A kill from a PTR raid.
Just a little teaser before I get around to posting a strat for him.
Though I’ll make you guys a deal. 50g to the first person to tell me what one Anub’araks special mechanics are by only watching this video.
Honor system here people. I’ll update the post with the correct answer and the winner on Saturday.
Be on the lookout in the raid discussion topic area of the forums for a strat on this guy.
*psstt* He’s really really easy.
looks like he iceblocks a tank and needs to have an OT ready to grab him not sure about this though since the guy in the video didnt have target of target on (asshat)
burrows underground and chooses a random raid member to aoe spike / stun that player needs to move away
adds need to be picked up and held until her burrows then dps’d down once hes out fo combat or switched to if more than 2 are up at any time
i couldnt tell what the frost thing was but it seemed like not a bad thing so keep him in frost areas? looked like he did a self heal at about 30% “anubarak unleashes a healing swarm” couldnt tell lif this was like a dot or a group of bugs that need to be aoed
and looked like everything enraged at 15% cause people started dying all over the place so would be best to save heroism for this point
id say 3 tanks 6 healers 16 dps
I think he chases someone too
Shoot down ice. Stand on ice to block spikes if it’s pursuing you.
@ 2:59 in the video, you can clearly see he puts a dot on players called Acid-Drenched Mandibles: 5000 Nature dmg every 3 seconds … not sure how many total seconds. My guess would be 12 or 15 seconds so it has at least a decent chance of killing a raid member if the healers are slow.
Raid chat talks about something called: Penetrating Cold. They claim it’s the only thing that can possibly kill you in combination with some second ability, maybe the spikes. Not sure, I’ll watch the vid one more time.
ADM dot is 6 seconds long, but looks like it stacks. Saw 3 stacks on the dude.
Like Tormod indicated, he does some Leeching Swarm at around 30% and after he re-emerges they seem to tank him on the ice. I don’t know why they are tanking him on the ice, perhaps it has something to do with Penetrating Cold. They mention Penetrating Cold is the only real thing that can kill you in combination with some other ability.
They also seem to prioritize dps on the adds in preparation for the Leeching Swarm.
There is some cold debuff that hits the DK around 3:40. It last 15 seconds. My guess is that it’s the Penetrating Cold they were talking about. He took heavy damage, but he also had the Leeching Swarm on him at the time.
Finally, it does look like in preparation for Leeching Swarm you burn down any adds that are up, so when the LS hits you can just burn down the boss and distract any remains adds with Army and Shackle. Leeching Swarm seems to hit from 3-5k every 2 or 3 seconds and probably heals Anub for a similar amount.
I can’t watch at work, so I’m cheating and looking at the tankspot guide. Good guide for anyone who wants to check it out:
http://www.tankspot.com/forums/f218/54685-anub-arak-encounter.html
Obv. can’t post here if you have though
Ok. I just read up on the real abilities. I think I did okay for just watching a video with a disgusting 4:3 format and horribly unimaginative UI.
Although, I did like that rune tracker.
Paxxz… dude… no more red bull man.