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Ultraxion – 10 man normal

Posted by on December 18, 2011 1 comment

Introduction: Ultraxion may sound like Richard Nixon on Futurama and complain about not having enough Nutter Butters, but he will make short work of your raid unless you click the magic button!

Difficulty: 2.3/5; This is your basic Patchwerk fight and will be your first real gear-check fight in Dragon Soul.  Ultraxion does have a few abilities thrown into the mix that require your attention or will instantly kill you.  There are also some stellar buffs from Thrall and co. that will be dispensed throughout the fight.

Comp and Stats:

Boss: 57M
Tanks: 2
Healers: 2-3
DPS: 5-6
Enrage: 6 minutes

Setup and Positioning: Ultraxion is a stationary fight and is best dealt with stacked up slightly in front of the base of the stairs.  This is better than stacking close to him as he has a huge hit box.

Extra Action Button and You: This fight takes place in the Twilight Realm and once shifted you will gain a new ability called Heroic Will.  This will temporarily teleport you out of the Twilight Realm and stun you for up to 5 seconds.

Your interface will place a giant, obnoxious new button on your screen

I would recommend before hand opening your Key Bindings menu and assigning a keystroke to ExtraActionButton1 under the Action Bar Functions sub-menu.  Clicking is bad and some addons may keep this button from showing on your UI.

Special Buffs:

  • Thrall: At the start of the fight Thrall will cast Last Defender of Azeroth which will reduce all tank cooldowns by 50% and increase their durations by 100%.
  • Alexstraza (Red): The red buff will come about 90 seconds into the fight.  This buff, Gift of Life. when activated will increase healing by 100%.
  • Ysera (Green): Essence of Dreams will be placed about 2m and 30s into the fight.  This allows for a heal cast on a single member to be copied and distributed evenly amongst all players in a 50 yard range.
  • Kalecgos (Blue): Source of Magic will be placed about 3m and 30s into the fight.  The blue buff will reduce all spell costs by 75% and increase spell haste by 100%.
  • Nozdormu: 5 minutes into the fight Nozdormu will cast Timeloop on the raid.  This buff will heal a raid member to full health if they reach 0 HP.  Once healed the buff will dissipate of the healed player.  If they reach 0 HP again, they will die.
  • You cannot stack the red/green/blue buffs on a single player.
  • If a player dies with red/green/blue, they lose the buff.

Strategy:

Hour of Twilight is the first thing all raiders need to deal with.  Ultraxion will emote and will begin charging a giant electrical ball by his mouth.  At 2 seconds left on the cast I recommend using your Heroic Will button to escape damage.  If you are trying to push hard you can time it until right before, but be careful.  Hour of Twilight also requires one raider to stay in and take it or Ultraxion will wipe the raid.  In general the tanks should handle this by using a CD and being topped off to survive.

Fading Light will be cast throughout the fight on one tank and one DPS (never a healer).  This will place a debuff with a countdown on the players.  When the countdown reaches two seconds they should use Heroic Will to escape the twilight realm.  If the debuff reaches 0, they will instantly die.

Fading Light also has a tank swap component to it as once the players return from the normal realm back in Twilight they will not generate any threat for 10 seconds.  This means the best time to swap tanks is once Fading Light is placed on the tank.

Unstable Monstrosity is the constant shadow damage that will be cast throughout the fight.  This will hit for 300,000 shadow damage split among all players.  Ultraxion will start by casting this every 6 seconds, but will gradually become More Unstable throughout the fight and at the end will cast it every second.

There must always be someone in melee range of Ultraxion or he will blow up the raid.

Tips:

  • Heroism/Lust should be used right after a Hour of Twilight to maximize the time.
  • Consider using a disc priest with atonement healing if you need the DPS with 3 heals.  If you have this setup, you should have the atonement priest take the blue buff.

Fuck I only have 1 minute before pull and I do not know anything like a scrub, save me Furtim:

  • Tanks: Call out who is staying in and soaking Hour of Twilight.  Taunt off tank that gets afflicted with Fading Light as soon as possible. Get your CDs in order with Thrall’s Buff.
  • DPS: Use your button at 2 seconds left of Hour of Twilight.  If you are affected with Fading Light, watch its countdown and use your button at 2 seconds.  Be prepared to use it shortly after on occasion for Hour of Twilight.
  • Heals: Figure out which buff is assigned to which healer.  Top off the tank soaking Hour of Twilight.  Use your button on Hour of Twilight when the cast reaches 2 seconds remaining.

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