Raid 25th of May

[Othbarty]

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Oth

[Tanales]

Here are some tactics for Void Reaver and Solarian for tonight.

Void Reaver

Solarian



Void Reaver Tank notes lifted from another forum:

Opening Hallway
Right off the bat, there's some six-pulls. You'll want to tank one of the Legionnaires, who dual-wield and hit fairly softly, but whirlwind and need to be tanked away from the raid (kind of a trick in the cramped space you have to work with). A pull or two differ from the first, but I can't recall any mobs that would be problematic to tank.

Al'ar's Room
The packs of little birdies are not to be underestimated. They have an extremely annoying aoe silence, among other things. Have them misdirected to you in the hallway along with another tank, preferably dropping a consecrate/shield before they can silence you and then finding a nice wall/corner to tank against.
The big birds are a fine example of Blizzard forgetting that prot pallies exist when they design dungeons. Curse them under your breath and SoW/JoW until the pats are dead.

Void Reaver's Room
Sheep and banish, tank whatever you lack a CC for and kill it first. Sentinels should be tanked by warriors, since they can reflect the Overcharge attack. These pulls boil down to 1-2 people tanking, but they end up pretty easy.


Void Reaver Himself
This boss has three abilities (four if you count his 10 minute enrage):

Pounding - Every 12 seconds, basically spams a 2k Arcane Explosion for a few seconds. Big range, but melee can dodge it without too much fuss, since his hitbox is huge. Tanks are stuck eating it though, which means mana for you.

Arcane Orb - Slings a really big orb at someone in the raid outside of Pounding range. It lands where they were standing when it was thrown, so ranged can dodge it without too much fuss.

Punt - Knockback and deaggro on the current tank, making a tank rotation necessary. Might be random how much he uses this, but it looks likely that it'll happen about 4 times during the fight.

Yep, that's all there is to it. Tank him in the middle, have ranged spread out and either have melee find the maximum range on his hitbox and duck out or leave them in and heal through the AoE.


Tanking Void Reaver
Due to mana concerns, you should be either first or second in the tank rotation or the first tank will likely get it back before you ever do. Tank damage isn't too severe, but you do need to be wearing stamina + full tanking gear. The Violet Badge is perfect. For consumables, stam food + Adept's + Fort + Wizard Oil is probably best.

Oh, and turn off any Arcane Orb bossmod you might have running. You'll spam in /say for the entire time that he targets you while tanking.

If you're first in the rotation: Open with a misdirect + JoCr and build as much threat as you can. The more you get now the less you have to work at it to get him back later if necessary. After he punts you, the following applies (but you should have used AW early):
If you're not first: Be second. Put up JoCr and keep spamming consecrate/JoR/SoR. Chug some of the free super mana pots you got from clearing the trash. If you have a shadow priest handy you should even have enough mana to use Avenger's Shield every time it's up. Pop Avenging Wrath when you have an opportunity to make full use of it (enough mana to Consecrate the full duration and AS during, get in a Judgement right away). If you're not second you'll probably end up without enough mana flowing to keep up the pace, so go all-out as soon as you can.

Eventually, he'll turn and start smacking you. Keep up the threat cycle (with HS instead of AS obviously) and don't move him around. When he punts you, go back to spamming threat. DPS are heavily threat-capped on this fight, so every tank should be putting out the most possible and you should be #1 on that list since you have a high-mana situation compared to their low-rage state.

It's the same fight 100%-0%, so eventually he'll fall over dead unless you failed to kill him in 10 minutes. I don't know what he does during Enrage, but you probably won't like it.

[Limps]

I cant seem to loggin at sign up site, or retrieve a new password. I made a new account but it needs to be activated.
If any room in raid ill tack along, finally got my computer to work again.

[Limps]

Ty for the raid guys was great fun and a good learning experience.
I was thinkin and readin up on it and think i heard TL said it at the end of raid, the Voidreaver fight. It would be very good for the dps if we could assign a Healer to the melee so they can stay in the middle this would prob give us enough dps to get him down alot quicker. :taz:

I am sure we got him next time, again thx for the fun and invite

[JonnyAppleSeed]

cheers tan we got him to 1% but we buckled ... I blame jaz