Trial Of The Grand Crusader Boss Guides - Wrath Classic (WOTLK)

Beasts of Northrend

Gormok

Casters stay atleast 15 yards away from Gormok to avoid
Staggering Stomp
.
Tanks taunt off each other to deal with
Impale
damage.
Kill Snobold Vassals. They spawn every 20% health lost on a random player. Ranged should bring them to Melee.
Avoid
Fire Bomb
from Snobold Vassals.

Acidmaw and Dreadscale

One worm is mobile, the other is stationary. They switch states after burrowing.
The mobile worm will only apply it's debuff to it's Tank. Tanks must kite the worm that is mobile.
The stationary worm puts it's debuff on a random group of players.
Dreadscale will always start out mobile, Acidmaw will always start out stationary.
If you get hit by
Paralytic Spray
, run to the Dreadscale Tank. They will have a debuff called Burning Bile that will remove it.
When Dreadscale is mobile, and you get hit with
Burning Spray
, run to the Tank who is on Acidmaw to remove their Paralytic Toxin caused by
Paralytic Bite
.
Stay spread as best as you can without being too far away from Dreadscale so the Paralytic Toxin doesn't freeze you.
Kill Acidmaw first and don't stand in front of the worms.

Icehowl

Melee DPS can stand max melee range to avoid
Whirl
.
Spread out to mitigate damage from
Arctic Breath
.
Healers watch for spike damage on Tanks from
Ferocious Butt
.
Healers top everyone off after
Arctic Breath
so players don't die from
Massive Crash
. Avoid Icehowl if he charges at you.

Notes

On Heroic, each phase is on a timer. The next boss can spawn before the previous one dies.
If you have a Paladin, they can
Hand of Protection
off the
Impale
debuff during the Phase 2 transition.

Lord Jaraxxus

Summary

Tank Jaraxxus in the center of the room.
Spread out around him to help deal with
Fel Lightning
.
Interrupt
Fel Fireball
.
Dispel
Nether Power
.
On Heroic, kill the
Nether Portal
s and
Infernal Eruption
s as quickly as possible.
Kill the Mistress of Pain that spawns from the
Nether Portal
or the Infernals that spawn from
Infernal Eruption
.
On Heroic, the Mistress of Pain gains
Mistress's Kiss
.
Healers pump heals into players inflicted with
Incinerate Flesh
.
Run towards the edge of the room if targeted by
Legion Flame
.
On Heroic, Jaraxxus will also gain access to
Touch of Jaraxxus
. Another reason to stay spread out.

Notes

Paladins can use
Fire Resistance Aura
to help mitigate raid damage.
Mages can
Spellsteal

Nether Power
from Jaraxxus.
If you get inflicted with
Mistress's Kiss
, cast a spell from a non-primary school to trigger it.

Faction Champions

Summary

Try to start the fight with and AoE fear from a Warrior if possible, to pop the trinkets on the NPCs.
The NPC's will reset their aggro table throughout the fight, so you must be prepared to kite, and use defensive cooldowns to survive if you are not a Tank.
Recommended kill order is the Restoration Shaman, Discipline Priest, then the Rogue.
After these 3 are dead, focus down the rest of the Melee NPCs, while CCing the rest of them.
All players should be using all available Crowd Control available to them to help control the fight, especially early on when things are most hectic.
Healers watch out for players targeted by the Rogue.

Val'kyr Twins

Summary

Lightbane and Darkbane share the same health pool.
Split the raid into two. Half attune to the light buff, and half attune to the dark buff.
The light buff half will be damaging Darkbane, and the dark buff half will be damaging Lightbane.
All players should do their best to soak the Concentrated Essences moving around the room. Soak the same color that your are attunened with, and avoid the other color.
Once you soak enough Concentrated Essences, you will gain
Empowered Darkness
or
Empowered Light
depending on what color you soaked.
The bosses share two abilities
Dark Vortex
/
Light Vortex
and
Shield of Darkness
/
Shield of Lights
.
For
Dark Vortex
/
Light Vortex
, swap colors to match the boss casting it. Swap back after the cast is finished.
For
Shield of Darkness
/
Shield of Lights
, swap colors opposite of the boss and break the shield so you can interrupt
Twin's Pact
, then switch back.
When one of the bosses uses
Shield of Darkness
/
Shield of Lights
, the other boss will gain
Power of the Twins
, so that Tank will need focus healing.
On Heroic, they each gain an ability called
Touch of Darkness
/
Touch of Light
. As long as your dark and light players are separated from each other, this won't pose a threat.

Notes

There is a strategy called the Doorway Strategy. Instead of having the entire raid soak the Orbs, you assign 2-3 soakers to handle the Orbs, and the rest of the raid stacks where the entrance to the raid is.
Paladins can use
Fire Resistance Aura
and
Shadow Resistance Aura
to help mitigate raid damage.

Anub'arak

Phase 1

Assign a DPS to kill the floating Frost Spheres to spawn
Permafrost
on the ground.
On Heroic, you are limited to 6 Frost Spheres, on normal they will respawn.
Heal players inflicted with
Penetrating Cold
. and watch out for spike damage on the Tank caused by
Freezing Slash
.
Off Tank(s) pick up the Nerubian Burrowers (2 in Normal, 4 in Heroic) and tank them near Anub'arak so they can be cleaved.
Tank Nerubian Burrowers on top of
Permafrost
to prevent them from using
Submerge
.
Nerubian Burrowers apply
Expose Weakness
, and on Heroic gain
Shadow Strike
. Interrupt this cast.

Phase 2

Phase 2 starts when Anub'arak burrows into the ground.
Kill Scarabs. They will pursue random targets and randomly become enraged, increasing attack speed, and becoming immune to slows and stuns.
If you are Pursued by Anub'arak, you must try to kite the
Pursuing Spikes
as long as possible before standing on
Permafrost
.
Once Anub'arak reaches you, he will cast
Impale
, but this will fail if he is beneath a
Permafrost
patch, but it will consume it.

Phase 3

Starts at 30% Health.
Anub'arak uses
Leeching Swarm
for the rest of the fight.
Healers must do their best to keep players alive, without healing them too much, since
Leeching Swarm
leeches the target's current health every second, you want players to remain under 50% HP.
On Heroic, Anub'arak will continue spawning Nerubian Burrowers.
Save
Bloodlust
for this phase.

Notes

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