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A tank’s blog, mostly…

Yesterday evening saw me doing two heroic instances. I have to confess that I rarely do heroics. As a healer, I shun them for the increased stress they put upon you most of the time. I know that a well tuned group composition can reduce this by a wide margin, but usually I am content to clear Karazhan once a week and do some additional raiding.

However, my fiancee (from now on labeled "Mash") wanted the cute phoenix pet and that robe from Kael’Thas badly, so I found myself in a half-guild / half-pickup group quite fast. Note: No one assembles decent groups faster than Mash. Honestly… No one.

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Description

 
Prayer of Healing (Rank 6)
1255 Mana
3 sec cast
A powerful prayer heals party members within 30 yards for 1246 to 1316.

The Prayer of Healing is a very potent multi-target healing spell that is available to every priest. It costs a good chunk of mana, but if there is a lot of damage going around, this can be the most efficient spell to use.

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In a Nutshell

The Curator guards the upper reaches of Karazhan and is considered a major gear check. You need a certain amount of damage per second in order to handle the adds he spawns continuously throughout the fight. If your raid does not kill the Adds quick enough, the damage is summing up quickly, and your healers will run out of mana.

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In a Nutshell

The undead dragon Nightbane is accessible once you have completed an internal quest chain that starts with the quest Medivh’s Journal. Since Nightbane is a dragon, he will use a lot of typical dragon abilities, like Fear and Cleave.

The fight consists of two distinct phases that change back and forth depending on his hit points. The encounter will start around 30 seconds after someone used their Blackened Urn, when Nightbane will land on the the terrace and needs to be tanked during this ground phase. Whenever he loses 25% of his health points, he will take flight and the airborne phase will start and last for approximately 30 seconds.

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In a Nutshell

The opera is accessible as soon as you have killed Moroes. You need to talk to Barnes, the Stage Manager, in order to start one of three possible events.

This post is about the most third possible event, Romulo and Julianne. It’s a three phase encounter that starts small but builds up as it goes along.

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