cataclysm tanking Cheat Sheet Part 2

Two more dungeons!  MMO Champion has excellent videos of all of the Cataclysm dungeon bosses if you haven’t seen them yet – for real live previews, head over there.  However, for the ADD-afflicted folks like myself (I did used to be DPS after all), here are the cliffs notes:

The Stonecore

Corborus

• One dispel will remove all stacks of his healing debuff.
• Don’t stand in pink shards.
• During the burrow phase, tank and AOE small adds.
• During the burrow phase, don’t get hit by the boss (dust clouds warn you before he surfaces).
• Heroic: Kill the pink shards ASAP.

Slabhide

• Not much to do as a tank – just face him away from the group (he breathes).
• Don’t stand in fire – shadows and dust clouds give preemptive warnings.
• The stalactites do count towards line of sight – try not to torture your healer.
• Heroic: Use the stalactites to LOS Crystal Storm.

Ozruk

• Run out of shatter – 15 yards.
• Ranged and melee dps have to watch out for spell reflect and thorns respectively.
• Spell reflect can be shield slam/purged.
• Ground slam is a frontal cone – dodge it by running through him.
• He enrages at low health.
• Heroic: Ground slam must be dodged.  Shatter must be out-ranged.  Melee DPS should keep stacks of the thorns-dot on themselves to cancel paralyze.  Ranged DPS can dot themselves (spell reflect) to cancel paralyze if necessary.

High Priestess Azil

• Dodge giant rocks.  Don’t stand in void zones.
• Adds come from the south end of the room – position void zones and yourselves accordingly.
• Tank adds if no void zones are available.
• Interrupt force grip if possible.
• Decurse if possible.
• Heroic: Interrupting force grip is very important.  More void zones on heroic means easier add management.

The Vortex Pinnacle

Grand Vizier Ertan

• Stack up in the center (Added note: If you stack up in the target circle during the collapse, you will not be hit by the tornadoes)
• You can either heal/cooldown through the ‘collapse’ phase, or have everyone run out temporarily.  Use gaps in the circle when running out.
• Heroic: Nothing special.

Altairus

• He breathes – keep him pointed away from the group.
• Dodge tornadoes.
• You want to face him perpendicular to the wind, so that you are just barely upwind.  The rest of your group should stand upwind at his tail.
• Heroic: Nothing special.

Asaad

• Stand in the electricity triangles that he makes.
• Otherwise, spread out to mitigate chain lightning.
• Heroic: Jump just before he finishes casting static cling to avoid the spell.