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Overview
Abilities
Gunship Cannons
Cannon Blast
Launches a cannonball dealing 1k damage and building up 6-10 heat.
Incinerating Blast
Deals 1k Fire Damage and additional Fire damage for each point of heat.
Defending Unit Abilities
Shoot - Rifleman Ability
Deals 5.7-6.3k physical damage.
Rocket Artillery - Rocketeer Ability
Inflicts 6.3-7.7k Fire damage to players and Siege damage to the enemy gunship.
Invading Unit Abilities
Bladestorm - Sergeants
Inflicts weapon damage to up to 4 nearby targets every 1 second for 6 seconds.
Wounding Strike - Sergeants
Inflicts 200% weapon damage and reduces all healing done to the target by 25% for 10 seconds.
Shared Invading and Defending Unit Abilities
Experienced - Increases damage by 30%, and attack and casting speed by 20%. Applied if a soldier has been alive for more than ~20 seconds.
Veteran - Increases damage by 60%, and attack and casting speed by 40%. Applied if a soldier has been alive for more than ~40 seconds.
Elite - Increases damage by 120%, and attack and casting speed by 80%. Applied if a soldier has been alive for more than 60 seconds.
Desperate Resolve - Increases armor and attack speed by 60%. Applied when a soldier's health gets below 20%.
Captain Abilities
Battle Fury - Captain
Increases all damage by 10%, stacking. Lasts 20 seconds, refreshed with each stack. Applied every time Saurfang or Muradin strike a target.
Cleave - Captain
Inflicts 110% weapon damage to up to 3 targets in front of Saurfang of Muradin.
Battle-Mage Abilities
Below Zero
Freezes the enemy gunship's cannons, rendering them inactive. Channeled spell. Cannot be interrupted.
PTR Strategy
Overview
Lord Marrowgar 23.7 million health.
Lord Marrowgar is the first boss in ICC.
Abilities
Bone Spike Graveyard
Hurls a massive bone spike which impales a target (3 in 25 man). Deals 10% health per second for 5 minutes or until killed. Bone Spikes have ~68k health.
Bone Storm
Attacks nearby enemies in a whirlwind of bone. Does instant damage as well as a bleed damage every 3 seconds for 15 seconds.
Coldflame
A line of blue flame (presumably) crawls at a ranged target. Deals Frost Damage.
Saber Lash
Splits 300% of normal melee damage between a target and its two nearest allies. Also adds a debuff that prevents being targeted by Bone Spikes.
PTR, Demonology, and ToC guides
First up, from tonight's PTR, an explanation of what Lord Marrowgar's hard mode is like:
Secondly, two class guides:
And finally, fleshing out our ToC strats, two contributed boss guides:
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PTR Strategy
Audience
This strategy is best employed by a raid with very high situational awareness, especially when it comes to movement and positioning. It should work for all raid compositions.
Overview
Sindragosa, Queen of the Frostbrood and the Lich King's most prized creature, is the final boss of the Frostwing Halls wing on the third level of Icecrown Citadel. The fight features three phases: the ground of the terrace where she lives, when she takes flight in the air above you, and a pseudo-combination of the two once her health reaches 30 percent. The ground and air phases alternate until that percentage is reached. A spiritual successor to the Sapphiron encounter in Naxxramas, most of the abilities in the fight revolve around a theme of frost and ice.
PTR Strategy
Audience
This strategy should appeal to most raid compositions and setups.
Overview
Gas is spread around the entirety of the room you fight Festergut in until it ends. Periodically he will Inhale this gas, eventually exhaling it all back into the room, instantly dealing 50,000 unmitigated damage to everyone in your raid. There are spore debuffs that once explode you can use to prevent part or all of this exhale damage. This strategy tries to minimize the amount of damage you take from the exhale while still leaving you as much DPS time as possible to beat the tight enrage timer.
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