The DK and Anubarak
Greetings everyone! Today, I will be covering Anubarak (25man HM) for dps. Guilds have been struggling on this guy, doing over 100 attempts on this guy. This encounter is by far one of the most hardest blizzard has came up with. People will say Yogg or Algalon are the hardest. I think the only reason Algalon is hard due to the fact that its only one hour a week. Yogg with the keepers up is easy once you get things done. I will admit though Yogg with 0 keepers is pretty hard. What I am writing about today is some tips and tricks to playing a Dk during this encounter. I am not saying I have the best tips or the best, but it works. Also I am gonna outline the fight for ya.
Basic Information
When you get to the boss, he is chilling in his UFC ring waiting. Its important to Flask/food up and make sure you switch to your AoE spec/w glyphs. I used this spec with glyphs. Unholy really rocks in this fight. The Death and Decay damage is nice. Anubarak is pretty much a AoE fight with some single target DPS. The single target DPS comes from when you get adds down quick and have about 5-8 secs of just DPSing the boss. Make sure your ghoul spell doesn’t get locked out either. A couple of times I couldnt summon my ghoul from falling down into the water and had to leave the instance to be able to summon.
The Fight: Part I
Pretty much when the tank starts, the boss comes to him around middlefield. 6 Permafrost spawn and I always brought the first one down, followed by another DK bringing his down. I used a macro on this. /tar Frost Sphere. Just a simple macro, nothing fancy. The main reason why I dont put a Deathgrip command in is, I want to line up the Frost Sphere with my tank. Positioning is important. I always stand right on his back right leg and then bring it down for the raid. It’s important to have other people help out by dpsing the sphere. A time here or a time there when you bring it down, it might not be in melee range. It will then float away and might not be in a great position. Anyways, once I deathgrip it I like using Icy Touch on it first to throw some kind of Dot on it. I always found even in not in melee range, that I only have about 10% of its health remaining and then Deathcoil it. I know there is other ways but I like my way. So, the second DK bring his frost sphere down and then the adds will come out shortly after. The MT gets the boss in a position and the add tanks puts the addons on the perma frost. The offtanks can’t let the adds stack or let them burrow in the ground. This stuff causes wipes. All the tanks grab aggro on the adds and you pretty much AoE everything until Anubarak burrows in the ground.
The Fight: Part II
When you goes into the ground, bugs will start spawning and you need to kill them fast. Reason why is that they stack some nasty poisons on your raid members. Very Bad! Alright, when he goes into the ground, he will choose someone in the raid and go after them. Let’s say he targets me. I run to the web where you came in at and wait for a paladin to Blessing of Protection me when Anubarak gets to me. I then run into the perma frost and he gets stuck in it. Now, one of the most important things about this part is WATCH THE CORNERS! Let’s say I took him to the perma frost on the left(west perma frost). He chooses a warlock in your guild, only one problem your warlock is to the right on the right perma frost(east perma frost). Anubarak has a chance to start chasing him and crash into the other perma frost. Now he get a 3rd member who has to kite him around for like 30 secs. It’s alot of confusion. We are gonna say the warlock does him job right and brings Anubarak to the perma frost. He will choose a 3rd target. Important part to this is the 3rd target only has him for like 15 secs which is just another run to the web. During this time, I am breaking off from killing bugs to bring down the first perma frost. *Important you do this, due to the fact the perma frost does roam around alot. You might not have a chance to bring it in a good spot if you wait until the last second. My GM always makes our members come to him where he is at the way left side(if your looking at the web) away from me. The boss pops up and the other DK brings down the other frost sphere. Part I begins again.
The Fight: Part III
After part I of the fight is over, it goes to part II. Only difference is your kiting him to the UFC ring and bringing down the frost sphere there. Part I of the fight begins. Around 33% I or DBM clicks off my Fort buffs and then at 30% Anubarak does his main move: Leeching Swarm. Pretty much is leeches a % of your current health, which is way you remove your fort buff. During this phase its important to pop a Frost Potion to help out the healers. One other debuff he puts on you is Penetrating Cold. It deals frost damage to your every 3 secs and thats alot considering you dont get healed very much during this phase. Just AoE the adds and try to stay alive by popping CDs.
Tips and Tricks
1. Make sure you keep your disease up at times.
2. Make sure you Death and Decay on the adds as soon as possible.
3. Remember, Glyphs are Ghoul, Dark Death and Death and Decay.
4. Pop CDs during Phase III of the fight to help out.
5. Pop Gargoyle during Phase I and after 30%.
6. Make sure you put your perma frost in a great position to AoE all adds.
7. Make sure your death and decay hits all adds.
Hope this little guide helps out. Good luck with the boss. Until next time, Tomorrow is another day.
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