Content Cleared Sinestra Down 13/13 Hc See you on PTR!

A very intressting fight combining heavy dps requirements with full on focus to detail.

I will explain the fight phase by phase and give you a glimpse of what is expected in this encounter.

Phase 1

Phase one you ideally want to have a hunter pull and feign so you can position correctly and have a good start on the dps as it is a dps race.

Why is it a DPS race?

Shortly after engaging sinestra she will place a debuff called WRACK on a player. This is a 60 second debuff and is similar to proffesor putricides debuff with a few differences.

WRACK deals more damage the longer it is applied on the target. And when it is dispelled it will multiply by two. So you have to dispel the debuff enough times so that damage never gets to high on a single person.

How do you do this? Well i have done this and it is one of the biggest awareness challanges you will ever face. But the simple way to explain it is

1 Debuff = Spam heal the target and watch for it to hit 20 seconds then dispel.

2 Debuffs = Another healer should help you out here and you should both attempt to repeat the 1 Debuff of 20 seconds.

4 Debuffs = Now you can yell each target you will take but it isn't really nessecary as the hard part of the debuff is mainly over BUT combined with her fire breath small stacks can be deadly. You want to aim for 10-15 seconds on each target. At this point you should be watching for breath timers and making sure they are topped so they can survive.

8 Debuffs = O shit hits the fan, you have to dispel on 10 but a second healer should be helping you  so really it's not that bad. It's only a problem if the dispeller's get CUTTERS or have to move where you may get in trouble.

16 Debuffs = Provided you have done your timings correctly the debuff should fade off BUT a new 60 second debuff may be applied if your dps is to slow.

Fire breath doesn't do a major amount of damage in phase 1 it is easily healable as she is only using 60% of her power. The dispellers just have to be on thier toes.

CUTTER ORBS

Ok, so this is by far the most challanging part of the encounter. For the dispeller e,g me it is the worst nightmare ever. NO ADDON WILL SAVE YOU FROM THIS ABILITY. The reaction time needed is similar to the eredar twins in sunwell.

What happens is two twilight orbs will spawn close to your raid members who will be relatively close together. It takes about 2 seconds for them to activate and when they do they will link to a player via a purple lazer beam.

IF ONE OF THESE PLAYERS ARE YOU you must run out of the raid asap as the two orbs will link to each other causing anyone caught inbetween the line of the 'cutter' to be instantly killed. It lasts about 15 seconds and you have to run around each other.

Both the fire breath and cutter abilitys are on a small cooldown, maybe 20-30 seconds? you get an announcement of it's comming but that's about it. You are on your own.

Power Aura's Can greatly help you as no boss mod gives you a warning the orb is on you. Power aura's can make a sound and give you a big flashy symbol showing you have agro.

The only other ability she does in Phase one is call whelps down. These are picked up by an off tank and just tanked for this phase.

So in short.

Dispellers watch for the wrack and breath timings. DPS be good and don't tunnel vision.

CUTTERS WILL WIPE GUILDS THE MOST.

As soon as you have mastered Phase One

Phase Two Begins!

In a hale of gunfire and glory Calen comes to avenge alexstrasa. Sinestra dosen't like this and decides to blow you all up.

Luckily if you reach Calen in time he will protect you in a large fireshield. (If your dps was bad and you recieved a second wrack the fireshield will mitigate all damage from the wrack so the first person should be able to soak about 30 seconds of the debuff)

During this time in the shield dps should be AoE'ing the whelps down evenly and a puddle should be placed at the back of the room.

Now dps will be split into 3 groups.

2 Groups will be EGG GROUPS  (Range pref)

1 Group will be Melee ADD GROUP

EGG GROUPS

You will be split into two groups evenly and move to each egg your assigned to. You will dps sinestra until you see the timer 'Omlet time' The egg's are immune to damage until you see that timer and the egg's become vaunrable.

The way we do it is we have 2 'Omlet times'  the only thing i can say here is you must make sure you have full DOTS UP BEFORE IT ACTIVATES.

That's it for you guys.

Melee group.

The melee group has to deal with

1 Large drake

and

1 Dragonkin

Every 20-30 secondsish maybe sooner.

The large drake should be tanked by a tank just away from the dragonkin so they can switch easily when the dragonkin is dead.

The dragonkin can be tanked by a retribution paladin quite easily and should be.

The dragonkin is the wiper in this phase. IT HAS TO BE INTERUPTED. The only catch is it cannot be stunned and certain abilitys make it immune to interupt which i will return to when i found out what these are.

The jist of it is to keep them interupted priority the dragonkin over the drake rinse repeat until the phase change when the egg groups have finished.

Healers should make sure Calen does not die by chucking him a few heals while they battle in a dragon ball z kamehameha type of thing. The egg groups shouldn't require healing unless the interupters mess up which in most cases is a wipe.

Phase Three

You killed her children now she's pissed. She loses the 60% damage and is now full on hormonal.

Depending on your transition you may still have add's to finish. You cannot plan your transition so i wouldn't bother trying. You just have to deal with what she throws at you.

You should give 10 seconds warning to the egg's dying to the actual transition so the melee can see if they will recieve an additional dragonkin.

If you do do not go to sinestra wait interupt it then move it slowly towards her.

As soon as you can  Resume your phase one positions.

All of her phase one abilitys will be active in this phase and they will hit alot harder. (40% to be exact)

But never fear Calen is here! in a noble sacrifice he gives his life to empower you with 100% haste for a short peroid of time. I think it's 3 minutes or something.

You should finish the add and then go on sinestra

Then it is a simple case of rinse and repeat the phase one tactic with a minor exception.

You have to kill the whelps at certain points in the fight so the tank does not recieve to high stacks combined with a WRACK it's an instant death in P3.

If you manage all of this THE DEBUFF WILL FADE AT ABOUT 20-25% then you simply can't keep up with the damage she does you will die one by one due to wrack or breath it is a burn phase.

Phase 3 and 1 are exactly the same if done right just a hell of alot harder to heal and execute.

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