We’re happy to announce our set of WoW Classic Blackwing Lair raid strategy guides is now live, with tips for all bosses!
Blackwing Lair (BWL) is a raid with 8 bosses, available in Phase 3 of WoW Classic for players that complete a short attunement quest. Every Blackwing Lair strategy guide will detail how to handle each notable boss ability, what to do before the pull, and spotlight important classes such as who can decurse or dispel!
Here is an excerpt from the Vaelastrasz guide:
Vaelastrasz the Corrupt Notable Classes
- Rogues are particularly powerful in this fight, as they are able to spam their combo builders without needing to wait for Energy regeneration. This is especially true for Dagger Rogues with Backstab. Just make sure to use Feint on cooldown and Vanish on tank transitions!
- Hunters are also particularly powerful as they are able to reset their threat every tank transition via Feign Death.
- Warriors are also incredibly powerful, as Vael starts at 30% health and they are able to spam max Rage Executes on the boss after 20% health. Just be extremely careful of your threat, as Warriors have no way to drop threat.
Vaelastrasz the Corrupt Quick Tips
DPS
- Essence of the Red will give you near infinite resources, so you are able to go wild on DPS! However, threat is extremely important on this fight, especially after the tank gets hit with Burning Adrenaline. Be careful and attempt to drop threat once a tank transition is about to happen.
- When affected with Burning Adrenaline, move to the back of the room and deal as much damage as possible before you die!
Tanks
- You will tank to have 5 tanks in the Vaelastrasz fight, as a tank transition happens every 45 seconds. The next tank in the rotation should be building threat and able to replace the main tank as soon as the transition happens with Burning Adrenaline.
- At the final 20% of the boss, Warriors are able to spam max Rage Executes on Vaelastrasz, but be careful to not accidently outthreat the tank currently tanking the boss.
Healers
- Because of the nature of Essence of the Red, healers are able to forego Spirit/MP5 gear and either funnel Fire Resistance of full +Healing gear. Ideally you will want to assign a healer to spam heal a specific group, and a couple extra healers to bomb heals on the main tank.
- All healers must be aware of the tank order and be ready to swap heals to the new tank as soon as the tank swaps happen.
- Because of the constant Fire Nova damage, healers must also be assigned to heal groups. Ideally, you will want at least 8 Priests with 1 Priest in each group spamming Prayer of Healing. If you do not have enough Priests for this task, Druids alternating Rejuvenations and Regrowths also work well.
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