Tier 13 Dragon Soul Boss Guides

[Cogwhirl]

Maybe a little early, but here we go!

Below will be an updated list of boss guides and videos for the new raid instance in 4.3, Dragon Soul. As always, if/when you find useful guides/videos, post below and I'll keep this updated.

Bear in mind that a lot of the initial guides/videos are based on the PTR, and may change on live (or within a week or two of it being live).

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Dragon Soul

MMO-Champion have the Dungeon Journal details extracted for each boss.

Morchok
25man.com - tactics.
Icy Veins - tactics.
Learn 2 Raid - tactics video.

Warlord Zon'ozz
25man.com - tactics.
Icy Veins - tactics.
Learn 2 Raid - tactics video.

Yor'sahj the Unsleeping
25man.com - tactics.
Icy Veins - tactics.
Learn 2 Raid - tactics video.

Hagara the Stormbinder
25man.com - tactics.
Icy Veins - tactics.
Learn 2 Raid - tactics video.

Ultraxion
25man.com - tactics.
Icy Veins - tactics.
Learn 2 Raid - tactics video.
Raiding Guide - tactics video.

Warmaster Blackhorn
25man.com - tactics.
Icy Veins - tactics.
Learn 2 Raid - tactics video.
Angered - tactics video.

Spine of Deathwing
25man.com - tactics.
Icy Veins - tactics.
Learn 2 Raid - tactics video.
YouTube - kill video (Rogue PoV).

Madness of Deathwing
Icy Veins - tactics.
Learn 2 Raid - tactics video.
YouTube - kill video (Rogue PoV).

Baradin Hold

Alizabal
Icy Veins - tactics.

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Cog

[Mjöl]

Early ? pff, made oen already some days ago !
viewtopic.php?f=31&t=7458

But yours was marked now as sticky, but ah well, you did put a tttiny bit more work in it then me Will start however the next days with some more detailed guides for the bosses.

[Cogwhirl]

Sorry, hadn't really noticed since the title was "Tier 13 overview." I know technically it means the same, just didn't register as guides

Ah well, thanks for the sticky.

Cog

[celadon]

thx for that.

what a good idea, the earlier the better.



cela

[Cogwhirl]

Updated - more Icy Veins tactics, and the Dungeon Journal contents on MMO-Champion.

Cog

[Kurrelgyre]

MMo Champion have a nice summary page on each boss - including an embedded L2R video.
Only watched the Morchok video so far, but it was very clear.

[Cogwhirl]

Yup, those are what I linked to from the MMO-Champion link above, although I didn't realise there were L2R videos up, I'll go hunting and add them separately.

[Leon]

Nice post. will really help.

[Cogwhirl]

Thanks

Updated a bit more in the last few days, more 25man.com tactics added and the first sets of tactics for the two Deathwing fights, making a complete set from Icy Veins.

Cog

[Cogwhirl]

Updated the post with an Icy Veins guide to Alizabal, more for completeness than anything.

Cog

[Cogwhirl]

Added more Learn 2 Raid videos, completing the set for Dragon Soul.

Cog

[Cogwhirl]

*bump* for tonight.

Also, update your addons again

Cog

[Cogwhirl]

*bump* for heroics - all the Icy-Veins.com guides have a section on heroic mode, so please look them up for next week!

Cog

[Sacs]

Just seen this on EJ for Warlord Zon'ozz:

The so called "Ball Glitch"
My Guild is currently experiencing some trouble in our progression of the DS raid. During the so called "Ping Pong" match on the second or third boss (depending on which order you go at Yan and Zor) we continuslly lose our tsnk to the ball, because the Warlord will not "take" the ball.

Is this a genuine Blizzard glitch? Or are we just not tanking him far enough from the ranged stack?

melee dps pack have to take the ball, and the explosion range is 25 yard
if the boss don't absorb the ball after a travel, timer of explosion is not up : that's mean your caster's pack is not far enough of tank, yes

So, seem to confirm that the times the tank dies from the ball is when ranged & tank are not far enough apart. Can also be fixed by the tank moving back too. Mabye we knew that already, but we still have a few tanks dying on this from time to time.

[Cogwhirl]

Just a note about HC Spine - when the pre-mists patch goes live, the dispell mechanic changes as below:

When the pre-Mists patch goes live, Blood Corruption on the Heroic Spine of Deathwing encounter will transform into the positive type after a single dispel. Somewhat related, successfully dispelling Wrack on Sinestra will reset the cooldown of the caster's dispel ability, keeping the gameplay there unchanged.

This is because dispells are being reduced when all the classes are changed in MoP (though I'm not sure what those changes are ).

Cog