Emalon The Storm Watcher (new Wintergrasp boss)

[Holyssa]

Taken from Wowhead. . Looks like Heroic Loken with add-juggling. This should be a nice test of our DPS

Emalon the Storm Watcher:

"Emalon the Storm Watcher is a simple fight, with a moderately tight DPS requirement. He has a 6-minute enrage timer.

He has 3 major abilities:

*Chain Lightning: Strikes an enemy with a blast of lightning that inflicts 7400 to 8600 Nature damage. The bolt will arc to additional nearby enemies, inflicting 20% more Nature damage to each successive target.

*Lightning Nova has a 5 second cast time, and functions similarly to Loken's Lightning Nova. Damage received is reduced by distance from the boss.

*Overcharge is cast on a Tempest Minion, granting a buff that heals the target to full and causes the Tempest Minion to explode after 20 seconds. The buff that stacks on the Tempest minions will increase damage output by 20% every 2 seconds, maxing out at 200% before it explodes.

Emalon also has 4 adds, called Tempest Minions:

*Each add that is killed will respawn about 3-5 seconds after it is killed.

*One tank should be able to handle all 4 adds.

*If a Tempest Minion is not killed before it explodes, it will cast Overcharged Blast, instantly wiping the raid. (With the fully stacked buff, that's ~25k damage to EVERYONE in your raid.)

Strategy:

*Have your off tank run in and aggro all the adds, and drag them to a corner while your main tank taunts Emalon off the off tank.

*Attack the boss until Emalon casts overcharge on a Tempest Minion.

*Attack the overcharged Tempest Minion. This is critical - if the add is not dead within 20 seconds of the overcharge cast, you will be dead instead.

*Have the offtank pick up the newly spawned replacement Tempest Minion.

*Rinse and Repeat.

TL;DR:

*If you have DPS below 2k sustained DPS, do not attempt this boss. You don't have the sustained output that you will need to kill the Tempest Minions in time."

I also copy-pasta'd this insightful little tip:

"Most wipes are caused by adds exploding because DPS doesn't switch (or find the add) fast enough.

Protip: Have everyone turn on npc health bars (press v). The charged add will jump to 100% health on its bar as soon as it gets a charge. Click the bar and start bursting. This avoids wasting time tabbing through adds."

EDIT: Clip of the 10-man fight in action with similar directions. Fair warning - it's kind of boring, lol

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lf9S1v8Fx30

Edited April 20, 2009 by Holyssa