[Naxx] 10 man Loatheb

[LiquidShizzles]

Ok, Loatheb. Another fun boss for you healers



The main thing about this fight is his 'Necoritc Aura' every 20 seconds it causes any sort of healing to be reduced by 100% for 17 seconds. In case you can't do the math, that means you have 3 seconds to heal, every 20 seconds.

Not that tricky if the tank keeps aggro? WRONG. He does a thing called 'Deathbloom' on the raid. This happens every 30 seconds and lasts for 5 seconds. Every second it is active it does 400 nature damage and then an extra 1500 damage at the end. The end damage can be absorbed by Power Word: Shield.

After you've been fihgting him for 2 minutes he will cast 'Inevitable Doom' which deals 5000 shadow damage over 10 seconds every 30 seconds. After 5 minutes of combat this happens every 15 seconds.

TACTICS:

This fight is basically a tank and spank with a few twists (tank him in the center of the room). There are adds called 'Spores' that float into the fight towards a raid member. These Spores do NO damage and when they die they give a 'debuff' (actually it's a buff) to the 5 closest people. It increases their crit chance by 50% and everything they do causes no threat. This lasts for 120 seconds.

A good idea is to have all your ranged dps clump together and all your melee stay close (lol obviously). This way the spores can be drawn to whoever needs the buff most .

You will see a raid warning that says "The auras power begins to fade" just before you can heal again. A good tip for druid healers is that if you lifebloom someone at the exact time you see this is does the burst heal as soon as the aura fades

Then it's just tank and spank til he's dead, gratz on your T7 shoulders

[daconna]

they did him with 2 people^^