Cataclysm tanking cheat sheet part 4

By popular request, here are writeups for Heroic Deadmines and Heroic Shadowfang Keep.

Also, I’ve updated the older posts with information about what’s different in Heroic mode.  At least… I have for the heroics I’ve done.  Stonecore and BRC just won’t pop… why must I keep getting Halls of Origination?

Heroic Deadmines

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• Don’t stand in fire or ice patches.
• In phase 2, bad things include a rotating fire wall.
• In phase 2, tank and AOE adds.

Helix Gearbreaker

• Avoid mines. Fuses indicate time-to-detonate.
• Players with the bomb debuff should explode away from the group.
• There’s a brief Helix-only phase after you kill the Oaf.

Foe Reaper 5000

• Assign a melee dps to control the Prototype Reaper.  He should stand on the ground level and kill adds.
• Run away from the boss’s two abilities.
• Tank the boss halfway up the ramp, with your party towards the top.  Party should run up, tank should run down.

Admiral Ripsnarl

• Kill Vapors ASAP.
• Use tanking cooldowns to survive his stacking buff.

Captain Cookie

• Don’t stand in green stuff.
• Eat the good food to get a haste buff, or remove a stack of the bad food debuff.
• Clear bad food by eating equal amounts of good food, or just eat only good food and treat it as a DPS race.
• Your tank can go DPS for this fight.

Vanessa VanCleef

• Gauntlet phase 1 – Click the steam valves.
• Gauntlet phase 2 – Dodge bad things.  This requires jumping off the right side of the ramp at one point.
• Gauntlet phase 3 – Focus fire the boss, ignore the spiders
• Gauntlet phase 4 – Dodge bad things.  There is a safe spot prior to the last two rotating beams if you need to wait for people.
• Gauntlet phase 5 – DPS race, with an emphasis on the race part.
• Vanessa – Kill adds, leave Blood Wizards alive for the rage zones if you want.
• Vanessa – Use the ropes on the side of the ship when they appear.

Heroic Shadowfang Keep

Baron Ashbury

• Interrupt his heal.
• Interrupt Stay of Execution once your healer has things under control.
• Save DPS/survivability cooldowns for his 25% enrage.

Baron Silverlaine

• Kill the adds.
• He has a Mortal Strike debuff.

Commander Springvale

• Tank him opposite where he starts.  Ranged and heals should stand on his ‘stage.’
• Kill both adds every time they spawn, Officer first.  CC the Guardsman if possible.
• Don’t stand in Desecration.
• Purple Death Vomit is randomly targeted, but roots the boss.  Just run behind him.  Players up on the stage should not be in range.

Lord Walden

• Dispel the poison debuff.
• Dodge ice shards.
• During the green Unstable Mixture, everyone has to stay moving.
• During the red Unstable Mixture, everyone has to stand still.

Lord Godfrey

• Tank and AOE ghoul adds.
• Decurse.
• Run behind him during Pistol Barrage.