Blackwing Descent: Omnomnomitron

Basic Concepts:

• Council boss
• Don’t stand in bad things
• Stand in good things
• Don’t confuse the two above things

Tanks
Two of the four golems will be active at any given time.  The active golems can be stacked for making the most of splash/cleave/AoE damage.  They do not cleave themselves, thank the Light.   A stream from the back wall to the golems will show you which ones are about to activate.

Arcanotron:
Pull him out of the “cyan-magenta*” whirlpool, but not so far away that your melee can’t stand in it.  You wouldn’t want to make their epeens smaller.
Arcane Annihilator: your healers will thank you for interrupting this.
Power Conversion: IS NOT FOR HITTINGS.

Electron:
If you get Lightning Conductor, laugh at all the melee DPS who are not paying enough attention to run away from you.
For electrical discharge, you…do nothing again.  You’re the tank, it’s the DPS’s job to suck it up and deal.  You probably like this robot a lot, don’t you.
Unstable Shield: IS NOT FOR HITTINGS.

Magmatron:
Incineration Security Measure – MANY FIRES, HANDLE THEM.  Tanks, stay put.  No really.  Don’t move the boss for this.  This will move the fires, and make everyone sad.
Aquiring Target – A red beam will point out the target of incoming flaming buttfuckery.  You do not want to be near this target–and yes, it can be one of you, tanks!
Barrier – IS NOT FOR HITTINGS.

Toxitron:
Poison Cloud – This is the reverse of the whirlpools.  You and your melee buddies want to GTFO, but standing the boss in it = win.
Poison Protocol – Summons friends for your ranged DPS to play with.  They are not tauntable.
Poison Soaked Shell – IS NOT FOR–wait.  When you hit Toxitron with shell up, it does put a stacking dot on you.  Buuuuut when you attack with said dot, you deal nature damage.   Oh wait, you’re a tank.  Just make your healers happy and don’t hit it (unless your DPS are really pressing their luck and threat becomes an issue).

Heals
Arcanotron:
His whirlpool boosts mana regen. Omnomnom.
Power Conversion: IS NOT FOR HITTINGS.  Want to know why I’m telling the healers this?  Look at your pallys.  Yes you, judging pallys.  You.  NOT FOR HITTINGS.

Electron:
You’ll want to spread out for this golem because of electrical discharge.
Lightning Conductor: yell at anyone who has this and stands around near other people stroking their epeen.  If you get it, run the fuck away.
Unstable Shield: IS NOT FOR HITTINGS.

Magmatron:
Incineration Security Measure – Many fires, not for standing in. 
Aquiring Target – A red beam will point out the target of incoming flaming buttfuckery.  You do not want to be near this target.  You do, however, want to heal this target.  A lot.
Barrier – IS NOT FOR HITTINGS.

Toxitron:
Poison Cloud – Not for standing in.  Yell at anyone who does.
Poison Protocol – If they target you, run the fuck away.
Poison Soaked Shell – Just don’t, pallys.  Just don’t.

DPS
When another golem is activated, the previous one will aquire a shield.  Hint: swap targets.

Arcanotron:
The tank will pull him out of his whirlpool thingy, but you should go stand in it.  It has cookies.
Arcane Annihilator: your healers will thank you for interrupting this. 
Power Conversion: When he has this, you don’t want to hit him.  No, really, you don’t.  Mages can steal this buff.

Electron:
You’ll want to spread out for this golem because of electrical discharge.  Unless, of course, you’re standing in Arc’s whirlpool.  OMNOM MORE DPS.
If you get Lightning Conductor, run away from everyone else.  They do not want your staticy hugs.  If the tank gets it, also run away!
Unstable Shield: IS NOT FOR HITTINGS.

Magmatron:
Incineration Security Measure – Fires are not for standing in.  They are not whirlpools, they do not do kind things for your meter standings.
Aquiring Target – A red beam will point out the target of incoming flaming buttfuckery.  You do not want to be near this target.  If it is you, well, I hope you bribe your healers well.  Use damage reducing cooldowns, etc.
Barrier – IS NOT FOR HITTINGS.

Toxitron:
Poison Cloud – The tank will try to stand the boss in this.  You should try not to stand in it yourself.  If this means scooting around to the sides, I really suggest you do that.
Poison Protocol – Summons slime friends for your ranged DPS to play with.  They are not tauntable, but they are slowable.  If they target you, kite them.  If any target the tank, those slimes are your first priority.  Dear melee: do not play with slimes.  Not your own slime, not anyone elses slimes.  We thought that attacking another’s slimes might be fine, but this resulted in me and our DPS warrior eating the floor a lot when they exploded into puddles of death. 
Poison Soaked Shell – IS NOT FOR–wait.  When you hit Toxitron with shell up, it does put a stacking dot on you.  Buuuuut when you attack with said dot, you deal nature damage.   Until you know how much “spare” mana your healers will have, however, you probably don’t want to risk their ire fucking around with this mechanic.  I’ve yet to be able to experiment with this myself becuase my healers cleanse ALL the things. 

*Cyan-magenta, wowwikki?  Really?  WTF.

BWD: Magmaw

Blackwing “Wait Didn’t I Kill Nef Already?” Descent: Magmaw

Note:
I have now done this fight!  We have even killed him!  You can check out my “lol instructional video” here.  Done with captions because I am a nub with a  broken mic.  ETA: Apparently that vid spazzes out at one point, showing a still until the kiting segment.  I have no idea why, as all I did to make our plain kill video was remove the captions and the kiting part and kill video works fine, but I’ll see about fixing it.  In the meantime, the link to the less fubar’d, but non-captioned, video is here.

Basic Concepts:

• Don’t stand in bad (pst, fire is bad)
• GROUP HUG
• Multiple phases
• AAADDS!  AAADDS!

Tank
Guess what!  The boss doesn’t move.  Stand there and mock your kiter during the first part.   Of course, during the transition, the boss is eating you, so…yeah.  After a few stacks of mangle you might want to pop a cool down.  And not mock the kiter so much.

At the end of phase 2, threat is wiped, so you want to reestablish that quickly before your melee does something stupid like tank it for you.

Healer
Hug your ranged DPS and fill green bars.  Move with the group away from pillar of fire.  Weep at the AoE damage.   When the tank is being OMNOMNOM’d during the transition, toss him some extra heals.

DPS
One of you is going to be the kite bitch.  Hunters are naturally pro at this, but DKs with Chillblains are a popular choice right now as well.  Any class that can slow/knock back/teleport/get really fucking creative can pull this off as well.  See: kite bitch section below.

The rest of you (sans melee) will be basically shuffling from one designated spot to another as the boss tosses down a pillar of burning badness every 30 seconds.  If you’re slow you’ll get knocked in the air by the pilalr so don’t be fucking slow.

Killing the adds seems to be the preferred method, so ranged DPS should burn those down.  Just make sure all DPS (and cooldowns are blown) are on the boss when he’s impaled, which is phase 2.

There is a boss ability named ignition.  It covers half the room and looks like steam jets, so don’t stand in it.  Duh.

Two DPS will have to chain the poss during the transition phase.  Jump on his head and use Constricting Chains.  Don’t have your best add burners do this as they’ll still need to be killing those damn worms.  If you’re breaking the chains you’re fucking it up so…uh…don’t do…whatever you’re doing.

At the end of phase two the boss drops threat.  Don’t be stupid.

Kite Bitch
Worms spawn from the pillar of flame.  Grab them and run around like a headless chicken.   MANY WORMS, HANDLE THEM.  No I don’t know why this really got its own section either.  I felt like it, okay?

Ice Cream Social: Sindy the Chain Smoker

Disclaimer: I have now seen this boss…once.  Er.  Yeah.

General Notes
2 tanks, 3 healers

Like with many dragons, there’s both a ground and an air phase.  Typical cleave/tail whip rules apply, so several of you will die while tanks are positioning the boss for the first few wipes because you forgot how to Ony already.

Icy Grip.  Do you remember Aran?  …no?  Noob.  Anyway, Aran pulled everyone into the middle of the room, and if you didn’t run the fuck away, you got blown the fuck up.  Same principle applies here.  Just don’t run too far beyond the 25 yards required because spreading out too much will still make the healers hate you.  If you are a keyboard turning nub like me, pray to god you don’t lag or try to mouse turn without confusing yourself.  Or just run straight and end up on the opposite side from everyone and say FUCK really loudly like I did. 

When Sindy goes into air phase, two players will have blue arrows appear over their heads and seconds later will end up entombed in ice.   If you see someone near you get the blue arrow things, get the fuck away from them, because apparently it’s contagious (10 yds).   You don’t want it, trust me.  As with Sapph, you hide behind the ice cubes, although this time you’re hiding from ice bombs.  The point of impact will show up as a blue circle with swirling ice around it, so stand on the opposite side of the cubes from these circles.  Don’t just stand behind it and assume you’re safe, you will actually have to move to another side sometimes.  There will be 4 of these bombs in an air phase.  The ice tombs are attackable and you might as well hack away at them while waiting, but you don’t want to destroy them until all 4 bombs have been dropped because then you’ll have nothing to stand behind, dumbass.  They should be destroyed before Sindy lands again. 

At 35% she gains another ability called magical mystical buffet.  Mystical buffet is bad, but is also broken my LoS.  This is where hiding behind ice tombs comes into handy again.  Designate an easily reachable spot for frost tomb targets to run to for this phase.  Once the tomb target has reached the spot and been frozen, everyone hides behind them to drop the stacks.  You should do this at least every other tomb. 

ON THE PROPER PRONOUNCATION OF BUFFET:
Okay look, guys (or gals, especially you narrating the tankspot video): if you’re pronouncing it buh-fey, you’re DOING IT WRONG.  Are you being served dinner, or being attacked by mystical forces?   SINDY IS NOT FEEDING YOU.  So let’s get it right: buhf-it. 

Tanks
Cleave + Frost Breath = this boss doesn’t tickle.  Don’t be shy about using cool downs in conjunction with Frost Breath, especially if you’re not using FR.

During the < 35% health phase, tanks will switch out to drop the mystical buffet stacks behind the tomb.

DPS
Dear melee: if you let permeating chill stack to high you will die.  You cannot DPS while dead.  Got it?

Casters:  You are not immune from debuff fuckery.   Sindy also casts something called  Unchained Magic.  Casting spells during Unchained Magic may cause you to gain stacks of Instability.  Don’t let it stack above 5 or your healers will shank you with their little caster daggers, assuming the damage spike doesn’t kill you first.  By the way, you drop it by not casting for 8 whoooole seconds.

In the 35% phase, you never want more than 1 tomb up at any given time, so be sure to DPS them down.  Just not, you know, TOO quickly.

Healers
While on the ground, Sindy has a frost aura that does damage to the raid just like Sapph.  You will probably hate it, just like Sapph.

Permeating Chill will stack on the melee, doing MORE frost damage.  If it’s too much damage for the healers to handle then they need to stop DPS until the stacks drop off, but we all know how that will go.   Casters have their own version.  Read the note to casters about Unchained Magic above and know that if you die from it you have no one to blame but yourself.

HoTs work to heal the cubed people. 

Bubbles can help negate the debuff so that they can stack higher, but I’m not one to encourage DPS to be reckless.  Instead, either spoil your favorite DPS buddies or accept bribes.  If a mage or warlock has ever taken gear from you, fuck them,

Sindy does a deep breath frost breath.  It’s a frontal cone, but has a 1.5 cast time, so CDs can be popped by/for the tank.  If anyone else is in front of the dragon and isn’t doing the Shadowmourne quest line and bribing you properly, let them die.  Fuckers.

Alternate hiding behind the tombs in the 35% phase, because leaving your tanks without heals is bad.

Ice Cream Social: Blood Prince Council

Blood Prince Council, AKA Twilight Sparkle Party 

being dead = photo opportunities

 

Tanks 

This is a 3 tank fight-even in 10 man.  Valanar and Taldaram (henceforce, Val and Tal) should be tanked by normal tanks.  Keleseth can be tanked by anyone with a ranged attack.  In 25s we stick our paladin on him because, well, in 25s we have 3 tanks. 

The Kel tank is going to be wandering around the room trying to pick up those floaty purple-blue orbs.  Invariably some DPS happy schmuck with AoE is going to pick up one or two, but you should yell at them and then grab all the rest.  

 

The orbs reduce the shadow damage you take, which is very important because all Kel fucking does is chuck shadow bolts.  They follow the last person to hit it, and don’t have a real aggro table.  They do fade after awhile, so you’ll pretty much be wandering around seeking more perpetually.  Try not to run through half of your raid while empowered shock wave is incoming, okay? 

The Val and Tal tanks have an easier job.  Stand there and tank shit.  In our 25s the Val tank (I think) is actually up against a far wall, allowing them and their healer to stay out of the way whenever their boss isn’t the focus.   This way there’s less screaming “stay the fuck away from me during fucking empowered vortex you fucking useless fuckwits!” at their screens.  

DPS 

Okay, I’m about to explain a very difficult concept, so pay attention.  

Stay the fuck away from each other (except for when you all need to NOT stay the fuck away from each other). 

Got it?  No?  Okay.  Basically, you need to stay 12 yards away from every fucking one.  Unless you’re melee, in which case you can continue your usual happy hump the boss’ ass pile until you see your empowered vortex warning.  Then you scatter to the winds–preferably not all in the same direction, and not all on top of healers.  We’ve actually had to assign melee DPS directions to run, and this may not be a bad idea for you, either.  The OTHER time you don’t stay spread out is when there’s a empowered fire ball floating towards someone.  Then those of you in the area kind of scoot together because it’s the old “the more people there are, the less damage there is” trick.  As soon as it’s done it’s burney thing, everyone has cooties once more. 

Ranged should just spread out and stay there, damn it.  That means you, warlock who keeps wandering into my range.  Yeah, you.  

Hunters (or some other ranged DPS, perhaps, but we have eleventy billion hunters) tend to have another task: watching for floaty orbs.  No, NOT those dark float orbs–the sparkly orange ones.   Those can NOT touch the floor.  Ever ever.  Your healers will cry at you over the AoE damage if they touch the floor.  They tend to appear long the sides/back of the room, so hunters should be assigned an area to watch.  If you only have one in your corner of the world, sic your pet on it.  As long as it’s not on the stairs, they’ll happily keep the ball off the floor by themselves.  The stairs will sometimes wig the pets out (though spirit beasts and wind serpents, due to their ranged attacks, handle things on the stairs just fine) so you might have to pew pew those on your own. 

Healers 

The tricky part of this for us is healing the wandering Kel tank.  Assigning a healer to follow them is suicide–this is where holy pally beacons often come in handy.  Beacon the Kel tank and throw some supporting heals on him whenever he happens to wander into your range.  Another option is to have two healers keep an eye on him, one for each side of the room–when he’s out of range for one, he’s in range for the other. 

Otherwise, assign your usual tank healers to the other two tanks and raid heals as normal.   If you have your Vel tank and his healer stuck over on one side, be sure that another healer is lurking within range, just in case.

Ice Cream Social: Festergut

I will be explaining this mostly from a 10s standpoint, as I’m most familar with that version of the fight. 

Basic Concepts:
-DPS
-DPS MOAR
-OMG DPS FASTER FASTER FUUUUUUUUU-
-Hug people with stuff that is good!
-OMG OMG OMG THE TANK, THE TANK HEAL THE TANK OH FUCK

Tanks
You know that whole swap tanks at a certain # of debuffs routine?  Yeah, that again.  Tank him in the center and swap at 9 buffs.  You do not want 10.  At all.  Ever.  Be careful just after the switch that you do not pull the boss back onto yourself.

Do your best lawlDPS when you’re not tanking.

The boss will also have a stacking buff on himself-Inhale Blight.  At 3, it’s ouchy, so you might want to have an itchy cooldown finger to take the pressure off your healer. 

DPS
This fight is…all on you.  No pressure!  None at all!

3 ranged (8 in 25s?) need to fan out in front of the boss.  The fewer healers you stick out there the better.  These players will occasionally be hit by Vile Gas, causing them to vomit uncontrollably (hence why having healers out there is bad!).  Spreading out is important because no one wants to get vomited on, okay?  Ew.

The DPS most hindered by movement, along with the melee, should be right behind the boss.

Periodically during the fight spores will appear.  In 10s, there’ll be 2.  EVERYONE needs the buff provided by the spore-so there should be one in ranged and one in melee.  Sometimes they spawn this way-sometimes they don’t!   Typically we pick one person in ranged who gets a mark on their head and is the designated Spore Hug Person.  If there’s a healer in the back, it’s usually them, so they don’t have to move.  

If the spore spawns in ranged, then all of the ranged give the designated a person a hug until the spore asplodes.  If both spawn in melee, the raid leader should call out who has to run to the back.

The melee group should scoot under the boss a bit so that the tanks get the spore as well.  Once the buff has been dispensed, return to your spots.

If you don’t have the Inoculation from the spores, you will die during Pungent Blight.  End of story.

Aside from that, DPS your hearts out.

Healers

This fight can be 2 or 3 healed.  BoO tends to 3 heal it-we found the damage that went out was a bit too much for 2, though we did scary dances with the enrage timer that way.

For the raid healers it tends to be business as usual (aside from the whole deal with the spores, explained in the DPS section).  For the tank healer, at least when you first start downing this boss, you’re going to spaz.  After a couple of upgrades I didn’t find it so bad, but the first time?  I was scraping the bottom of the mana barrel, and on one attempt the tank died because I took 1 GCD to fiend.

Yeah.  There’s my tip of the day: fiend when the boss has 1 or 2 stacks of Inhale Blight, not 3.  Never 3.   Forget using Hymn of Hope on this fight-not happening.  Same thing applies to other healers-if you have a mana regen ability that eats a GCD?  Be careful!

Ice Crown Social: Saurfang

There’s a few number of ways to handle this boss, so let’s poke at them!

Saurfang stands on top of the stairs.  Everyone else except for your two tanks should stand…not on the stairs. 

Tanks:

Welcome to Yet Another Tank Swapping Fight.  This time, if you fuck up, the boss heals like OMG WHOA and your DPS screams at you and your healers weep.  Okay?  Okay.  So when he puts Rune Blood on you, scream TAUNT, TAUNT into your mic really loud just in case the other tank is reading 4chan again.

There’s a soft enrage at 30% to be aware of.

Cranky Tank also likes to use Shockwave when the adds spawn so that he knocks one silly.  

Heals:

First off, your third healer (or whoever your bitch healers are in 25s) need to go DPS.  A holy pally and a disc priest is an AMAZING team for this, but most things work.  A disc priest on the raid can help reduce the amount of blood power he gets from his blood novas, by bubbling the nova target.  At least I think that’s how it works…I’m normally shadow this fight.  Or huntering.  >.>

It doesn’t get frantic for you until he throws a Mark of the Fallen Champion on someone after 100 BP are gained.  This is where paladin Bacon Hax can come in handy-beacon the Marked target and continue on as normal.  I’m not a fan of letting the Marked target die if at all possible, because sometimes it’s a healer and well, that just sucks.  When there’s two Marks up…uh…uh…well, then you pray that your DPS is on the ball.

DPS:

Ranged, spread the fuck out.  No, really.  If you’re giving hugs to each other, you’re increasing the about of BP.  :(

Anyway, two of you (or…more of you for 25s…man I don’t even know how many spawn for 25s, I should) will probably be assigned to deal with the adds, and this is where things can vary.

We’ve had two hunters kite them, usually with ranged DPS switching targets to get them down.  Use frost traps, etc.  If you’re not toting around multiple hunters, a boomkin can root/typhoon if it gets too close.  YOU DO NOT WANT THEM MELEEING ANYONE.  This creates BP, and BP creates sad.

We’ve also had a hunter kite one while melee DPS stuns and kills the shit out of the other one.  This is only advised if you have a way to keep it stunned: see above CAPSing. 

When not killing beasts, DPS the shit out of the boss-you know, like normal.

Ice Cream Social: Gunship Battle

The goal of this fight is to sink the enemy’s battleship.  It’s the Wrath version of the Chess Event, so this is going to be a Strat Guide Lite because…there’s not a lot to it.

A tank, healer, and some DPS stay on your boat to defend it from attackers.   Aside from making sure that everything is aggro’d on someone (because otherwise they’re damaging your ship), this is loleasy.

A tank, a healer, and some DPS get to be the Away Team and beam rocket over to the other ship.  If we’re being lazy and three healing it we send two healers over, but one could easily go DPS and help pew pew the mage down.  The mage is your only target-the tank just tanks the enemy commander whosit but isn’t DPS’d at all. The hardest part is jumping back all together-if the tank jumps back before you do, you go splat.  I know this from experience.  \o/  Make sure to call it out on Vent.

Typically two (usually melee) DPS that are on the away team are also manning the cannons.  Your sign to board is the cannons being frozen, anyway.  While the cannons are not ice cubed, pew pew the NPCs, because if they don’t die, they get stronger, and stronger NPCs are teh fail.   Ranged DPS can help out with this as well between attacks.

Kills things, collect loot, done.  Oh, and if someone gets stuck on the enemy ship as it leaves, lol at them, because they’re screwed.

ETA: Circles are bad, don’t stand in them.   The other ship has cannons too, after all.

It is highly recommended that you run with a bear at least once.  This has little to do with the fight itself and everything to do with seeing  a bear with a rocket strapped to its ass.