Nothing Sus

This is my basic guide to hard mode Thorim. Its a relatively simple fight for warlocks there not a whole lot of pressure except phase 3 wheres its a DPS race.

Whats Needed: A Frost Resist ring and a Soulstone on a tank/healer is the most important.

Group Setup: Ranged DPS/Heals must be split into groups of 3 around the arena circling Thorim (2 dps and 1healer per group). Organise this before wiping the trash in phase 1

Phase One:

This phase is simple. Kill the healer then AOE down the rest of the mercenaries and the Jormungar Behemoth. Make sure you Soulstone either a tank or a healer for phase 3. Do this before you enter phase 2 or even before you pull the Behemoth/Mercenaries

Phase Two:

Phase 2 consists of 2 areas.  The gauntlet and the Arena. As a warlock you are best suited in the Gauntlet. The gauntlet is very simple. Before the first mini-boss there are 2 sets of 3 adds. Each set of adds has 1 healer and 1 guardians. Your first target should always be the healer. Burn it down as quickly as possible then move onto the Guardians. Repeat this a 2nd time and move onto the first mini-boss.

The first mini boss is a easy spank and tank encounter (make sure the tank has him facing AWAY from the raid and stack up directly behind the boss. Burn him down as quickly as possible. (need to get to thorim on time to trigger Sif in the encounter) At  this time average DPS between everyone in the corridor should be about 3.5k-4k and no less.

Before the second mini-boss there is another set of adds. The task is simple, burn down the 2 healers and quickly as possible and LEAVE the guardians alone until the second mini-boss is dead. Keep moving towards the mini-boss so you dont trigger anymore adds. The second mini boss is also spank and tank. Just make sure everyone is spread out so you dont get hit by the bomb debuff. Remeber you cannot move when you get this debuff so make sure you run away from fellow raid members when they have the debuff.

When the boss is down. Get somebody to trigger Thorim quickly before Sif leaves (a druid can go cat form and sprint to him) and burn down the 2 guardians that you left up before, if you dont they will follow the tank down into the arena and most likely wipe the raid.

Phase 3:

Now you’re up to the final phase of the fight. Split up into your groups (as roughly explained at beginning) and make sure you have your frost resistance ring on!  Its a DPS race. Your shadow priests should me MCing adds for the Aura (increased cast speed). The fight is simple. Just burn the boss quickly and get out of lightning charge. You can call when he is casting lightning charge in your direction when a few streaks of lightning are heading towards him (if thats how you describe it lol). Just run BEHIND the group next to you so the chain lightning doesnt affect both groups. And when sif casts blizzard where your standing. Just move out of it slightly and keep DPSing

Thats all there is to know on that fight. Ill probably add diagrams and stuff when i have time to make them.

Good Luck. And thanks for reading

Welcome to NothingSus.com ive had this site for a long time now. And now that im a WoW gamer i have decided to turn it into a site dedicated to giving hints and tips to warlocks raiding in World of Warcraft (WoW). Anything new i find that makes an encounter easier for myself i will post here. Hopefully you find them helpful…