Monday, April 13, 2009

Auriaya: Crazy Cat Lady on Steroids!

This is another fight that has me looking forward to getting into Ulduar, just because of the creativity of the developers. It's also going to be fun listening to the debates about the achievements.
Auriya has a shockwave attack that splits 231250 to 268750 physical damage among all targets in its path. I don't know of any tanks that can survive that kind of damage, so guess which way she's going to be facing? She also has a nasty shadow attack, so Prayer of Shadow Protection and Shadow Ward are going to be essential. Also, there's an AOE fear, so I'm going to be so thankful for my dots. I'm not sure if the human ability or pvp trinket will work on that, but it doesn't appear that there are any dangers like there were on Archimonde, so it should just be a minor nuisance.
Auriaya will occasionally spawn packs of panther adds, which can be AoE'd down, or not, depending on whether you want to go for the achievement or not.
After 1 minute, Auriaya spawns a Feral Defender, which is a cat with 9 lives. There is an additional achievement for killing the Feral Defender along with Auriya.
This fight is definitely a place for healers to shine. Going for the Nine Lives achievement will definitely be a test of mana management.
Good training fights: Sartherion, Maxxaena, Anub'Rhekan.

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