Summary: Same as Firemaw, with frenzy that can be dispelled with tranq-shot.
Wing Buffet
Frontal AoE, reduces Aggro every 30 seconds
Shadow Flame
Frontal AoE for 4000-5000 dmg (ignors all armor and resistances). Causes a strong DoT without Onyxia Scale Cloak.
Frenzy
Strong 360° AoE with LoS check. Can be dispelled with a Tranquillizing Shot from a Hunter.
PLAN:
Positioning is critical and the fights is a wipe if the correct position of firemaw cannot be established very quick. Also everyone in raid has to understand how the line of sight works here. Understanding the illustration 100% is required for all players.
Melee attacks until their health drops too much (50%). When that happens they move to the melee-safe-position and bandage up.
Ranged dps stays on the Line of sight to firemaw and cross it to the safezone when they get low on health to bandage
Healers position themselves so they only have LoS (Line of Sight) to the tank but not Flamegor. Avoiding the AoE on healers is critical.
When the frenzy is announced, a hunter quickly step into LoS and uses his TQ shot.
Group 1 setup is MT1 + MT2 + Warlock + Paladin + Whoever. Group 2 and 3 are heal teams A and B with pala + 2x druid + 2x priest if possible. Healing only on Tanks, the fight is long, rotation is needed and DPS has to bandage in a safespot.
Tanking
(Works for all 3 Dragons the same)
The dragons are tauntable. This opens up a beautiful way to keep him positioned and avoid all aggro-loss on the MT during Wing Buffet: 3 Seconds before the Wing Buffet, an offtank will taunt the Dragon while standing 90° off the Main Tank.
This forces the Wing Buffet on the Offtank who looses aggro back to the Main Tank once the effect of the taunt fades (3 sec). In other words: the offtank attempts to catch the bullet. It is important that the offtank's taunt is cast no longer than 3 seconds before the Wing Buffet. If 2 Offtanks are available they coordinate to cast the taunt staggered (Second taunt is cast about 2 seconds after the first) to cover any inaccuracies of the running timers.
Whoever is in the Wing Buffet's AoE gets knocked back 30-40 yards and has to run back immediately. Usually to the safe-position.
Required setup is two tanks, one main and one offtank. Both need to be warriors. They position themselves as indicated in the image above at a 90° angle. The offtank hast to make sure he stands close enough to the Dragon to make sure that if aggro switches to him, the dragon will not move, just turn to him (this is critical).
To make this work, two healers (preferably druid+priest) have to be positioned accross the tank positions behind firemaw. There is a column to provide a LoS safezone for them. They just pop out of their safespot when the Wing Buffet timer is running out to burst heal the Offtank until the Main Tank has regained aggro. Note it is possible to stay in sight of the offtank while being hidden from the dragon in the same way the MT healers are. The sweet spot here is very small though but its there.
Healer Setup :
Setup:
MT(Warrior)=Priest+Priest+Druid+Druid+Paly+Paly
Offtanks(Warriors)=Priest+Druid+Paly
Rogues=Priest/Druid/Paly + Priest/Druid/Paly + Priest/Druid/Paly
Mages/Locks=Priest/Druid/Paly + Priest/Druid/Paly
Raid=Priest/Druid/Paly + Priest/Druid/Paly
NOTE:
This Boss is ALL about »>Line of Sight«< Since it's kinda hard to explain who this works, I've found this picture to illustrate it:
http://wow-inner-sanctum.org/Web/forums/4892/ShowPost.aspx
Furthermore Onyxia Scale Cloak is a MUST have item.
AND YES THIS FIGHT IS SIMILAR TO FIREMAW!!! Same Tactics.
