The Ruby Sanctum is an extension to the Wyrmrest Temple Dragonflight Sanctum raids. Sacred grounds of the red dragons, the Ruby Sanctum was invaded by the Twilight dragonflight. Released in patch 3.3.5, it’s very similar to the Obsidian Sanctum – both in appearance and encounters. The Ruby Sanctum is guarded by his lieutenants Baltharus, General Zarithrian, and Saviana Ragefire - killing which unlocks the only real boss of the raid - Halion, the Twilight Destroyer…
Here’s the video of Clique’s 2nd 10-man Hard mode kill of Halion from our Rogue’s PoV.
Nothing really different from normal 10-man mechanics… just an extra Twilight Cutter beam in the Twilight realm which yet bisects the safe-zone into quarters, and that zones dropped will appear in both the Physical and Twilight realms. And of course, he hits harder.
* As of Patch 3.3.5, AVR will cease to work! It was fun while it lasted… *
AVR (Augmented Virtual Reality) allows you to draw and add lines, circles and other markings in-game environment itself. All markings may also be shared with others, but I assume they need to have the addon installed as well. Raid leaders will find this addon an extremely helpful tool for explaining strats to the raid. For example, it can be used to mark locations when explaining raid tactics. These marks can even be left visible for the fight itself. Say goodbye to all those flares!
To install: Copy the folder to your Addon folder, restart WoW and you’re good to go.
Other things you can do with AVR:
Draw range circles around you at any range
Clearly mark players close to you
Bossmods type things, currently adds a red circle on Festergut spores, Putriced Malleable Goo (one target only), Rotface ooze explosion and Sindragosa Frost beacons. (Requires BigWigs for these to work.)
Mark any location relative to player position and rotation, for example mage blink landing spot
Measure distances
Here’s a screenshot of how the addon looks like in game.
Here comes the best part. The coolest thing is that it integrates with another addon: “AVR Encounters” (aka AVRE) to provide visual effects to highlight various boss mechanics, “boosting” your raid awareness heaps. You can download the godly addonAVRE here.
Currently AVRE supports only some encounters in the Icecrown Citadel raid:
Icecrown Citadel: Lord Marrowgar, Lady Deathwhisper, Festergut, Rotface, Professor Putricide, Blood Prince Council, Blood-Queen Lana’thel, Sindragosa, The Lich King (does not work correctly after the platform collapses due to Blizzard zone coordinate bugs).
Ulduar: Hodir, Freya, Mimiron, General Vezax, Yogg-Saron.
Example videos:
These are some somewhat early examples of what AVR+AVRE can do. The graphics have been altered a bit since these videos were taken, but you get the idea.
Putricide (Unbound Plague):
Putricide (Malleable Goo):
Addon memory usage is surprisingly decent… ~780kb of addon memory usage in our Lich King attempts, way lower than some resource-intensive addons such as Grid or Recount. If you have a decent system, it doesn’t hurt your framerate very much. Yes, it does lower it some. If you have a slow computer or low frame rate already, I wouldn’t recommend using AVR/AVRE.
Overall, I think this is a really excellent addon and an extremely valuable tool for raid leaders to explain raid tactics precisely, accurately on the in-game environment. Coupled with AVRE, there is no reason for you to fail at certain boss fights now!
Last night was rather a fruitful night for Clique. We defeated two end-wing encounters and received our first 2 heroic tokens. Congrats to Tulang and Gorrfang on their shiny new item level 277 tier pieces!
Heroic Deathbringer Saurfang was rather tricksy especially with Mark-healing during the last 10% and him frenzied, which isn’t something our healers are looking forward to next week (especially with ZERO Val’anyrs in our guild).
As for Blood-queen Lana’thel, the fight was rather straight forward and while her mechanics are almost exactly the same as normal mode — there is a higher DPS requirement to meet, which we overcame after a couple of tweaks. A big shout out to everyone in the raid, and especially our healers for doing an excellent job on both these fights.
We have fraps of these two encounters below. Hope you enjoy them.
After wiping the 1st try of the night at an agonizing 0% (he was at 35k HP before we let him heal), we went back for revenge and downed him the 2nd try and thus clearing the Plagueworks!
Here’s a video of of us with the Prof…
(1st PoV: Exitt – feral tank, 2nd PoV: Mitigator – Holy priest)
Here’s a new kill video of the new boss Festergut by one of our 10-man groups. Though it’s just a normal-mode video and a relatively simple fight, it is our first video of a kill in ICC, so I do hope you enjoy it!
As of now, Clique has one 10-man group that have successfully cleared everything in the Plagueworks, including Professor Putricide on the same day of it’s release. Our 25-man group has cleared both Festergut and Rotface and will be saving all our attempts for Monday when most of our raiders should be back.
Many thanks to Exitt for his effort in making this video.
The usual Over-achievers group got around to doing this achievement last night and got it in typical Clique fashion — on our last attempt of the night. We don’t have our own video to show but even better, we have come up with a Strategy Guide for you! Good luck in getting this achievement, it was quite fun!
Here are some tips on how to get arguably the hardest ToC 10-player achievement:
The Scarabs you are supposed to kill only have a minuscule Health Pool of 17k, handle them with care!
NEVER DPS Anub’arak! You don’t need to kill him.
You have to kite all the scarabs through 4 Burrow Phases. When Anub’arak burrows the 4th time, that’s your cue to start killing all the adds.
Kite together! With exception of maybe the Hunters, stick together like glue!
During the first few attempts when you learn how to kite, it may be useful to kill all the Scarabs to have an idea of how many scarabs have spawned, especially when you know you are going to wipe.
The key to succeeding is not to let the scarabs hit you as much as possible. Acid-Drenched Mandible stacks hurt! To do this you need to stay in front of the Scarabs and stun/snare any that come from the front. The debuff stacks up to a maximum of 40, where it will hit for 48,000 per tick!
Kill Nerubian Burrowers as fast as you can. 1 or 2 up during the kill phase is manageable, but 4 or 5 will wipe your raid.
If you are behind the kiting pack, you may want to cut inside through the ice to rejoin the party. Sometimes, it is easier to just walk on the ice even though it slows you.
On our kill attempt, we used the following class composition:
Healers: 2x Resto druids – They are the best healers here due to the mobile nature of the encounter.
2x Rogues – FoK Anesthetic poison to deal with Enraged Scarabs. Able to Cloak off high stacks of Acid-Drenched Mandibles
2x Hunters – for Frost Traps and Tranq shot.
1x Ele Shaman – for Earthbinds, “Rank 1″ Frost Shocks, and Thunderstorm. Use Thunderstorm carefully – it hits for ~4k non-crit and if you are not careful Scarabs may die prematurely.
1x Frost Mage – “Rank 1″ Frost Nova, “Rank 1″ Blizzard. Be careful of your Water Elemental hitting Scarabs (do not glyph it) and put it to passive.
Class Tips:
Rogues: Use the lowest DPS weapon available and imbue it with Anesthetic poison. You’ll be using this for most part of the fight, but remember to swap weapons when you start to kill all the Scarabs.
Hunters: Stay in the ‘center’ killing orbs and Nerubian Burrowers! Lay Frost Traps in any gaps you see that Scarabs will path over. Help to Tranq Shot Enraged Scarabs. Try as much as possible to follow the kiting party so not to be out of range of heals. Use Aspect of the Wild!
Resto Shamans:Glyph Riptide. Use 2 piece t8/2 piece t9 Resto set for reduced Riptide duration, and LHW relic. You don’t want to be healing and left behind the kiting party. Use Frost Resistance and Earthbind totems. Rank 1 Frost shock any loose Scarabs not on Ice patches.
Elemental Shamans: Use Earthbind totem to root adds. Make sure that no one is in melee range of Scarabs before rooting. Use Thunderstorm if you need to but only when they are on Full HP. Rank 1 Frost shock any loose Scarabs not on Ice patches.
Death Knights: Deathgrip orbs into ‘gaps’ of Ice patches (see 2:25 of the 2nd video). Chains of Ice adds that spawn in front of you and is heading to the kiting party.
Warriors: Intervene and Charge is your best friend. Use it to stay in front. Charge and stun any adds that spawn in front heading to the kiting party.
Mages: Go Frost! Use Rank 1 Frost nova only when Scarabs are catching up to the kiting party and it’s absolutely necessary. Ice Block when you have high stacks of Acid-Drenched Mandibles.
Warlocks: Affliction is possibly your best spec here. Run around, DoT orbs and Nerubian Burrowers, though Shadowfury might still come in useful. Up to you here.
Paladins: Hand of Freedom people who are lagging behind. Hand of Protection removes Acid-Drenched Mandible stacks, use it on raid members with high stacks.
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