Post by Deleted on Aug 31, 2013 3:59:10 GMT
Extra resource bar fight?! Oh my god it's going to be so new and exciting!
The Sha is stationary in the middle of the room, and if no one is in range of the boss for it to melee attack it uses Reaching attack to deal shadow damage to random raid members and increase their shadow damage taken by 25% for 8 seconds, this ability stacks.
So the fight is 2 phased and revolves around an additional resource bar players have called "Pride" (how original), you begin the fight with 0/100 pride. Similar to every resource bar boss fight ever, you get 100 pride, you are mind controlled and are either going to be killed or are going to kill raid members, so yeah don't get 100 pride, you can avoid gaining pride by avoiding certain mechanics. However because that would be too easy, there are other mechanics which are guaranteed to give players pride, thus allowing for less mistakes. Once the boss reaches 30%, all players pride is wiped back to 0, however after this the boss becomes "Unleashed" dealing heavy raid wide damage and giving everyone an additional 5 pride every 10 seconds, this acts as a soft enrage timer and makes this the burn phase. Bloodlust should be used on this phase.
As a general rule the raid will be stacked on a point behind the boss, moving to deal with certain mechanics.
So on to what abilities you have to deal with during phase 1:
Swelling Pride is the central mechanic of the fight. This is a raid-wide damaging attack that the boss uses every 60 seconds (the timing of the attack is also indicated by the boss' energy bar). Swelling Pride deals high raid-wide Shadow damage, grants all players 5 Pride, and causes additional effects on players depending on how much Pride they have, as follows:
Players who have between 0 - 24 Pride are unaffected.
Players who have between 25 - 49 Pride are affected by Bursting Pride. This creates a void zone at the locations of these players, which explodes after 3 seconds, dealing a high amount of Shadow damage to anyone within 5 yards. Players hit by the explosion also gain 5 Pride. Because the entire raid will be stacked on one location, all the void zones will be placed stacked on top of eachother, this means that right after the bursting pride all member have to move away from the stack point, and then after a few seconds the void zones will explode, at which point you can move back in to stack.
Players who have between 50 and 74 Pride are affected by Projection. This creates projection of the target, 15 yards away from the respective player. 6 seconds after appearing, the projections explode, dealing a high amount of raid-wide damage and granting all raid members 5 Pride, unless the player from whom the projection spawned is standing on top of it. It is easy for each player to see their projection, since these are marked visually. When you have between 50 - 74 pride, be prepared to quickly move right after the next swelling pride.
Players who have between 75 and 99 Pride are affected by Aura of Pride. This places a debuff on the player, lasting 25 seconds, which deals high Shadow damage every second to any allies standing within 5 yards. Any players hit by Aura of Pride also gain 5 Pride. Make sure that if you have between 75-99 pride and the Swelling pride is coming in, make sure that you move away from the raid to prevent additional damage and pride gain.
Players who have 100 Pride (i.e., who are Overcome Icon Overcome) have their health increased by 100% and become permanently mind controlled.
Wounded Pride is a debuff that the Sha of Pride applies on its current target. While this debuff is active, any melee attacks from the Sha of Pride cause the player to gain 5 Pride. This ability requires a tank switch.
Corrupted Prison is an ability that the Sha of Pride casts 45 seconds after the start of the fight, and every 60 seconds after that. Around the room, there are 4 titan prisons, essentially large circles on the floor. When Corrupted Prison is cast, 4 raid members will be imprisoned(1 in each prison) in each corner of the center square of the boss room; as a raid member is imprisoned, anyone standing within 12 yards of the prison is knocked back, takes a large amount of damage, and receives 5 Pride. So do not stand near the prisons when this ability is about to be cast.
-Players who are imprisoned are stunned, being unable to do anything. While in the prison, the player takes a high amount of Shadow damage every second, also gaining 5 Pride per second. The only way for a player to be freed from a titan prison is for two other raid members to stand on the two locks of the prison (clearly indicated by a glowing orange colour), one on each lock. This immediately frees the player.
Mark of Arrogance is a Shadow damage DoT that the Sha of Pride applies on random raid members. This DoT can stack, so multiple applications on the same player will deal increased damage. The DoT has an unlimited duration, but it can be dispelled. Dispelling the DoT causes the dispeller to gain 5 Pride. There is a mechanic in the second phase, which will be explained below, that grants players temporary immunity to Pride gains, and players can take advantage of this mechanic to dispel Mark of Arrogance, however this mechanic will not be available during phase 1, meaning there will have to be coordination as to who dispells what, the aim being to spread the pride equally among the dispellers, obviously keeping everyone as low as possible.
Self-Reflection is an ability that the Sha of Pride regularly uses on a number of raid random raid members. Reflections (small adds that melee, but who have no other abilities) spawn from the locations of these raid members 2 seconds later, dealing a large amount of Shadow damage within 2 yards of the area where they spawn. Players who are hit by the spawning damage of the Reflections gain 5 Pride. The Sha of Pride casts this spell 20 seconds into the fight, and roughly every 60 seconds after that. Each time this spell is cast, the Sha of Pride will choose players who have higher Pride than those chosen for the previous cast (the first cast targets players regardless of how much Pride they have, the second cast targets players with at least 25 Pride, the third targets players with at least 50 Pride, and so on). When this ability hits just make sure to move away from where the adds are about to spawn to prevent additional pride gain, and kill the adds once they spawn.
60 seconds after the start of the fight, and roughly every 60 seconds after that, the boss will summon an add called a Manifestation of Pride. These adds melee and they have two abilities:
-Mocking Blast is an interruptible nuke that targets a random raid member, dealing a high amount of Shadow damage to them and granting them 5 Pride. This should be interrupted every time.
-Last Word is an ability that causes the two nearest players to the Manifestation of Pride to gain 5 Pride when the mob dies. You will have to control who the two closest players are in order to evenly distribute pride amongst the raid, attempting to keep everyone's pride a slow as possible.
Once the boss hits 30%, everyone's pride is wiped and all the above abilities are no longer used, however stacks of Mark of Arrogance persist. There are only 2 mechanics in this encounter, one I have already explained which is the soft enrage mechanic. The other mechanic is not cast by the Sha, but rather by Norushen, who has come from the last encounter to assist your raid once more.
The ability he casts is called Gift of the Titans and is cast on random raid members this buff lasts 20 seconds, and leaves the player immune to pride gains, allowing for dispelling of Mark of Arrogance with no ramifications. Atleast one healer will always be given this buff, and this player(s) should dispell as many players as they can within this time frame, prioritising players with higher stacks.
If multiple players with Gift of the Titans are stacked together, they gain Power of the Titans, which grants 15% damage and haste and lasts 15 seconds.
Below is a couple of videos on the encounter.
The Sha is stationary in the middle of the room, and if no one is in range of the boss for it to melee attack it uses Reaching attack to deal shadow damage to random raid members and increase their shadow damage taken by 25% for 8 seconds, this ability stacks.
So the fight is 2 phased and revolves around an additional resource bar players have called "Pride" (how original), you begin the fight with 0/100 pride. Similar to every resource bar boss fight ever, you get 100 pride, you are mind controlled and are either going to be killed or are going to kill raid members, so yeah don't get 100 pride, you can avoid gaining pride by avoiding certain mechanics. However because that would be too easy, there are other mechanics which are guaranteed to give players pride, thus allowing for less mistakes. Once the boss reaches 30%, all players pride is wiped back to 0, however after this the boss becomes "Unleashed" dealing heavy raid wide damage and giving everyone an additional 5 pride every 10 seconds, this acts as a soft enrage timer and makes this the burn phase. Bloodlust should be used on this phase.
As a general rule the raid will be stacked on a point behind the boss, moving to deal with certain mechanics.
So on to what abilities you have to deal with during phase 1:
Swelling Pride is the central mechanic of the fight. This is a raid-wide damaging attack that the boss uses every 60 seconds (the timing of the attack is also indicated by the boss' energy bar). Swelling Pride deals high raid-wide Shadow damage, grants all players 5 Pride, and causes additional effects on players depending on how much Pride they have, as follows:
Players who have between 0 - 24 Pride are unaffected.
Players who have between 25 - 49 Pride are affected by Bursting Pride. This creates a void zone at the locations of these players, which explodes after 3 seconds, dealing a high amount of Shadow damage to anyone within 5 yards. Players hit by the explosion also gain 5 Pride. Because the entire raid will be stacked on one location, all the void zones will be placed stacked on top of eachother, this means that right after the bursting pride all member have to move away from the stack point, and then after a few seconds the void zones will explode, at which point you can move back in to stack.
Players who have between 50 and 74 Pride are affected by Projection. This creates projection of the target, 15 yards away from the respective player. 6 seconds after appearing, the projections explode, dealing a high amount of raid-wide damage and granting all raid members 5 Pride, unless the player from whom the projection spawned is standing on top of it. It is easy for each player to see their projection, since these are marked visually. When you have between 50 - 74 pride, be prepared to quickly move right after the next swelling pride.
Players who have between 75 and 99 Pride are affected by Aura of Pride. This places a debuff on the player, lasting 25 seconds, which deals high Shadow damage every second to any allies standing within 5 yards. Any players hit by Aura of Pride also gain 5 Pride. Make sure that if you have between 75-99 pride and the Swelling pride is coming in, make sure that you move away from the raid to prevent additional damage and pride gain.
Players who have 100 Pride (i.e., who are Overcome Icon Overcome) have their health increased by 100% and become permanently mind controlled.
Wounded Pride is a debuff that the Sha of Pride applies on its current target. While this debuff is active, any melee attacks from the Sha of Pride cause the player to gain 5 Pride. This ability requires a tank switch.
Corrupted Prison is an ability that the Sha of Pride casts 45 seconds after the start of the fight, and every 60 seconds after that. Around the room, there are 4 titan prisons, essentially large circles on the floor. When Corrupted Prison is cast, 4 raid members will be imprisoned(1 in each prison) in each corner of the center square of the boss room; as a raid member is imprisoned, anyone standing within 12 yards of the prison is knocked back, takes a large amount of damage, and receives 5 Pride. So do not stand near the prisons when this ability is about to be cast.
-Players who are imprisoned are stunned, being unable to do anything. While in the prison, the player takes a high amount of Shadow damage every second, also gaining 5 Pride per second. The only way for a player to be freed from a titan prison is for two other raid members to stand on the two locks of the prison (clearly indicated by a glowing orange colour), one on each lock. This immediately frees the player.
Mark of Arrogance is a Shadow damage DoT that the Sha of Pride applies on random raid members. This DoT can stack, so multiple applications on the same player will deal increased damage. The DoT has an unlimited duration, but it can be dispelled. Dispelling the DoT causes the dispeller to gain 5 Pride. There is a mechanic in the second phase, which will be explained below, that grants players temporary immunity to Pride gains, and players can take advantage of this mechanic to dispel Mark of Arrogance, however this mechanic will not be available during phase 1, meaning there will have to be coordination as to who dispells what, the aim being to spread the pride equally among the dispellers, obviously keeping everyone as low as possible.
Self-Reflection is an ability that the Sha of Pride regularly uses on a number of raid random raid members. Reflections (small adds that melee, but who have no other abilities) spawn from the locations of these raid members 2 seconds later, dealing a large amount of Shadow damage within 2 yards of the area where they spawn. Players who are hit by the spawning damage of the Reflections gain 5 Pride. The Sha of Pride casts this spell 20 seconds into the fight, and roughly every 60 seconds after that. Each time this spell is cast, the Sha of Pride will choose players who have higher Pride than those chosen for the previous cast (the first cast targets players regardless of how much Pride they have, the second cast targets players with at least 25 Pride, the third targets players with at least 50 Pride, and so on). When this ability hits just make sure to move away from where the adds are about to spawn to prevent additional pride gain, and kill the adds once they spawn.
60 seconds after the start of the fight, and roughly every 60 seconds after that, the boss will summon an add called a Manifestation of Pride. These adds melee and they have two abilities:
-Mocking Blast is an interruptible nuke that targets a random raid member, dealing a high amount of Shadow damage to them and granting them 5 Pride. This should be interrupted every time.
-Last Word is an ability that causes the two nearest players to the Manifestation of Pride to gain 5 Pride when the mob dies. You will have to control who the two closest players are in order to evenly distribute pride amongst the raid, attempting to keep everyone's pride a slow as possible.
Once the boss hits 30%, everyone's pride is wiped and all the above abilities are no longer used, however stacks of Mark of Arrogance persist. There are only 2 mechanics in this encounter, one I have already explained which is the soft enrage mechanic. The other mechanic is not cast by the Sha, but rather by Norushen, who has come from the last encounter to assist your raid once more.
The ability he casts is called Gift of the Titans and is cast on random raid members this buff lasts 20 seconds, and leaves the player immune to pride gains, allowing for dispelling of Mark of Arrogance with no ramifications. Atleast one healer will always be given this buff, and this player(s) should dispell as many players as they can within this time frame, prioritising players with higher stacks.
If multiple players with Gift of the Titans are stacked together, they gain Power of the Titans, which grants 15% damage and haste and lasts 15 seconds.
Below is a couple of videos on the encounter.