Dragon Soul is upon us!
On Wednesday, patch day, we stepped into Dragon Soul as a brand new heroic hardcore 10 man (woman) team. We took down 4 bosses on raid day 1… two of which we one-shot. It was sorta-kinda face roll but more (ranting) on that front later.
On Thursday, we took down our 5th and ohhhhsoclose almost our 6th boss.
That left us 5/8 and last night was our last raid day of the week (we were aiming for 2 more bosses down) but we’re testing out a new disc priest healer trialist, so will see how it goes.
And we did it, we got 2 more down, leaving us 7/8 on our first raid week. That’s either not too shabby .. or easy as hell content now?
I’ll be making my typical series of articles with boss tactics and strats. But first, I’ll give you a run down on the bosses we’ve done now and this time, I’ll follow up with videos (I frapsed all of our kills so far) and more detailed strats.
Morchok
This encounter was so damn easy. We facerolled it as a one shot. Basics for healing:
- 2-3 healers (we used 3 but could have easily used 2) with 1 tank healer and 1-2 on raid
- 2 tanks who tank swap (they must be closest to the boss also)
- entire raid groups behind the boss within 30 gyards
- 1 orb will spawn, send 3 ranged as your orb group who need to run and stand on top of the orb to absorb it’s explosion
- periodically he will pull the raid to him. Run out and hide line of sight behind the rocks.
- avoid the black sludge
- rinse and repeat
Here’s our kill video!
Warlord Zon’ozz
This encounter was also not very complicated, it was more of a healing check. Basics for healing:
- 3 healers, prioritize aoe healers
- 1 tank and 6 dps
- if you’ve ever played tennis you can kill this boss
- mark 1 ranged to be the ranged stack point
- mark 1 melee to be the melee stack point
- split your raid in 2
- boss will spawn a ball that needs to be bounced between the 2 groups, approximately 5 times to be safe more if you can heal it but it’s not really necessary on normal
- healers be aware of a magic debuff, it needs to be dispelled fast but make sure the raider is at max hp it will do 60k damage when dispelled (holy paladins likely want to use glyph of dispel here). Designate a dispeller.
- each time the ball bounces it will do big damage so be prepared.
- at 5 bounces, let the ball hit the boss, group up behind boss, and massive aoe heal + cycle raid cooldowns. Aura mastery, tranq, PWB, Spirit Link, Divine Guardian, etc….
- rinse and repeat until boss is dead
Stay tuned for videos of the rest of the encounters! I have to get off my butt to prep, render, and upload them! :O
2 Responses to “Dragon Soul 10 man Morchok and Warlord Zon’ozz impressions and videos”
What is the name of the addon you use for your player and target frames?
Please?