Atramedes Tactics Basics

Atramedes is a blind dragon, that can't "see" the raid members. He uses sonic abilities to try and locate players. You will get a bar that gets filled when his abilities hurt you. When it becomes full, Atramedes will find you and probably 1 or 2 shot you.

Your most important tool to avoid death, is with the use of 8 "Gongs" (dwarven shields) located around the room.

Using a gong will stun Atramedes for a few seconds (this ability is called "vertigo") as well as reset everyone's sonic bar.

Once a gong is used, Atramedes will locate and destroy it, so they are good for single use only.

Like many dragon fights, Atramedes fight consists of ground phase and an air phase.

Chimaeron Tactics Basics

The Chimaeron tactics are fairly simple, as this is actually somewhat a gimmick fight.

Chimaeron has a few abilities that will one shot everyone they hit. However, you have a friendly add (called Finkle) that putts a buff on the whole raid preventing death from anything, as long as you had more then 10K health when you got hit, leaving you with 1 HP instead of dying.

So the main Chimaeron tactics will be for you healers to adjust to quickly raising injured players with 1 HP to more then 10K.

Once you get this sorted you will need to pay attention to some abilities when the friendly add is disabled, and you're all set.

You will need 2 or 3 tanks to rotate tanking him because of the debufs he puts on them.

Nefarian Tactics Basics

The Nefarian tactics combine 2 main factors to overcome.

1. Positioning

This encounter is VERY unforgiving to anyone accidentally standing where they shouldn't be.

2. Add handling

Nefarian will raise from the dead and animate various adds threw this 2 phases fight. In the first phase he will actually resurrect Onyxia, and a bunch of Animated Warrior adds that can not be killed (read below). In the seconds phase we will animate Chromatic Prototype adds, and in the final phase all the warriors will raise again while you DPS Nefarian himself.

Also, since this IS the last encounter of blackwing descent, he does hit like a truck.

Magmaw Tactics Basics

Being the first (optional) boss in BlackWing Descent, the Magmaw Tactics are fairly simple, and easily explained. However, he DOES hit hard, and your raid will need proper raiding gear to overcome this encounter.

Magmaw is stationary and don't change locations throughout the fight. If at some point during the encounter there will be no one near him at melee range, he will enrage and wipe the raid.

The main damage will be done to Magmaw when he's impaled (read Step by Step Tactics below for more info).