Nightbane

[Skandranon]

Skan, just a nit: Gurgthock is indeed referencing the new, easier Nightbane. Check the link again.

Oops. You're partially right, he's not talking about the old Nightbane which I was talking about. I'm partially right, too: he's not talking about the current Nightbane, either.

Nightbane actually underwent a series of hotfixes all relatively close together, so there were actually four versions:

Nightbane 1.0: Skeletons have a 900 point immolation aura. Nightbane crushes for 11000-13000 damage. Smoking Blast inflicts 4000 damage per second.

Nightbane 2.0: Skeletons no longer have immolation and are immune to non-holy magic damage. Nightbane crushes for 11000-13000 damage (unchanged). Smoking Blast inflicts 1400-1600 damage per second. Nightbane fears during the flight phase (bug).

Nightbane 2.1: Skeletons are no longer immune to non-holy magic damage. Crushings and Smoking Blast unchanged. Nightbane no longer fears during the flight phase, but instead does "fake" fears where he begins to cast and interrupts himself at the end.

Nightbane 2.2: Crushings reduced to 7000-9000 damage. "Fake" fear issue mostly fixed.

2.0 came with patch 2.0.10, 2.1 was hotfixed in on the next Tuesday, and 2.2 was hotfixed in the week after. Gurgthock's comments aren't, as I erroneously said, talking about 1.0, but he is talking about 2.1, which is not the current version of the fight. He's still talking in the context of bigger hits on the tank than you're experiencing, but he is talking about the nerfed Smoking Blast and easy skeletons.