Beth'tilac <The Red Widow>

• Below, I have written a guide on the abilities and how we defeated this boss.

• Tanks - | Druid | Paladin |
• Healers - | Shaman | Druid | Priest |
• DPS - | Rogue | Hunter | RPaladin | Mage | SPriest |

• This boss is a gigantic fire hawk that betrayed her people to gain her power from Ragnaros.
• She will fly around her arena in do various abilities, alongside spawning adds to kill her foes.
• She has a similar burn phase to Magmaw and is a VERY execution based fight.

• Alysrazor is engaged by hitting Staghelm or by picking up the lone feather on the ground.
• Upon engaging, Alysrazor will fly low to the ground in a straight line from her spawning cave causing a Firestorm as she comes. You will want to prestack to help healing here.
• She also blocks the exits with Volcanic Fire, preventing any successful escape.

• Phase 1 begins shortly after the pull in which she will have Molted and left Feathers on the ground in her wake. By picking up these feathers, you will gain 1/3 of Wings of Flame causing you to run 30% faster per stack and be able to cast while moving.
• During this phase you will want 1 person to gain 3 stacks ASAP in order to gain Blazing Power by going through rings in the air à la Star Fox. Once that person reaches 25 stacks, he/she will gain Alysra's Razor, causing his Crit change to increase by 75%.
• However, that person must look out for one thing... Firey Farts that she releases periodically. Easily Avoidable.
• Meanwhile, on the ground, the other 9 players in the raid will need to deal with adds. 2 Blazing Talon Initiates who spawn periodically and 2 Voracious Hatchlings who only spawn once per phase.
• You will want to assign 2 groups of 4. 1 group on each side with a healer going back and forth. 1 Healer/2 DPS (Split interrupters)/1 Tank in order to deal with the adds. 1 Initiate spawns on each side and has minimal health.
• The initiates cast 2 abilities. One of which is Brushfire... a non interruptable spell that creates a small ball of fire that scoots around the arena floor. It is very avoidable. The other ability is Fieroblast... an ability that CAN and SHOULD be interrupted. It does moderate fire damage and places a DoT on it's target. Each successful cast of Fieroblast increases the Initiate's subsequent damage.
• The Voracious Hatchings spawn shortly after this phase begins and are dropped in an egg via airmail by two phoenix'. You will need to have the tanks go stand by each of these due to it becoming Imprinted on the closest person at hatch. This causes the tank to do 1000% damage against that target... Use CDs appropriately.
• Occasionally the Hatchling will become Hungry and have a change to go into a Tantrum. In order to deal with the tantrums, you will want your tanks to kite the birds overPlump Lava Worms which they will in turn eat and become Satiated. 4 Worms spawn at a time around the room and cannot be targeted or DPSed. You just need to watch out for their 360 degree Lava Spew.
• This phase will last roughly 3:15 at which time, she will cast Fiery Vortex.

• During this phase/transition, she will summon Fiery Tornados that orbit VERY fastly around the room in different directions. That is why you will want to have everyone grab as many feathers as possible. Do your best to avoid these tornados.
• This phase lasts ~15 seconds.

• Phase 2 is essentially a burn phase in which she is Burnt Out from causing her vortex/tornadoes... increasing her damage taken by 50%.
• She will remain in this stage until her blazing power reaches 50. Her inner Spark is what returns her power, at a rate of 3 per 2 seconds.
• Also, there will be 2 more adds during this phase which spawn on opposite sides and cast Ignition in an attempt to speed her recovery. You will want to have your tanks lock these down and prevent them from casting this.
• In addition, we found it beneficial to stack behind her at the beginning of this phase due to the mechanics of the transition back into P1.

• At 50 Molten Power, she becomes Ignited and raises from the ground. This continues to restore 2 power per second.
• At this time she will also Buffet the raid causing mild fire damage every second. (Hence the stacking)
• She must be tanked during this phase due to Blazing Claw which causes high amounts of damage. You don't want this in the raid, so have your tank face her the opposite direction.
• Once she reaches Full Power, she will knock all players back like at the beginning and Phase 1 will begin again.

• Try and coordinate your interrupts for P1... this will give you the most trouble.
• Have your tanks use Offensive CDs on the Hatchlings. It is imperative that they die before the tornadoes.
• SPriests/Fire Mages are great for the air.
• The tanks take a @#$% ton of damage, but since you get 10% mana back per ability during the burn phase... use your big heals to keep them up.
• Watch my video, I feel it should help a lot.

• Below, I have written a guide on the abilities and how we defeated this boss.

• Tanks - | Druid | Death Knight |
• Healers - | Shaman | Druid | Priest |
• DPS - | Rogue | Hunter | Death Knight | Mage | SPriest |

• This boss is a gigantic fire hawk that betrayed her people to gain her power from Ragnaros.
• She will fly around her arena in do various abilities, alongside spawning adds to kill her foes.
• She has a similar burn phase to Magmaw and is a VERY execution based fight.

• Baleroc is the gatekeeper to Ragnaros' spire and is the final encounter you will face before crossing the bridge and on to the last 2 encounters.
• Baleroc uses his two blades as his primary means of destruction... coupled with summoning crystals to torment raid members.
• He is a fairly simple 1 phase encounter that takes some quick practice to master.

• You will enter his single phase as you engage him.
• The main mechanic of this fight has to deal with his two blades. In order to do deal with these abilities, you will need to coordinate Blaze of Glory stacks, which start getting applied shortly after engaging.
• This ability will increase the tank's HP by 20% upon every application... however, you need to be careful, because it also increases physical damage taken by 20% and increases Baleroc's fire damage by 20% per application.
• In order to deal with the increased damage and increased HP of the tanks, you will need to have your healers gain large amounts of Vital Spark which are gained via healing the players with Torment. (1 stack of Vital Spark per 3 stacks of Torment)
• Torment is gained from the small purple spikes that Baleroc periodically summons. You will want to have 2 people assigned to each shard due to the exponential damage they take.
• Since the shards last for ~25 seconds, and because Vital Spark stacks at intervals of 3, you will want to have each DPS try and take 12 stacks each... Giving the healer 4 stacks per direct heal.
• You will want to assign pairs in order to deal with these, because after a player as left a shard of torment, they become Tormented causing them to take increased shadow damage... effectively preventing them from eating the torment for a while.
• Tormented also reduces the healing output by 50% which is why you will only want DPS to take the stacks.
• The only catch to this Vital Spark mechanic is in the way it activates Vital Flame. Upon healing a tank with the debuff, the healer will LOSE his stacks of Vital Spark and be unable to gain more stacks until the Vital Flame buff has disappeared 12 seconds later. This is where a careful balance between tank healing and torment healing will come into effect. Coordinate amongst your healers how you will handle this. You will want to gain as many stacks as possible, while still keeping your tanks alive.

• Finally... the difficult part of this encounter... the blades.
• Decimation Blade - When Baleroc imbues his weapon with decimation, he will no longer do physical damage, and only do shadow damage. During this blade he will have 100% slowed swinging speed, however when he strikes, he will do so for 90% of the tanks HP... and at least 250k damage. You will want to have your OT tank this phase, and the beginning of the encounter. Let him get to >250k HP and then only tank during decimation blade.
• Inferno Blade - When Baleroc imbues his weapon with inferno, he will no longer do physical damage, and only do fire damage. Due to his stacks of Incendiary Soul, Baleroc will do immense amounts of damage to the tank. Have your MT tank during this blade and use any CDs you need to.

• Have one healer heal the first 2 torments with help from the others to gain stacks quickly, and then just rotate torment healers to gain stacks the rest of the fight.
• Once you get torment healing/stacks/torment stackers, the rest of the fight will fall into place.
• This fight is basically a gear check... bring your best DPS.