Nightbane - Karazhan Strategies

Class Requirements:

Ground Abilities

• Bellowing Roar: Typical dragon fear; it has a 30-second cooldown. He casts this from time to time.
• Cleave: Typical dragon cleave, frontal arc. Hits for approximately 6,000 on plate; 11,000 on cloth.
• Target Charred Earth: Creates Charred Earth, similar to a fire-based Void Zone.
• Distracting Ash: Reduces the chance to hit with spells and abilities by 30%. Can be dispelled.
• Smoldering Breath: 3700 to 4300 direct damage, plus 1688 to 1912 damage every 3 seconds.
• Tail Sweep: 450 direct damage, plus 2250 damage over time.

Air Abilities

• Rain of Bones: Pelts the party with bones, summoning 3 skeletons.
• Smoking Blast: NightBane casts Smoking Blasts whjile in the air dealing physical then fire damage.
• Fireball Barrage: Stay within 40 yards of nightbane at all times and this shouldnt be an issue

Summoning

To summon Nightbane, one member of the raid needs to have done the quest line beginning with Medivh's Journal and ending with Nightbane. This means that the Shattered Halls and Sethekk Halls instances must be partially completed in heroic mode in order to obtain the [Blackened Urn], which is used to summon Nightbane. Note that the Urn can be used multiple times.

Strategy

Have tank run in and give him time to build aggro, begin slow dps for 15 seconds. Be sure to avoid the charred earth and stay away from the front and back of Nightbane to avoid cleaves and tail swipes. A good strategy is to split your party in half, one half on each side of nightbane to avoid being clustered by the charred earth. The tank should stance dance to avoid the fears if no fear ward is available.

At 75% Nightbane will fly up into the air. At this point all the raid members shoul stack on the maintank for the casting of Rain of bones. After Rain of bones has finished the whole group should run 20 yards to a predefined position away from the spot nightbane is tanked to kill the adds. After roughly 60 seconds nightbane will fly down and return to his ground game. ALL AGGRO IS RESET. Let the maintank regain aggro before resuming DPS. Rinse and reapeat your ground and air game phases until dead.