Last night (Monday 01/02/11) we got Chimaeron down (10 man). It’s probably the toughest fight we have had because we spent 2 hours the previous night just continually wiping. It was only in the last 20 mins of Monyays raid that the tanks finally understood the taunting rotation. We gave up but had a much better understanding of the fight. Tuesday night isn’t supposed to be a raid night but we have had such a successful raiding week we didn’t want it to end on a low so we decided to have another go before the reset. On about the 3rd try everything clicked and we got him down with only a couple of deaths.
This fight is made for Enhancement shaman, especially Draenei. We have so many self heals that although aren’t huge, are enough to keep us above the 10k needed to survive massacre. We have the instant heal from 5 stacks of maelstrom, the wolves and Gift of the Naaru plus pots, healthstones etc. All these are instant heals so a single button press and your safe and can go back to DPS. You may lose some DPS but your healers will love you.
Our strategy was as follows
The boss does not aggro while he is asleep. Before attacking, activate Bile-o-tron 8000 (talk to Finkle Einhorn in the cage behind the boss), but be careful because activating the bot will cause the boss to wake up after ~20s.
The boss is split into 3 Phases. Phases 1 and 2 alternate until the boss reaches 20%, then it's soft enrage zerg phase. He has no frontal aoe, cleave or anything, so there is no issues with the direction you face it. Pick a spot making sure you are over 6 yards from anyone else and always return to it.
You get a buff - Finkle's Mixture - If you are above 10,000 health then any hit that would otherwise kill you cannot take you below 1 health. Affects everyone while bot is activated. This means that if you are above 10k health, you cannot be killed by a single attack. So there is no need to top people off, just keep them above that 10k!
Phase 1 (100%-20%):
So the Bile-o-tron 8000 is active, giving everyone the Finkle's Mixture buff. This means everyone has to spread out, so when they get hit by Caustic Slime they go down to 1 hp, and then need to be healed to above 10k asap. Tanks are taking rather high damage, especially with Chimaeron stacking Break on them. Tank swapping is very important or Double Strike will one shot a tank with high stacks. We had the off tank taunting to take all the double Strikes then the main taunted him back.
Every so often the boss will cast Massacre, reducing the entire raid to 1 health. Get everyone back over 10k as fast as possible as the boss is still casting Caustic Slime on random targets! This is where all our self heals come in handy. Massacre will be followed by Caustic slime. Your healers have a short time to get everyone from 1hp to 10,000 hp otherwise people will die in the next caustic slime. Just one 5 stack maelstrom healing wave will do the trick or if your wolves are off cooldown let them out. If you’re unlucky with the maelstrom timing and the wolves are on cooldwon hit Gift of the Naaru, any of these will do the trick.
After between 1 and 3 Massacres the Bile-o-tron will deactivate and the raid will lose Finkle's Mixture. The boss then starts to cast Feud - This is "Phase 2".
Bile-o-tron deactivates and boss stops doing melee attacks and Massacre but continues to do Caustic Slime - raid needs to all group up on the same spot in order to avoid getting one shot by the Caustic Slime, as the damage is spread over however many people it hits and there is no one-shot prevention while the Bile-o-tron is inactive... Intensive healing phase.
After 30 seconds the Bile-o-tron reactivates and you regain Finkle's Mixture. There will be another massacre right after Feud so be ready with a heal. Spread out again and go back to Phase 1. This repeats until 20% health on the boss.
Phase 3 (20% - 0%):
At about 25% Stop DPS and help the healers get everyone topped off. A few chain heals will help here. focus on getting the entire raid to 100% health, because as soon as he hits 20% and this phase starts everyone gets a debuff giving them 99% reduced healing received, and the boss gains 10% more damage taken and becomes untauntable. During this phase he stops doing Caustic Slime, Massacre and Double Strike, so it’s purely about every single person nuking as much as possible while keeping as many cooldowns as possible on the tanks. Healers needn’t bother healing just spam any DPS you have. If you manage to get agro just kite him. I have Shock & Awe so I get flashed windshear if I have agro. At that point instant ghost wolf and scarper while dropping earthbinde (not sure if earthbinde works on him because I didn’t hag around to find out)
In the last week we have downed
Chimaeron
Maloriak
Omnotron Defence System
Magmaw
Conclave of Wind
Valonia & Theralion
We got Halfus the week before. Now thats not a bad start for a new cataclysm guild ;)
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