Rings of Fire and Ice Guide: The Tower of Orthanc Raid
Aug. 28, 2013Rings of Fire and Ice Guide: The Tower of Orthanc Raid
The two giant bosses are possessed by elemental grims, and will regularly spawn add grims that, if not dealt with, will increase in size and power, eventually wiping the raid.
Our method for this wing requires two tanks and two fellowships with dedicated healers and target assistants.
The grim adds:
Periodically, each boss will spawn fire and frost grims nearby. Target Assist should call out these grims and immediately dps them down. When you start seeing the “absorbed” message, someone in the group (prefereably previously designated) will do any CC move and the add will start to take damage again. Kill the grim as quickly as you can and get back to the boss.
The corruptions:
The bosses will get corruptions that increase their damage and punt the fellowships around, mixing the elements and creating dangerous situations as everyone will have different debuffs. The solution is to have an appointed decorruption person and a backup, ready to remove the corruptions as soon as they come up. The tank can call for this over voice/chat if the group is dealing with an add.
The bubbles:
The bosses use morale bubbles. It is up to the group to dps through them or conserve power and attack upon expire. This is a good time for loremasters to steal power.
If you kill one boss and not the other:
Make sure that everyone on the fellowship that defeated their giant does not get near the opposite side’s grims. They need to first attack the opposite giant until the debuff to elemental mitigation is inverted. Once the debuff is changed, the raid should help the other side catch up by eliminating all remaining grims before going back to the boss.
A video of a T1 clear below:
The bosses are similar in T2 but the easiest method is to zerg one giant whilst having the other giant and the several grims spawned by them kited.
Key points:
Video of a Clear
This is the hardest challenge in the raid. To complete it, you must have good communication and coordinate grim spawn and rage reduction with your DPS.
Key points:
Video of Clear
Athranc
Aranthan
Brenwedail
Gochelchol
Gold-Inlaid Flask
Gwanwengor
Harthadloch
Helegechor
Ithilwegil
Iulhar
Methathol
Wayfarer’s Leggings Recipe
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Fexelea
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