Bruski Raiding Syndicate: July 2010

Lick King Strategery Document

Contains strong NSFW language.

The beast himself:

If you die at any point during this fight, do not release.

Phase 1 (100 – 70%): Move for Plague > Kill Lick King

If you get Necrotic Plague, run right behind the Shambling Horrors immediately

Do not run in front of the Shambling Horrors, Shockwave deaths are sadface
When the Shambling Whores enrage, hunters need to tranq shot the enrage off immediately
Healers be patient but agile when dispelling Necrotic Plague

Too late and the target dies at the 5s mark
Too early and the plague stays in the raid and does not damage the shamblers

Offtank taunt shambling horrors away from raid as soon as they spawn
Offtank taunt tiny adds if possible, especially off the ranged
Ignore AoE dps on adds, focus massive single target dps on Lich King
When infest goes out healers need to heal everyone above 90% to remove it. Disc priest is hax/necessary.

Healers, order of debuff importance throughout the fight is: Harvest Soul > Soul Reaper > Defile > Necrotic Plague

Throughout the entire fight, if Infest is on someone for more than a few seconds they will die, ergo:

Transition 1: Raging Spirits

Make sure you are on the outer circle, past the ragged blue icy line separating the inner and outer circle, dying to aura is sad!
Shamblers tank take them away from the raid facing the edge, let then Necrotic Plague finish them off
If you get a mark (usually X), run away from the Raging Spirit as soon as it spawns, so you don't get oneshot
DPS should give the tank a few seconds to pick up the raging spirit since the tank may be silenced
If you have less than 50k hp, do not stand in front of raging spirits, they have a frontal cone AoE
Ice Spheres are not your friends, do not hug them, they are antisocial and do not appreciate it
One or two ranged should be in charge of killing the Ice Spheres for being anti social party poopers
Healers, dispel the silence off tanks when possible
Don’t run in front of tanks while entering Phase 2, the Raging spirits will silence and kill you with their conal AoE

Phase 2 (70 – 40%): Move for Defile > Stun/Slow/Kill Valkyr > Kill Raging Spirit > Kill Lich King

If one of those people are picked up, the next person on the list needs to go BAM! on valk asap
Creating stun assignments for each mark improves time spent stunned
If a valk is nearing the edge, any melee with stuns ought to attempt to stop it
Creating DPS assignments for each mark is also good
When Valks are up stunning and killing them is top priority for all dps

Is shadowstrike damage, not resistable, only affected by overall damage reduction modifiers
During p3, taunting is the preffered way to deal with it
During p2, frequently the offtank my be slowing the valks or running from defile, so:
Pally: reduced by 20% by Ardent Defender, Divine Protection or trinkets
Durid: alternate Barkskin and 4pct10
Warrior: alternate Last Stand, Shield Wall, and 4pct10
Death Knigget: alternate Vampiric Blood and 4pct10, try to save Ice Bound Fort for when healers and running from defile or other occasions

Infest continues to afflict the raid, keep everyone topped off
Mark the Raid Leader or Responsible Person, have entire raid stack on them except for when defile is out

Stacking on means on, not next to, a small difference in positioning can completely screw cleave damage when you're being carried off
Square is good for this since DBM/DXE doesn't use Square for marking valks or defile targets

Spread out at least 2-3 seconds before defile hits
Do not get caught in the Valks path
Do NOT back out
Do NOT continue to melee the Valk, you can kill her after you get out
After defile goes out and valks are dead, move to the raid marked person on the other side of the circle
Sometimes melee run through the defile to get to the boss faster. Don't be That Retarded Melee^TM!

Don't bother to dps the valks that are up
Make sure they are slowed and they'll drop their carrion onto the platform when it spawns

Transition 2: Kill Raging Spirits

Be near the edge when it spawns, get on it asap, remorseless winter makes you go "OW OW OW"
Everyone get off on the same side, follow the marked person like they are Ahnold and have a chopper
Same positioning as transition 1 when you get an X
Offtank 1 pick up 1 & 3, offtank 2 gets 2 & 4
BL after second raging spirit spawns to get them down quicklike

Phase 3 (40 – 10%): Run from Vile Spirits > Raging Spirits > Lich King

When Vile Spirits spawn, as soon as channel is finished, LK tank moves boss WAY OVER to the opposite side of platform
Ranged should be spread out throughout entire phase
When Vile Spirits descend:

Melee needs to spread the fuck out
Everyone needs to spread out
Make sure if a Spirit is chasing you that you let it catch you and blow up when you aren't near anyone else
Don't get hit by two spirit explosions
Use damage reduction CDs here
Offtanks place yourself in front of healers to protect them so they don't have to move

Healers, Vile Spirits will inevitably hit some people, learn to cope with it
Soul Reaper is still around, tanks do your thing
Infest is still healy fun times
Defile still around, run the fuck away, ktnx, dun drop it where tank is moving bossmans
Harvest Soul: Heal the shit out of this person, keeping them alive is a top priority, until they are ported into Frostmourne:

10%: victory lap . . . Fuck you robot

Zomg pew pew lazors! Stabbity stabbity stab! Smashy bash smash!
???
Profit!!
Teabag Arthas
LolLore^TM Cinematic + "omg noone must know what happened here so lets put the movie on a monument in the middle of Dal!"
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