Archive for May, 2006

We are Praetorian Guards, and this is how we work.

[item]Nemesis Gloves[/item] - Firemaw
[item]Claw of the Black Drake[/item] - Firemaw
[item]Doom’s Edge[/item] - Trash mob
[item]Bloodfang Gloves[/item] - Ebonroc
[item]Band of Forced Concentration[/item] - Ebonroc
[item]Netherwind Gloves[/item] - Flamegor
[item]Herald of Woe[/item] - Flamegor

Razorgore, Vael and Broodlord are missing, because I got on late… hehe. The internet at house was gone for almost all the day, thanks to my ISP, and by the time I could get in, I had to wait a couple of minutes and then got into the raid, and after that we took down Firemaw.

The smoothest run I’ve ever seen. Since I wasn’t there on the first three bosses, I cannot give comments about it, but for those that I was, we 1shot all of them. Call what, six Blackwing Lair bosses in a single night? Considering that we do not have BWL in farm status, yet :) We even had an attempt on Chromaggus, this time we had the Corrosive Acid and Incinerate, and we were at around 56% when we had an issue (someone had all the afflictions on and got turned into a Death Talon). It was pretty late by that time, and past our raiding time, so the raid leaders decided to call it for the night. That means that tomorrow we will be taking down Chromaggus and for the rest of the day (and week) we will have a chance to practice Nefarian :) Can we say that Nefarian is going down this week? Lets see :)

And Nefarian lands! Booya!

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Yesterday night we made a couple of practice attempts on Nefarian, end boss of Blackwing Lair, some people would consider them as “dry” attempts, which are those that flasks and things like that are not used. In one of the attempts, we made it to Phase Two, where he lands ^_^ First time ever I see him (well, other than screenshots) in dragon form ^_^ It shouldn’t take too long until we beat him, probably this week? ^_^ Whats funny is that we wiped just when he landed xD

Nefarian consists in a three phase fight:

Phase 1. Consists of defeating the drakonids. There are 6 types of drakonids that spawn. In every Nefarian encounter you will fight Chromatic Drakonids; the largest and toughest drakonids. Fortunately they spawn in far fewer number than the other color. In addition to the Chromatic Drakonid, 2 other random colors of Drakonids will spawn as well. One color will spawn from the southern door, and one color will spawn from the northern door. Colors are fixed for each instance: if Nefarian is attempted multiple times between instance resets, same color combinations will appear.

Phase 2. After killing 42 Drakonids (edit: unsure as to exactly how many you need to kill, assume you will need to kill at least 42), Nefarian lands on the balcony in Dragon Form. This is the beginning of Phase 2 of the encounter. Before landing he will cast an AoE (ignores LoS) Shadowflame on the entire raid. This version of the spell does about 1000 shadow damage and is completely resistable. Every member of the raid must be wearing an Onyxia Scale Cloak to avoid the fatal DoT from the Shadowflame (note: frost mages can use their Ice Block ability to avoid the Flame without the cloak). By now most of the drakonids should be dead. Move your raid to this area and start DPSing him down, from here on out its simple damage dealing with a few twists.

Phase 3. When his health reaches 20% he will resurrect all the Drakonids killed in Phase 1 as “Bone Constructs”. They hit fairly hard but do not have a lot of health, so they are relatively easily AoE’d to death. It is advisable to move AoE groups into position where the Drakonids were originally killed prior to reaching 20% HP to ensure their swift elimination, and to avoid healers getting swarmed. Alliance has an advantage here, as the Paladins’ Holy Wrath can quickly decimate the Constructs (assuming they can afford to stop healing temporarily).

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That’s Therdra, member of Praetorian Guard’s French Mafia :P