a bit further back than the "tanking add position". When the mage pulls he chose one target, MC, hunters pull the other 3 adds. When the second priest takes over, the first priest quickly move the the right position.
 
The positioning:
 

 
The strategy:
 
The tactic for this fight is that a Deathknight Understudy is mind controlled and used to tank the Instructor as he hits extremely hard. A 30 second rotation on the DK Understudies tanking is best for keeping the time when shield wall is not used to a minimum.
 
On pull a student is Mc'd asap, moved into position to taunt the boss, after aggro is obtained, use Shield Wall when 15-20 seconds are left on the cooldown (just before halway) have the second priest MC an add and move into position taunt, count 2-5 seconds and then use Shield wall. The first MC must be broken manually asap or you run the risk of causing both MC's to break. Assuming the transition is timed correctly, one student should not tank the boss without shield wall for more than 5 seconds.
 
Should MC break early a warrior with a shield on "can" taunt and shield wall but they will not live very long, your best bet is having a rogue evasion tank, therefore rogues should not use feint on this fight to maintain aggro.
 
Make good use of Raid symbols to mark Deahtknights Understudies, and use voice communication or macros to call out when students are MCed and have aggro on Razuvious. Warlocks will have to keep Curse of Shadow up on Understudies, also all healers but 2-3 for Understudies tanks should be healing the Understudies, Razuvious hits extremely hard and will kill Understudies quickly even with shield wall up. The fight is doable with three students, but it becomes nearly impossible with only two.
 
Movie from Priest POV:
Curse VS Instructor

SOG Notes:
One piece of additional info on Razuvious is that a Priest's Fade shares a cooldown with the Understudy's Taunt. The MCing priests want to make sure they never use it.

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Movie from Priest POV:
Curse VS Instructor