Mannoroth

[Vlad 411]

This thread is for comments about our Strategy Guide for Mannoroth.

[Zvon 0]

Tanking Guide as Brewmaster Monk:

Phase 1:

1. Pick up Doom Lord when he spawned, don't worry about swapping on stacks, DPS should finish him before his stacks become a trouble. 

 

Phase 2 & 3: 

1. Boss will be faced away from raid. As Brewmaster Monk, we have a great ability: Transcendence. You can transfer back when you are knocked away by Massive Blast.  (So if you have 2 Brewmaster Monks, then you can pretty much position boss anywhere you want to make other raid members deal with other boss abilities easier. I don't know if warriors can charge back. If they can, then you can do it same way.)
2. If your co-tank can't do such awesome transfer as you, you will have to stay at one wall and face it, usually it is the one you just killed third Fel Iron Summoner. 
3. Get away from Fel Hellstorm by just walking around, make sure go back your position before Glaive Combo.

 

Phase 4:

1. Now, tanks can't stack together anymore. Empowered Glaive Combo will punch anyone who are in front of them. So make sure off tank stands at side of main tank. 
2. Tanks will have to deal with Empowered Shadowforce. Roll and Tiger's Lust can stop you for a while. 

 

Now let's talk about the bloody hell  Glaive Combo and Empowered Glaive Combo.

 

We need to use an active mitigation for Glaive Thrust, which will be Elusive Brew ONLY. See Here.

Using Elusive Brew makes us not take debuff Puncture Wound from Glaive Thrust.

However, here is a thick part!

 

Combo =Glaive Thrust +  Massive Blast +Glaive Thrust.

 

Because Glaive Thrust is the first and the last spell in the combo, no matter we were tanking the boss or taunted from other tank, we will always have to take a hit!

Therefore, you will need your Elusive Brew for your co-tank's Glaive Thrust and your own Glaive Thrust.

 

Same to all the other tanks, you will need ur active mitigation up for all the combo, if you don't have it up, call for an external in the raid or save a brez just for that case. 

 

Wish this helped! 

English is not my first language, if there is anything sounds funny plz forgive me =/

Edited July 31, 2015 by Zvon

[kaboo 0]

Solo tanking as Blood DK:

 

requirements:

• talents - none
• glyphs - Glyph of Absorb Magic
• gear - doesnt matter, just high enough ilvl for the difficulty youre running
• enchants/gems - doesnt matter
• trinkets - Purified Shard of the Third Moon

 

how to do it:

• during every 1st Glaive Thrust cast use Rune Tap
• during every Massive Blast cast use Death Strike and Anti-Magic Shell / Purified Shard of the Third Moon -> rotate the two on consecutive casts, so for example for first blast use Purified Shard of the Third Moon, for second Anti-Magic Shell, for third Purified Shard of the Third Moon, for fourth Anti-Magic Shell and so on
• you might want to ask for Vigilance / Ironbark or some other small cooldown for  Massive Blast when you have 3+ stacks of the debuff
• your debuff stacks will fall off when the boss phases
• the damage of Glaive Combo and Empowered Glaive Combo is the same, so you can continue solo tanking him in last phase aswell, but its important to note that Empowered Massive Blast will stun you, so make sure you use Death Strike before it hits, or you wont have active mitigation up to prevent Puncture Wound from 2nd Empowered Glaive Thrust

 

normal / heroic note:

• there might be some positioning troubles in last phase since the boss will run after you after knocking you back

mythic note:

• you will need a second tank to deal with the doomlords on mythic, but you wont need to swap on the boss which should make it that much easier to deal with for both of you

 

hope this helps someone, and good luck with your kills

[Guest Lelo]

Just a heads up, the enrage timer for this fight is 15 min and 30 sec.