Someone say Kara?

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KARA… a battle of epic proportions…or for epic portions >.>

The entire instance of Karazhan is set in Medivh's former tower, and rumor has it that an "echo" of Medivh is seen in the instance. Khadgar (Which you will find in the center of shatt) and Lothar apparently didn't bother to clean out Medivh's tower after killing him, so it's kind of taken on a life of its own. Medivh's servant lives there, and ghosts still protect their former master's property. Prince Malchezzar, an eredar who serves the Burning Legion, currently rules over the tower. Basically, you're the sheriff come to evict a really annoying tenant, except in this case half the residents are ghosts and the tower is trying to kill you.


After taking your first few kills into kara, you will come up to a horse named Midnight. Attumen the Huntsman is the proud owner of Midnight, the strongest horse in the stables. If his horse is put in danger, he will rush to defend and destroy the attackers. As the first and easiest boss in Karazhan, he is considered a gear check for any adventurers who wish to delve deeper into Karazhan. Attumen is optional; it is not necessary to kill him in order to progress to the later bosses. Moroes and the Maiden of Virtue are both considered to be substantially tougher.

and just a note...kinda funny to look at

Huntsman / Warrior
Moroes / Rogue
Maiden / Palidin
Illhoof / Warlock
Kil'rek / Imp
Shade / Mage

Im not sure about the other bosses, but this is a good way to look at them

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Huntsman
Phase One starts when Midnight is attacked and lasts until she is reduced to 95% of her health. This is a brief tank-and-spank, just make sure to watch your aggro meter.

Phase Two starts when Midnight is reduced to 95% health. It lasts until either Midnight or Attumen is reduced to 25% health. Attumen spawns near Midnight and begins attacking immediately, but ignore him, and still go after the horse. The group should have another tank, besides the one taking the horse, to grab up the huntsman.

Phase Three begins when either Attumen or Midnight is brought down to 25% health. It ends when Attumen dies. Attumen mounts Midnight and the two of them fight as a single opponent. If midnight has more hp then attumen, then the healthbar is midnights, and vise versa. Attumen wipes threat at this transition, so STOP DPS till the tank gains the agro back! This is a MUST or you will wipe the party. move immediately behind Attumen, so that you cannot be hit by the Berserker Charge or the Shadow Cleave, and make sure you are standing on top of everyone.

Quick description of fight: Stay on horse till the horse and huntsman bind together wait for tank to grab up aggro, then get up close to the horses ass and take em down

After that you may want to hope for
[Gloves of Dexterous Manipulation]
[Worgen Claw Necklace]

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Moroes Tower Steward
Karazhan's steward, and the first mandatory boss found in this raid instance. His defeat allows access to the Opera Event.

Moroes was described as Medivh's castellan, or personal house servant. He was an oddly thin man, ghostly in appearance, who wore horse blinders over his eyes in order to escape the wandering visions that plagued Medivh's tower. He described to Khadgar (who had traveled from Dalaran to serve as Medivh's apprentice) how he had seen a vision of him breaking one of Cook's crystal dishes and — despite trying to avoid doing so — ended up shattering it anyway; he wore the blinders until the day he died. He was killed by Medivh in the final stages of his madness, and is now buried beside his master and Cook outside of Karazhan. Moroes has been resurrected by the new master of Karazhan. He is one of the first bosses encountered by adventurers. He has been revived as an undead and wields two wicked daggers when attacking. He seems to have retained much of his personality during life. The party he "holds" in the tower's Banquet Hall includes ghosts of relatives of Darkshire noblemen as guests. Names of all of the NPCs in the Hall, including Ebonlocke who refuses to take part in the festivities, can be found as names of notable citizens of the Duskwood town.

Simply put, Moroes is just like you, a Rogue…

This encounter tests your raid's ability to control several targets while also maintaining high DPS. Success requires a solid control strategy for his four dinner guests. If allowed to go free, they will quickly put an end to the squishies. Control must be established immediately on the pull and maintained throughout the fight.
Once control is established, the encounter becomes a race between the raid's damage output and the building damage caused by Garrote. Each time a Garrote is applied, the strain on the healers increases. Moroes must die before the healing needed becomes too much to handle.
As a rogue, you could be put in as an OT for the adds, main dps on moroes, stunlock on the adds, or even MT on the adds depending on the group order. Make sure that the group describes the way they do this battle before you go in half thingyed, or you may end up dying early or causing a wipe.
Moroes vanishes every 30 seconds, and upon return randomly Garrotes a raid member. Garrote is a bleed effect and deals 1,000 damage every three seconds for 300 seconds (5 minutes, for a total of 100,000 damage). After he garrotes, Moroes immediately returns to the highest threat target. As a rogue, the only possible defence against this attack is vanishing when he does, but since he does this every 30 sec, you will more then likely get hit with it. Call this out to the raid, and they will try and take care of it.

Dying from Garrote does not inflict a durability loss penalty, so if your soulstoned for some really screwed up reason, don’t worrie about the garrote and just hit him with everything!

Moroes casts Blind on his closest enemy that is not his current target. This is a poison-based disorient effect that causes the victim to temporarily lose aggro and wander aimlessly for ten seconds. It is broken by damage. It is devastating if Moroes Blinds the off-tank then Gouges the main tank, as he will then generally attack a healer.
To avoid this, the party may assign you as a non-tank character to stand on top of Moroes at all times. This character takes the Blinds instead of the off-tank, saving the party from immanent failure.

BTW Use [Mind-numbing Poison] on the caster adds to slow down mana burns and heals.

Quick description: Kill off a few of his guards (listen to what group says) and then take out moroes. If he garrotes you tell the group.

When Moroes goes down, loot up and you may want to hope for
[Moroes' Lucky Pocket Watch]
[Edgewalker Longboots]
[Emerald Ripper]
[Royal Cloak of Arathi Kings]

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Maiden of Virtue

Titan-like Boss in the Guest Chambers wing of Karazhan. She bears a modeling resemblance to Ironaya of Uldaman. She is ironically, being the Maiden of Virtue, put behind the rooms full of ladies of the night. The Maiden is optional; it is not necessary to kill her in order reach other bosses.

The Maiden of Virtue does not have phases in her fight. She behaves the same from the start of the fight to the end.
The Maiden uses all her abilities at random, not on a strict timer. For example, when the Repentance cooldown is over, she does not always cast it immediately; it just means that it's possible for her to cast it. However, she does not cast Holy Fire while Repentance is active.
Wipes occur at this boss for mainly two reasons - either the tank dies while the healers are incapacitated from a Repentance, or too many raid members die from Holy Fire. A wipe is also possible due to poor positioning which leads to a chained Holy Wrath. Once these risks are managed correctly, this is a fairly easy fight.

Holy Fire is a Magic debuff, and thus can be removed by Cloak of Shadows

You should stand at the edge of Maiden's hit box, as far from other melee as possible (forming a triangle or square around her). Holy Protection potions help diminish damage taken by melee significantly, and are recommended over health pots

Quick description: Tank and spank, watch your health and if it gets too low get out of her AOE and bandage, wash rinse repeat.

Once she is downed, might wanna look for
[Bracers of Maliciousness]

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The Big Bad Wolf (Opera #1)

Big Bad Wolf is only 1 of 3 diff opera events. only 1 opera event will occur each time you do kara

As a DPS you can continuously damage the wolf provided that the tank does not lose aggro. Even while the wolf is chasing Little Red Riding Hood, but be careful due to the fear. any damage caused while the Big Bad Wolf is chasing someone will add to his threat list, regardless of your inability to pull aggro during that time.

When the wolf casts the Red Riding Hood debuff, the affected person needs to run around the perimeter of the stage. Do not touch or hug the wall because it will slow down your running speed, but stay very close to it. The wolf should be a short distance behind you at all times, but out of melee range. After running about 1.5 times around the stage, the debuff will wear off and the wolf will most likely run back to the tank as long as sufficient aggro was generated.

If you watch the Wolf's target carefully, he will briefly change targets to the upcoming Red Riding Hood then switch back to the tank, before he casts the debuff. This can give advance warning to the target, which is particularly useful to melee dps.

Vanish can be used to prevent the Big Bad Wolf from chasing you, but will not remove the debuff itself, so wait for it to run out before you come out of stealth.

Quick description: Tank and spank. If you turn into a gnome female with a red cloak take off running.

The loot you may want from this include

[Wolfslayer Sniper Rifle]

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Wizard of Oz (opera #2)

The first four bosses are upstage when the event starts and become active one after the other quite quickly. The activation sequence is:
1. Dorothee (who then summons Tito)
2. Roar
3. Strawman
4. Tinhead
After these four are all dead, The Crone will appear. Killing The Crone successfully ends the event.

The raid needs to agree on a kill sequence. All mobs (exc. Dorothee) can be controlled, depending on player skill and classes available some may be more dangerous than others. One accepted sequence is to deal with the mobs in the order in which they activate. Dorothee is generally regearded to be the most dangerous, because she cannot be tanked. Roar is more dangerous than Strawman because of his fear, and Tinhead is the least dangerous because after some time he moves so slow that he can be easily kited.

Dorothee
There's not much to say about her other than just nuke her fast. Pay attention not to kill Tito while she's still up, or else she will enrage. Tito should be killed right after she's down. Waterbolt cannot be interrupted, and because she has no aggro table, it targets random people while she's alive.

Roar
Roar is rather cowardly, and susceptible to fear and scare beast. However, often he will run into one of the two doors and go out of line of sight making it somewhat difficult to keep him constantly feared. Be prepared for many early breaks and resists, as he seems to do this quite often. One Warlock should still be enough to control him, an off-tank on Roar makes the Warlocks job much easier.

Strawman
When he is struck by fire damage abilities, there is a very high chance that he will be disoriented for 6 seconds. Scorch & Searing Pain are excellent abilities to proc this debuff. A fire mage would be the best class to deal with this add, but any mage or warlock (with his imp) will do OK too, even a Shaman's Searing Totem or Fire Elemental could do the job in an emergency. A wand also works if it deals fire damage. The off-tank on Roar should taunt Strawman now and then. If your raid is low on fire damage, or Strawman's disorient is not proccing enough to keep him controlled he can be killed first. He goes down much faster than Dorothee, and a pair of good healers can easily heal through Dorothee's damage while the raid takes down Strawman.

Tinhead
Tinhead needs to be tanked by the main tank due to the rather high amount of damage he inflicts. As the encounter progresses, he begins to rust (as indicated through an announcement) and slows down. After a while, he slows down a great deal and can be effectively kited by the main tank. At this point the tank should be taking minimal damage as he can run around without being struck.

The Crone
After all 4 major characters have died, The Crone spawns. She has no vulnerabilities, so the MT should pick her up immediately. She spawns cyclones that will knock raid members straight up into the air, dealing a significant (but not fatal) amount of damage; HoT's can keep the cycloned victims alive. When you land, you will take fall damage as well. They are avoidable, and any slow fall ability will also negate fall damage. Cyclone does not stun, so instant cast spells can be used in midair. The cyclones move slowly around the room in a group, and can cross the center of the stage, so it is unsafe to move strictly clockwise or counter-clockwise. Someone should be continuously calling out the cyclones position and direction so everyone can adjust. The Crone does not have a lot of HP; this phase is much easier than the first.

Quick description: Listen to your group and kill what needs to die.
This event drops nothing for a rogue, save for [Badge of Justice]

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Romulo and Julianne (Opera #3)

Phase One
In phase one, you will fight Julianne. She is a caster and should be interrupted as much as possible to conserve mana. The interrupters should focus on Eternal Affection, which heals herself for a lot of health. Interrupting the other spells, however, is good for conserving healer mana. She is immune to Silence, but not to other interrupting abilities such as Kick,

Phase Two
During phase two, the raid fights Romulo. He is a warrior-type boss, has approximately 190,000 health, and hits quite hard. Like Julianne, his buff should be removed with the aforementioned spells, because it greatly increases his DPS.
He should be tanked with his back turned to the wall, so that the melee DPS will not get knocked back too far by his Backward Lunge.

Phase Three
Many players believe Phase three is the true event, because you now fight Romulo and Julianne at the same time. The tactics of Phase One and Phase Two still apply. However, since the raid now has less mana and is engaging both bosses at the same time, it is harder.
The raid splits up into two groups; one group focuses on Romulo and one group focuses on Julianne. The Romulo group is generally ranged (due to his melee abilities) with a warrior tank (for disarm) and the Julianne group is melee and interrupters.
The two bosses must die within 10 seconds of each other, or the dead boss resurrects with full health, just like the core hounds in Molten Core. The damage-dealers may need to switch between targets to ensure that they die at the same time.

Quick description: Kill Julianne, Kill Romulo, then kill them both at the same time. If Julianne tries to heal kick her.

Loot includes
[Blade of the Unrequited]
[Romulo's Poison Vial]

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The Curator

an Arcane Guardian boss in the Menagerie in Karazhan. It is not optional. Raids wanting to reach the bosses behind it must first defeat The Curator. The encounter is not difficult to learn, but requires good gear. A raid able to defeat this boss is in principle equipped well enough to defeat all the following bosses, save perhaps Nightbane and Prince Malchezaar.

Killing the Curator is basically a gear check. It's not a coincidence that this boss drops the first class set tokens - they really want to be earned. There's not much strategy or room for fancy maneuvers - either the raid has the required DPS and the necessary mana endurance, or it does not.
The fight consists of four possible phases. Most of the fight consists of two alternating phases: a Flare Phase (which lasts 90 seconds) followed by an Evocation Phase (which lasts 20 seconds). Once the Curator's health drops below 15% it enters the Enrage phase, when it stops summoning Flares and Evocating, but melees and casts Hateful Bolts more rapidly. If it is still alive ten minutes after the pull, it enters the Berserk phase and wipes the raid in a few seconds.

During the Flare Phase, The Curator summons ten Astral Flares, hits the tank with moderate melee damage, and casts Hateful Bolts.
The Curator summons one Astral Flare every 10 seconds, at a cost of 10% of its mana. Each Flare spawns with about 1000 threat from a random, non-tank player character and advances in that character's direction while hitting nearby enemies with Arcing Sear.
Each Flare must be destroyed within 10 seconds, before the next one spawns. Failure to do so will result in multiple Flares dealing damage at the same time - this situation will usually mean a wipe. It is not necessary to damage the Curator at all during this phase. Damaging the Curator is permissible, but only when no Flares are up

This cannot be over-emphasized: By far, the most important part of the fight is killing the Astral Flares as quickly as possible. Wipes on The Curator usually happen because the healers run out of mana. They run out of mana because the Flares live too long. The solution is almost always to kill the Flares faster. The faster each Flare dies, the easier the healers' job becomes.

It is possible to assign one character - preferably a warlock or a shadow priest - as Hateful Bolt soaker. This character attracts most of the Hateful Bolts by steadily damaging The Curator. Equipping the soaker with arcane resistance gear negates a substantial amount of the damage from the Hateful Bolts. Note that using a soaker is reasonable only when the raid is still able to kill the Flares fast enough. It's typically done when using only two healers.

Immediately after The Curator summons the tenth Astral Flare with the last of its mana, it enters a state of Evocation for 20 seconds while it refills its mana. While it does so, it goes completely inactive and all damage dealt against it is tripled.
Most raids must first concentrate on killing the tenth and last Flare before switching damage over to the Curator. Otherwise, there may be two Flares up after the Evocation, which is bad! Killing the Flare quickly also grants the healers a few seconds break for mana regeneration. Overgeared raids can attack The Curator immediately to speed up the fight, and clean up the extra Flares after Evocation.
Cooldown and single-use abilities that temporarily increase damage output should be saved up for this moment and be activated at the beginning of the phase to quickly kill the last Astral Flare and to make the most out of the Curator's temporary vulnerability.
Once the Curator has finished refilling mana, the fight continues with the next Flare Phase (or the Enrage Phase, if its health is brought down below 15% during the Evocation).

Quick Description: Take out the orbs till they stop comming, kick his ass till they start comming, repeat if neccisary.

Loot includes
[Gloves of the Fallen Champion] the first T4 gear you will likely see
[Garona's Signet Ring]

This is technically a checkpoint for kara, and unless group is well geared, the run is stopped after curator is downed...but gear does matter, and the raid may be stopped before this point as well as after, you just never know

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Terestian Illhoof & Kil'rek
Terestian Illhoof is a corrupted satyr in the Repository of Karazhan. He hides in a secret passage behind a bookshelf in the library. Cleansing of his presence will halt the respawning of demons directly by the bookshelf. He is an optional boss, but his loot table makes his death profitable to most adventurers.

Illhoof and his imp aggro when you pull him. After around 10 seconds, he emotes and summons two portals from the back of the room. Imps continue to pour out of these portals at a steady rate throughout the entire fight. Your objective as a rogue in this battle, will be to first kill Illhoof's minion Kil'rek and then focus on Illhoof himself. That is unless they tell you differently, or you have more then one rogue.

Illhoof hits for around 1800 damage on a tank then throws a shadow bolt doing 4000 damage at the highest target on the aggro list. Where as Kil'rek Hits for 2,000 on cloth.

Kil'rek also has an attack called Amplify Flames which is a Undispellable debuff that increases fire damage taken by 500. This is applied to a random target.

Illhoof also has an attack called Sacrifice. A random character is summoned to the center of the room and is paralyzed, suffering 1,500 unresistible (and unabsorbable) shadow damage per second until the chains (which count as a creature) are destroyed. While the chains are up, Illhoof is healed for 3,000 health per second. The chains have roughly 13,000 health. Can be removed with Ice Block or Divine Shield. Cannot be cast on the main tank (although it CAN be cast on someone tanking Kil'rek). A druid can use barkskin while chained up, which will ultimately reduce the damage while in the chains from 1500 to about 1300 damage per second.

NO MATTER WHAT HAPPENS WHEN THE DEMON CHAINS COME UP, TAKE THEM DOWN

Illhoof and his imp aggro when you pull him. After around 10 seconds, he emotes and summons two portals from the back of the room. Imps continue to pour out of these portals at a steady rate throughout the entire fight. Warlocks should be available to handle the smaller demons, if you dont have a warlock or some sort of AOE then do not even ATTEMPT to take on this fight.

If Kil'rek is killed, he respawns after roughly 45 seconds and rejoins the fight.

Staying bunched close to Illhoof is a good idea. Illhoof and Kil'rek both should be tanked near the circle where the Sacrifice happens. This makes it easy to quickly switch from Illhoof/Kil'rek to the chains. Bunching also makes sure the warlock's [Seed of Corruption] hits a lot of imps.

As of 2.3 [Wound Poison] does effect the healing from chains along with Mortal Strike and Aimed Shot.

Quick Description: Listen to group and go after either kill'rek or illhoof first, take down demon chains when they come up, kill them.

Loot available from him for you will be...

[Fool's Bane]
[Xavian Stiletto]

either leave him be or take him down, but either way your next boss will be Shade of Aran...

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Shade of Aran
He is the spirit of Nielas Aran, the father of Medivh - the previous occupant of Karazhan. He is located in the Guardian's Library, which is a small, circular room (about 45 yards in diameter), with one door that closes and locks as soon as the fight begins.

The Shade of Aran is an optional boss. However, after he is defeated, a teleport to his room becomes available from Berthold <The>, and all trash mobs from the Curator to Aran (exc. one pack outside Illhoof's door) cease to respawn.

Shade. has NO aggro meter, so all tanks should switch to DPS mode.Every 30-35 seconds, Aran uses one of his three special abilities (never the same twice in a row) and they cannot be interrupted or locked out. They are Flame Wreath, Circular Blizzard, and Super Arcane Explosion.

---Flame Wreath
If Flame Wreath is upcoming, the whole raid must immediately stop moving, simple as that. People must wait until the auras are clearly visible, and may only move again when they are sure they will in no way come near one of them. Meleers have a few seconds to move into melee range of Aran from the second Flame Wreath is announced and until he casts it, however this requires some practice and careful timing. If you move, and are in a PUG you will get booted...if you move while your with your guild, it could cause a G-kick or if your a guild leader, it may cause ppl to leave your guild. This is a Five-second cast which creates a fiery aura around three random characters for 20 seconds. When the auras are triggered by moving over them, they deal 3,000–4,000 fire damage to everyone in the room. They do not disappear upon Aran's death and can still be triggered after the fight. so, DO NOT MOVE!!

---Circular Blizzard
This special attack materializes as a blue, translucent cloud on the floor that slowly moves clockwise along the outer perimeter of the room. It is trailed by a damaging Blizzard which fills up to half the room. The cloud and the Blizzard snare anyone caught in them. The Blizzard does not affect the center of the room.

Players in melee range to Aran normally do not have to worry about the blizzard (as long they stay in the center of the room). Ranged classes should always keep a lookout for the cloud and run away clockwise (but avoid running into the tail of the blizzard). When caught, players get snared and should immediately turn and move to the center of the room. The periodic AoE silence/counterspell there is the lesser of two evils. In other words, this attack shouldent effect you too much, as long as you dont try to run away from shade.

---Arcane Explosion
raid members must immediately run to the outer edge of the room - no turning or finishing up an attack. Even with the slow debuff everybody can reach the wall well before the Explosion.

If possible a priest in the raid should cast a Mass Dispel centered on the Shade immediately after Magnetic Pull. This automatically takes care of everybody reacting slowly and Chains of Ice. If mass dispel is not available (or the raid feels confident and wants to save priest mana), Priests and Paladins still should pay attention to slow reactions or Chains of Ice.

Conjured Water Elementals
At 40% health, the Shade of Aran summons four elite Conjured Water Elementals with 13,000 health. They shoot a constant stream of Waterbolts for ~1000-2000 damage and despawn after 90 seconds. The Water Elementals can be banished, stunned and feared, and are susceptible to Curse of Tongues. Crowd control, tank and kill them quickly, they have only 13.000 HP each. It helps if the tank wears some frost resistance gear. They despawn after 90 seconds, one warlock can keep two crowd controlled the entire time (fear and banish).

If the Elementals spawn at the same time as one of the special attacks takes place, it's difficult to control them properly. It is a good idea to control DPS and bring the Shade's health down to 40% at a time when there is no risk of a Flame Wreath, Blizzard, or Polymorph / Pyroblast.

Trinkets and abilities with cooldowns should be used when the Elementals spawn.

Polymorph / Pyroblast
If the raid's DPS is high enough and the interrupts work well, this phase may not occur at all. If it does, the healers have to be on their toes to heal the raid very quickly after the Pyroblast (preferably using AoE heals). The Polymorph breaks at the same time as Pyroblast is cast, so there's just spell's travel time to cast something before it hits. This effectively can be done only by healers outside melee range. After the blast, all raid members should use health potions and Healthstones to heal quickly.

This Polymorph works on characters who are normally immune. Only druids in Tree of Life form remain unaffected. If Aran is interrupted while drinking, he simply uses a potion and Pyroblasts anyway. PvP insignias do not break the Mass Polymorph, only the Water Elementals may break sheep during this time. The Pyroblast can be interrupted.

At one point I evaded the polymorph and was freaked out. So i went after aran, not watching my low health, and getting slaughtered by his pyroblast. If you evade the sheep, make sure you heal up or kick him, for you will die otherwise.

If Aran reaches 20% mana again after the first Mass Polymorph, he does not polymorph and pyroblast again. He just drinks a potion and continues.

Aran's standard attacks (Fireball, Frost Bolt and Arcane Missile) can all be interrupted. By interrupting his spells, the raid can influence how fast Aran spends his mana. This is important, because the Polymorph/Pyroblast (at 20% mana) and the Water Elementals (at 40% health) must not occur close to each other. When either health or mana reach the critical percentage, the other must be clearly away from the threshold. Following this method you should be able to take down shade easily.

Quick description: If he pulls you to him run away, flame wreath do not move, kick his ass till he summonselementals, take them down if neccisary, use pot/healthstone after he sheeps, and kill him

the loot you will be looking forward to seeing is...
[Drape of the Dark Reavers]
[Rapscallion Boots]
[Saberclaw Talisman]

Now we will pass Netherspites room, and head off to Chess

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The Chess event
The Chess Event in Karazhan has to be solved in order to reach Prince Malchezaar. The raid plays a sort of chess match against Medivh. The pieces represent units used during the First War, and are placed like chess pieces on a chess board.

Although the analogy to chess is usable (Doomguards are "stronger" than Footmen for example), it's not very strict. The pieces from the event behave very differently from real chess pieces, in particular all pieces autoattack an enemy piece they face (changed for the faction controlled by the player) and the Kings are actually the strongest pieces in the game. In order to start the event, a player has to talk to the King piece of their own faction. The objective is to kill the enemy King without losing one's own King. If the game is won, a Dust Covered Chest appears with loot. The Curator's hall is directly below the gameroom.

Afterwards the pieces are reset and it is possible to play a friendly game within the raid. During such a friendly game, there is a silence debuff in the chess room to prevent clearing the trash mobs leading to Prince Malchezaar.

After the event begins, raid members can control any currently uncontrolled piece of their own faction by talking to it. Upon taking control of a piece the player character is teleported onto a platform at the side of the chess field. The player gains the "control piece" buff, his viewing perspective changes to that of the controlled piece, and their action bar is replaced. It is possible to release control of a piece by removing the control buff (right click it). This incurs a 15 sec debuff, during which time it is not possible to control another piece.

Medivh, at random, will cheat in the middle of the chess game, which can turn the tide of a fight, so be careful and quick about the decisions made on the field. Due to how easy the chess encounter can be, it is easily possible to ignore any changes made by the cheating and still win.

Healing Cheat
Medivh will randomly heal his king (and possibly all the other pieces) to full HP.

Damage Cheat
Medivh will target random units on the player's side of the field and surround them in fire, dealing massive damage to all affected units. Simply move out of the flames to avoid dying, but move quickly.

Berserking Cheat
Medivh will choose a few of his units and buff them. This buff will increase their size, speed and damage immensely. Either take down these pieces immediately or move away.


GLITCH!!!!
releasing your piece may cause you to spawn above the ceiling of the room, which puts you all the way back in the Curator's hallway. This can prevent you from being able to loot your badges from the chest if you are unable to run back to it before it disappears.

A bug has also been found that upon taking control of any chess piece will almost immediately result in a disconnection. The only way back into the game is to wait until your turn has expired and you are removed from the game with a "desertion" like debuff or if your fast enough remove yourself by right clicking the chess icon.

Quick Description: Just go in and kill the king.

Other then that you will find this to be the EASIEST room in all of kara and the loot for you will be good...

Bladed Shoulderpads of the Merciless
[Girdle of Treachery]
[Mithril Chain of Heroism]

Now the moment has arrived to go and take down the prince!

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Prince Malchezaar
Little is known about him except that he is a Man'ari Eredar (a demon-corrupted race of supremely talented magic-wielders who arose on the planet Argus countless millenia ago. There, they built a vast civilization of wondrous cities and a peaceful way of life. But 25,000 years ago, the tranquility of Argus was shattered. They now lead the Burning Legion.), he claims to be a prince, and he is a member of the Burning Legion. It is unknown how or when he arrived at Karazhan, or what his purpose there is.

Due to his location at the top of Karazhan, he is considered by many to be the tower's final boss. However, some used to consider the creature Nightbane to be the true final boss of Karazhan, due to his superior difficulty in the early days of the dungeon's release. Their comparative difficulty is now disputed.

In any case, Prince Malchezaar is a difficult boss for raids when they first reach him. Beating him requires solid gear on everyone: The tank, the damage-dealers, and the healers. It also requires skilled execution by all players.

Malchezaar summons a Netherspite Infernal which, about three seconds after landing, starts continuously casting a Hellfire AoE roughly the size of the one Baron Geddon uses. Each Infernal lives for about 180 secs, and there is no limit for how many of them can be up at the same time. There are typically four Infernals up at a time until the end of Phase Two. after which they will start increasing rapidly. These Infernals are stationary, and must be avoided by the raid. They cannot be targeted or attacked. The cooldown on this ability is 45 seconds during Phases One and Two, and 15 seconds during Phase Three. Malchezaar exclaims one of two emotes to announce an Infernal: "You face not Malchezaar alone, but the legions I command!" or "All realities, all dimensions are open to me!".

Prince, Periodically casts Enfeeble on five characters chosen at random, excluding the current target (the tank). Enfeeble reduces maximum health to a single hit point for about seven seconds. While this effect is active, any damage causes instant death. Healing effects do nothing, but the lost health returns after this undispellable effect ends. Enfeeble is followed by a Shadow Nova, so enfeebled characters must stay 30+ yards away from Malchezaar, and watch out for Infernals. Vampiric effects such as Siphon Life ignore Enfeeble. This does not hit pets. As a rogue this will be difficult for you. It will most likely hit you, and as a melee attacker you will have to run from prince, back to the party...as well as watch for infernals.

PHASE ONE
Phase One starts immediately when Malchezaar aggroes. The door to the balcony closes, and Malchezaar starts summoning infernals and casting Enfeeble and Shadow Nova. He casts Shadow Word: Pain on the tank. Fight Malchezaar with the tank's back to the wall to avoid knockback. DPS him steadily down to 60%, being mindful of Enfeeble, Shadow Nova, and the Infernal AoE. One strategy is to use White damage only for Phase One, except for hunters and classes with aggro wipes. This allows the tank to gain plenty of aggro to counter the high raid DPS of Phases Two and Three, meaning the tank will never get enfeebled. If you start to get cornered by Infernals, have your tank move to another part of the platform. Try to do this before Phase Two.

PHASE TWO
Phase Two starts when Prince Malchezaar is reduced to 60% health. He warps in axes, which substantially increases his melee damage. He stops casting Shadow Word: Pain and starts Parrying and Thrashing and casting Sunder Armor on the tank. Infernal summoning, Enfeeble, and Shadow Nova continue as in Phase One. Thrash is the biggest threat during this phase and can deal more than 12,000 damage inside of a second. Healers should keep the tank as close to full health as possible and stagger movements during group shifts to ensure the tank does not go very long without a heal. Keep attack power and speed debuffs up at all times (Thunderclap, Demoralizing Shout or Curse of Weakness) Healers should use preemptive and not reactionary heals during this phase (cancel unnecessary heals instead of only healing when needed) Paladin tanks can stop melee attacks and focus on using magic damage to reduce the chance of parry damage spikes

PHASE THREE
Phase Three begins when Prince Malchezaar reaches 30% health. Melee damage on the tank returns to Phase One levels. He stops using Enfeeble, Thrash, Sunder Armor, and Parry. He continues casting Shadow Nova. He starts casting Shadow Word: Pain and Amplify Damage on random raid members. He throws his axes into the air where they fly around attacking raid members at random. He starts summoning infernals much more frequently. Make sure the person being attacked by the axes communicates to the raid chat or on Ventrilo or Teamspeak so they can be healed. The damage they do is easy to heal through, but if ignored may cause the death of your healers or damage-dealers. The axes do physical damage and as such can be mitigated with armor. A Paladin's devotion aura is advised. The Infernals will spawn much more frequently and Malchezaar must be killed as soon as possible. Raid movement and communication is paramount during this phase to avoid taking damage from the Infernals. Each infernal will land on a fifteen-second timer. In less than two minutes, the infernals will completely cover the combat area, leading to a wipe. Burn him down fast. A badly placed infernal during this phase can easily wipe the raid. If this happens, don't be discouraged, since you managed to get him through the most difficult part of the fight (Phase Two).

Quick Description: Run in, if u get Enfeebled run out till ur not, watch for infernals landing and kill him

LOOT
[Helm of the Fallen Champion]
[Farstrider Wildercloak]
[Malchazeen]
[Ring of a Thousand Marks]
[Sunfury Bow of the Phoenix] (If there is a hunter in your party DO NOT ROLL on this item or i will personally ask that you be taken out of the guild...no matter if this is a guild run or not. ONLY exception is if the hunter has a bow that is better than this, or they already have it. I DONT CARE WHOS GUILD YOUR IN ON WHATEVER SERVER!)
[The Decapitator]

Now we go back a little to fight Nightbane

[yaZuo]

Nightbane
Nightbane is a summonable raid boss in Karazhan. He is a fiery skeletal dragon, transformed by Medivh from Arcanagos and formerly of the Blue Dragonflight. While not the ruler of Karazhan, a position apparently held by Prince Malchezaar, many consider Nightbane to be the true final boss of the tower, due to his superior difficulty in the early days of the dungeon's release. Their comparative difficulty is now in dispute.

A raid member must have completed the Medivh's Journal questline to summon the boss. This means Heroic Shattered Halls and Sethekk Halls must be partially completed in order to obtain the [Blackened Urn], which is used to summon Nightbane.

Nightbane has two phases that he transitions between several times during the course of the fight. During the Ground Phase, tank the boss on the ground in a style reminiscent of Onyxia. At 75%, 50%, and 25% health, he enters the Flight Phase and takes to the sky, during which time the raid's attention is focused elsewhere. After Nightbane finishes casting Rain of Bones and then Smoking Blast he begins a slow descent back down to the platform (to roughly the same location as the original landing) and Phase One begins anew. He is NOT tauntable.

Abilities on the ground
Bellowing Roar – Typical dragon fear with a 2.5-second cast time, short duration, and 30-second cooldown. Of moderate range, healers and ranged DPS at max range will be just outside its reach. Resistible with Berserker Rage, Fear Ward, Will of the Forsaken, or Death Wish. Tremor Totem will also break the fear on pulse. He casts this once every 45 seconds to 1 minute.
Charred Earth – Chars the ground beneath a random player. All players standing inside the affected area (approximately 5 yard radius, visually indicated by smoke on the ground) receive a DoT that deals up to 3,000 physical damage per second, mitigated by armor. Cannot be dispelled, but disappears by itself once the player leaves the affected zone. The zones remain for 30 seconds and several of them can be present at the same time.
Cleave – Typical dragon cleave, frontal arc. Hits for approximately 6,000 on plate, 11,000 on cloth.
Distracting Ash – Reduces chance to hit with melee and spells by 30% for 40 seconds. Can be dispelled.
Smoldering Breath – Inflicts 3,700 to 4,300 fire damage to enemies in a frontal cone. Deals 1,688 to 1,912 damage every 3 seconds for 15 seconds.
Tail Sweep – Inflicts 450 fire damage on enemies in a cone behind the boss, knocking them back. Deals 450 fire damage every 3 seconds for 25 seconds.

Abilities in the air
Casts Rain of Bones on one random player/pet:
Bombards the area the targeted person was standing at the initial cast with bone fragments, which deal 352-408 physical damage in a 6-yard radius.
Summons five Restless Skeletons. Each has the following attributes:
Hits for approximately 1,300 on cloth, 450 on plate
Has roughly 13,500 health
Shoots powerful Smoking Blast every second for approximately 15 seconds. Deals 1,850 to 2,150 physical damage (can be mitigated by armor, approximately 750 on plate) to the target and 3,000 fire damage over 18 seconds. The fire damage-over-time debuff can be dispelled. Targeting for this ability is determined by the individual with the highest threat on Nightbane after he goes into the air. The target is usually a healer because damage-dealers typically hit the skeletons during this phase.
Fireball Barrage: If any member of the raid is too far away from Nightbane while he is in flight, he pelts the raid with fireballs, each doing about 3,000-3,500 damage, casting 1 per second until all members are within range. This ability exists to prevent exploiting and is not something you will notice if you do things correctly.

PHASE ONE

Healing in this phase is not particularly difficult, with the fight resembling a simple Tank and Spank, but be careful not to rip aggro with an early heal on the tank. Nightbane has a lot of burst potential when his melee is combined with his cleave and smoldering breath, so healers need to be somewhat awake, even though they can get outside the 5 second rule quite often. Another ability that might be problematic during the Ground Phase is the Charred Earth. Assuming it appears beneath Group 1, Group 1 should briefly shift over to Group 2's position until the area is safe again, and vice-versa. Occasionally, both groups may fall victim to Charred Earth at the same time—if this happens, all healers and ranged must temporarily shift forward to remain in range of the tank and the boss. Consequently, both groups will be closer to the boss and vulnerable to the fear. The tank must be ready to take preventative measures as required should the raid's healers suddenly find themselves incapacitated. When melee DPS are avoiding Charred Earth, they must be careful not to move into the area vulnerable to Cleave (ahead of his front legs) or Tail Swipe (behind his back legs). Any melee-type wandering into his head area are prone to being one-shot. This is a long, healing-intensive fight that can last upwards of 10 minutes. Timed correctly, many mana-regenerative cooldowns such as Innervate and Shadowfiend may be used twice during this encounter. Tanking Nightbane is a fairly straightforward affair, with the exception of fear. Handling fear is paramount to success, as one or two uncontrolled fears will guarantee a wipe. Warrior tanks can minimize the effect of fear by stance dancing. Having a macro to avoid fear really helps. For the Druid or the Paladin tank, however, things are not so easy unless Fear Ward is present. Patch 2.3 changed the cooldown of Fear Ward to 3 minutes, making it difficult to rely on by itself for the encounter. But since Nightbane will chase the tank even if the tank is feared, raid members can run out of range of the fear to avoid getting caught by a cleave or tail sweep. A tremor totem in the tank's group is a huge help for this strategy by reducing the amount of time the tank gets feared.

PHASE TWO
Immediately after Nightbane summons skeletons while in his Flight Phase, it targets the raid member with the highest threat and repeatedly casts Smoking Blast on this target. This is typically a healer.

Smoking blast deals physical damage, so the more armor the target has, the better. Paladins would be ideal; however, due to their mechanics, it is very difficult for them to have the highest threat. Even if paladins have improved righteous fury, their healing threat generation is only 0.5*1.9=0.95 compared to the 0.7*0.8=0.56 threat (Priest or Druid with blessing of salvation, 0.595 for a Shaman) that the other healers will have. In general, it is fairly difficult for the paladin to compete with healing aggro for Smoking Blast against priests and shaman who have AoE heals.

Healers must be prepared to spam heals on whomever the affected primary healer is. This will likely occupy a majority of your healers' time, which complicates dealing with the skeletons. When formulating a strategy for killing the skeletons, remember that your healers are otherwise occupied.

Alternate Method #1 This method requires a Resto Shaman with Earth Shield. When Nightbane takes off, have the Shaman place an Earth Shield on the tank. Once the Rain of Bones begins and the skeletons start to spawn, have the tank grab aggro on as many of them as possible (Thunderclap [improved talent works wonders here] for Warrior tanks, or Swipe for Feral Druids). The skeletons will proc the Earth Shield on the tank, thus generating the healing aggro on the tank. This will limit healing in multiple ways, 1) only one to three people actually taking damage from Rain of bones, 2) Earth Shield will keep the tank up easily provided the resto shaman's gear is decent, 3) the Smoking Blast will only be hitting the tank with the Earth Shield (which will in turn proc it more). You can drop a Tranquil Air Totem if the tank is not in the healers' group to ensure that healing can still go out, but Smoking Blast will hit the tank.

All healers and ranged collapse to where the main tank is standing in order to avoid the Fireball Barrage. Once Rain of Bones starts, all players must immediately move away to avoid taking too much AoE damage. Five skeletons will spawn during the Rain of Bones. These hit fairly hard!It also helps in the group spreads out a little bit after gathering, so the tanks can identify who has aggro from a skeleton and pull aggro from them as soon as possible. Note: Do not spread out too far as this will make pulling aggro from the skeletons even harder.

Lacking a good Paladin tank, it may be be more effective to kill the spawns one at a time rather than AoEing them. Be warned: Due to the Smoking Blast occupying the healers, there isn't much chance for survival if a mage or warlock draws aggro from AoE.

Also, If you are still having trouble with this fight being the Skeletons still are not going down fast, people are dying or its killing the healers mana, It might be an idea to have your raid pre-prepared with [Stratholme Holy Water] from the Undead side of Stratholme. Using this when all 5 are up will deal decent damage, and if everyone that can't AoE uses this they should go down much quicker. Ten seconds before Nightbane lands, all members of the raid should fall back to the previous positions, dragging whatever skeletons are still alive with them. Ideally, all adds will be dead at this point, but having one or two still up before Nightbane descends is fine. The tank must remember to keep an eye on the casting bar, and stance dance to avoid an early fear. A recent change has made this fight a bit easier for raids that do not have fear wards/tremor totems/warrior tanks. Nightbane will keep aggro on the tank, regardless of whether the tank is feared or not. This introduces the challenge of the tank being feared into the ranged group, but it does make paladin and druids tanks more of an option.

The most dangerous parts of this fight are the transitions between the Flight and Ground Phases, when the main tank must reestablish aggro. Hunters' Misdirection is especially useful here, to make sure the boss goes directly for the tank.

Ground Phase begins again when Nightbane lands, rinse and repeat at 50% and 25% until victory.

IF you are lucky and get him down, surround yourself with the glorious chest piece

[Chestguard of the Conniver]

Quick description of the fight: Stay on his side, head will kill you and tail will kill you. If you see fire form below you, get the hell out of it. When he takes off get close to tank and help take out things that drop. Before he lands run to the side away from tank, and repeat

And then onto the only boss left in kara...Netherspite

[yaZuo]

Netherspite
an immense nether dragon found lurking in the Celestial Watch, Medivh's personal observatory. As the only dragon found inside the dark tower, he will use his otherworldly powers to vanquish any creatures that attempt to go near him. This dragon's death is not required for further progress into the tower but he does control the trash between the Shade of Aran and the Chess Event.

Netherspite patrols the back section of his room, but his aggro radius is not particularly large allowing the entire raid to comfortably enter the room before the pull. The fight is entirely tactical: other than the enrage time the players' gear does not play as large a part in this fight as it does others.

The room itself is enormous, allowing plenty of room for players to maneuver. It is shaped like a square with a semicircular balcony attached to the far end.

Basic Melee: Netherspite hits for roughly 8k on cloth without any buffs stacked on him.
Nether Burn: Aura type spell (exactly as Baron Rivendare's and Lord Alexei Barov's), deals 1200 shadow damage every 5 seconds, affected by line of sight. This damage is resistible, so shadow resist buffs beforehand can negate much of it. Only active during Portal phase.
Void Zone: Opens a massive void portal that lasts 25 seconds, inflicting ~1k shadow damage every 2 seconds to all players in the selected area. (Similar to that in the Four Horsemen fight of Naxxramas, or Zereketh the Unbound in Arcatraz) Simply move out of the affected area immediately. Players blocking the blue beam (see below) should be especially careful with this because of how fast it can kill them.
Netherbreath: An attack hitting everyone in a cone out from where Netherspite is facing at the time for ~4.5k arcane damage in addition to knocking them back ~20 yards. Will be cast very frequently during Banish phase. Cast time: 2.5 seconds.
Empowerment: Undispellable self-buff that increases damage by 200%. Cast during Portal phase a few seconds after beams come up and will remain for the whole phase.
Enrage: After 9 minutes, Netherspite will enrage, increasing his damage done by 500% (including Nether Burn). Will generally make quick work of your raid, dealing upwards of 30000 damage per hit in melee.
NOTE - unlike most dragons, Netherspite will neither cleave nor damage players with his tail.

There are two phases to this fight that Netherspite alternates between. The Portal phase, (the first one) lasts for one minute, and the Banish phase (the second one), lasts for half a minute. He alternates between these two at the given rate until dead or enraged.

Portal phase
Players get a system warning: "Netherspite cries out in withdrawal, opening gates to the warp."
At the beginning of this phase, three portals of different colors will spawn at fixed locations in the room and will begin emitting a beam of their respective color (see below) towards Netherspite. The beams do not slowly move toward him, but rather appear touching Netherspite once they are created.

If the beams are allowed to hit Netherspite freely, they grant him stacking buffs which strengthen or even heal him. The buffs on Netherspite last 5 seconds from last application (instead of the 8 to 20 seconds they do on players). The beams can (and must) be blocked by players who position themselves between a portal and Netherspite. Players blocking the beams are also affected by a stacking buff, having both a positive and a negative effect which grows more extreme with each second that the player spends blocking a beam. Although the positive effects are quite helpful for the fight, the negative effect makes it difficult (but certainly not impossible) for one player to block a beam for the complete duration of the Portal phase.

Once a buff "ticks out" (player leaves the beam long enough to lose the debuff - 8-20 sec), another debuff is applied to the player called Nether Exhaustion, which prevents him from intercepting that color beam for the next 1 minute and 30 seconds.

Red Beam
Perseverance (red) - Tank beam:
Lasts for 20 sec after leaving the beam.
Hits Netherspite:
Damage taken reduced by 1% per tick.
Hits Player:
Netherspite will aggro you.
If no one is standing in the Red Beam, Netherspite uses his standard aggro table.
Damage taken is reduced by 1% per tick.
Defense is increased by 5 per tick.
Health is modified - the first application gives +31,000 maximum health, with additional stacks reducing maximum health by 1000 per stack.
Replenishes full health every tick.
Green Beam
Serenity (green) - Healer beam:
Lasts for 10 sec after leaving the beam.
Hits Netherspite:
Heals for +4000 health per tick. (Stacking so it heals for 4K, 8K, 12K, 16K etc. -- it is very important not to let Netherspite get hit by this beam.)
Hits Player:
Healing done is increased by 5% per tick.
Spell and ability cost reduced by 1% per tick (including abilities that require Rage or Energy, in addition to Mana).
Maximum mana reduced by 200. Stacks up until your total mana pool reaches 0. Druids in Bear/Cat Form will have their hidden mana bars affected as well. Rage and Energy maxima are unaffected.
Similar to the red beam, mana is restored to the new maximum with each tick.
If a Hunter uses Feign Death while tanking the green beam they will become exhausted and not be able to tank it anymore, most likely wiping the raid.
Blue Beam
Dominance (blue) - DPS beam:
Lasts for 8 sec after leaving the beam.
Hits Netherspite:
+1% spell damage increase per tick.
Hits Player:
Damage dealt is increased by 5% per tick.
Healing received reduced by 1%.
Damage taken by spells is increased by 8%.
Portals will always spawn at the same locations in the room during all Portal phases, but their colors will semi-randomly change each time after the first Phase.

Beam Blocking Assignment
This part of the fight relies on individual player responsibility in that all players designated to block a beam ahead of time (see below for suggestions) must be aware of what beam they are supposed to be blocking and when so as to intercept it as quickly as possible.

Those not blocking a red beam deal damage or heal the raid. Because of the red beam's unique abilities, healers should not ever waste time healing the tank. Damage dealers need not worry about threat, since the tank has guaranteed aggro while standing in the red beam.

For each Portal phase, one or two players are needed to block each beam. Using one player is simpler, but requires much better gear. Using two players avoids stacking debuffs to dangerous levels, but requires intelligent coordination.

Blue Beam
The blue beam is taken by damage-dealing classes (preferably with high health and/or shadow resistance). While their damage output increases rapidly, the damage received by them from Netherspite's shadow aura also increases rapidly and healing spells on them become less effective. Players staying inside this beam for too long becoming prone to be killed by a Void Zone.

Most raids do best by assigning one damage-dealer to take the blue beam for twenty ticks, then switching to a second damage-dealer for the rest of the phase. This avoids stacking the debuff to dangerous levels.

A Warlock is especially useful here, as he can replenish the health lost through the increased damage from his Drain Life spell and can reduce his shadow damage taken. A shadow priest is also a good option since Vampiric Embrace also scales with damage and heals the caster for a considerable amount. These classes are most easily able to take the entire duration of the blue beam. One healer should be designated to heal only the person in the blue beam.

The death of a blue beam blocker is not always a disaster. Any class and any spec is capable of blocking this beam. If the blocker happens to go down during the portal phase, any available player can simply hop in and ride the beam for the duration until the snag can be worked out.

Green Beam
The green beam rapidly heals Netherspite to full if it is allowed to touch him. It must be blocked at all times.

A manaless class (warrior, rogue, or feral druid) can stay for a whole beam's duration and not receive any relevant debuff. The reduced energy / rage cost of abilities from this beam allows them to do more damage. A tank that is not currently taking the red beam is a good option.

Half the green beam can be taken by a healer to temporarily greatly increase his power. This makes it easy to keep up whoever is taking the blue beam. A healer that takes the beam for 20 seconds finishes with mana 4,000 below his maximum. This may be higher than his mana before the beam, so it is often a very good idea to put a healer in the green beam. Restoration Druids are especially effective in this - their HoTs tick for very high numbers, which can be useful to recover from the Netherbreath - however, Paladins and Shamans can more easily recover from the reduced mana pool.

Damage-dealing classes that use mana may touch the green beam for one tick. This refills their mana to full. They must be careful to get out of the beam quickly, so the designated green beam blocker does not get Nether Exhaustion.

Raids that have problems with the blue beam blocker dying usually are raids that keep healers out of the healing beam. If this is a problem, try using the green beam with a healer instead of just neutralizing it with a rogue or warrior.

Red Beam
Classes with high armor (i.e. Warriors, Bear Druids, Paladins, Shamans and Hunters) can block the red beam. The red beam gives them the massive healing and health needed to tank Netherspite. But despite the replenishment to full health every second, Netherspite can sometimes crit for very high numbers (upwards of 11k on a plate-wearing non tank). So leather and cloth wearers can still get easily one-shotted despite the augmented health maximum. Resilience from PvP gear is useful.

The red beam may be blocked two different ways. One way is to have one character block it for 20 seconds, and another character block it for the rest of the beam. The other way is to have a single tank-class character dance in and out of the beam for the entire duration.

If two characters share a red beam, they must be druid bears or wear chain mail or plate. One player takes a beam for 20 ticks, then the next player does.

If one player takes the entire red beam, they must be druid bear or have plate mail and a shield. Any character will eventually be one-shotted if they stand in the entire red beam, so they must dance in and out of the beam to avoid some of the debuffs. To do this, they repeatedly take five stacks of the debuff, then shift to the side to let Netherspite take the next five stacks, then shift back in. To void Netherspite moving, they should not move backward.

Banish Phase
The Banish phase lasts for about 30 seconds:

Players get a system warning: "Netherspite goes into a nether-fed rage!" He will dramatically change color to the usual shade of a banished mob.
Netherspite is banished, remains stationary but still vulnerable to all damage. He will not pursue players and has no aggro table.
Netherspite is still able to deal melee damage to you during the Banish phase if you get too close to him.
Damage from Nether Burn aura will stop and no new Void Zones spawn during this phase. The ones already in place, however, are not removed.
After a few seconds of inactivity, Netherspite begins targeting random players, and will attempt to cast Netherbreath on them. This ability has about a ~60 yard range and effects an unlimited number of players in a frontal cone.
There are two techniques for handling the Banish phase.

One technique is to leave Netherspite at the door with the designated red-beam tank for the next Portal phase and one healer. Everyone else runs to the far side of the room, by the telescope. The tank faces Netherspite toward the door, and the healer stands to the side. The players on the far side of the room bandage up and recover mana. This is generally the easiest maneuver.

The second technique is to make a tight circle around Netherspite and continue attacking. Non-tanks stay out of melee range. When he faces a player to perform a Netherbreath, everyone runs to his tail. If executed quickly and properly, this prevents anyone from getting hit, and Netherspite dies more quickly this way.

Another trick is to have a shaman drop a Searing Totem. Netherspite tries to kill the totem with his Netherbreath(an AoE spell that does not kill it). It also aggroes Netherspite as soon as the banish phase ends, providing time for the tank to pick him up.

After 30 seconds, Netherspite starts a fresh Portal phase and clears his aggro table. This means that no damaging or healing spells can be used before the tank can gain aggro. This means that he will have to pick up Netherspite and then drag him over to the red portal or healers will be stuck. Other players should run to where their portals have appeared as quickly as they can.

Netherspite does not always leave the Banish phase immediately when his cooldown is up. Do not run back to him too soon.

Miscellaneous Hints
No one should ever cross the Red Beam behind its designated blocker. Netherspite moves in order to reach the new recipient of the red beam. The green and blue beams follow him and might slip off their respective blockers.
Warriors should never use Berserker Stance when blocking the Red Beam. Netherspite can crit them for up to 30,000 damage if they do so.
Red Beam blockers should be careful when moving out of Void Zones. It is usually possible to move forward or backward enough to not take damage from the void zone without causing Netherspite to shift position (thereby causing the blue and green beams to shift off their blockers and onto Netherspite). Some people prefer to just sit in the void zone as the red beam's healing ability can usually make up for the extra damage.
Warlocks in the blue beam should cast Curse of Doom at the end of the portal phase when they have many debuffs stacked. It hits for between 5% and 7% of Netherspite's health.
Shadow Priests can sustain a full duration of the Blue Beam if they have 2 points in the Improved Vampiric Embrace talent. Since Vampiric Embrace scales with damage done, the reduction to healing effects is offset. This in turn also benefits the Priest's entire group with massive health gains, since the Priest is the only one affected by the Blue Beam.
The three different portals always spawn at the same location in the first Portal Phase:
Red to the right of the entrance
Green to the left of the entrance
Blue opposite of the entrance
Paladins should use Shadow Resistance Aura because the red beam should give the tank more than enough health to survive without Devotion Aura, and it is useful because Nether Burn can be resisted.
Priests should cast Shadow Protection or Prayer of Shadow Protection on the raid to help mitigate damage from Nether Burn and void zones. This is especially true for the blue beam blocker.
While difficult, it is possible to break line of sight on Netherspite during the banish phase. Positioning is key: if the tank positions Netherspite near the door, it is possible to hide in the corner of the first window on the right. This reduces the amount of time running back and forth, and reduces the amount of time Netherspite is able to target players.

Quick Description: You will either be assigned as a dps or not assigned. If you are this is how it works

SHIFT ONE: PORTAL PHASE
Blue-DPS A, then DPS B
BANISH PHASE

SHIFT TWO: PORTAL PHASE
Blue-DPS C, then DPS D
BANISH PHASE

SHIFT ONE AGAIN, etc. in between the shifts there is a "Banish phase" go all out and watch for nether breath. Bandage and go back in.


Loot from this dragon for you includes...
[Cowl of Defiance]
[Spiteblade]
[Skulker's Greaves]

Now thats it..your done in kara congrats, and hopefully your up for this trek over and over again. Hopefully this helped you and wasent too confusing. With netherspite you might want to go over a few times with guildies to understand better.