Late Night ZA Tichondrius

***ALL INFORMATION HERE IS SUBJECT TO CHANGE***

Schedule

Tuesday or Wednesday following <Grim Basin Stare> progression raid. If no progression raid is scheduled, we will zone in at 9PM. Group invites will start at 8:30PM and summoning at 8:45PM. All times are server time.

Loot rules

All loot is to be passed and decided after boss is dead and everyone is rezzed. At this time, there is no limit to how much loot you can walk away from the raid with, but please consider passing if you have already looted.

Raid Preparation

Please bring plenty of consumables. We may not run wet, but if we decide too, make sure you have them on you. Don't make Big Brother come out with THE big stick if we do go wet.

The Roster

Core Roster

ForumID	Character	Class	Role
olon97	olond	druid	MT
champain	champain	warrior	OT/DPS
mooshie	mooshie	druid	healer
jacer	myca	pally	healer
cyrass	cyrass	shaman	healer
symog	symog	mage	DPS
abysmal	abysmal	priest	DPS
confessor	boomkin	druid	DPS
gravely	gravely	rogue	run and hide from Thaldred
tin	shootin	hunter	DPS

The Bench

The bench consists of people who have filled in with us (or indicated a willingness to do so), and who will get preference for fill-in spots in the future.

ForumID	Character Name	Class	Raid status
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Attendance

Please post here and pm the group if you will be unavailable for any raids.

Mailing list and calendar

Going to use HF forums for mailing list. Cut and paste the following to send the team a PM:

"Olon97", "champain", "Mooshie", "Jacer", "Cyrass", "symog", "Abysmal", "Confessor", "Gravely", "Tin"

Ingame chat channel

/join latenightbasinza

Availability

Please indicate your availability over the next couple of weeks (you won't be held to this as a strict signup, but if you are going to be on holiday or something, indicate it here so we can plan accordingly please.)

PLEASE TRY TO INDICATE YOUR COMMITMENT TO COME BY SUNDAY 9PM PST. IF YOU HAVEN'T DONE SO, YOU MAY BE CUT AND YOUR HOUSE MIGHT MYSTERIOUSLY CATCH ON FIRE. PUT "Y" IF YOU ARE COMING, AND "N" IF YOU CAN'T.

Date	Olond	Champain	Mooshie	Myca	Cyrass	Symog	Abysmal	Boomkin	Gravely	Shootin
Tue 04 Dec	Y	-	-	-	Y	Y	-	-	Y	-
Tue 11 Dec	-	-	-	-	-	Y	-	-	Y	-

Strategies

Humorous site with very good information on Zul'Aman

Ripped from EJ forum

Zul'Aman @ Wowhead

Zul'Aman @ WoWWiki

Nalorakk <Bear Avatar>

A 2 Phase fight:

First phase - Human form:

He does a random charge. Mangle - Increases damage done by bleeds by 100%.

Second phase - Bear form:

Applies 2 different bleed effects. Raid wide Silence - 4-5 seconds long, does approx 1k damage.

Phase 1 is simply tank and spank. Make sure to heal the random person charged.

Phase 2 have the 2nd tank taunt the boss and be careful of the cleave so make sure the raid is not next to where the 2nd tank is bringing the boss.

When he goes back to human form, have the first tank taunt it, repeat until he is dead.

After this boss you can take your pick at targetting any of the 3 next Avatars first but in terms of difficulty they are listed below.

For the time quest the kill order would logically be: Bear, Eagle, Dragonhawk, Lynx, Malacrass and finally Zul'Jin.

Nalorakk how to video

Akil'zon <Eagle Avatar>

Roughly every 60 seconds he will cast the his Storm on a random person with an emote. This player is raised up in the air and a cloud appears above them, simply everyone find this person and run under him and you will take no damage. The boss channels this spell so feel free to keep attacking at ranged unless you are lucky enough to have him target a melee next to him, just be carteful not to over-aggro the MT.

This is a basic tank and spank fight with a small twist. Also during the storm have ranged/casters target the eagles in the air and dot/attack them to give you more time on dpsing the boss, the melee just concentrate on the boss himself. A very easy fight, might take a wipe or 2 to understand what is going on.

Halazzi <Lynx Avatar>

This boss has a tiny amount of hp, roughly 600k. This is a 2 phase encounter that rotates (similar to Nightbane) every 25%.

Phase 1 -

He hits quite hard and also does a Mother Shahraz type of ability like Saber Lash that if it hits more than 1 person the damage received by each person is much less than if it were to hit only 1. Once you get him to 75 % he will go into phase 2.

Phase 2 -

During this phase he will transform back into his Shaman form and spawn a Spirit of the Lynx that has approx 200k hp. Also during this phase he will drop a nasty totem known as: Corrupted Lightning Totem that does chain lightning for approx 5k, maybe some nat res is not a bad idea, but not a necessity. The last ability of this phase is a Flame Shock that he will do randomly to 1 target.

Basically tank and spank in phase 1. When phase 2 occurs, 1 tank stays on the Shaman and the other tank takes the Spirit. You need to dps down the Spirit as fast as possible so you will not stay in phase 2, too long because of the nasty totems.

Kill the totems when they spawn (similar to Tidvalas during the Fathom Lord Karathress encounter in SSC), cleanse people if needed. Rinse and repeat till dead.

Jan'alai <Dragonhawk Avatar>

Jan'alai has 2 major abilities, and at 35%ish hatches his remaining eggs(explained later) - He has a 5 minute enrage that is rather unimportant, as it barely increases his damage.

1 - A "Flame breath" type cone that has a long range but a small width, this does about 4-5k to people in a single line and adds up fast (believe to be random target). It is important to minimize its damage by spreading out appropriatly.

2 - He will periodically teleport the entire raid to him, put up "flame walls" on the outer ring of his area so you cannot escape. He will then begin spawning "time bombs" randomly throughout his area. After approximatly 10 seconds they will blow up dealing 3-5k(?) dmg in a 5 yard area, so you need to find a spot that is safe and does not have fire bombs on it. This ability seems to be on a random timer as sometimes he will forget about it and other times he will spam it.

Throughout the fight he calls 2 "Hatchers"(Low HP) which run to the side and begin hatching eggs into dragonhawks at an increasing rate. You need to Kill 1 Hatcher as soon as possible and go give the 2nd one a hug, tanking and killing the dragonhawks he spawns (we would normally do about 5-7 hawks at a time and just draw out the fight). When you are comfortable with the amount of hawks spawned, kil the hatcher and mop up the remaining hawks. This is the hardest part of the fight as you will have to heal alot of raid damage due to the small area of the egg platforms and the damage his fire breath does, you should assign at least one healer to go with the group that willl kill eggs, preferably one that is good at raid healing (CoH priest, resto shaman etc). The other difficult part of this fight is his ability to port and put up fire walls to the egg spawns while the hatchers are busy hatching eggs, causing you to get zerged so be careful!

The dragonhawks individually have a stacking flame buffet, and a fire damage based proc on top of their normal melee which is about 1k~ on leather.

The tactics to this boss are really, really simple 1) Minimize his fire breath damage when he isnt spawning hatchers 2) When hatchers spawn kill one, send the group to kill dragonhawks spawned by the other one. 3) Dont die to the fire bomb minigame. 4) Make sure you hatch almost ALL of the eggs before 35% (yes this means light dps for the entire fight), or you will be horribly zerged. 5) Profit

Hex Lord Malacrass (incomplete info)

He starts with 4 random adds. Possible known adds:

Ogre - Melee add, Sheep him. Imp - Fireball Spam, possible banish or kill quickly. Dragonkin - Flamebreath & Thunderclap, sleep him/kill quickly, if you get this add, preferrably killing is a good option. Undead - melee and instant casts, shackle him. Blood Elf - Heals. Interupt heals/Kill quickly. Serpent - Posion bolts. Sleep it / kill quickly, like the Dragonkin, killing it is preferred due to your druid does not have to shapeshift.

People seem to kill 1 or 2 of the adds before focusing on the boss.

Malacrass:

Does a nasty dot that lasts for approx 15 sec and deals roughly 300-400dmg per tick.

During the fight randomly he will Soul Drain 1 random person, he will take on 2-3 abilites of that persons class. He will continue to use these new abilities till he Soul Drains another victim and repeats a new cycle of attacks.

Every minute or so he will drain everyone of their power by 1% and giving it to himself, thus increasing his size and his damage by 10%.

Tank and spank and deal with the new abilities he may gain.

Possible Soul Drains:

Druid- Thorns & Lifebloom (big heal!!!) Hunter- Traps Mage- Frost Nova & Firebolt/Frostbolt Paladin- Consecrate & Holy Light Priest- Heal & Mind Control. Rogue- SnD & Blind. Shaman- Fire Nova Totem & Healing Wave Warlock- ? ? Warrior- Whirlwind & Spell reflect.

Zul'jin - The Final Boss

This is already mentioned by Hephaustus and Renew, credits to both, it is bang on and solid so no need to write our own.

Every phase change he does do a threat wipe, when he turns into an Eagle you do not need to worry about a threat list though as explained below. He changes phases every 20%.

Phase 1: Watch out for his whirlwind (melee range). He also casts a debuff similar to the one in Slave Pens that does a dd and then ticks until the player is topped off. Seems like it was only around 2500-3000 damage, so if you are good at assist healing you can downrank accordingly to top them off just enough so they do not take any ticks.

Phase 2: As soon as he starts this phase you will notice everyone gets a Paralysis debuff. Dispell it off the main tank and yourself, then other healers if time (or the tank doesn't need a heal). DPS etc do not need it dispelled. After 5 seconds of having the debuff, you will become stunned and take a little damage, assign someone to top people off before the next. He can hit decently hard, so keep the tank topped.

Phase 3: Stay away from the tornados that spawn and move around the room. They knock you back and deal around 1k damage. If you are a caster (yes healers included) everytime you cast you will get hit for about 1250 damage. The key thing to do in this phase is not get cornered by tornados and stay alive. Heal over time spells really make this phase much easier. Melee need to try and burn him down as quick as they can as they get no punishment for doing damage.

Phase 4: Lynx form he melees fairly weak all around. He also will fixate upon a random player in the raid and melee them. Intervene near the end of the 10 second or so phase to help out squishy people. Also does a weak version of the whirlwind Leotheras / end boss of Shattered Halls. I think it also places a debuff on people that will make them take more damage, it's either this or the fixate. Watch debuffs and note that that person will need extra heals.

Phase 5: As stated above, you will get a buffet like debuff put on you every so often. He will choose random people throughout the raid and place a beam of fire on them. If they are not topped they will probably die due to the debuff. It's a simple phase if people are good at staying out of void zones.

Progress to date

Boss	First Kill	First Successful Timed Event Kill
Nalorakk <Bear Avatar>	11/13/2007	*
Akil'zon <Eagle Avatar>	11/13/2007	11/27/2007
Halazzi <Lynx Avatar>	11/20/2007	*
Jan'alai <Dragonhawk Avatar>	11/27/2007	*
Hex Lord Malacrass	12/11/2007	N/A
Zul'jin	12/11/2007	N/A

Lockout 01

11/13/2007

Nalorakk (first kill, timed event unsuccessful), Akil'zon (first kill) WWS coming soon

11/14/2007

no additional kills, but good progresss on Jan'alai

Lockout 02

11/20/2007

Nalorakk (timed event unsuccessful), Akil'zon, Halazzi (first kill)

Lockout 03

11/27/2007

Akil'zon (timed event successful), Nalorakk (timed event unsuccessful), Jan'alai (first kill)

Lockout 04

12/04/2007

Nalorakk, Akil'zon, Jan'alai, Halazzi

Lockout 05

12/11/2007

FIRST FULL CLEAR

Nalorakk (timed event successful), Akil'zon (timed event successful), Jan'alai (timed event unsuccessful; ~2 minutes shy), Halazzi, Hex Lord Malacrass (first kill), Zul'jin (first kill)