Vael

[Delc]

Since this is primarily a DPS fight, we've been concentating on keeping the rogues healed and soul stoning the hunters. It seems that in order to have a really good attempt we have to be lucky with the BA. Is this always the case? Do guilds never really put this guy on farm status until the gear is just so sick that DPS can rip through him no matter what?

I can't really see soulstoning hunters to all that valuable on that fight. Essence of the red gives everyone unlimited mana/rage/energy and hunters really don't benefit much from that since they rarely have mana problems anyway. Also once you die you lose the buff and most likely aren't worth ressing at that point.

Rogues, warriors and priests are the key to the fight. Rogues can do an insane amount of damage with the buff. Warriors need to all be in tanking gear and ready to tank when their turn comes up. For us this was the easy part for a long time since we had a pretty good idea of what order our tanks would get aggro based on gear and spec. Also make sure they are spamming execute once he gets to 20%, its a huge amount of damage.

Our priests are relying on Holy Nova for the most part because it's not affected by the casting interrupt. Do other guilds use prayer of healing? Are 8 priests necessary for this encounter?

Holy nova rocks if you have priests with it, but PoH works too, not every priest wants to spec holy. 8 priests would be nice but you would lose dps. I think we usually have 5-6 priests with druids picking up the last couple. A couple times we have had a shaman keep a group up, but that only works if you are horde, and have one group with really solid FR gear since its hard to keep up with the heals like that. I don't know much about paly heals but I doubt they could keep up.

FR gear helps a ton here. Everyone needs as much as they can get, and it needs to be good gear. Green 'of fire resistance' stuff doesn't really help much. Fire protection pots can help the mages and warlocks to avoid spell interupts for a little bit. We have been killing vael for quite some time and we still wipe. Its really hard to save an attempt when the first 4 or 5 people to get BA are priests. The key is to make the most of the fights where a bunch of hunters get it. (Sorry hunters:P)