Critsmcgee
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Re: Maximizing Rogue DPS for 3.1
--Flame Leviathan 25--
70 million health! @.@
This is the first fight in Ulduar and this boss has to be completed in order to gain access to any of the other bosses. Make sure and throw on your highest level items if you are a vehicle driver. Dont worry about how good the gear is. A few rogues in our guild have some epic cloth peices just for this fight. If you are going to be launched on top of the Leviathan then still keep your normal raid gear on. As a rogue you will most likely driving a chopper, if not then you will be one of the players launched onto the back of the Flame Leviathan to DPS down the Turrets.
Spec Advantages
Spec deep into imp vehicles
A. One phase fight
1. If your are in a vehicle you will most likely be inside of a Salvaged Chopper. Watch your HP drop oil
2. Most likely the rogues will be one of the players launched onto Flame Leviathan.
B. As a rogue abilities to watch out for
1. As a chopper you want to stay out of the flame vents that light the oil.
2. Save your Speed boost for after you drop Tar between Leviathan and one of the tanks.
This is the easiest fight in Ulduar. Once the fight begins you will either be driving a vehicle or a passenger in a vehicle waiting to be launched onto Flame Leviathan. Once you launch you will have to DPS down a Turret and then press the button to stall the Flame Leviathan. Make sure and wait till hes on a patch of Oil/Fire to increase the damage done to him.
--Tips--
When you come off of the flame leviathan make sure to hit the ground moving. You want to get as far away from the action as possible. When your riding shotgun in a Salvaged Demolisher make sure to use your abilities to the fullest. Above all, for a vehicle fight, this is one of the funnest fights there is. There is no pressure, any decent group can down this boss so just turn off your meters and have a good time.
--Emalon the Storm Watcher 25--
11.2 Million hp
This is the new boss in the Vault. The original boss in vault, Archavon, was a huge push over. This boss though is turning out to be a little more difficult. You might want to bring the guild on this one because the average pug is gonna fail. For a rogue though this fight is very simple. With some well timed Cloak Of shadows and proper usage of cooldowns you will come out on top.
Spec Advantage
Combat>Mutilate>HaT
A. One phase fight
1. 1 boss 4 adds, this fight sort of reminds me of grand widow in the sense that is all about timing.
B. As a rogue abilities to watch out for
1. Chain lightning, the only way to avoid this is to stay farther away from other melee dps.
2. Lightning nova - This about a 5 second cast and does damage depending on the range away from the boss.
This fight takes a simple concept and adds a pretty shard DPS timer on it. When you start this pull off the tanks will seperate the adds from emalon. Wherever you are DPSing Emalon you need to turn your camera toward the adds and just click both mouse buttons so that you can get a jump on everyone when the adds are about to enrage. By all means do as much damage possible on Emalon but save you cooldowns for the adds. When emalon cast Lightning Nova use your Cloak Of Shadows and you can resist one. When he cast it again you can sprint to get out faster and get back into combat faster. When i said timing is important i mean it. When he enrages one of the adds you have to be paramount to run over and start popping cooldowns to down that add as fast as possible. If you are HaT spec you can get in some extra DPS by getting shadow step. It is completely optional to get, but in mobile fights it can make a difference and the damage increase is not bad either. After he enrages the adds and you kill one, you will go back to normal dps on Emalon until he is dead. I cannot stress how simple of a concept this is and how easy of a fight this is for a rogue. The difference between this fight and the old Vault boss, is huge because you need most everyone alive or your DPS is going to have to be geared to the teeth to survive.
--Tips--
Heres a tip for this fight, CLOAK OF SHADOWS OR RUN OUT OF LIGHTNING NOVA! No but i gave combat spec a significant advantage over both other specs for this fight because of the situational DPS requirement when killing the adds. You want to have Adrenaline Rush + Blade Flurry (to pad the meters on a non-enraged add) to put out some extreme dps during that time. Mutilate however can do well also and HaT here has a chance to do ok. |
