If you're tanking Baltharus himself, remember to use trinkets or small cooldowns like the T10 set bonus for Blade Tempest. Pick them up as quickly as possible and move them away from the raid while staying in healing range they still hit pretty hard. It's a bad idea to be stunned by Repelling Wave when the clone spawns. If you're going to be tanking the clones, you should probably just hang out and wait for them. You want to keep your DPS on the original Baltharus, so just let the off tanks pull the clones away don't concern yourself with them.įor a tank, it depends what you're tanking. (I tend to like to clear around Baltharus as much as possible for that reason.) When Baltharus is about to clone himself, make sure you confine your DPS to single target until the clone is picked up. As DPS, there's not really much you can do about Repelling Wave it's an instant-cast, so you can't really avoid it, just wait to come out of the stun and hope you didn't get punted into another pack.

If you get Enervating Brand, move away from the raid so you don't end up feeding Baltharus enough power to one-shot your tank when your brand ticks in two seconds and leeches half the raid in one go. Blade Tempest is a frontal cone, so again, try not to be in front of Baltharus and you should be OK. He also does a cleave, but that's fairly simple stuff you shouldn't be standing next to the tank, anyway. Once you get done with the trash, it's on to the mini-bosses.įor DPS, the main concerns are Blade Tempest, Enervating Brand, Repelling Wave and his clone ability. There's no reason to let a five-or-so-mob trash pull get a 25% DPS increase. If you're tanking the Charscale Commanders, pull them out don't let them use Rallying Shout. Make sure to use Charge to get right back on the Charscale Invoker when it punts you, and in general, use your stuns and silences to keep the casters locked down as much as possible when tanking them. As a tank, you should likewise watch your AoE threat moves and make sure only to break CC when you need to. So pay attention and use your abilities responsibly. There most likely will be CC, and it's a bad idea to Whirlwind/Bladestorm in the middle of it. Remember Ulduar on the way to General Vezax? Yeah, it's like that. As a DPSer, you really just need to know what the kill order is and to stick to it, but I also suggest to be aware.

The first thing to talk about in Ruby Sanctum are the trash pulls. The bane of the internet: I can't share my jalapeno-flavored chips with you. I'd invite you, but by the time you read this I will have already eaten. Since much of that work has already been done by Michael Gray, we'll then go on to talk about loot. The storyline of the Ruby Sanctum links Wrath of the Lich King's storylines with those of the upcoming Cataclysm, but the encounter mechanics and loot are still pretty solidly Wrath.įirst we'll talk about the minibosses and Halion himself from both a DPS and a tanking perspective. (I've been messing around with arms again lately on my night elf warrior - having some fun with it, too.) But this week, we'll be talking about the Ruby Sanctum instance. Never fear, we'll be doing more leveling posts and more report cards in the future. The Care and Feeding of Warriors is about warriors, who hurl themselves into the fray, the very teeth of danger armed with nothing more than the biggest weapons and armored with the absolutely heaviest armor we can find.

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