Sartharian 10-man with 3 Drakes Video

Update: Check out the complete Sartharion 10-man with 3 Drake Tutorial!

I know it’s been a little while since I released my last video so my apologies…but I think you’ll like this one. The following video features my guild, Gloryhogs, on our first kill of 10-man Sartharian with 3 Drakes up. In the next few days I’ll be putting together a more complete strategy tutorial for this encounter, including detailed diagrams on positioning, tanking tactics, healer breakdowns, DPS synergy, and much more.

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Note regarding YouTube videos: As some of you may already know, YouTube has been dealing with this huge WCM copyright issue. As a result pretty much any music I select for my videos gets muted due to copyright infrigement, so my apologies on the horrendously awful tracks that currently make up YouTube’s free library. So please…PLEASE, download the full video.

Raid Class Distribution:

• Healers:
  • Shaman
  • Paladin
  • Priest
• Tanks:
  • Death Knight
  • Paladin
  • Warrior
• DPS:
  • Druid (moonkin)
  • Hunter
  • Mage (frostfire)
  • Shaman (elemental)

Music:

• Manowar – Hand of Doom
• Nightwish – Nemo
• 12 Stones – Broken

Addons:

• XPerl
• Quartz
• OmniCC
• SCT
• Recount

Programs:

• Fraps
• Sony Vegas

The Obsidian Sanctum: Sartharion Boss Strategy, 10-Man

The Obsidian Sanctum is single boss instance located underneath Wyrmrest Temple in central Dragonblight. The instance features Sartharion as the primary boss with the addition of trash mobs and 3 other min-bosses. The other mini-bosses aka Drakes may be killed or left up. The more drakes you kill the easier Sartharion is to defeat, however, leaving additional drakes up will provide you with better loot.

Each drake left alive provides Sartharion with additional abilities, which will add difficulty to the encounter.

For beginners I highly suggest you learn the fight with zero drakes alive, once you’re comfortable with this strategy you could move onto to the more difficult encounters of leaving several drakes up.

The Obsidian Sanctum Strategy

Mini-Drake Bosses

Let’s start with the mini-drake bosses. These “bosses” are very simple, the only real mechanic involves the summoning of a phase portal. Inside this portal are drake eggs and / or dragonkin. You should send approximately half your raid through the portal to deal with these mobs. Failure to kill some / most of the mobs in the portal will result in negative action on the non-portal side…IE, more stuff is going to spawn and you’ll likely die.

Beyond that all 3 of the mini-drakes are a general tank and spank fight. Just be aware of the patrols of other elite dragonkin that walk around the drakes.

Sartharion Boss Strategy

Killing Sartharion with 0 Drakes Alive

For this first strategy let’s go over the strategy with zero drakes alive. There really are only 2 mechanics to this boss fight.

1. Lava Wave
2. Fire Elemental Adds

The lava wave is spawns on 2 sides, left and right. The location of this spawn determines the location of the gap in the wave. Your raid will need to adjust their position to fit into this gap as it passes over, thus avoiding fire damage and a knock into the lava. Just be aware of the wave spawn and you’ll easily make it through the gap.

The fire elemental adds are also fairly straight forward. Adds will spawn throughout the fight, these should be picked up by the off tank and immediately killed by DPS players.

Sartharion Video Boss Strategy

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