YS or vezax? and could you elaborate some, please? my 25 is on mimiron now and any heads up will save my repair bill on future bosses
YS phase2 it looks like melee have all the fun =/
vezax.
There is no mana regen during the fight. Pots and abilities do not regen mana either. During the fight, vezax spawns green clouds with about 12k health. When you kill the clouds, it drops an AoE on the ground that when stood in, regens mana exponentially, but at the cost of health. It's a stacking Debuff that you don't want more than 6 or 7 stacks of.
Here's the problem with all that... the general also targets random ranged players with a shadow crush ability. it's a ranged missile attack that targets the ground a person is at. when it hits the ground, it puts a black zone on the ground that boosts damage, and reducing healing, The impact of the crush also has about a 5-10 yard radius and knocks back anyone in it, while dealing a lot of damage.
On top of that, he'll random target a raid member with a debuff that will heal the boss if any raid member is within 15 yards of the debuffed player. So if you get the dubuff, you have to run away from the raid.
As for those green clouds.... there's only 8 for the whole fight. The hard part is not getting fucked over with the random targets while you're trying to regen mana. If someone gets the debuff or shadow crush while in the green zone, it's pretty much ruined.
The raid also has a pretty tough time paying attention to everone else's position. since the shadow crush will hit the spot a player WAS at when they were targeted, you get a lot of other group members who don't take notice of that spot and eat the knockback.
As for melee, they have to interrupt an AoE blast that the boss charges every 5 seconds or so, or else it'll pretty much wipe the raid since health and mana can not be wasted on this fight. The tank is also going to have to kite the general every time he enrages or else he'll die. This puts the tanks threat for the fight pretty low, so ranged DPS can't stand in the black zones on the ground with the dps increase and blow him up all day. They'll pull agro, and the boss is non tauntable.
I would've made another video for this guy, but fraps was giving me a terrible frame rate during the boss and I had to shut it off. Suffice to say, I fucking hate that boss, and his fucking trash.
Edit: Forgot to mention, spiritual attunement does work for mana regen. We swaped out our prot warrior for a paladin, and he had no problems with mana.
