Welcome To Zul’Gurub

Updated 2/28/2006

Definition of terms

• AOE: Area of Effect, these are effects that will damage anything within a radius, if you are within the radius you will be taking damage.
• DOT: An effect that does damage over time.
• MT: main tank. The main tank has the responsibility to gain agro and hold agro.
• ST: secondary tank. It is the secondary tank’s responsibility to pick up agro if the MT dies, as well as off tanking whenever needed. Often the secondary tank should be building up hate during the battle (with some exceptions) in order to make a smooth transition if the MT dies.
• MH: main healer: the main healer is responsible for the MT. The goal of all other healers should be to make the MH’s life easier.
• SH: secondary healer: (often a pally) Responsible for helping the MH heal the MT. Often you will only need to use flash heals, however once the MH is low on mana the SH must take responsibility for keeping the MT alive and an AH must help the SH. This transition should be smooth because the AH that must step up will be determined before the fight. Once the MH has mana the SH can now revert back to using flash heals whenever needed but mostly regenerate mana.
• AH: auxiliary healers: These healers are responsible for healing the group, they will often be assigned a specific group to look after, but should be ready to crossover when needed. This is a difficult job because you must be sure to get heals where needed and try not to over heal any individual.
• DD: damage dealers: these are the people that deal the massive damage. Responsible for allowing the damage to stay where it needs to be, on the MT.
• MD: mana drainers: mana draining plays a VERY important role in almost every boss fight.

General Fights

In general the non-boss fights are pretty smooth, however there are a couple of important things to be aware of.

• Axe throwers: When an axe thrower starts spinning a mage that doesn’t already have a sheep should polymorph the axe thrower to stop the AOE.
• Adders: These have a conical AOE. This is to say that an Adder will spit poison on any player in front of him. It is the tanks job to fight in a way such that the Adder turns away from the rest of the group.
• Bizerker: These guys have an AOE fear and should be fought away from other groups. It is a good idea for a couple of pallies to have an insignia of the alliance equipped in order to keep healing going if the MH gets feared.
• Bat Riders: the large elite bats start a self destruct sequence that will most likely one-shot most people. Once this “count down” starts the bat rider will not move so everyone including the MT can run away without fear of them following you. Often two are pulled at one time, the MT and ST must put enough distance between them as the explosion does not kill the group, while both staying within distance for healing.
• Blood drinkers: The blood drinkers have an AOE in which they steal some life from everyone within range. These must be taken down with ranged DPS, they don’t deal a great amount of damage with their AOE but when they steal life from 10 people they are very difficult to take down. If we have to pull 2 the MT and the ST must separate similarly to how they separate the bat riders.
• Spiders: The spider pulls are often large pulls with both spiders and shadow casters. These battles are pretty strait forward, however it should be noted that the spiders infect you with a poision that makes your character drunk, and has a chance to knock over. This can be annoying when interrupting casters.
• Polymorph: We use polymorph extensively, this often means that a mage will have primary agro, especially if they become unsheeped. Pallies should help mages by stunning the enemy if they are on the mage and the mage is trying to sheep him.

Boss Fights

Every priest killed decreases the power of Hakkar.

• High Priest Venoxis (snake boss)

General description: Venoxis stands at the top of a stare case along with four snakes. This battle takes place in two phases. The first phase takes place with the priest in priest form, then halfway through she will change into snake form. If anyone runs out the door or falls off the cliff the boss will reset.

Phase 1:

Polymorph/sleep: 3 of the snakes must be sheeped/sleeped.

MT: the MT will fight the priest at the top of the stairs making sure that he stays directly at the top of the stairs to be in line of sight of the healers.

ST: the ST must fight the snakes (one at a time)

MH: The main healer is responsible for keeping the tank alive. The MH will also have to dispel the renew effect that she casts on herself.

SH: The priest has an AOE attack that takes out a lot of health as well as leaving a DOT behind that should be cleansed. Then use a flash heal to give the MH a buffer to get off a large heal. A mana pot should be taken once you lose more than or equal to the greatest amount of mana the pot can give you. It is important not to wait until you are completely out of mana before you take a pot, this will allow the cooldown to wind down so that you can take another pot. When the priest hits %50 health she will change into snake form and do a massive amount of damage. The SH should start a heal just before this happens so that it is timed that the heal hits right after the change in form.

AH: the auxiliary healers need to heal the rest of the group during the four snakes. After that they should regenerate their mana so they can heal the group during the poison clouds.

DD: damage must all be done at range due to the chain AOE given off by the priest.

MD: The priest must be drained of her mana

Phase 2:

MT: As soon as the priest changes into snake form the MT must train the snake down the stairs. The snake lets out a poison cloud that does MASSIVE damage over time. The MT is responsible for getting out of the poison cloud as quickly as possible, healers cannot keep up with the amount of damage taken in poison clouds.

ST: the secondary tank must build up a good amount of hate which is quite difficult because during the first half of the battle DD have build up massive amounts of hate. If the MT dies everyone MUST stop attacking in order for the ST to attempt to get agro.

MH: The main healer is responsible for keeping the MT alive.

SH: The SH is responsible for helping the MH.

AH: Must keep the other group members alive. The ST must be kept alive just in case the MT dies.

DD: ranged DD’s at this point can go in and start unloading; however they must move out of the poison cloud as well. Keep in mind that while there are AH’s it is possible that they may not be able to get to everyone. You may need to step out and throw a bandage on yourself; this will become common practice for many boss fights.

• High Priestess Jeklik (Bat boss)

General description: The bat boss stands on top of a wall there are no other mobs, however there will be adds summoned during the battle. This fight also takes place in two phases, however the phases are better distinguished between bat mobs vs. bat bombers. When in bat form the boss may charge another character and cast an AOE silence. The boss will then go right back to the MT.

Phase 1:

MT: Often the MT will pull the boss as well as build up agro for a while.

ST: build up agro, and break off of the boss when needed to kill bats.

MH: keep MT alive

SH: support MH. Stand in such a way so that you are far enough from the MH so that if the boss charges and does her AOE silence you are not both effected.

DD: the damage dealers can go in and attack during the first phase, however when the bats are spawned everyone but the MT should break off from the boss and take out the bats. Again please bandage yourself when needed to conserve mana for the bomb bats.

AH: keep the group alive.

Phase 2: You do not actually fight the bomb bats, rather they just throw down AOE’s that hurt quite a bit. This part of the fight is mobile, the bombs will fall in the most densely packed areas.

MT: the MT is in charge of constantly training the boss around, when this is done successfully the bombs fall behind the boss instead of falling on the people that are attacking the boss. Also shield bashing the boss when she starts to heal is important.

ST: build up hate and shield bash when she tries to heal.

MH: the main healer must be mobile, and keep the MT alive.

SH: the only way the MH can be mobile is if you trade of heals. While you heal the MH can move while the MH heals you can move. This of course is an oversimplified perfect world example, but it is something to shoot for.

DD: take her out. Rogues should kick when she tries to heal.

• High Priestess Mar'li (Spider Boss)

This is the Pong fight. There is a speaker that we usually use a priest to mind control. Everyone will go to the bottom of the hill while the priest mind controls the speaker. A group of spiders will go down the hill and by the time they reach the bottom they will have grown to their full size and thus do around 1,000 damage per hit.

MT: the MT will pull and stand 20 yards away from the rest of the group. Everyone else will be standing on top of eachother.

ST: The spider will net the MT and then move onto someone else, the secondary tank must pick up the agro. The spider will then net the ST and the MT must pick up the agro again.

MH: When the spider transfers to the ST the MH must transfer healing power.

SH: the SH must support the MH and cleans the MT from the poison.

AH: The group should be standing far enough away not to be effected by the poison spit. If you are finding that you are being spit on you should step back, however the AH’s should cleanse those that get hit.

DD: The damage dealers should wait to attack the spider for a couple of agro transfers to make sure that the MT and ST are numbers one and two on the hate list.

MD: the priest does a chained life drain that heals and damages for a good amount of health, she must be drained of her mana in order to take her down. Warlocks will have to be cleansed often because they will have to be close enough to drain mana.

• Bloodlord Mandokir

General description: This boss is pretty easy if you do it correctly. There is a wall of spears on the left side of the room; we will use this as a barrier between everyone and the boss. The first person to take out is the speaker, the rogues and warriors will take him out quickly while the rest of the group stands behind the spears. After the speaker dies the rogues should pop sprint and get behind the spears. It is important for people to find a way to get into battle (ie buff someone that is in battle) otherwise when the boss gets pulled anyone not in battle will be teleported to the boss and will die. If anyone dies a spirit will come to resurrect you and increase the power of the bloodlord.

MT: take on the bloodlord

ST: Tank the raptor, however don’t try to get agro. Once the healer gets agro the raptor will just sit there looking at the healer and not be able to hit the MH.

MH and SH: keep the MT alive.

Everyone else should range dps from behind the spears. Once the main boss is taken out the raptor will still be on the main healer. At this point we can take a pause before we have to take out the raptor.