Ascendant Council Strategy and Tactics
Cata Guides - The Bastian of Twilight Strategy Guides
Boss: Ascendant Council
Location: The Bastian of Twilight
Progression Requirement: Third boss, required for progression to Cho'Gall.
Difficulty Level: Hard, can be hectic, lots to remember and plenty of hazards.
Encounter Focus: Multiple abilities, positioning, multi target damage, DPS race in phase 3.
Guide Status: BETA, this guide is still being refined. Please check for updates regularly.
Ascendant Council Abilities
Ignacious abilities (Fire Boss)
Leap: Ignacious will leaps to a random player and then get back to the tank, leaving a trial of fire (AOE) on the ground on the path of the leap.
Rising flame: Puts a fire shield on himself, that also does massive AOE to the raid, so it needs to be DPSed down.
Feludius abilities (Water Boss)
Waterlog: Feludius will randomly Icebolt players and put a debuf on them called waterlog. This will slow the target, and then freeze him when Glaciate hits (see below). The debuf can only be removed by running and standing inside the fire AOE zones that the fire boss generates (The trail of fire where he leaps).
Glaciate: Raid wide AOE centered on the water boss, that does less damage the further you are away. This will freeze every player with a waterlog debuf on.
Arion Abilities (Wind boss)
Call Winds: Arion will summon cyclones in the edges of the room. Stepping inside a cyclone will do medium damage to you, but also lift you up in the air and make you levitate, thus protect you from some of the main attack of the earth boss.
Chain lightning: a massive damage chain attack (leaps between players).
Thundershock: Massive raid wide AOE. Can be reduced in damage for players that are under the Debuff of the Earth boss (read below).
Disperse: Arion will dissolve and appear somewhere else in the room, and then do a massive damage attack on the tank.
Terrastra (Earth boss)
Gravity well: Looks like void zones on the ground. They will pull you inside them and put the "grounded' debuf on you, that will also protect you from the Thundershock damage of Arion. They also do medium damage over time.
Quake: Massive raid wide AOE. You need to run into one of the tornados that float in the edges of the room, this will create a cyclone beneath your feet that will make you levitate, and avoid the damage (you can still move and perform actions on top of a cyclone).
Ground spike: regular AOE, nothing special, get out of the area when you see the dust coming out of the floor.
Earth shield: Terrastra will sometimes put an earth shield to absorb damage on herself. Just DPS is down and when it is consumed it will cause high damage.
Ascendant Council Raid Setup
As with any new raid if its your first time inside start with more healers and gradually work down to what you need.
Raid Setup (10 man):
2 Tanks
2-3 Healers
5-6 DPS
Raid Setup (25 man):
2 Tanks
7 Healers
16 DPS
Ascendant Council Strategy
Currently being written, there are quite a few abilities per boss. Watch the video below to get a feel for the fight and learn what looks like what. There are are a few guides that really do need video, I feel that this is one of them.
Ascendant Council Kill Move - YOU NEED TO WATCH THIS!! GO BEARS!!
The graphic used is from MMO Champion and as such I want to put a link to their page, as is only fair. Read the original HERE --> http://www.mmo-champion.com/content/1967-Cataclysm-Release-Date-Gathering-XP-Blue-Posts
Last Updated on Monday, 13 December 2010 20:50 Written by Cybac Thursday, 25 November 2010 00:07