Dragon Soul Raid Guide 4.3.4

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Morchock Strategy – Dragon Soul Raid Boss #1 Strategy
The fight is fairly simple as it is the first boss in a new raid. It is essentially a two phase fight. In the first phase players need to group up around Morchok to share the stomp damage. In addition have a set crystal team and healer for them that goes out to split the damage from them. They should get close enough to each crystal to turn the beam blue to take low damage that is easily healed through.

Phase two is the Black blood phase. Here you need to avoid the Black Blood of the Earth as quickly as possible. Stay behind cover until he resets to phase one.

Rinse and repeat these steps and you should get through him fairly easily.

It should be noted that Morchok does have a crush armour ability that stacks up to 10 and each stack reduces armour by 10%. However because of everything going on in the fight it generally does not force a tank swap as it should fade during the Blood phases.

He also enrages at 20% upping his attack speed by 30% and damage by 20%.



Warlord Zon’ozz Strategy - Dragon Soul Raid Boss #2 Strategy
The fight is two repeating phases that very greatly in requirements. In the first phase it is all about co-ordination and managing the damage and the void orb. The second phase is all about DPS burn and mass healing.

In phase one the raid should split into two groups, the tank, melee, and a few healers should be by the boss, while ranges and the rest of the healers stay behind the boss as far back as possible. Healers need to manage dispelling the disrupting shadows during this phase so that players have enough time to return to position by the time the orb gets to their group. The rest of the players need to stay together to that the orb hits as many people as possible each time it comes to either the ranged or melee group. Done right, the orb will move back and forth between the two groups and be fairly easy to heal at first.

Once the orbs damage or Zon’ozz’s damage become to much to heal through melee needs to move through the boss while the tank turns him sideways. This way the orb will hit the boss and start phase two clearing all the buffs and putting the DPS debuff on Zon’ozz.

In phase two the room fills with Black Blood and the healers will have their hands full keeping everyone alive for 30 seconds. DPS meanwhile should burn the boss as hard as they can while the debuff is active. At the end of 30 seconds the fight goes back to phase one.

There is a lot of AOE damage in this fight, so be prepared by planning cooldowns and healing assignments carefully. Phase two is much more difficult than phase 1 so all big buffs and cooldowns should be used in it.





Yor’sahj the Unsleeping Strategy - Dragon Soul Raid Boss #3 Strategy
The fight is all about managing which globules of ooze are allowed to get to Yor’sahj and therefore which abilities he has. When he summons them the raid leader needs to make a call quickly and DPS has to burn the chosen ooze down before it reaches the boss.

You will then need to deal with the boss for a while with the two abilities that he is granted for a while, before he loses the abilities and summons a new batch of ooze globules.

All of the abilities are dangerous but especially those granted from glowing, shadowed and crimson. Glowing increases damage by at least double and must be killed if summoned. Shadow lowers healing significantly because the more you heal the more damage caused and therefore the more you have to heal, in and endless downward spiral. Crimson causes serious issues when ranged or healers are targeted as the damage can be very significant.

The rest of the abilities are more manageable and can be played with to determine your own preference on dealing with them.






Hagara the Stormbinder Strategy - Dragon Soul Raid Boss #4 Strategy
The Shaman Hagara The Hagara fight is made up of three different phases. In the main phase you must deal with her abilities as listed above. This means staying spread out, freeing players trapped in ice tombs, and getting away from her when she does focused assault if you are the tank.
Her other two phases alternate between the initial phase and are a frost phase and a lightning phase. Which comes first seems to be random, but will then alternate. Therefore the fight will look like this: Phase 1 – Frost – Phase 1 – Lightning – Repeat phase sequence.

In the frost phase Hagara will summon 4 crystals onto the platform, one at each of the North, East, South, and West points. These will form a protective bubble around her in the center of the platform, forcing players to the outer edge. Also summoned are 4 moving walls of ice that circle around the platform forcing players to move around or be killed if caught. Lastly icicles fall to the ground inflicting heavy frost damage to anyone still in the frost rune when they land. This phase ends when players kill all 4 crystals that keep up the shield. When the shield goes down, Hagara is stunned briefly and subject to 100% extra damage. She then returns to phase 1.

In the Lightning phase, 8 lightning rods and two lighting elementals are summoned. While the any rod is active a shield protects Hagara from damage. The elementals must be tanked, and when killed near a lightning rod will cause it to overload sparking all over the place. The goal is to kill each near a different lighting rod.

Once overloaded a rod will hit the nearest player for nature damage every second and arc to the next nearest player or rod within 10 yards. The goal is to move around and create a link to each and every rod to overload them all and shutdown her shield. Damage gets very heavy in this phase and healing is difficult.

Once overloaded and the shield fails, Hagara will again be stunned and subject to 100% extra damage for a short while, then return to phase 1.

This phase rotation continues until you defeat her or wipe.

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