Ultraxion - DEFEATED 01/12/11

[TeaLeaf]

http://25man.com/dragon-soul/ultraxion
http://www.icy-veins.com/ultraxion-detailed-strategy

[TeaLeaf]

TLDR version
2 tanks
2-3 healers
5-6 dps

This is a dps check encounter with a 6 minute hard enrage
Tanks get Last Defender (all defensive CDs reduced by 50% and durations of ability increased by 100%)
Timeloop gives players an extra life
Raidwall rotation used at end
Healers can only have one buff (can you have more then if dps?)Each crystal that spawns only gives ONE buff, so we set an order to take the crystals amongst all

Positioning
Stack up with tank in front of boss


Heroic Will
-use it to avoid 'Hour of Twilight' or 'Fading Light'

Hour of Twilight
300,000 shadow damage, unresistable, but can be reduced by CDs
-we leave 3 players to soak the major abilities (or we wipe), soakers use CDs to survive
-remainder use Heroic Will to get out of Shadow Realm into Normal Realm to avoid the ability, then return asap after
Every 45 secs cast - must hit at least 3 players

Fading Light
-begins after first 'Hour'
-hits tank + 2 random players
-debuff kills you when it expires if still in shadow realm
-use Heroic Will before it expires, let Fading Light expire, then return to Shadow Realm.

Specific Buffs
Gift of Life - RED - +100% healing
Essence of Dreams - GREEN - direct healing done is doubled and distributed evenly amongst players within 50yds
Source of Magic - BLUE - reduces mana cost of spells by 75% and gives +100% haste

[Slush]

Source of Magic - BLUE - reduces mana cost of spells by 75% and gives +100% haste

Taking this was awesome for me as a shammy. I just spammed Chain Heals and my mana went up. I went from 15k hps to 27k hps during that last part of the fight.

[Azunai]

Made a WeakAura's aura for showing when to press Heroic Will, which works perfectly:

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It will pop up:

- when Ultraxion is casting Hour of Twilight.
- when you have less than 5 seconds remaining on your Fading Light debuff, if you have it.

Change texture/position/size as you see fit.


To avoid your CD of Heroic Will still running if you had to counter Fading light right before Ultraxion starts casting Hour of Twilight, always press the button as soon as this aura pops up. Don't hesitate or wait, as you might overlap and not survive HoT.

[Arcticfire]

K, few things we didnt get under control for this boss:
-Hour of Twilight, I have Ultrax target all the time and can see the cast bar, I press my bound key when the bar is at "ght".
-Debuff, Watch your debuffs, maybe setup an addon so it shows you have it.

-DPS, big issue here we need to find 40K dps around 7 players, which is alot I think.
Prepot, use your volcanic potions before we encounter starts and during heroism. so you use 2 per pull.
Rotations, make sure you use the best rotations, if you havent checked for a while, please do so. Every DPS-er/tank needs to increase his/her dps to get this boss down.

I would like to see a post from people, how they are going to increase there dps or sort there "dieing" issue.

[Azunai]

K, few things we didnt get under control for this boss:
-Hour of Twilight, I have Ultrax target all the time and can see the cast bar, I press my bound key when the bar is at "ght".
-Debuff, Watch your debuffs, maybe setup an addon so it shows you have it.

I cannot stress enough how incredibly easy WeakAura's makes this hurdle. Use the code in my previous post and all your troubles with this are gone :-)

[Sithvid]

@ dreaman I will go to a Ui master class over the weekend if I can grab someone patient enough to talk me through. I think I have several clashes with my UI . I am always happy to listen to help as i am not an expert in ad dons I can repay with a boost or 2

[Treach]

@ dreaman I will go to a Ui master class over the weekend if I can grab someone patient enough to talk me through. I think I have several clashes with my UI . I am always happy to listen to help as i am not an expert in ad dons I can repay with a boost or 2

Get the EVui addon and install it, disable all other UI addons you might have and give it a go. It's a whole new UI. SImpler then blizzards with more customisation. (type /ec for menu)

[Azunai]

Get the EVui addon and install it, disable all other UI addons you might have and give it a go. It's a whole new UI. SImpler then blizzards with more customisation. (type /ec for menu)

It's called ElvUI I think? It's here: http://www.wowinterface.com/downloads/info17749-ElvUI.html :-)

[TeaLeaf]

Much as I like the availability of packaged solutions, I've never seen one that did everything I wanted or covered all the classes I have.   My UI actually changes slightly from toon to toon depending on what is required, so if you can invest a few minutes in the learning curve of understanding how to custimise your UI I think you'll get better returns in the long term.   By all means grab me on TS if you want, I'll be on there probably in the SWTOR channel this weekend.

[Treach]

OK. Back to the boss. Since we've now missed 2 raids lets gets chatting about this. UI: There are 2 things you need to watch for, the cast. (get Quartz cast bar) and the Faded Light. If you get the light you must concentrate on your debuff (lots of debuff addons, pick one) and use the jump at the right time. Tank/DPS can stop what they;re doing when they get the debuff to keep a better eye on it if they like. Remember, the same golden rule as always: Survival>"Just one more cast"

[Switchback]

2nd time on this boss for me tonight and 1st time as dps....

Didnt die once due to not clicking the button of love....

Dps was bit slack but its o/s and still rocking 359 gear....

Got couple upgrades tonight which will be used for dps spec also and should have some JP's to get 2set 378....so if im dps'ing his boss next time there will be an imp...

Also i didnt bring volcanic pots as thought i would be healing....

[Azunai]

OK. Back to the boss. Since we've now missed 2 raids lets gets chatting about this. UI: There are 2 things you need to watch for, the cast. (get Quartz cast bar) and the Faded Light. If you get the light you must concentrate on your debuff (lots of debuff addons, pick one) and use the jump at the right time. Tank/DPS can stop what they;re doing when they get the debuff to keep a better eye on it if they like. Remember, the same golden rule as always: Survival>"Just one more cast"

I'll fraps our next Ultraxion kill to show just how much of a non-issue Hour of Twilight / Fading Light becomes with WeakAura's. It basically means that all a DPS has to do in this fight is just that: DPS. No movement or anything. Just stand still and DPS. Oh, and press that one button at the moment it is indicated so overly obvious it's completely impossible to miss it.

If your healers can keep you alive and if your tanks can rotate who is in and out of each HoT, you only have to make the DPS curve and it's a kill.

[Switchback]

We had couple problems with tank rotation and couple dps getting the debuff and not clicking or not timing it properly....

So watch the vids,read the posts and lets pew pew him next monday

[TeaLeaf]

We had couple problems with tank rotation and couple dps getting the debuff and not clicking or not timing it properly...

In all seriousness, these should be a total non-issue to a raid.  
If tanks communicate then they can easily handle the taunt rotation with any debuffs that arise.
If everyone else simply pays attention to both the audio warning from the boss mod and the debuff timer/cast bar then nobody should ever get hit.

On a fight where there is no movement to worry about, you really should not be having these issues.