10-05-2005, 06:14 AM
The Core took down Ebonroc in a Tichondrius all-server first tonight. (Easy Company, an Alliance guild took him down about an hour and a half later). Here are the pics:
1. We tanked Ebonroc in the cubbyhole part of Firemaw's room.
![[Image: ebonroc1.jpg]](http://www.lurkerlounge.com/mongo/ebonroc1.jpg)
2. I won't pretend it was easy. On our first wipe, I got ported over to him and killed. I think some of those props in the corner made me out of line of sight, but I'm not sure about that. (That wasn't why we wiped, but it was just an interesting thing I noticed during that wipe).
![[Image: ebonroc2.jpg]](http://www.lurkerlounge.com/mongo/ebonroc2.jpg)
We had several wipes in fact.
![[Image: ebonroc3.jpg]](http://www.lurkerlounge.com/mongo/ebonroc3.jpg)
3. The people who have the toughest job of all are the tanks who have to keep bouncing aggro around on each other. Ebonroc does a Wing Buffet which reduces aggro on the person he hits with it. What's more, he places a debuff that is not dispellable that causes Ebonroc to be healed for 25,000 life every time he hits the person who has the debuff. So a tank got the debuff, several other tanks would taunt Ebonroc in succession to keep him off whoever had been debuffed. Several tanks were used both to make sure Ebonroc stayed off the main tank long enough and to cover for the cases when taunt gets resisted. Also, two warriors were assigned to keep Mortal Strike on Ebonroc at all times.
Plus, the heal teams had to bounce around from warrior to warrior, of course, making sure each of them stayed healed and making sure to stay in their rotations and conserve mana as much as possible. It can be a very long fight, depending on how much Ebonroc gets healed.
![[Image: ebonroc4.jpg]](http://www.lurkerlounge.com/mongo/ebonroc4.jpg)
![[Image: ebonroc5.jpg]](http://www.lurkerlounge.com/mongo/ebonroc5.jpg)
![[Image: ebonroc6.jpg]](http://www.lurkerlounge.com/mongo/ebonroc6.jpg)
4. When Ebonroc's life got low, people started getting excited and the raid leaders had to keep telling people to stay with what they've been doing, stay focused, and not do anything different. Ebonroc's life got down to 1% -- and then bounced back up to 15% in a bad series of heals.
![[Image: ebonroc7.jpg]](http://www.lurkerlounge.com/mongo/ebonroc7.jpg)
5. But we refocused and took him down the rest of the way.
![[Image: ebonroc8.jpg]](http://www.lurkerlounge.com/mongo/ebonroc8.jpg)
6. When the raid leaders saw what was on the body, loot was distributed almost instantly. The two rogues in the party grabbed their loots so fast that I barely got the above screenshot before the corpse disappeared. Uinr got the Bloodfang Gloves and Syren got the Drake Fang Talisman.
![[Image: ebonroc9.jpg]](http://www.lurkerlounge.com/mongo/ebonroc9.jpg)
1. We tanked Ebonroc in the cubbyhole part of Firemaw's room.
2. I won't pretend it was easy. On our first wipe, I got ported over to him and killed. I think some of those props in the corner made me out of line of sight, but I'm not sure about that. (That wasn't why we wiped, but it was just an interesting thing I noticed during that wipe).
We had several wipes in fact.
3. The people who have the toughest job of all are the tanks who have to keep bouncing aggro around on each other. Ebonroc does a Wing Buffet which reduces aggro on the person he hits with it. What's more, he places a debuff that is not dispellable that causes Ebonroc to be healed for 25,000 life every time he hits the person who has the debuff. So a tank got the debuff, several other tanks would taunt Ebonroc in succession to keep him off whoever had been debuffed. Several tanks were used both to make sure Ebonroc stayed off the main tank long enough and to cover for the cases when taunt gets resisted. Also, two warriors were assigned to keep Mortal Strike on Ebonroc at all times.
Plus, the heal teams had to bounce around from warrior to warrior, of course, making sure each of them stayed healed and making sure to stay in their rotations and conserve mana as much as possible. It can be a very long fight, depending on how much Ebonroc gets healed.
4. When Ebonroc's life got low, people started getting excited and the raid leaders had to keep telling people to stay with what they've been doing, stay focused, and not do anything different. Ebonroc's life got down to 1% -- and then bounced back up to 15% in a bad series of heals.
5. But we refocused and took him down the rest of the way.
6. When the raid leaders saw what was on the body, loot was distributed almost instantly. The two rogues in the party grabbed their loots so fast that I barely got the above screenshot before the corpse disappeared. Uinr got the Bloodfang Gloves and Syren got the Drake Fang Talisman.