Transcript:
Hey Guys I’m Mezzy and welcome to my guide for heroic Fallen protectors. This is the 2nd encounter in heroic Siege of Orgrimmar. I’m going to assume you know the normal mode mechanics. If you don’t you can check out my normal fallen guide. You can click on the link in the annotation or in the description section below.
There are no new abilities to deal with, instead some of their existing abilities have received a power up. They also of course have more health and they do more damage. One of the main changes is that when a protector goes into their desperate measures phase, the other 2 will continue using their abilities like garrote and clash.
So let’s start with Rook. After every 2 times rook casts corrupted brew it’s travel time will be reduced by half a second. This is reset when he goes into his desperate measures phase. This means that eventually you will have a hard time dodging them because they will become too fast untill it’s reset. Of course keep dodging them untill you get to that part though. Rook’s desperate measures phase has also been changed slightly. The 3 adds that spawn now have a shared life pool. This means that all of the adds will stay up a lot longer, which has some consequences.
1. You will need an interupt rotation on Embodied Gloom so that it doesn’t finish a corruption shock cast. If it does it will likely kill a few of your raid members.
2. You have to have your group except for the Softfoot tank stack up to share the damage of all the Inferno strikes.
3. The embodied gloom should be brought over to the rest of the raid who will be near sorrow so that cleave attacks can hit both of them.
And 4. Embodied misery needs to be tanked by the Softfoot tank, which means that in this desperate measures phase they will have to deal with both gouge and Defiled ground.
Let’s move on to Sun who only has 1 real change, but it’s rather an important one. Each time she casts Calamity it will do an aditional 10% of max health in damage. So the first one does 30% of your health in damage, the 2nd 40%, the 3rd 50% etc. These stacks are reset when she goes into her desperate measures phase. The desperate measures phase is exactly the same, it does a lot of damage though and what complicates it more is the fact that the other 2 protectors still do their spells. The rook tank will have to tank rook outside of the bubble now. And to prevent the clash and spin kick being put inside the bubble your healers and dps will need to stack on the edge of the bubble on the side where rook is tanked. This will allow rook to cast clash and let the spin kick be put on the outside of the bubble.
Lastly there’s Softfoot to deal with. His first change is to garrot. When he puts garrot on someone he will also apply the poison he’s currently using to the target. Which means that if he’s using instant poison, the garrot target will take an additional 150k damage when it’s applied. If he’s using noxious poison it will put a poison pool underneath the garrot target. This is especially annoying if it happens when you’re in sun’s desperate measures phase as you should be stacked up meaning if a pool spawns underneath someone during that everyone has to move straight away.
The 2nd change is in his desperate measures phase. The debuff the embodied anguish puts on his target now decreases their armor by 80% and it lasts for 4 minutes instead of 2. This means the tanks can’t take it anymore and you’re going to have to rotate it through your raiders who have cooldowns to tank the embodied anguish.
Because of all this we did the following:
We changed the desperate measures order because of the changes to calamity. The dps order we used was rook – sun – softfoot. At the start of the fight when the damage isn’t terrible yet have your healers do some damage on softfoot if they are capable of atonement type damage/healing. This will help you in the longrun as when you’re first doing this fight the enrage might be tight. Keep a loose spread but still within aoe healing range such as effloressence. If you get sha sear targeted on you be sure to run out of the raid.
When you get to rook’s desperate measures phase stack up on a healer and make sure you have someone call out who’s interrupting gloom’s next cast and get gloom to the group so that the rook tank + the melee can stack up as well. Continue to run out if you have sha sear as you do not want that extra damage on your entire raid.
After they die spread out loosely again and switch to Sun. Sha sear’s damage gets higher the longer it’s channeled so if you interrupt it when it’s past the halfway point you can atleast reduce the damage it does to the raid in total even though she will cast it again right away. When you get to her desperate measures phase be sure to get in the bubble and stand on the edge of it on the side where rook is as clash can still be cast. Also watch out for any garrot applications that might cause a poison pool to spawn underneath the raid. The damage is pretty high at this point so using healing cooldowns is advised.
Once you get out of that phase spread out loosely again and switch to Softfoot to get him into his desperate measures phase. Try to stand close to each other so that the melee don’t have to chase the anguish. Use personal cooldowns to tank the anguish and call out who will be given the mark next so they can be ready to hit their cooldown when the anguish is on them.
After you’ve gone through all phases once it’s just repeating it all over again. However now some abilities will have gotten their stacks, with calamity being the most dangerous. Because you want to get sun’s stacks reset as quickly as possible you’ll want to use heroism sometime after her first desperate measures phase is finished and before her second one. We use it in rook’s 2nd desperate measures phase. This is so we take less damage from that phase and reduce the risk of someone missing an interrupt. And that way we still reduce the time untill sun’s second desperate measures phase.
This fight is mainly about reducing your damage taken as much as possible and using communication to do so. So good luck! If you liked this video please comment and subscribe. If you would like to keep up with when new videos come out but you don’t have a youtube account you can also follow me on facebook at facebook.com/wowweekly or twitter at twitter.com/bbmezzy. For now I’m Mezzy and I’ll see you again next time.