Warcraft Experience

I promised I’d finish with my tips for the dino-pet boss and just now got back to it. Sorry! His name is Bloodlord Mandokir and is a pretty interesting fight.

* Clear the room before attacking him except for the mobs that are located behind the tower. You can leave those mobs or kill them. Sometimes there is a voodoo pile over there.

* Kill the speaker that is standing at the foot of the tower. Once he is dead the boss will come downstairs. Both he and his dino-pet (raptor) are elites.

* Have at least two tanks for this fight. One will take down the dino-pet and one with tank the boss. Keep the boss by the pen and the pet by the doorway area you originally came through. Everyone concentrate on taking down the pet first. Note: If you Offtank the raptor, it will pierce your offtanks armor, reducing it by 75%, he will require a lot of healing. Should your offtank die, the raptor will run loose and kill everyone in 2-3 hits.

* Make sure there are healing chains set up for the main and off-tanks as well as the high DPSers. 2 healers each on the tanks at least until the raptor fight is over. Then the healers can switch to the main tank.

* We take down the pet first, even though it does make the boss tougher. We have tried both ways and find this to be easiest for us. Keep that in mind for your own runs, and organize it the best way for you.

* Heal, heal, and heal some more. Every time a raid member dies, the boss gets stronger. He even taunts you and dings each time he gets stronger. He also gets bigger and hits harder.

* The little spirits around you will rez you so do not try to keep someone out of combat to rez. DPS FTW! Keep your dying to a minimum. Even though you get ressed, you get a 10% durability hit every time you die so if it looks like the fight is a losing battle, wait for your friendly neighborhood priest to rez you. Note: we have experience a wierd issue when the spirits rez you - you do not really get rezzed even though you click the accept button. It doesn’t happen to everyone and it doesn’t happen everytime. Not sure what to attribute it to.

* Because of the spirits rezzing you, soulstones don’t matter. If it is a losing battle have a paly or druid run out, so they can come back and rez a priest. Other suggestions: If a lock is still up they can toss out a quick soulstone or a druid can toss out a battle rez. Obviously don’t accept the battle rez or pop the soulstone until the fight is over.

* The boss will randomly call out different party members’ names or “watch” them. Stop attacking/healing immediately! If you don’t he will charge you and more than likely kill you. Note: CT Raid also will annouce this.

* The boss will also do a whirlwind attack which causes upwards of 3k damage. Back up immediately.

* Spread out around the room. That way if you are being watched (even though he charges you) it takes him longer to get there.