LK Strat

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
• Melee run esp fast, so you don't chain it to the other melee dps
• 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:

• The longer Infest on, the more important it is the heal them up

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

• Stun rotation: Paladins -> Rogue -> Warrior -> other stuns
• 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
• Soul Reaper: When Lich King starts casting Soul Reaper (5s cast time)
• Offtank needs to taunt asap, or
• MT needs to burn CoolDown, or
• MT goes SPLAT!
• Soul Reaper:
• 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
• Warlocks should do their portal thing <
• Make sure they are in line with portal and center of the room
• Make sure they will not be carried same direction as rest of raid
• Call out when they are picked up to "ignore "
• Everyone run the fuck away from defile
• 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!
• If going into transition (42% or below)
• 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:
• Damage dealers kill the spirit killing Arthas' dad
• Healers heal Arthas' dad
  
• Everyone has to interrupt or dispel the sell the thing channels on Arthas' dad
  

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!"
• End