Boss Focus: The Opera - Red Riding Hood

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 random (read: un-fun) event, the one about Red Riding Hood. The event is basically a tank and spank with a little twist.

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Boss Focus: The Opera - Wizard of Oz

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 fun event, the Wizard of Oz. It evolves around some unconventional means of crowd control and dealing with a lot of mobs at once.

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Spell Focus: Renew

Description


Renew (Rank 12)
450 Mana, 40 yd range
Instant cast
Heals the target for 1110 over 15 sec.

Renew is one of the few instant cast spells without cooldown a priest has hat his or her disposal. It has a very nice health per mana relation considering it is instant cast.

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Boss Focus: Maiden of Virtue

In a Nutshell

The Maiden of Virtue is an optional boss encounter in Karazhan, that is accessible right from the start. She is controlling the respawns inside the guest quarters and is usually killed 3rd, after Attumen and Moroes.

The fight is basically a tank and spank encounter. However, it requires your raid to position correctly and your healers to keep up with some solid damage that will be going around. Additionally you will need at least one player that is able to dispel magic debuffs.

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Spell Focus: Prayer of Mending

Description


Prayer of Mending (Rank 1)
390 Mana, 40 yd range
Instant cast, 10 sec cooldown
Places a spell on the target that heals them for 800 the next time they take damage. When the heal occurs, Prayer of Mending jumps to a raid member within 20 yards. Jumps up to 5 times and lasts 30 sec after each jump. This spell can only be placed on one target at a time.

Prayer of Mending, or short: PoM, is a very versatile spell that can be used in many situations. As you can see it will jump to nearby raid members on triggering, healing up to 6 times. It will jump intelligently, selecting the raid member with the lowest health % in the 20 yards range. Additionally, whenever the PoM buff heals a target, the healing threat is attributed to that player, not the priest that casted the PoM.

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