Atramedes Strategy and Tactics
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Boss: Atramedes
Location: Blackwing Decent
Progression Requirement: Needed to progress to the final encounter in Blackwing Decent, Nefarian!
Difficulty Level: Hard, what else did you expect?
Encounter Focus: Environmental Interaction, Timing, DPS Race (Limited Gongs)
Guide Status: BETA, this guide is still being refined. Please check for updates regularly.
Atramedes Abilities
Searing Flames: Atramedes does an AoE which causes high damage raid wide. This MUST be interrupted using one of the Gongs to give Atramedes the Vertigo debuff
Sonic breath: Atramedes attacks the player with the highest Sonic Bar, and then rotates to try and catch others in the effects..
Sonic discs: Atramedes creates Sonic Discs on the ground which follow a straight line of sight path away from him.
Raoring Flame breath: Atramedes attacks with his bad breath for massive damage, it follows one raid member who will need to run away and get healed.
Atramedes 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
Atramedes Tactics
Atramedes is a big blind dragon. Atramedes wants to eat you. Atramedes tries to find you with his Sonic Abilities, there is a new bar that will appear when you engage the boss, if this bar fills up you will have been "found" and you'll find 10 tons of blind dragon about to chow down on your corpse.
Everytime that Atramedes tries to cast Searing Flames one member of the raid will need to use a Gong, this will interrupt the ability and confuse the boss for a couple of seconds. It will also annoy the living hell out of him and he will immediately go to the Gong and destroy it. It is VITAL that you get this organised, it WILL wipe your raid a LOT of it's not sorted. Using the Gong will also reset all Sonic Bars to 0.
Standard dragon formation, Healers and DPS to the sides, nobody in front or behind the dragon. I'm not sure if he does a tail swipe but we didnt want to test it.
During the air phase any speed boosts you have will be a massive benefit, RUN FOREST RUN! But not over and towards your team mates. The Ability will swap targets soon enough. In my experience of this fight dont do it last thing at night when people are sleepy, they move too slow !
That's it!
Good luck out there, all the best
Cybac.
Atramedes Video
Last Updated on Tuesday, 07 December 2010 13:12 Written by Cybac Thursday, 25 November 2010 00:02