Curator is designed to be a gear check for your party. It will test the dps output of the raid and at the same time mana endurance of the healers. Curator needs to be killed within 10 minutes if not then it will be a wipe.I won't talk about the strategy on how to kill him since there are a bunch of site that explains it better but rather focus on what a tank/off tank should do and prepare for before taking on Curator.
Off Tank:
Our guild uses an off tank to absorb Hateful Bolts which is basically arcane damage that hits 4435-5999. Curator targets the 2nd person on the aggro list which should be the off tank in this case since no one should be attacking Curator while he is not Evocating. Curator evocates for 20 seconds and cause 200% extra (triple) damage during this time. As an off tank you will you need some arcane resist gear to to mitigate some of those hateful bolts and based on my experience around 100 arcane resist should be enough. Of course if you have more it would be better but you don't want to gimp yourself too much.
You will want to pick up some Enchanted Adamantite plate gear. They are crafted gear and should be easy to get. I think it would be wise to just gem them with +12 stamina. My guild was very nice to provide me with a Cloak of Arcane Evasion enchanted with + arcane resist which is an item that you will want to look for.
Main Tanking:
Your main job as the main tank against Curator is to make it easy for your healers. You will want to take as less damage as you can take. Remember, this is a dps race and at the same time a mana intensive fight. You don't have to worry about position or moving since the Curator will stick with you as long as you use your normal threat generation cycle. We have covered this topic before so I won't talk about that anymore. As in any fight make sure Shield Block is up everytime. Shield Slam should be used everytime its not on cooldown. You will have plenty of rage to work with in this fight so that won't be a problem. So what do you have to worry about? Timing and knowing when to use your cooldown or commonly known as oh shit buttons at the right time.
You want to use your trinkets like Moroes' Lucky Pocket Watch or Adamantine Figurine before the 1st evocation. Reserve your Shield Wall and Last Stand to either after the 2nd or 3rd evocation where your healers might be low on mana. You want to make sure you have potions to use all throughout the fight.
You want to use your trinkets like Moroes' Lucky Pocket Watch or Adamantine Figurine before the 1st evocation. Reserve your Shield Wall and Last Stand to either after the 2nd or 3rd evocation where your healers might be low on mana. You want to make sure you have potions to use all throughout the fight.
On Evocations:
Very important part of the Curator fight is the evocation stage. Your party will have to use all their high end cooldowns to do some serious damage at this stage. As a protection spec warrior you will have lots of rage to work on during this fight. You will want to spam devastate and shield slam during this period to help your group take as much hit points of Curator. At one point I was seeing 1650 shield slam crits on him and 700+ devastate damage. 20 seconds is a lot of time for everyone to do some serious work on him so make sure you take advantage of this period to do some damage youself.
6 comments:
He enrages at some points, I think its 30%, at which point the Flares stop. I find it very helpful to down an Ironshield potion at this point in the fight to help out on the healing.
The way I understand the Hatefuls is they go to the person on his aggro list with the most current HP. As such when I offtank, I smack him a couple of times to get on the threat list and then go and try to round up flares.
The Flares are given 1000-2000 aggro on a random person when they spawn. I try to overtake that as quickly as possible and get them aggroed onto me. Once I have them I walk them away from the range/healers which really helps ease the mana burden for this fight.
One more comment I forgot, he resets his table after each Evo, which means you need to be ready to pick him up when he comes out of it. Also your offtank will need to whack a couple of times to get back on the aggro list.
A druid offtank is perfect for the hateful bolts as it should take 0 other damage (if flares are being picked up correctly). Our druid, with no Kara epics btw, can stay in cat form the entire fight and maintain good dps to help out, whilst also absorbing the bolts with no difficulty. He also has 0 arcane resist gear on (ofc he gets some due to MotW etc). Just a helpful idea if you have a druid handy =P.
"since no one should be attacking Curator while he is Evocating"
Perhaps you mean when he is *not* evocating people should be on the ads. When he *is* evocating everyone *should* be on Curator.
Actually the rest of the article is confused too. Must have been a late night.
yep late night. been raiding almost everynight. updated and fixed it
Sweet. Makes good sense now! :D
Cheers. I think I was up late too.
Chromaoran
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