Sep
As promised, I posted a video of our kill of Anub’arak on YouTube (quickly put together in the wee hours of the morning so excuse any weirdness).
Our group makeup was paladin main tank on Anub, warrior off tank on the adds, rogue, hunter, ele shaman, shadow priest, death knight, arms warrior, resto shaman and resto druid. We two healed the fight and had the shadow priest off spec heal in phase 3 so we could do a quick burn and only get one submerge phase.
When we first ran in the hunter shot down one and only one patch of frost. This was to make it easier to position the adds as they spawned. We found that having multiple patches up slowed them and made it hard to get them to the boss. We wanted to tank them on the boss because we used incidental AOE to get them down.
The prot warrior and the rogue were on add interrupt duty to keep them from Shadow Striking – each took and marked one to keep their attention on.
1) Shoot down one permafrost
2) Tank Anub on the frost
3) Adds spawn and offtank pulls them to Anub where they get downed by whirlwind, chain lightning, heart strike, etc
4) Second set of adds spawned and is pulled to the ice, DPS switches to the adds to burn them down before submerge
5) Hunter shoots down all remaining permafrost
6) Anub is pulled as far from the adds as the tank can get him to give us more time to position for spikes
During the submerge phase we marked our two healers and told each group to try to stick with their healer so we wouldn’t have people running around getting too many scarabs on them alone. Whenever Anub started chasing someone everyone else ran in the opposite direction to maximize the time between him hitting and destroying permafrost patches. Since we were burning with only one submerge phase we only needed to have one permafrost patch remaining at the end which is very feasible without too much attention.
Whenever Anub ended up following the hunter he’d pull super far away, then feign death until Anub went far in the other direction, then pop back up and Anub would head back to him. Similarly, the rogue could use sprint to get some extra kiting time.
Once Anub popped back up we pulled him to the last permafrost patch. The goal was to burn two sets of adds and the boss down to 30% before the next submerge. This way we’d have the most time without adds. Again, we tanked them on the boss but focused on burning the adds and the incidental AOE dmg hit the boss this time.
Once we got to 30% it was pretty hectic since 2 healers have a hard time with the frost debuff on top of the damage to everyone. Our shadow priest through around prayer of mending and healing as possible and we just burned burned burned – let any new adds burrow to take them out of the picture, bloodlust and just hope you can pull it off!
You’ll notice in the video that it was actually the submerged adds coming back and shadow striking that took out a lot of the raid. Not sure if it was because we didn’t have enough dps to burn fast enough or how to manage that better.
