Wintrow

Relevant Strategies
Wowwiki – Naj’entus
Bosskillers – Naj’entus
World of Raids – Naj’entus
Naj’entus Video

A couple of things to look for in this video:

• Observe this player’s Grid in upper left corner; watch how the raid’s health fluctuates throughout the fight, especially after they burst the Tidal Shield. Healers should pay particular attention to how quickly the raid needs to be healed up.
• Observe how the Tidal Shield is not popped immediately. The raid needs to be at full health before we burst the shield.
• Observe the frequency of Needle Spine (blue splash animation) and the raid’s positioning all around him to mitigate the AOE portion of the damage.

Strategy Breakdown

Trash

Given that we are back to “normal” trash pulls, I won’t be consistently posting strategies for dealing with trash. In Hyjal, wiping on trash meant starting all over again so they almost became a part of the boss encounter. Deaths on Black Temple trash, while not to be expected/tolerated, is a bit more forgiving and won’t set us back 30 minutes.

Of note, though, is that there are several pairs of Aqueous Spawn that have long paths throughout the area leading up to Naj'entus. These pairs of mobs are on a 20 minute respawn timer so we do not have time to sit around picking our noses once we get to Naj'entus. Everyone should be prepared to engage as soon as possible so we don't face a pair of these mobs respawning mid-fight.


Boss

This boss will present an incredible strain on our healers. In addition to the random raid damage that will occur throughout the fight from Needle Spine and Impaling Spine, healers also have to quickly restore over 8k health to each member of the raid in about 10 seconds. It is critical that the entire raid stay spread out throughout the fight.

Our DPS will also have to react quickly to identify and extract the Impaling Spine from whomever is affected by it, and be prepared to use it when it is called to burst the Tidal Shield.

Look at the Bosskiller’s link above for an idea how everyone will be arrayed during the fight.

Here are some class/role-specific details for you to focus on:

Main Tank: Only one tank is needed. You will need to quickly generate and maintain high threat throughout this fight to allow DPS to go all out. Given the need for as much healing as possible, and the preference to limit the amount of melee DPS in this fight, we will be using either a warrior or druid main tank here.

Melee DPS: To minimize the AOE damage taken from Needle Spine, you will need to be split into 2 groups as far apart from one another as possible while still staying to Naj’entus’ back.

Rogues: You will need to use Wound Poison to mitigate the health regeneration affect from Naj’entus’ Tidal Shield.

Warlocks: Be sure that you use Drain Life immediately following the Tidal Shield damage. This will significantly help the healers get the raid back to full health.

Shadow Priests: Keep the mana flowing at all times. Healers will need as much mana as they can get.

Paladins: We will aim to spread you out in each group to make use of your Frost Resist aura. This little bonus should help us mitigate some of the damage Naj'entus will be doling out.

Main Tank Healers: There will likely be 2 healers dedicated to the Main Tank. You will be tempted to help on raid healing, but you must trust the rest of the raid healers to be able to handle this. Naj’entus melees for a good amount of damage and the main tank may get hit by Needle Spine or Impaling Spine so you *must* keep him up.

Raid Healers: You will need to be arrayed all over the room to be sure everyone is in range of at least one raid healer. Priest Prayer of Healing will be a priority after the Tidal Shield is burst. Other raid healers should focus single target heals on groups without a holy priest. Keep in mind that we have a 10 second window between the Tidal Shield burst and when Needle Spine begins again to get the raid healed up. We will need to be able to react quickly to heal up whomever is hit by the random Spine damage throughout the fight. Above all, make sure you do everything you can to avoid running out of mana.

Holy Priests: I anticipate that we will have a raid mark over our heads in order to keep our other group members within 30 yards to be able to effectively use Prayer of Healing. We should make every attempt to pre-cast it such that it lands right after the damage is taken

****All DPS**** - Impaling Spine: Given the strain that healers will be under to keep the raid healed up, it is going to fall on all DPS classes to pay attention for and quickly react to Impaling Spines. These will happen twice between each Tidal Shield, at 20 seconds and 40 seconds after pull or after the Tidal Shield is burst. You will need to know where you are in relation to others. If someone near you gets hit with the Impaling Spine, you must stop what you are doing and loot the spine immediately. If you loot a spine, you will also be responsible for targeting the boss and using it when it is called to burst the Tidal Shield. As long as the Spine remains un-looted, the victim will be taking damage and is completely immobilized. This is a priority assignment for ALL DPS.

****All Raid Members**** - 10K health: Everyone in the raid MUST have over 10K health fully buffed (including food if necessary); there will be no exceptions. You may use Frost Protection Potions if you choose, but doing so does not excuse you from the 10K health minimum.

****All Raid Members**** - Macro: Everyone should make the following macro and have it on your bars, ready to use.
Make sure you have the punctuation correct. Although only DPS is anticipated to actually loot Spines, I want everyone in the raid prepared with this macro just in case a healer happens to have to loot a Spine.

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70 Priest

beep

Would it make sense for Shaman to

1. Put up Frost Resist Totem?
2. Self Heal after Tidal Shield Burst to reduce load on other healers? This would stop DPS (not good) but reduce the demands for raid healers (good).

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Wintrow

The Frost Resist Totem only becomes necessary if we don't have enough pallies to spread out, something that rarely seems to be a concern in our raids. If we are short, the totem would help.

The self heal would also be helpful after Tidal Burst; only one or two, though. Then back to heavy DPS.

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orion808

Info from WoWwiki:
Karabor Sewers

* Aqueous Lord - 72 elite elemental. 700k hp. Melees for 6k nature damage with no NR. Summons 2 Aqueous Spawns that can heal it. Vile Slime - Reduces damage and healing by 50% and does 500 nature damage every 3 seconds for 20 seconds. Untauntable.

* Aqueous Spawn - 70 elite elemental. 63k hp. Comes in packs of 2. 20 minute respawn. Can be banished and stun-locked. Casts Sludge Nova - targeted Nature AoE 1600 + DoT for 900 every 3 seconds that also slows movement by 20%. Lasts 9 seconds. Melee for 2000 nature damage with no resists. Can heal Aqueous Lord. Watch out for these respawning while you're attempting Naj'entus.

* Coilskar Sea-Caller - 71 elite humanoid. 150k hp. Can be polymorphed. Casts Hurricane and Forked Lightning, a multi-target lightning attack that is based on LoS that can hit many targets and does 2500 nature damage. Melee for 2500 frost with no resists. Immune to Curse of Tongues.

* Coilskar Wrangler - 71 elite humanoid. 200k hp. Immune to crowd control. Comes with a Leviathan. Has an ability that makes the Leviathan frenzy. Melee for 2300 on plate. Lightning Prod - 3k nature damage.

* Leviathan - 72 elite beast. 660k hp. Immune to crowd control. Frenzies. Melee for 2600 on plate. Tail swipe like Onyxia. Poison spit for 2.5k nature dmg + DoT. Debilitating Spray - reduces damage and healing done by 50%.

* Coilskar Soothsayer - 71 elite humanoid. Can be CCed. Holy Nova 1800 holy damage.

* Coilskar Harpooner - 71 elite humanoid. Can be CCed. Has Dragon Turtle for a pet. Spear Throw. Hooked Net.
o Bug: When his turtle is dead he will sometimes aggro the nearest turtle when trying to use its abilities.

* Dragon Turtle - 70 elite beast. Can be CCed. Water Spit 1800 frost damage. Sometimes Fixates on person.

* Coilskar General - 71 elite humanoid. 300k hp. Can dispel CC on other mobs except for Sap, possibly LoS needed. Dispelling CC effects grants him and his allies the Booming Voice buff, which increases attack and casting speed by 238% each. Immune to CC. Melee for up to 5000 on plate. Their un-CC ability seems to make the mob immune to CC after a few times. (NOTE: The spell they use to break the CC is called Fear Fiend and you can see the emote.)

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