Heroic Elegon Shadow Priest tips

[Burchoid]

We got our first kill on this guy last night! I put this up at my blog too, but figured this might help someone working on the fight.

http://shadow-raid.blogspot.com/2012...or-heroic.html

Granted this was only 'lol10man', but I felt it was quite difficult. Especially when you are the ONLY DPS assigned to killing 1 spark that keeps moving progressively faster each round... Its a lot of pressure and timings were really close. If even 1 person misses a GCD or slacks on DPS and a spark gets through, its as good as a wipe.

In order to consistently push killing 4 sets of sparks each time, I had to get a little creative. Here's some things you can do to help be most effective on this fight:



Phase 1 notes:

-Your dispersion is a great ability to soak one of the big adds exploding outside the ring.

-Twist of Fate is nice on this fight for the insane DPS boost it provides with all the adds to kill.

-My main DPS focus was the boss, while keeping dots on the big add. Smooth damage on the big add I think helps the tanks with timing on bringing it outside the ring. Spiky damage makes it more difficult for your tanks.

-You can time Halo to hit both the boss and the add in the sweet spot more often than not.

-I was resetting my stacks as the add hit ~50% each time.




Spark Phase notes:

-Reset your stacks after the last big add explodes, and run to your assigned pillar location. This is a great time to use Body and Soul via PW:shield for a 60% speed boost to get there quicker and resume rotation. I reset my stacks again before the spark spawned to make sure I didn't take too much damage.

-Keep VT and SW:P on the boss, and DO NOT use your Mindblast, Mindspike, or DP on the boss. You want to save these for the spark each time. Ideally, you would have 2 instant Surge of Darkness procs for Mindspike, then use an instant Devouring Plague if at 3 orbs already, otherwise use your instant Mindblast first. Don't hesitate to use a 2-orb DP if you need it and have nothing else available. Try and always get a SWD off for the extra orb generation.

-Between these instant abilities, I rarely cast a VT on the adds. I would often get a SW:P out since its instant and does damage the moment you cast it.

-reset stacks after each add dies and resume mindflay, VT, and SW:P on the boss, instantly targeting the new spark when it spawns.

-Halo is nice to use for these too, but use it right as the adds are spawning or not at all.

-We found it necessary to get 4 sets of sparks, and then burn the boss ignoring the 5th set of sparks.

-We assigned 1 DPS to each pillar. The goal is to get all 6 pillars to die at about the same time, so while multi-dotting is possible, your raid leader may not want you to if it will skew the kill timing.



From here its back to phase 1 again, then back to the spark phase, and then into the final phase.



Final Phase (kill):

-Be ready to use your Vampiric Embrace for when raid damage gets high.

-We found it best to stack behind the boss and burn while rotating raid cooldowns -- no resetting stacks.




These are the things that worked for us, but YMMV.

[Vereesa]

Halo is nice to use for these too, but use it right as the adds are spawning or not at all.

Did you ever consider using/use Cascade here? Should be pretty nice for Charges and it could possibly bounce from one side to another during the Pylon phase?

[Burchoid]

Did you ever consider using/use Cascade here? Should be pretty nice for Charges and it could possibly bounce from one side to another during the Pylon phase?

I was thinking about that... Halo seems to hit the 3 sparks on my side pretty hard. Has anyone tried Cascade? I'd be curious enough to compare the two next week.

[Deleted]

I use cascade and it does more damage on the charges then the other SP's halo. Maybe someone can confirm.

Depends on what your group need. If you struggle on the charges, I think cascade is better. If you need more dps in general and especially on the trash between the phases, halo is better.

[Burchoid]

In my current gear on my spark I am cutting it pretty damn close as it is, and I am already cheesing about as much burst as I can by saving surge of darkness and orbs for DP. Even though its close, we haven't had much trouble on the sparks. The damn adds that come after the pillar on the other hand... those things are nasty.

[Keosen]

I can confirm that cascade is better than Halo on elegon helps a lot with sparks.

[Aica]

You might want to figure out whether you mean sparks or charges, as both are in the fight. Sparks generally get clumped up, Charges spread out.

[Deleted]

I meant energy charges, the little bright spheres that come of the boss (6), head to the pillar and have to die before it not to trigger the other phase. For my raid group, it was somehow hard, so cascade was a clear choice for me.

Sparks are the little ghosts that has to be tanked and should be managed with tank cooldowns and effective aoeing when the floor pops again.

[Burchoid]

You might want to figure out whether you mean sparks or charges, as both are in the fight. Sparks generally get clumped up, Charges spread out.

When I say sparks I mean the little things that look like sparks (yes the 6X that move toward the pillar). The other adds look like little mini terror things. Are they seriously named Sparks? They look nothing like a spark to me.