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Ulduar 25 and Gearing Up For It

We have started to raid Ulduar 25. Your gear item levels need to be at least 200-213 level, ideally higher (check 'Show Item Level' under display in-game). If you are interested in raiding at all please send an in-game mail to Neriis.

For those of you who are undergeared the best and fastest way for most to gear up atm is to farm Emblems of Conquest by running heroics (1 per boss). Here is a list of what you can get with them: Conquest Gear (226 level). Keep in mind you can also trade them in for Emblems of Valor and get the lesser Valor Gear (213 level) for slots that can not be filled with conquest gear. The daily heroic will give you an additional 2 Emblems of Triumph which gets you Triumph Gear (232 and 245 level).

P.S. Great job on our 2nd Ulduar 25!

Naxx 10 farming! We will be attempting to run Naxx10 to gear up players who need it. Check the forums and in-game calendar for more info.

I found this vid on Grob that has a good point of view for spacing the poison clouds and where people can run when injected.  Enjoy and hope we down this guy soon!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G9MQomz7fps&feature=related

Here is a good visual for the Grobbulus fight





Naxxramus Military Quarter - Instructor Razuvious:


This strategy was successful.  Need 2 priests, we used shadow priests; both assured me that hit rating was necessary to make mind control work. They had 200+ hit each.

Each priest chose 2 of the understudies - the two on the left for one, the 2 on the right for the other(not the front 2 and back 2). 1 tank assigned to each pair.  Third tank is loose, catches strays....should not have to tho. Warrior tanks for targeted taunt used here.

Start:
1. Tanks charge in and pick up the understudies.
2. Priests advance and mind control - you have 3 to 5 seconds to do so.
3. First priest uses bone armor (IMPORTANT!) THEN taunts the Boss.
4. After about 9 seconds, or near the end of Bone Armor(shield wall), the second priest does Bone Armor and taunts (5 yard range on taunt, so have to be close)
5. First priest releases his understudy
6. Tank: pick up the understudy just released
7. Priest: MC the other understudy from the tank, move to Rezuvius and (bone armor then) taunt when bone armor is about to go down - never tank without bone armor.
8 Other priest releases understudy, other tank picks it up, other priest gets ready to bone armor -> taunt.
9 Rinse and repeat till loot. (Kill understudies after boss goes down.)
Fine Tuning to avoid the wipe:
* Tank the loose understudies in a clear area near the boss so they are easy to find and MC; Mark them all. the priests need to be able to talk to each other.
If the tank(s) are close, they can autoattack the understudy they are holding, and click on the other one thats MC'd, till its loose, then taunt to keep it off the priest.  The priest then picks up the one on standby, very smooth.
* Fight the boss down in or near the green circle, just because it works very well.
* Be careful using pally tank - can pull the boss with AOE pull, and doesn't have charge ability. Might be able to work around this though.
* Let the understudy get aggro before DPS. After the understudy has aggro, you can go all out.
MythBuster: You CAN stand on the ramp to DPS, it does not cause a problem.  You do not HAVE to use shadow priests, just priests with good hit rating so they can MC.

Amen