Ahhh.. the Military Quarter. Finally something for warriors. Weapons. Blood. Sweat. Heaven.. Now all we need are some girls in what may look like a dress at first glance serving ice cold gin..
Abilities
Disrupting Shout (Physical) – Deals 7125 to 7875 Physical damage to nearby enemies.
Unbalancing Strike (Physical) – Inflicts 350% weapon damage and leaves the target unbalanced, reducing their defense skill by 100 for 6 sec.
Jagged Knife (Physical) – Hurls a dagger at an enemy, inflicting 5088 to 5912 damage immediately and 10000 over 5 seconds.
You’ll be able to ‘play’ with Death Knight Understudys in this encounter, they have the following abilities:
Blood Strike (Physical) – Your Death Knight standard attack.
Taunt (Debuff) – Your Warrior standard taunt.
Bone Barrier (Buff) – Reduces the Physical and magical damage taken by the caster by 75% for 20 sec.
Class requirements
On heroic difficulty, you need 2 priests for Mind Control. If you don’t want to use healers, bring 2 additional ones.
The pull
The pull will be done by one of the 2 priests, mind controlling one of the Death Knight Understudys. The boss will then focus on this one, an OT will taunt the other Understudy to keep him busy for a second until the second priest has him under mind control as well.
Positions and strategy
The trick to this fight is, that the boss will be tanked by his 2 Understudys. Due to his Unbalancing Strike and heavy damage, your tanks won’t be able to tank this one normally.
Lets have a quick look at one of the Understudys. You find the following abilities on his quickbar: Blood Strike (button 4), Taunt (button 5) and Bone Barrier (button 6). Taunt and Bone Barrier have a cooldown of 30 seconds, but only last 20 seconds. That’s why you need to use both Understudys to tank the boss.
Understudy 1 will use his Taunt and Bone Barrier at the same time and tank the boss. Once his Taunt and Bone Barrier have ran off, the other Understudy takes over. You will repeat this duration until the boss has died. It is important that the priests watch their Mind Control channeling, as they will need to reapply their Mind Control multiple times during the fight. Please! do this when you ain’t tanking the boss. You should be able to cancel the Mind Control by doing a /dance.
The raid will only take damage due to the boss’ Jagged Knife, so your healers need to be aware of this. Also, they need to look after the Understudys. Even with their Bone Barrier up, they will take damage and require healing.
Normal Difficulty
On normal difficulty you will find 2 Obedience Crystals at the encounter. Those can be used to Mind Control the 2 Understudys, so you don’t need to bring 2 priests (and your tanks won’t feel useless).