Raids

In today’s blog post we will be talking about raids! Raids are the highest level of end game content for Player Versus enemy (PvE) oriented players. Current content raids cannot be completed without reaching the current level cap. In addition, a player must also be part of a team consisting of no less than ten players. In the following paragraphs we will discuss more of just what it takes to complete a raid.

As of this moment, the only end content raid in the game is Uldir. however with the release of patch 8.1 on December 11th will see two new raids added to the game! In Uldir there are eight bosses that you have to finish, with each posing it’s own set of obstacles to overcome. As stated earlier you need at least ten people to finish the raid at the normal level. The ideal composition of this team would be two tanks, two to three healers with the rest of the remaining spots being composed of DPS.

It would take far too long for me to detail the strategy for every boss in the raid here, so I will start with the first boss, Taloc to give you all an idea of the level of strategy that goes into these fights! There are three phases to this fight, the first has non tank players randomly being selected and given a debuff (harmful effect) that has a ten second countdown that drops a pool of blood on the ground when the countdown hits zero. It is important for selected players to stack their pools in a predetermined area, after a short period of time one of your tanks will be targeted with the boss ability Cudgel of Gore. The tank will run over to the stacked pool of blood and the boss will run to him and drop his hammer on the pools, which cleans the pools off the ground. These mechanic will keep happening until the boss takes sufficient damage and enters phase two. During phase two the floor beneath you begins to move down like an elevator and the boss will kneel in the middle of the room. Players must stack with tanks up front, as there will be adds spawning that are detrimental to your team therefore the tanks must stop them from getting to the rest of the raid. After a short time the elevator hits the bottom and phase three will begin, which is the exact same as phase one. With any lunch you accomplished this and have now defeated your first raid boss!