Got change for a hundred? Nalorakk does!

So we went over into Zul'Aman this past weekend, said hello to the big bad bear, he said hello back, over and over and over again. After about 10 resets or so (have no idea really, lost track) we got into the grove of things and slowly dwindled down his hitpoints to 0, a big fat 0. Needless to say, we were all pretty hyped, especially myself, cause they opened the corpse to check out what he's been eatin, and he had THIS in his guts. The Bladeangel's Money Belt, pretty sweet, and as a rogue, who lost the roll for Girdle of Treachery the only time I've seen it come out of the Chess Event, I was real pleased to hear everyone telling me grats. I figured I'd roll against our bear tank for it, but he generously passed it to me. I'm not too familiar with feral tanking, what kind of stats they look for, what gear is good, or what buttons to spam as a bear tank... or.... anything else about them, but.... well i forgot where i'm going with this, but a big Thanks to Illianna on Stormreaver! Who also, btw, made me a Shadow Prowlers Chestguard to replace my blue BOE chest piece, the one it seems all rogues use. I know it's more for droods, but with the sockets, the high agility on it, it came out to be much better, just lost about .2% crit, which i coulda made up for if i put a crit gem in it. That Illianna guy is awesome, he's always trying to better everyone in our guild so that we can get on to bigger and better things. A true leader. Thanks for the chest piece!


Bear Lord Nalorakk, our strat, a rogues view:

Seems this fight was a healer check, making sure healers don't blow all their mana too early in the fight. We brought out our best geared group with who was online when raid formed. Our group make up was:

Druid Tank (Illianna)
Warrior Tank (Ramatar)
Combat Dagger Rogue (Me)
Destro Lock (Kaelie, my wife)
Holy Priest (Asteria)
Holy Priest (Celestialyte)
MM Hunter (Raxzo)
Resto Shammy (Silviodante)
Boomkin Druid (Rilak)
Mage (Mageshiva)

Warrior started the fight holding agro during 1st phase, when phase 2 hit, druid tank taunted. This is because of the bleed put on the first tank, in phase 2 Nalorakk applies another bleed effect that ticks for huge amounts, the debuff applied in human form increases the damage of the bleed effect. He also does a swipe that hits hard, but having 2 tanks, the damage is split between them. Bear form brings out a charge that targets a random ranged person, after the charge he goes back to the tank that was holding him

The rest of the raid spread out on the platform. Nalorakk does an aoe silence when in bear form that will shut down your healers, so having HoTs on the tank is needed during this time so that the tank doesn't die. The first few times we tried, we noticed this, so we had the Boomkin go into healing gear and throw hots on the tank. Melee raid members just stand behind and DPS, I hardly took any damage at all.

He has a ton of health, make sure your tanks are throwing out a lot of threat, because you have to throw out a lot of damage. I used every cooldown i had, multiple times. As soon as my trinkets/Adreneline Rush/Blade Flurry cooldowns were up, i was clicking them again, during the whole fight. Think the fight lasted around 8 minutes, but not sure, seemed longer. Kept slice and dice up, and constantly put ruptures on him. Used my feint also, just because we had no pally for salvation, used vanish around the middle of the fight just so i can pop a bunch of cooldowns at the same time.

Healers need to load up on mp5, I brought Flasks of mighty restoration for them to use. There's also food buffs for this. Since it's a long fight, all this is very handy. Don't want to be fighting him and hear inervates are down, healers OOM when you still have 50% to go. Bring lots of mana pots, use them when you can. Still got 70% mana? use a pot! I'm sure a mana battery Spriest would be good in this fight, but we didn't bring one.

After he died, we were all pretty pumped up, we forgot about the quest item to pickup on the platform that yeilds a free 20 slot bag. A few of us went back later on that night to go grab the item, mobs didnt respawn after he died, only 1 pat was walking around, but are easily avoidable. I got the bag on all my lvl 70 toons, why not? it's free!