Dragon Soul is upon us!
This is the next in my short rundown (and videos) of our boss kills in Dragon Soul. As of now, we’ve been knee-deep in progression and gone 2/8 heroic modes. If you are looking for other bosses, check here.
In this quick and dirty guide, I’ll be focusing on Ultraxion.
Ultraxion Basics
This encounter was not very complicated at all, it was all a very few important mechanics for healers and entire raid. Oh and dps.
- Familiarize yourself with this new button:
- bring 3 healers of any flavor
- 2 tanks with 5 dps of any flavor
- 2 realms (normal and twilight when you use your heroic will button)
- everyone stacks on the tank, no one moves
- boss is a dragon (!!!) who also doesn’t move
- tanks job: taunt off of each other when tank gets Fading Light debuff + click “super new purple button” technically known as Heroic Will on the screen to survive the expiring debuff
- everyone’s job: use their ‘super new purple button” technically known as Heroic Will when boss casts Hour of Twilight or you will d.i.e. instantly. If you are the lucky dps to get Fading Light with the tank, click your ’super new purple button” technically known as Heroic Will before it expires.
- healer’s jobs: heal all the things like mad and identify which healer picks up which special healing crystal, and click your Heroic Will when boss casts Hour of Twilight
- healer buff crystals will spawn 3 times during the fight. First is Gift of Life Red (we give this to priests or tree if we had one), Second is Essence of Dreams Green (we give this to our shammy) and last is Source of Magic Blue which our holy paladin takes (me!)
- rinse and repeat every set of adds til boss is down
- 5 minutes into the fight, Nozdormu buffs the raid with Timeloop.
- Spam all the things and rotate healing cooldowns.
- Profit.
Holy Paladin / Healing Tips
- Don’t see your new special ability button? Make this macro and bind it to a key /click ExtraActionButton1
- Take the third, Blue, crystal buff
- Prio haste trinket if you have one, I have zero mana issues on this fight
- Spam Holy Radiance some more
- That is all.
- ..sounds hard, eh? not so much
- oh here’s an actual tip: turn off recount/skada/floating combat text ==== this fight kills my fps because of ALL THE NUMBERSSSSSSS
All in all this wasn’t a hard fight. We one-shot it on our first raid night.
Kill Video
Here’s our kill video (its old, from the first week live)!
More to come soon!
2 Responses to “Dragon Soul 10 man Ultraxion Healing Tips and Videos”
I’d actually recommend 2-healing this with the heroism trick even if you’re gear isn’t great. Makes it much, much easier. Paladin picks red then blue when it comes.
That’s a VERY good point. Last week we did our normal clean up off DS after progression and 2 healed it the first time to get through the night asap. That was very fun to 2 heal I grabbed green>blue – and our priest grabbed red. But probably could have taken red instead of green.