Raid Boss Rogue Strategy Guide

#0 - July 26, 2007, 2:40 a.m.
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Ok out of boredom i decided to write something up hoping to help fellow rogue communities. They're up for debating and updating so feel free to comment and add your thought!
(Link for other raid SSC/TK/BT/Hyjal is in the following post)

Karazhan
Attumen the Huntsman
-Simple fight, just dps race. Make sure you aint overagro.
-Cloak of Shadow can remove his curse. Do so whenever the curse is at you.
-Attumen not effect by bleeding. (Cant rupture)

Moroes
-Get adds fast. In case you dont have enough tank, pop evasion, with one assigned healer you can offtank one of them for certain period.
-CloS cant remove garrote so ask healer to heal you.
-Moroe not effect by bleeding. (Cant rupture)

Maiden
-Ask mage to Dampen Magic you, it help a lot.
-Ask priest for lightwell so you can get out and heal instantly no need to bandage.
-Get away from maintank if you see his hp is too low. (To prevent chain hits)
-CloS whenever possible to mitegrate damage.
-You can do best dps here if there is healer to heal you. (Chain heal from shammy work like wonder)

Opera:Big Bad Wolf
-Prepare to run if you're red riding hood!
-You can sprint during the red riding hood.
-You can vanish out of the red riding hood. (confirm?)
-Can be rupture/poison.

Opera:Romulo Julianne
-Main job is to interupt juliane healing. (Eternal ...)
-Can be rupture/poison. so wound poison help in case misinterupt her heal.

Opera:Crone
-Nothing in particular but a dps race.
-Watch your thread, just dont overagro. It's simple fight.

Curator
-Make sure tanker tank him not too far from range so you can run to add easily.
-Save sprint for the last add before evocation (he will evocation,2x damage, when he's low mana) so you can get back to curator faster.
-Immune to bleeding/poison. (No rupture here)
-Get add fast but dont blow your cooldown on it. Save em when curator evocation.
-CloS whenever possible to mitegrate some damages from add.
-If your guild need arcane absorber, rogue is a perfect class. But it isnt necessary.

Shade of Aran
-Make sure you kick Frost Bolt/Fire Bolt all the time kick is availiable. (No need to kick arcane since aran waste mana already when start casting arcane)
-Deadly poison, rupture on him all the time to maximize damage.
-CloS can remove slow debuff during arcane explosion.
-Sprint can remove slow debuff as well.
-Dont move or turn during flamewreath!, get in melee spot all the time to prevent unnecessary moving.
-You wont get hit by blizzard.
-Save CloS to use when Aran targetting you, or when you figure out that water elemental shooting at you.
-Frost protection potion help during water elemental phase.
-Use pots/HS immediately after Aran pyroblast. (If you have only one interuptor he will mostly go oom and do pyroblast)

Illhoof
-Kill demon chain fast (Use "/target demon chain "macro)
-Apply wound poison 5 stacks before he sacrifice help loads.
-If you're combat, your bladefurry can help killing add around illhoof fast.
-CloS out of fire debuff from big elite imp if you get it. (But most likely not)
-Stack rupture on him all the time too since he's not immune to bleeding.

Netherspite
-You can take green beam all phase or even blue beam. (Depend on raid leader to assign you or not)
-If you're beam taker, Dont use CloS or you cant take beam and get beam debuff.
-CloS help during banish phase/portal phase. Use it whenever possible in portal phase. Use it when u're about to get him by netherbreath during banish phase. (If you stand at his front you will get hit)
-You can attack during banish phase. BUT dont attack him at his front, or you will get cleaves and die in a second. Some says dont attack at all in banish phase for safe side. Up to you.

Prince
-Nothing but dps race.
-Keep rupture/deadly at him all the time to max dps.
-If you get emfeeble (1hp) run back to the group.
-CloS can use to prevent shadow nova damage/knockback.
-If your CloS is cooldown, and prince is casting shadownova, face your back on the wall so you will not knockback too far.
-Use sprint as soon as u get knockback by shadownova to get urself in spot for maximum dps as soon as possible.
-Use evasion in last phase if you're getting hit by those flying axes.
-CloS can prevent those fire AoE from fire elementals, but dont risk ^^.

Nightbane
-Dps him at his side.
-Dont ever go near his front or you will get hit by fire AoE.
-Dont ever go near his tail either or you will get tail sweep.
-Move out from Charing Earth fire AoE.
-CloS can remove those fire debuff/dot if you get it.
-Help party dpsing skeletons / stun during flying phase.
-You can bladefurry all skeletons but be sure that you have evasion ready to blow. (or healer ready to heal you)
-Stop dpsing 10sec before he land, vanish if you have to prevent agroing nightbane while he landing.
-Basicly dps race.

Gruul's Lair
Highking Maulgar
-First you will start at Blindeye the priest. Interupt his healing at all cost. Wound poison will help in case your raid misinterupt him but deadly is the best bet. Just kill him fast.
-Kigger has some knockback AoE, but not that hurt.
-Dont even think to dps Krosh Firemage, just sit back and watch or start dpsing highking.
-Watch out whirlwind from highking. Downloading bossmod help, just move away from him when whirlwind cooldown is about to finish.
-All mobs here can be rupture/poison so keep them up all the time!

Gruul
-CloS can remove slow debuff from Ground Slam. Save your CloS for this!, Very helpful. Once you get a hang of this you will never die during ground slam!
-Spread out from your fellow melee dpser and tank.
-Rupture/Deadly Poison him all the time.
-Move away if you are in Cavein.
-Dont overagro the second tank in agro list or you will get hit by hurtfulstrike.

Magtheridon
-During Chaneller phase, you should pay close attention to interupt Dark Mending. Dont let them heal or you will most likely wipe the raid. (Deadly poison here since they shouldnt allow to heal at all!)
-After that it's just tank and spank. Hit magtheridon from the back (he has no tail sweep). Go near the cube and be ready to click when he's about to cast (boss mod helps!) if you're assigned.
-Keep urself heal up around 32%, cause at 30% you will get hit 6k.
-Avoid Cavein all period of fight, and things should be fine.

That's all my tips from my experience, Anymore would be welcome. If there any mistake here i'm sorry hehe, feel free to tell me that. Addition rogue strategy for later raid boss e.g. TK,SSC are welcoming here ^^.
#23 - July 31, 2007, 3:26 p.m.
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This thread has been added to the “Informative and useful Rogue threads” compilations sticky: http://forums.wow-europe.com/thread.html?topicId=305840938&sid=1