Bruski Raiding Syndicate

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This is a simple fight.
This is a hard fight.

Initial positioning:

Abilities everyone needs to be aware of:

- Twilight Blood bolt: spread out at least 6 yards for eachother to avoid splash from this 10k ranged hit.
- Swarming Shadows: Mandatory Void Zone. Similar to Legion flame, you will start shitting purple stuff. Run away to the wall. It ticks much faster than legion flame from what I saw.
- Pact of the Darkfallen: Links 3 people together, dealing damage to them and people around them. Run to the middle away from other people, once you meet there it will fall off.
- Vampiric Bite: Every so often Queen Lanathel will bite someone giving them Essence of the Blood Queen, which increases damage by 100%, heals them for 15% of damage done, and nullifies threat. After 60 seconds they will become thirsty and need to bite someone else, otherwise they will go insane and wipe the raid. After they bite someone else they will still have Essence of the Blood Queen, but they will have another 60 seconds until they are thirsty again.

Tanks
- The 2 tanks stack on top of eachother because of Blood Mirror (Causes the player closest to the tank to take 100% of the damage done to tank as Shadow damage) Tank with higher absorbs/blocks is main tank.
- Need to spread out quickly during the air phase.
- Should be bitten after all the dps, but before healers.

Heals
- The entire raid will be taking 4500 damage every 2 seconds. This will increase by 5% with each vampyr created.
- Shadowbolts will be doing 10k hits to ranged randomly.
- Pack of the Darkfallen will be hitting 3 people for 3500 dps frequently. When they come together to get rid of it they may take ticks of 7,000 or 10,500
- During Air Phase Shadow Protection Aura Aura Mastery should be used. Every will be taking tons of shadowbolt damage.
- Both the maintank and offtank will be taking significant amounts on damage in addition to the normal raid damage everyone else is dealing with.
- People will also occasionally be hit by swarming shadows for 2,000 dps. Some will even probably stand in them. You will hate these people.

- Your sole source of comfort is that by the end of the fight almost 2/3 of the raid will be vampires healing themselves for about 1600 hps.

Dps
- Avoid damage when possible
- Bite eachother
- Bloodlust when 16 raid members are bitten
- Don't go insane
- Kill boss fast
- Ranged spread in a circle/arc around her with the healers, so that there is an open spot in the middle for people with Pact of the Darkfallen to run to.
- Stuff kills you on that fight, finishing your cast will make you dead.

Where to meet for Pact of the Darkfallen:

How to Kite Swarming Shadows:

Festergut
The other Picasso evil twin.

Overview
Loatheb + Saurfang reloaded. Exploding spores are still good for you. Standing near other people is still bad. Tanks need to taunt off eachother.
Festergut breathes in the gas in the room 3 times, reducing raid damage, before he spews it all out killing everyone.
Only way to survive spew is to get inoculated by running under spores on people, which explode to inoculate people 12 seconds after they spawn.
He puts stacking debuff on tanks which increases damage, and also wipes raid at 10 stacks, so they have to taunt off eachother.

Abilities: Wowhead

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Tanks
- Tank boss in middle of room.
- At 9 stacks of gastric bloat, Tank1 taunts off Tank2. If a tank gets 10 stacks he goes BOOM and wipes raid.
- After boss has been taunted off you, you will be doing +90% damage, so click off frost presence, baer form, defensive stance, righteous fury, w/e, until the other tank is at 7 stacks and it's almost your turn to taunt again. Hand of salv may also be helpful. Noone else will be anywhere in sight of the tanks threat, not even Punt if he was here.
- With 90% damage, do not stop doing damage, as the boss has a strict enrage timer and we need all the damage we can get.

Melee
- Kill ugly boss man fast.
- Make sure each time the spores come up one of them explodes on you.
- Laugh at the ranged dps.

Ranged
- Spread out at least 8 yards from everyone else to avoid vile gas from other people hitting you and vice versa.
- When spores spawn, get the nearest one quickly, when it explodes, get back to your position.
- If no spore spawns in melee range, and you are the middle spore, run into the melee with your spore.
- If you were not properly inoculated (3 stacks), use any DR CDs you have when he casts Pungent Blight. You can survive with only 2 stacks.
- Kill ugly boss man fast.

Heals
- Spread out at least 8 yards from everyone else to avoid vile gas from other people hitting you and vice versa.
- When spores spawn, get the nearest one quickly, when it explodes, get back to your position.
- If you were not properly inoculated (3 stacks), use any DR CDs you have when he casts Pungent Blight
- Each cycle will start with high raid damage low tank damage, and end with low raid damage high tank damage, followed by a raid wide hit.
- With each breath in one healer will switch to the tank. With blight all except one should switch back to the raid.
- Holy Pallies will be bombing Holy Light on the tank during Phase 3. All tank healers will want alll dots up and spam on tank. Bring mana pots.
- Raid healers should add "Vile Gas" to their debuff list, as the dot can easily kill someone, especially when he hasn't breathed in any gas.

Misc
- Oh, btw enchant boots - TUSKARR'S VITALITY for speedy fast movement of win! (yes I will keep harping on this forever and for always.)

Grobby 2.0

Overview
This is Grobbulus + Heigan's evil stepchild. Now with more mutated infection dropping slimes, and kiting the adds around with the boss in the middle.
The raid stacks in the middle and avoid slime of many types, people run out to spawn adds, and the offtank kits them.

Abilities: Wowhead

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Everyone
- Ooze flood is to be avoided by everyone except the offtank. It hits four corners of the room, hitting each once before repeating a cycle. It should be able to be avoided by standing in the middle of the room. Everyone should congregate there except the offtank and those who are infected.
- Slime spray is a channeled cone AoE spell by the boss. When he casts it, you will get a DBM/DXE warning. You will also see him turn to face someone. Make sure you are on the side of the boss or behind him while he is channeling it, and you'll be fine. He will turn back to face the tank once it's finished.
- Mutating infection is cast on random players. When they receive it they need to run out of the raid, get the infection cleansed as they are running to the big ozze/ offtank, and then it is their job to kite the small ooze to the big ooze, and only after the ooze mating ritual is complete up may they return to the middle. If they are the first with the ooze, they get to stand next to the offtank letting it hit them till a second shows up.
- People with mutating infection should just run right in front of the big ooze. We'll have a dedicated healer on those targets, and it'll speed up the combining and maintain higher dps and less chaos.
- When the big ooze explodes, it will launch 3 targeted projectiles which explode on impact. Everyone will have to scatter from the center of the room once the cast finishes, until they land and it's safe again.

Main Tank
- Hold fast.
- Save DR cooldowns for unstable ooze explosion.

Offtank
- Kite big oozes around room.
- Avoid ooze flood when possible.
- Stay in range of healers.
- Focus solely on kiting.

DPS
- Try to be inside the bosses hitbox as much as possible. Hump the ugly.
- If you get the infection, immediately run outside the raid, then to the big ooze; stand barely in front of the big ooze until your little oozes mating with the big ooze is complete
- Maintain high situational awareness to avoid slime spray, move quickly with mutated infection, and avoid Unstable Ooze Explosion.
- Frost nova on the first small ooze is helpful.
- Hand of Freedom on the off tank is helpful.
- Use damage reduction cooldowns when you are near the big ooze.

Heals
- Add "Mutated Infection" to vuhdo, healbot, grid, etc.
- If you get the infection, immediately run outside the raid, then to the big ooze; stand barely in front of the big ooze until your little oozes mating with the big ooze is complete
- Do not cleanse mutating infection unless you are assigned to it
- If you are assigned to it, call out who gets it and watch players who have it closely, cleansing as soon as they are out of the raid.
- Make sure the person with the infection receives heals, they are going to be taking a heavy dot while having healing reduced by 50%, and after that they'll get hit by the ooze radiation a few times as well. Cleansing as soon as they are out of the raid is best. Other raid damage should be fairly light, so really focus on infected people and offtank.
- Maintain high situational awareness to avoid slime spray, move quickly with mutated infection, and avoid Unstable Ooze Explosion.

Misc
- If you are a very visual/map oriented person this strat guide may be of use: http://www.stratfu.com/strats/rotface/rotface-pre-release-strategy
- I kindof expect some part of this fight to be way harder than we're expecting, but perhaps it is reasonably easily, as long as people can figure out how to move.
- Oh, btw enchant boots - TUSKARR'S VITALITY for speedy fast movement of win! (yes I will keep harping on this forever and for always.)

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