Ruby Sanctum - Strategy and Tactics Guide
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The Ruby Sanctum - Strategy and Tactics Guide
Hi all and welcome to the Crusaders Coliseum Quick Guide to the Ruby Sanctum. This guide is in a Beta state, meaning that the encounter is not yet on the live servers and therefore the guide is subject to change and some innacuracies. I've taken as much as I can from the PTR and various other sources to make sure this will prepare you for 3.3.5 and the release of the Ruby Sanctum and its final boss, Haliion. I recommend you check back often for updates!
LAST UPDATE: 09/07/2010 @ 13:23 GMT.
Location: The Ruby Sanctum
Trash - Invoker, Assaulter, Elite, Commander
Mini Bosses
Saviana Ragefire
Baltharus the Warborn
General Zarithrian
Final Boss
Halion
The Ruby Sanctum Strategy and Tactics Guide: Trash
Within the Ruby Sanctum you will encounter 4 basic types of trash mobs. These are Commanders, Assulters, Invokers and Elites.
First off I will cover the Charscale Elites, because quite frankly they dont seem to do much. All you need is a decent amount of healing on the tanks and good DPS to nuke them and they should fall like stones.
It is absolutely vital that you take out the Charscale Invokers fast and ensure they are interrupted. if they are allowed to cast/channel they will produce a Fire Nova which will knock anyone caught in the damage back a fair distance (think at least 20 yards). As you can imagine missing an interrupt in melee range results in the melee being knocked back and thus too far away to get back in time for the next interrupt and a nightmare of a catch 22 situation is born.
Ruby Sanctum Tactics
lesson 1 - ALWAYS INTERRUPT THE
CHARSCALE INVOKERS.
Ruby Sanctum
Assaulters have a Frontal Cleave ability and will
need to be tanked facing away from the raid, this will also
mitigate their other ability which is a Shockwave'esq type
stun.
Ruby Sanctum Tacics lesson
2 - ALWAYS TANK CHARSCALE
ASSAULTERS FACING AWAY FROM RAID.
Charscale Commanders
have to be cc'd on the pull and/or seperated from any other
mobs.
The Charscale Commanders will do a massive buff on all mobs in his vicinity, this isnt an Aura but is actually cast straight after the pull of that group and as such you should use some CC to initiate the pull and keep the Commander tied up. I'm yet to compile a list of which CC works on him, i will update as soon as I can, I do know that a Druids Hibernate does work. Freezing traps are another excellent form of CC for the Commanders. So far we have sap, roots, hibernate, fear, cyclone, freezing trap, and a ton of other CC. Honestly though, just have your off tank pull them somewhere further away so the buff doesnt hit the rest of the mobs and nuke them last.
Ruby Sanctum Tactics
lesson 3 - CC CHARSCALE
COMMANDERS OR PULL THEM A GOOD DISTANCE AWAY FROM
PACK
Just like in Obsidian Sanctum once the trash is clear
it's now time to take out the 3 Minibosses.
The Ruby Sanctum: Saviana Ragefire Tactics and Strategy Guide
Boss Health: 25 man = 14 Mill, 10 man = 4 Mill
Tank: Face boss away from raid.
DPS: Stay behind her at all times.
Healers: Plenty of healing on her air phase the
DPS will take a lot of splash damage.
Raid Leader Remember: Spread out by at least 10 yards and watch for her Nova. As usual dont stand in front of her as she has a frontal cone shaped AoE. Watch for the Air Phase in which she will conflagrate 5 (2 in 10 man) people, Healers be ready to respond and those targetted move out the raid.
The Ruby Sanctum: Baltharus the Warborn Tactics and Strategy Guide
Boss Health: 25 man = 11 Mill, 10 man = 3 Mill
Tank/Offtank: Face boss away from raid / Pick
up mirror image add and tank AWAY from raid
DPS: Nuke
Healers: Watch positioning and stay away from the
Whirlwind and cleaves.
Raid Leader Remember: Periodically Baltharus
will spawn a mirror image of himself, this image has all of his
normal abilities plus a nasty WHIRLWIND, your Off Tank MUST pick
the mirror image up quickly and move him away from the raid where
it should be DPS'd down. An alternative method is just to have your
DPS focus the main boss and go for a fast nuke, experiment and see
what you prefer.
The Ruby
Sanctum: General Zarithrian Tactics and
Strategy Guide
Boss Health: 25 man = 11 Mill, 10 man = 3 Mill
Tank/Offtank: Face boss away from raid / Pick
up adds/ Might need 3 tanks or at least some Misdirect.Tank swap at
2-3 stacks of the debuff
DPS: Stay behind him at all times.
Healers: MT needs to be topped off all the time,
fears at the wrong time can make it easy to drop a tank. Dont
forget to topup your add tanks as well.
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