Heroic Halfus 10 Man Strategy guide

Описание: I have also posted a Heroic Magmaw guide, you can check it out here:

   • Heroic Magmaw 10 Man Strategy Guide  

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I have posted this fight from a tank's perspective as well. You can find it here
   • Heroic Halfus 10 Man Tank PoV  

"Hello, and Welcome to greensocks' 10 man heroic halfus strategy guide.

In this guide i will cover the strategy used by our guild, Carpe Noctem (US-Darkspear)

In this encounter you will battle halfus, his proto-behemoth, and his mind controlled drakes.

You begin the encounter by engaging halfus and throughout the fight you can release the drakes.
These drakes help your raid by weakening halfus before they become mind controlled.
When the drakes are killed halfus will recieve a debuff increasing his damage taken.

(Our main tank pulls Halfus with a potion up to help mitigate the intense damage before the drake is released. The off tank then taunts halfus off when the main tank is at 6 stacks or so)

In our strategy we release 3 drakes as soon as we begin the encounter.

The drakes we release are: the whelps, the storm rider, and the nether scion.

This combination ensures that we will be able to interrupt halfus' shadow nova and it allows us to survive the proto-behemoths aoe attacks.
It also makes the tanks take less damage during the very healing intensive beginning part of this fight.

(Our main tank gathers up all the adds to help facilitate AoE damage while the off tank tanks Halfus.)

The first part of this fight is the most difficult. in our strategy there are 3 major mechanics to watch out for.
The first is the shadow nova halfus will periodically cast. by releasing the storm rider, this mechanic is interruptable.
it has a 1.5 second cast time and it is very important to interrupt this as if it is cast successfully it will do AOE damage and a knock back. often causing a wipe.
in our strategy we assign the tanks to take care of these interrupts.
The second mechanic to watch out for are the fireballs that the proto-behemoth will cast.
These are unavoidable until the time warden is released.
As such, the healers will have to heal through them.
you can see here what these look like.
it is important for all raid members to spread out to avoid splash damage from these.
The third mechanic to watch out for is the malevolent strikes debuff Halfus will apply to the tank.
It is reccomended that your tanks spec into avoidance to minimize stacks recieved.
We use BOPs and tank swapping to drop these stacks at around 8 stacks.

The whelps take top priority since their damage was signifcantly increased in a recent patch. Heavy AOE dps is required to kill these.

As soon as the whelps are down we release the time warden.

Note here that the fireballs are now avoidable since the time warden has been released.
It is recommended to wait till the last second to dodge these as doing so may allow you to dodge more than one in a single movement.

We kill the storm rider second and nether scion third.

In this strategy we do not release the slate dragon.
Some guilds prefer to release him because properly timed he can stun halfus immediately after his third furios roar, interrupting shadow nova.

Notice here that halfus will cast furios roar three times in quick succession. After the third roar he will begin casting shadow nova.
1,2,3, shadow nova
It is important to interrupt this because the raid will already be at low health and this can kill your raiders.
We use a mage to blink and counterspell this.
(it is possible for certain other classes for this, or even PvP trinkets)

From here on out it is smooth sailing.... Provided you can beat the tight 6 minute enrage timer.

Have fun, and good luck.

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