WoW Gold Tip: From 1,000 to 2,000 Gold

In today’s gold farming tutorial we’re going to answer one simple question. How can we go from 1,000 gold to 2,000 gold in the fastest way possible? This little question was proposed by a good friend of mine, Markco Polo, blogger over at JustMyTwoCopper.com. Needless to say, there’s a number of ways we could turn 1,000 gold into 2,000 gold…we could use professions, grinding techniques, auction house buy / resale tactics, etc. But I wanted to do something a little different for this gold farming tip.

Vanity Pet Selling

When WoW introduced achievements it brought a whole new type of “grinding” with it. Players love completing achievements, and one fun one that a huge portion of the WoW population engages in is the rare vanity pet collecting. These pets are attained through a wide variety of places, but for our purposes we’re going to just focus on the ones we can purchase. This strategy may sound simplistic, and it is, but it’s insanely effective, profitable, and a speedy way to go from 1,000 to 2,000 gold.

First things first, we need to make our pet collection rounds. I generally buy about 10 of each individual pet that I will take back and sell over a number of days.

Neutral Vendors

Dealer Rashaad, Netherstorm

• Blue Dragonhawk Hatchling, 10g
• Brown Rabbit Crate, 10g
• Cat Carrier (Siamese), 60s
• Cockroach, 50s
• Crimson Snake, 50s,
• Mana Wyrmling, 40g
• Parrot Cage (Senegal), 40s
• Red Moth Egg, 10g

Magus Tirth, Shimmering Flats

• Ancona Chicken, 1g

Narkk, Booty Bay

• Parrot Cage (Cockatiel), 40s
• Parrot Cage (Senegal), 40s

Alliance Vendors

Sixx, The Exodar

• Blue Moth Egg, 50s
• White Moth Egg, 50s
• Yellow Moth Egg, 50s

Donni Anthania, Elwynn Forest

• Cat Carrier (Bombay), 40s
• Cat Carrier (Cornish Rex), 40s
• Cat Carrier (Orange Tabby), 40s
• Cat Carrier (Silver Tabby), 40s

Shylenai, Darnassus

• Great Horned Owl, 50s
• Hawk Owl, 50s

Yarlyn Amberstill, Dun Morogh

• Rabit Crate (Snowshoe), 20s

Horde Vendors

Xan’tish, Orgrimmar

• Black Kingsnake, 50s
• Brown Snake, 50s
• Crimson Snake, 50s

Halpa, Thunder Bluff

• Prairie Dog Whistle, 50s

Jilanne, Eversong Woods

• Golden Dragonhawk Hatchling, 50s
• Red Dragonhawk Hatchling, 50s
• Silver Dragonhawk Hatchling, 50s

It may take some time to gather all of the pets. Obviously, some of these locations are a bit out of the way, but this is why we really want to make it worth our trip by buying up a decent stock of these pets. After a few trips you may get a better idea for the demand on your server, and increase or decrease the types of pets you are focusing on. In addition, this strategy does deal with some cross faction trading. If you’re not comfortable with that, just stick with your faction and the neutral vendor. The neutral vendor in Netherstorm is really the big one we want to make sure we hit.

Here’s the total we spent (assuming we bought 10 of each), 816 gold.

Pricing Our Items

The next big step is pricing our items. This is tricky with any item, but especially true for an item that is so ambiguous in value. Now, at a certain level you simply have to keep your prices in line to compete on your server, but if there is low supply we can simply set our own. For an item like this bigger is always better. Here is the model I generally use:

• Pets 1g or less, multiply by 5x – 10x
• Pets 10g, multiply by 3x – 5x
• Pets 40g, multiply by 2x – 3x

I’ve been selling pets like this for a long time, and week after week I continue to unload the same pets for an extrordinary profit margin. All it takes is a quick “world buying tour” to stock up for a week or so, and then all the work is done. I list my pets for auctions every 2 days, takes me around 90 seconds to list everything. Even when I factor in the time it took to fly around and purchase the pets this strategy still has resulted in one of the highest gold per hour strategies I’ve devised to date.

Here’s what my net looked like last week.

• 1g and under pets, average multiplier 6.8x, total cost 120, Gross Profit: 8,16 gold
• 10g pets, average multipler 3.4x, total cost 300, Gross Profit: 1,020 gold
• 40g pets, average multipler 3x, total cost 400, Gross Profit: 1,200 gold

Cost / Profit Analysis

• Gross Expenses: 816 gold
• Gross Profit: 3,036
• Net Profit: 2,220

When I think gold farming I think one thing, simple. Complex strategies don’t work for most people for that simple fact…they are just too hard to implement. The tactics I use, and teach, on a day to day basis revolve around simple, quantifiable, and repeatable strategies that  a player of any skill level can employ. Aside from my insider’s club students I haven’t revealed my pet strategy to anyone outside my inner circle…but for Markco I’d say it’s worth it. =)

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Ruby Sanctum: Halion Strategy Tactics Guide

The Ruby Sanctum, bastion of the red dragonflight, lies hidden under the Wyrmrest Temple within Dragonblight. This minimal trash encounter features 3 mini-bosses and the final dragon, Halion.

Ruby Sanctum Mini-Boss Tactics

Saviana Ragefire Strategy

• Health: 14 Million (25-man), 4 Million (10-man)

Critical boss fight tactics

1. Tanks: The tank should face the boss away from the raid to avoid breaths and other frontal attacks
2. Damage: DPS should be behind or adjacent to the boss, likewise avoiding frontal attacks
3. Healers: There is a lot of splash damage during the air phase, so this would be a good time for raid members to use cooldowns to reduce damage. In addition, healers should be prepared to lay down some AoE healing.
4. Specific Attacks: During the air phase Saviana will conflagrate 5 people /2 people by picking them up and then dropping them.
5. Specific Attacks: Savianna will periodically enrages so you will want to have a hunter on the ready with tranquilizing shot.
6. Specific Attacks: Savianna will also periodically cast nova, so you want to have the raid spread out at least 10 yards.

Baltharus the Warborn Strategy

• Health: 11 Million (25-man), 3 Million (10-man)

Critical boss fight tactics

1. Tanks: Tank Baltharus away from the raid to avoid his frontal cone attacks. Likewise, the off tank on the mirror image will tank this away from the raid.
2. Damage: DPS from behind or adjacent to avoid frontal cone attacks, including cleave.
3. Healers: Watch out for the periodic whirlwind from the mirror image. Position accordingly to avoid this.
4. Specific Attacks: As mentioned before Baltharus will summon a mirror image. This image has all the same abilities, in addition to a powerful whirlwind attack. You will want to have your off tank immediatly pick this up and move him away from the raid. This image will periodically be re-summoned and should be killed as soon as possible each time. It’s a good idea to mark Baltharus so you will not confuse him with the images.

General Zarithrian Strategy

• Health: 11 Million (25-man), 3 Million (10-man)

Critical boss fight tactics

1. Tank: Face away from the raid to avoid frontal attacks. Zarithrian also spawns a number of adds, these should be picked up by 1-2 additional off tanks.
2. Damage: Like previously, all DPS should be behind or adjacent to the boss to avoid frontal attacks. Ranged DPS should focus on killing the adds, while melee DPS will focus on killing the Zarithrian.
3. Healers: Just like with Savianna there is a lot of splash damage during the air phase, so healers should be prepared to increase healing to keep up.
4. Specific Attacks: Zarithrian will periodically cast fear, so proper use of tremor totem, fear ward, and other fear breaking / preventing abilities will be necessary.
5. Specific Attacks: Zarithrian’s adds will be casting an AoE attack, which can and should be interrupted.

Ruby Sanctum – Halion Boss Fight Strategy and Tactics

• Health: 45 Million (25-man), 18 Million (10-man)
• 3 Phases
• Tanks: Face away from the raid to avoid frontal attacks.
• Damage: Ranged DPS can be behind or adjacent, melee DPS should be adjacent to avoid the tail swipe and frontal cone attacks.
• Healers: Stay away from the frontal cone attacks and focus on your positioning.

Halion Strategy – Phase 1

1. Specific Attacks: As the encounter begins Halion will summon a wall of fire in a circle around him. So make certain your raid is all together before beginning.
2. Specific Attacks: Halion summons fireballs that fall from the sky. The location they will hit is marked by a graphic on the ground. Simply move out of the way. When they  hit the explode into fire patches on the ground that spread, move away from these to avoid taking any damage.
3. Specific Attacks: Halion will cast Mark of Combustion. When this is dispelled it releases a fire patch on the ground. When a player is afflicted by this they should run away from the main raid and then get dispelled. The longer it takes to dispel the larger the fire patch will grow to, so time is key.
4. Phase 1 ends when Halion reaches 75%.

Halion Strategy – Phase 2

1. During this phase a portal will appear, the entire raid will enter.
2. Specific Attacks: Halion will periodically cast Mark of Consumption, which behaves just like Mark of Combustion, except that it deals shadow damage. Raid members must run away from the group prior to getting dispelled.
3. Specific Attacks: The most important (and fun thing) here is the shadow orbs. Two of these orbs will circle around the stage area. Periodically these beams will link up and deal enough damage to kill any player caught between them. For this reason the entire raid, including the tank, must continually rotate maintaining a distance between the orbs in order to avoid taking this damage.
4. Phase 2 ends when Halion reaches 50%.

Halion Strategy – Phase 3

1. At 50% a new portal will open. At this point Halion will exist in both the physical realm and the twilight realm.
2. You must split your raid up in order to DPS down Halion in both realms. It’s particularly important that your DPS is balanced across both realms. If Halion is not killed at the same rate in each realm she will fade into one or the other realm and begin to regain health.
3. You should send most of your ranged DPS back through the portal, as they will have an easier time dealing with the Mark of Combustion. Likewise, your melee DPS should remain where they are at, as the rotating beams will be easier for them to navigate without having to sacrifice their DPS.
4. Phase 1 mechanics will take over for those who take the portal back to the twilight realm and phase 2 mechanics will remain for those who stay in the twilight realm.
5. Specific Buff: During this phase Halion will have a buff called Corporeality. This buff begins at 50%, which is it’s balanced state. As this percentage changes Halion will deal and receive more damage in one realm and deal and receive less damage in the other. Dealing damage to Halion in one realm will cause the buff to decrease in that realm and increase in the other, furthermore he will begin to fade into the other realm where he will rapidly regain health if not DPS’d.
6. It’s critical that the Corporeality buff remain around the 50% mark.

Ruby Sanctum – Halion Heroic Mode

• Phase 1 changes – The fireballs that fall from the sky will spawn fire elements. The large fire elemental must be picked up by an off tank and the smaller ones should be AoE’d down by the raid.
• Phase 2 changes – The number of shadow orbs circling the stage has been increased from 2 to 4, effectively creating 4 quadrants in which you must rotate.

Ruby Sanctum – Halion 25 Man Strategy Guide Video

The Lich King Boss Fight Strategy Guide Tactics

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After you defeat the bosses of the Frozen Halls, you come to the Frozen Throne, which is where the Lich King is.  This is the fight you’ve been waiting for, and it won’t be easy.  The fight against the Lich King has a lot of moving parts, so you’ve got to be on your toes.  One of the most important things to remember up front about the fight against the Lich King is that you only have 15 minutes to take him from phase one of the fight to phase four.  Phase four begins when the Lich King is at 10 percent health.  If you don’t do it within that time frame, then he will enrage and wipe the raid instantly.  Here’s a quick Lich King Boss Strategy Guide to help you out.

The Lich King hit points: 17,400,000 (normal) – 78,300,000 (heroic)

The Lich King Boss Abilities

Summon Drudge Ghouls

• 3 Drudge Ghouls

Summon Shambling Horror

• Shockwave ability

Soul Reaper

• 50,000 damage
• Shadow damage
• Increases Lich King’s physical damage dealt 100 percent after 5 seconds
• Only cast on the tank

Necrotic Plague

• 150,000 damage every 5 seconds
• Shadow damage
• Lasts 15 seconds
• Jumps to a nearby unit if the raid member hit with this dies from it or if it is dispelled
• Stacks with each jump
• Increases the Lich King’s power with each jump

Plague Siphon

• Increases physical damage dealt 2 percent
• Lasts 30 seconds

Infest

• 9,425 – 10,575 damage + exponentially increasing damage per second
• Shadow damage
• 50,000 yard radius
• Removed when your health is full

Remorseless Winter

• 9,425 – 10,575 damage per second
• Frost damage
• 45 yard radius

Pain and Suffering

• 2,828 – 3,172 damage plus 500 damage every 3 seconds
• Shadow damage
• Frontal cone
• Stacks up to 5 times

Summon Ice Sphere

• 10,000 damage
• Frost damage
• Knockback

Summon Raging Spirit

• Spawns periodically
• Uses Soul Shriek

Soul Shriek

• 18,850 – 21,150 damage
• Shadow damage
• Frontal cone
• Silences for 5 seconds

Defile

• 3,000 damage
• AoE Shadow damage
• Gets bigger and more powerful every time it hits a raid member

Summon Val’kyr Shadowguard

• A Val’kyr Shadowguard tries to pick up a random raid member and drop them off the top of Icecrown Citadel

Harvest Soul

• 7,500 damage per second
• Lasts 6 seconds
• Transfers soul to Frostmourne

Vile Spirits

• Summons 10 Vile Spirits
• 30 second cast time
• 14,138 – 15,862 damage when they become active
• Shadow damage
• 5 yard radius

Fury of Frostmourne

• 1,000,000 damage
• Shadow damage
• Hits all raid members

The Lich King Boss Strategy Guide

1. Start out by tanking the Lich King on the edge of the platform across from the throne.  DPS must take out the adds quickly, but not too quickly.  The reason you don’t want to take them out too quickly is because of a little ability called Necrotic Plague.  Healers need to dispel this off of players who get infected, but every time they do, it jumps to a nearby character.  Necrotic Plague can also jump to the adds, so make sure any raid member who gets infected runs to a mob as soon as they are infected so they can pass the Necrotic Plague to the adds instead of other raid members.
2. You’ll know when the Lich King is at 70 percent health because he immediately moves to the center of the area and casts Remorseless Winter.  All raid members must run to the platform that extends out during the battle.  This should get them far enough away to avoid Remorseless Winter. 
3. While you’re on the platform extension, kill the adds that spawn.  Assign about one or two melee DPS to the adds.  Ranged can stay on the Lich King.  These adds do have a silence ability, so all casters and healers should stay behind them to avoid it.  Ranged DPS must target the Frost Orbs and bring them down before they reach the raid to avoid a wipe.  The Frozen Orbs look like white balls of light, and they move slowly enough so it’s pretty easy to take them out before they reach the raid.
4. DPS must stay spread out during this phase of the fight to keep from spreading Pain and Suffering to each other.
5. As soon as the Lich King kneels, all raid members must run back to him because the platform extension will disappear.  There are also lines that appear in the ground, radiating from the Lich King when this happens.  At this point, go back to tanking the Lich King in the same position you started tanking him in at the beginning of the fight.  Avoid the dark pools that appear on the floor during this phase.  They will not only kill you, but get stronger the longer you stand in them.  Move out of these immediately.  Tanks must kite the Lich King out of these pools to keep melee DPS in the fight. 
6. All DPS, especially ranged, should pick up the Val’kyr Shadowguards that spawn during this phase of the fight.  If they don’t, then whoever is picked up by these adds will be dropped off the side of Icecrown Citadel and die. 
7. The Lich King will move back to the center of the area and cast Remorseless Winter again when he reaches 40 percent health.  Just rinse and repeat what you did earlier by running to the platform extension and taking out the adds with the silencing ability.  Ranged DPS stay on the Lich King.
8. When the Lich King kneels again, run back to him again.  DPS should start picking up the next wave of adds that spawns.  Beware of this round of adds however, because they explode.  Kill them before they explode to avoid the majority of their damage.  If you’ve got a good ranged tank, this would be the time to use him.
9. Healers, watch out for Harvest Soul.  Make sure you heal all raid members through this.  Raid members who are healed through Harvest Souls then get sucked into Frostmourne.  They should fight their way out to weaken the Lich King even further.  Just remember that if you die while you’re inside of Frostmourne, then you strengthen the Lich King, so it’s very important that you fight your way out successfully. 
10. DPS raid members have a pretty straightforward fight inside of Frostmourne.  Just kill the spirit as quickly as you can.  Healers however, don’t need to fight to kill that spirit.  King Terenas is also inside of Frostmourne, so just heal him until he kills the spirit for you.  All raid members who get sucked into Frostmourne (especially healers) much watch out for the stacking debuff on King Terenas.  Interrupt this debuff to keep King Terenas in the fight.
11. Phase four begins when the Lich King is at 10 percent health.  Remember, you’ve got 15 minutes to get him to this point, or the entire raid will die.  When the Lich King battle does reach phase four, everyone dies (but not really)!  DO NOT RELEASE when you die at the beginning of phase four.  It fades to black and is very deceiving, making you think that you did die, but DO NO RELEASE!  Watch the interaction between the Lich King and King Terenas.  King Terenas will then resurrect all raid members and hold the Lich King at bay while you finish him off.  DPS burn him down with everything you’ve got.

Sindragosa Boss Strategy Guide Tactics

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After you heal Valithria to full health, she wipes the Scourge armies so you can move on to the next boss.  Sindragosa is the last boss standing between you and the Lich King, but you’ve got to bring down Rimefang and Spinestalker before Sindragosa spawns.  Basically, use a tank and spank approach for Rimefang and Spinestalker.  Stay out of the icy patches on the ground during the fight against Rimefang.  All melee DPS should stay next to Spinestalker during that part of the battle to avoid Tail Sweep and the very strong melee swing. 

As soon as Sindragosa spawns, start your 10 minute timer.  You have 10 minutes to take her down before she enrages and wipes the raid.

Sindragosa hit points: 11,560,000 (normal) – 38,348,000 (heroic)

Sindragosa Boss Abilities

Cleave

• Adds 50 to all normal damage
• Affects up to 10 raid members

Tail Smash

• 11,250 – 18,750 damage
• Physical damage
• Knockback

Frost Aura

• 4,500 damage every 3 seconds
• Frost damage

Icy Grip

• Drags all raid members to her in preparation for Blistering Cold

Blistering Cold

• 35,000 damage
• Frost damage
• 25 yard radius

Unchained Magic

• Causes Arcane backlash after 8 seconds

Instability

• 2,000 damage per spell cast while you’re under the effect of Unchained Magic
• Begins 8 seconds after your spell ends
• Stacks up to 99 times

Frost Beacon

• Marks which raid member will be locked into Ice Tomb

Ice Tomb

• Ice blocks you
• 10 yard radius around the targeted raid member
• 454,000 hit points to get you out of the ice block

Frost Bomb

• 23,563 – 26,437 damage
• Frost damage
• Affects all raid members in line of sight

Mystic Buffet

• Increases magic damage taken by 10 percent
• Lasts 8 seconds
• Stacks up to 99 times

Sindragosa Boss Strategy Guide

1. The fight against Sindragosa covers both ground and air.  She starts off on the ground.  All melee DPS should stay next to her to avoid that nasty tail and all the damage she causes up front also.  Every time Sindragosa takes off, she’ll target five players with Frost Beacon.  All raid members should take note who’s being targeted, because they will be Ice Blocked next.  All DPS switches to the ice blocks to rescue the frozen players during this area phase.  While knocking down the ice blocks, make sure you keep the blocks between you and Sindragosa to avoid her Frost Bombs.  Also don’t DPS the ice blocks down too quickly, or you won’t have anything to hide behind to avoid the Frost Bombs.
2. Run away when Sindragosa starts casting Blistering Cold.  The cast begins, gives you just enough time to run, and then she pulls you back toward her, so the further you can run from her during the cast time, the better.
3. Stop all casting if Sindragosa casts Unchained Magic on you.  Unchained magic has the potential to kill you if you don’t because you’re hurting yourself while you hurt Sindragosa.  Healers can try to heal through this, but the best course of action may be for the caster to stop DPS during Unchained Magic and Instability.
4. When Sindragosa hits 30 percent life, she stays on the ground and adds Mystic Buffet to her abilities.  This last part is a DPS race to burn Sindragosa down before the Mystic Buffet stacks get too high and wipe the entire raid.

Valithria Dreamwalker Boss Strategy Guide Tactics

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The battle for Valithria Dreamwalker is truly unique because you’re actually not trying to kill her.  You want to save her, so heals are the key for this fight.  You’ve got Scourge armies attacking you as you try to save Valithria Dreamwalker, who starts at half health.  The goal here is to heal her to full health.

Valithria Dreamwalker Health Points: 12,000,000 (normal) – 30,000,000 (heroic) 

Valithria Dreamwalker Boss Abilities

Valithria

• Summon Nightmare Portal: Gives you access to the Dream State
• Emerald Vigor: Regenerates 200 mana every 3 seconds, increases damage done and healing done by 10 percent, stacks up to 100 times, cast every time you kill a Dream Cloud in Dream State
• Dreamwalker’s Rage: 10,000,000 nature damage to nearby enemies, cast at full health

Blazing Skeleton

• Fireball: 4,713 – 5,287 fire damage
• Lay Waste: 3,770 – 5,287 fire damage every 2 seconds for 12 seconds, 50,000 yard radius

Blistering Zombie

• Acid Burst: 9,425 – 13,218 nature damage instantly and 750 – 900 nature damage per second to enemies within 15 yards, lasts 20 seconds
• Corrosion: 2,000 – 2,500 nature damage every 3 seconds, reduces armor by 10 percent, stacks up to 5 times, lasts 6 seconds, only procs when the zombie lands a melee swing

Risen Archmage

• Column of Frost: 11,310 – 15,862 frost damage, 3 yard radius, knockback
• Frostbolt Volley: 8,550 – 13,200 frost damage, reduces movement speed, 200 yard radius, lasts 4 seconds, instant cast
• Mana Void: Burns 800 – 1000 mana per second, 6 yard radius, lasts 30 seconds

Glutonous Abomination

• Gut Spray: 9,425 – 13,218 nature damage plus 2,000 – 2,500 nature damage per second, increases physical damage taken by 25 percent, lasts 12 seconds, instant cast, 8 yard radius

Rot Worm

• Spawned by the Glutonous Abomination when it dies, 4,000 – 5,000 melee physical damage on one target

Supresser

• Supression: Reduces healing received by 10 percent

Valithria Dreamwalker Boss Strategy Guide

1. This battle is a very heal-intensive fight.  Healers must heal Valithria in addition to their own raid members.  Start by splitting your raid into three groups.  Two of the groups should include your heavy-hitting DPS, with one ranged tank in each of the two groups.  They must focus on keeping the adds from getting past them and hitting the third group, which is comprised of your healers. 
2. Have all your healers focus on healing Valithria at first, but you should assign two to pick up raid members as the fight goes on.  The amount of damage the raid takes will increase as the battle drags on.
3. DPS focuses on simply taking the adds down as quickly as possible. 
4. Healers must run into the green portals as often as they are available.  Once inside the portal, the healer then floats through the air and collects as many green clouds as possible.  These clouds give the healers a valuable buff that regenerates mana and makes their healing more effective. 
5. The two ranged tanks should focus on kiting the Blistering Zombies away from the rest of the raid.  When the Blistering Zombies are about to explode, run away if you want to live.  The two main tanks should focus on keeping aggro off the rest of the raid, especially the healers.  Main tanks should pick up any ads, especially the Risen Archmages and the Glutonous Abominations. 
6.  Stay out of the blue portal-like areas that are cast by the Archmages.  These do a lot of damage and might kill you.

Toravon the Ice Watcher Boss Strategy Guide Tactics

Toravon the Ice Watcher was added to Vault of Archavon, also known as VoA, in February 2010.  This is a fairly simple fight.  Tanks just need to remember to taunt off each other when their Frostbite stacks get too high.  Other than that, just watch out for the white balls that float around during the fight.  Light him up and burn him down as quickly as you can. 

There is a bit of a DPS race going on with Toravon the Ice Watcher, as healers won’t be able to keep up if the raid’s stacks of Whiteout get too high overall.  Here’s a quick Toravon the Ice Watcher Boss Strategy Guide to help you out.

Toragon the Ice Watcher Hit Points: 4,600,000 (normal) – 15,600,000 (heroic)

Toravon the Ice Watcher Boss Abilities

Whiteout

• 11,213 – 13,837 damage
• Frost damage
• Increases frost damage taken by 25 percent
• 2.5 second cast
• Stacks up to 20 times

Frozen Mallet

• If this procs, then it causes Frostbite

Frostbite

• 975 – 2,050 damage every 2 seconds
• Frost damage
• Reduces movement speed by 5 percent
• Stacks up to 100 times

Frozen Orb

• 2,925 – 3,075 damage per second
• 8 yard range

Freezing Ground

• 4,625 – 5,375 damage
• Frost damage
• Immobilizes you for 5 seconds
• Instant cast
• 6 yard range

 Toravon the Ice Watcher Boss Strategy Guide

1. Tanks should taunt off each other whenever the Frostbite stacks get too high. 
2. Avoid the Frozen Orbs that are floating around.  He releases one every 30 seconds in the 10-man fight, and three every 30 seconds in the 25-man fight.  Ranged DPS should be assigned to take these out because it can be very hard to avoid being hit by them if there are a lot.
3. Whiteout increases the damage taken by the entire raid about once every minute or so.  Just burn him down as quickly as you can, or else you’ll wipe.

Blood-Queen Lana’thel Boss Fight Strategy Guide

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Blood-Queen Lana’thel: 14,200,000 (normal) – 59,400,000 (heroic)

It is vital that every single DPS raid member be putting out the highest possible DPS.  You simply won’t be able to defeat her if your DPS isn’t high enough.  You’ll need at least 9,000 DPS on each DPS raid member for the 25-man version of this raid, and 7,500 DPS for each DPS raid member for the 10-man version.  The battle against Blood-Queen Lana’thel comes in two phases: ground and aerial.  Here’s a quick Blood-Queen Lana’thel boss strategy guide to get you started.

Blood-Queen Lana’thel Boss The Abilities

Blood Mirror

• Links all of the tank’s damage with another raid member
• Causes shadow damage on that raid member
• Hits whoever’s standing closest to the tank

Delirious Slash

• 50 – 75 percent weapon damage
• Bleed effect
• 4,500 – 6,750 damage every three seconds
• Lasts 15 seconds

Vampiric Bite

• 12,025 – 13,975 damage
• Physical damage
• Grants Essence of the Blood-Queen

Essence of the Blood Queen

• Increases the damage you do by 100 percent
• Gives you the ability to heal yourself with your attacks
• Lasts 60 seconds
• Your threat from your attack disappears

Frenzied Bloodthirst

• Causes raid member infected with Essence of the Blood Queen to need to bite another raid member.
• Instant cast
• Lasts 15 seconds

Uncontrollable Frenzy

• Increases damage dealt 100 percent
• Increases health 5,000 percent
• Increases healing 1,000 percent
• Instant cast

Pact of the Darkfallen

• Causes damage to nearby targets
• Shadow damage

Shroud of Sorrow

• 4,500 damage every 3 seconds
• Shadow damage
• Instant cast
• 40 yard radius

Swarming Shadows

• Creates a void underneath targeted raid member
• 2,313 – 2,687 damage every 1 seconds
• Shadow damage

Twilight Bloodbolt

• 9,250 – 10,750 damage
• Also damages raid members who are nearby the target
• Shadow damage

Bloodbolt Whirl

• 9,250 – 10,750 damage
• Shadow damage
• Hits all raid members

Blood-Queen Lana’thel Boss Fight Tactics

1. The most important thing to remember about the fight against Blood-Queen Lana’thel is the biting.  She bites a random raid member early on in the battle.  Then after about a minute, that raid member must bite another raid member, or he will become mind-controlled.  The biting is important because it increases the amount of damage you do by 100 percent.  Therefore, the first one you should bite is your top DPS.  When that raid member needs to bite someone, he should bite the next highest DPS, and so forth.  Healers and tanks should only be bitten after all the DPS members have already been bitten.  You want your highest damage dealers doing the most damage possible, because you’ll wipe the entire raid if you don’t kill Blood Queen Lana’thel before you run out of raid members to bite.  Each raid member can only be bitten once.
2. Keep your ranged DPS and healers spread out evenly to avoid the abilities that damage nearby raid members in addition to the target raid member.
3. Healers, pay attention to which raid members have Blood Mirror cast on them.  You must heal through this ability because you could end up with a squishy raid member taking as much damage as the tank.  You really can’t afford to lose any raid members during this battle.
4. If a circle appears under you, just keep moving to stay out of it.  All nearby raid members should also move to stay out of it.  Swarming Shadows will kill you if you keep standing in.
5. If Pact of the Darkfallen is cast on you, look for the other raid members you’re linked to.  A red line will connect all the linked players.  Linked raid members must run together and meet to get rid of Pact of the Darkfallen.
6. Healers, prepare for the aerial part of the battle after the ground part.  All raid members will be hit with Bloodbolt Whirl during the aerial part, so be prepared for heavy healing.

Blood Prince Council Boss Fight Strategy Guide

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Blood Prince Council Hit Points: 5,620,000 (normal) – 22,500,000 (heroic)

The Blood Prince council consists of three princes who all share the same health pool.  Only one becomes active at a time, starting with Prince Valanar.  After that, the order they become active in is random.  You’ll need three tanks for this fight, one for each prince.  One of those tanks should be a ranged tank, preferably a warlock.  Defeat the Blood Prince Council in 10 minutes or less.  Otherwise they’ll berserk and wipe the raid.  Here’s a quick Blood Prince Council boss strategy guide to get you started.

Blood Prince Council Boss Abilities

Prince Valanar

• Empowered Shock Vortext: 7,000 physical damage, knockback, unlimited range
• Shock Vortext: Physical damage and knockback.
• Kinetic Bomb: 12,000 physical damage to all raid members near it if it hits the floor, Knockback 200 yards

Prince Keleseth

• Empowered Shadow Lance: 85,313 – 89,687 shadow damage, 40 yard range
• Shadow Lance: 17,063 – 17,937 shadow damage, 40 yard range
• Shadow Resonance: Summons the Dark Nucleus
• Dark Nucleus: 1,000 damage, reduces shadow damage taken by 35 percent, lasts 6 seconds

Prince Taldaram

• Conjure Empowered Ball of Flames: Damages nearby raid members on the way to its target, explodes and causes fire damage, the amount of damage caused on impact depends on how many raid members were damaged along the way to the target
• Conjure Ball of Flames: 10,000 fire damage when the Ball of Flames explodes
• Glittering Sparks: 16,152 fire damage over 8 seconds, reduces movement speed 20 percent

Blood Prince Council Boss Strategy Guide

1. Start out by positioning each of your tanks by all three Blood Princes.  The ranged tank goes to Blood Prince Keleseth.  All ranged DPS and healers should be spread out across the area evenly.  Melee DPS should start further out from the princes, but ready to run to Prince Valanar after he casts Empowered Shock Vortex.
2. Prince Valanar casts Empowered Shock Vortex as soon as he becomes active, so melee DPS can approach after this is cast.  Obviously, melee DPS should run away from Prince Valanar when he first activates later in the fight, but they can start out a distance away.
3. Ranged DPS should focus on keeping the Kinetic Bombs in the air.  They’re the white glowing balls of light, and they will explode if they hit the ground.  Assign about two (more for a 25-man) ranged DPS to keep the balls up.
4. The next prince to activate is random, but you’ll know when they switch because Prince Valanar’s health will suddenly go to zero.  Switch to the Blood Prince that has health inside his health bar.  The other two will be empty.
5. For Prince Keleseth, use a ranged tank to hold aggro on both the prince and his Dark Nuclei.  The ranged tank should not get within melee range however, because he hits hard.  All raid members other than the ranged tank must not hit the Dark Nuclei because the ranged tank needs the buff from them to stay alive.  The ranged tank should stay away from Prince Keleseth but close to the Dark Nuclei.
6. As soon as Prince Taldaram activates, he will Conjure Empowered Ball of Flames.  This targets a random raid member, but it gives off sparks along the way to the raid member.  It’s very important for all raid members who can get into the path of the ball of flames to do so and take some of the damage.  This will keep it from killing the targeted raid member when it reaches him because the ball gets smaller as it spits sparks.
7. It’s pretty much rinse and repeat from there, using the proper strategy for the right Blood Prince.

Professor Putricide Boss Fight Strategy Guide

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Professor Putricide is the third and final boss in the Plagueworks area of Icecrown Citadel.  He is the father of Rotface and Festergut and needless to say, he’s not happy when you kill his two boys.

Professor Putricide Boss Abilities

Hit Points: 12,000,000 (normal) – 42,000,000 (heroic)

Mutated Slime

• 4,388 – 4,612 damage per second

Unstable Experiment

• Spawns either a Volatile Ooze or a Gas Cloud

Choking Gas Bomb

• 5,363 – 5,637 damage per second
• Explodes and causes 15,600 – 16,400 damage after 20 seconds
• Creates Choking Gas, which causes 4,388 – 4,612 damage and reduces chance to hit by 75 percent

Create Concoction / Guzzle Potions

• Grants Professor Putricide the Choking Gas Cloud and Malleable Goo abilities

Gas Cloud

• Gaseous Bloat: 1,463 – 1,537 damage every 2 seconds
• Gas Cloud chases the raid member infected with Gaseous Bloat
• If Gas Cloud catches the infected raid member, it causes him to damage other nearby players.

Growing Ooze Puddle

• Mutated Slime: 4,388 – 4,612 damage per second

Volatile Ooze

• Volatile Ooze Adhesive: bonds raid member to volatile ooze, causes 2,438 – 2,562 damage per second, roots the target
• Moves toward the raid member who was targeted by Volatile Ooze Adhesive
• Explodes after 3 seconds
• 165,750 – 174,250 damage spread among all nearby raid members.

Mutated Abomination

• Eat Ooze: Abomination eats Mutated Slime that’s nearby
• Regurgitated Ooze: 6,338 – 6,662 damage every 2 seconds, slows movement speed 50 percent
• Mutated Slash: 100 percent weapon damage, melee range

Professor Putricide Boss Strategy Guide

1. Before your main tank pulls Professor Putricide, have your second tank drink a potion on the table and take control of the Mutated Abomination.  The abomination basically goes around and eats all the slime pools on the floor.  His job is to gain as much ooze power as possible and store it for later when the Volatile Oozes and Gas Clouds come out.  If your abomination dies, just drink another potion to get another one.
2. When the first Volatile Ooze spawns, DPS must pick it up immediately, and all party members must pay attention to who it’s targeting.  Your abomination should use Regurgitated Ooze on the Volatile Ooze.  The Volatile Ooze moves toward one infected player and explodes after 3 seconds, doing a lot of damage split among any nearby players.  If it’s pretty clear the explosion will hit several players, it’s best just to collapse the group and let the damage be split among everyone.  Just kill the Volatile Ooze as quickly as you possible can.
3. After Professor Putricide casts another Unstable Experiment, a Gas Cloud will form.  Healers will need to heal the player targeted by the Gas Cloud.  The target player will also have to run from the Gas Cloud.  DPS must take the cloud out before it reaches the targeted player.  If Professor Putricide isn’t down to 80 percent health when you kill the Gas Cloud, he spawns another Volatile Ooze, and goes back and forth between his two adds until he reaches 80 percent health.
4. Phase two begins when Professor Putricide drunks a bunch of potions on the table and stuns the entire raid for 10 seconds.  He also starts using his Choking Gas Cloud and Malleable Goo abilities.  Avoid the orange beakers he throws and run away if he tosses one at you.  Also run away when the Malleable Goo chases you.
5. Phase three starts with another 10-second stun from Professor Putricide.  Your abomination should switch over to tanking him at this point, taunting Professor Putricide off the other tank when he’s got four stacks of the Mutating Plague spell.

Professor Putricide Strategy Guide Video

Rotface Boss Fight Strategy Guide Tactics

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Rotface is Festergut’s brother, and the battle against him is simply a case of managing your oozes.  That’s right, Rotface comes with two different size oozes, and you’ve got to manage them while you’re taking him out.

Rotface Boss Abilities

Hit Points: 8,645,000 (normal) – 36,257,000 (heroic)

Mutated Infection

• 3,900 – 4,100 damage per second
• Cuts healing received in half
• Lasts 12 seconds
• Creates a little ooze when it ends

Ooze Flood

• 5,363 – 5,637 damage per second
• Reduces movement speed 25 percent
• Lasts 5 seconds

Slime Spray

• 5,363 – 5,637 damage per second
• Nature damage
• Lasts 5 seonds

Little Ooze

• Sticky Ooze: 2,925 – 3,075 damage per second, reduces movement speed 50 percent
• Weak Radiating Ooze: 3,413 – 3,587 damage every 2 seconds, merges little oozes with big ooze

Big Ooze

• Sticky Ooze: 2,925 – 3,075 damage per second, reduces movement speed 50 percent
• Radiating Ooze:  4,388 – 4,615 damage every 2 seconds, merges big ooze with little oozes
• Unstable Ooze:  Increases damage dealt 20 percent, stacks 10 times
• Unstable Ooze Explosion: 9,750 – 10,250 damage, 6 yard radius

Rotface Boss Strategy Guide

1. Use two tanks for this fight.  One tank stays on Rotface the entire time, while the other breaks off to pick up the little ooze, which is cast periodically throughout the fight against Rotface.  Keep Rotface in the center of the room and have your second tank kite the oozes around him.
2. Little oozes spawn every time Mutated Infection ends, and they spawn from the location of the raid member affected by Mutated Infection.  When the first little ooze spawns, whoever it spawns from will have to kite it around until a second little ooze forms.  That is, unless your ooze tank can suddenly pull the little ooze’s aggro off the raid member it spawned from, but this is very hard to do because they hold a huge amount of aggro at the spawning.
3. After a second little ooze is formed, bring the two together and get them to merge.  It can easily be done by the raid member taking the newest ooze over to where the other ooze is being kited.  The healer should then cleanse the raid member when he’s close to the other ooze.  This will cause the two to merge and will definitely allow your ooze tank to pick up the big ooze.  Then he just keeps tanking the big ooze around the circle.  The big ooze will explode after five little oozes have come together, so healers should watch for this to keep the tank alive, and the tank that’s kiting the ooze should steer it clear of the rest of the raid.  DPS have four seconds to run from the ooze if they happen to be near it when it’s about to explode.
4. Stay out of the Ooze Flood, which is basically the green areas on the floor.  The room is flooded periodically with it, which will kill you slowly if you’re standing in it.  It’s not difficult to avoid the Ooze Flood.
5. Whenever Rotface turns his head, run away immediately to avoid Slime Spray.  It’s pretty obvious right before he uses this ability, so just watch for the head turn and run if you’re in front of the direction he turned his head.

Rotface Boss Video Strategy

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