Bear Lord Nalorakk is the first boss in Zul'Aman - although all four of the animal bosses are accessable from the start of Zul'Aman, Bear Lord Nalorakk should be the first boss you hit for the 20 minute speed run quest since he is the easiest boss in the instance.

General Information:
Health: Around 1,700,000
Phases/Forms: 2 forms - troll form and bear form - changes forms around every 10% HP

Abilities:
(All Forms)
• Brutal Swipe: A high damage melee attack that will hit the highest agro - damage will split with another player if that player is stacked on top of the highest agro
• No Crushing Blows
(Troll Form)
• Mangle: All bleed effects cause 100% additional damage on all bleed attacks
• Surge: Charge like ability that deals short ranged (~5 yards) AoE melee damage and a slight knockback (around 4k on cloth)
(Bear Form)
• Lacerating Slash: Bleeding for 1735 damage every 2 sec (18 sec duration)
• Rend Flesh: Bleeding for 2335 damage every 1 sec (5 sec duration)
• Deafening Roar: Deals 1235 to 1365 (~40 yards) AoE physical damage and silences enemies for 2 sec

Group Recomendations:
• 2 tanks
Notes: Narlorakk does not have any abilities that would hinder any class from performing their duties - even though he is the easiest boss in the instance he is also a gear check boss - due to his high HP and high damage output both tanks will have to be at least in Karazhan equivalent epics - the healers will need to be able to handle intensive healing for ~5-10 minutes, and the DPS will have to deal enough damage to take him down before the healers run out of mana. Anyone without at least mostly Karazhan equivalent gear will put more pressure on the rest of raid for this boss and the instance in general.

Strategy:
Narlorakk has 2 phases, and will constantly switch between the 2 phases throughout the fight. Each tank will be assigned to a phase - the troll phase will be very direct melee damage intensive so a tank with high mitigation is preferred - the bear phase will be large amounts of damage over time so a tank with high HP is preferred.

Phase 1:
Start by pulling Narlorakk to the center of the platform with both tanks stacked on top of each other to absorb the brute swipes. All melee DPS will move behind the boss, all ranged dps and healers will circle around the boss and stay 5 yards apart from each other so no more then 1 person will get hit with surge. The tank will get the debuff mangle. DPS down the boss until phase 2.

 

 

Phase 2:
Narlorakk will transform into a bear - at this point the 2nd tank will need to taunt it off the first tank. The 2nd tank will require large amounts of heals through the lacerating slash and rend flesh - all healers will need to constantly keep the tank topped off in case an AoE silence goes off - heals over time spells are very beneficial during this phase. DPS down the boss until it transforms back to phase 1, at which point the first tank will taunt the boss off the 2nd tank.

 

 

Tips and Tricks:
• If at any point both tanks have mangle during phase 1 have a paladin Blessing of Protection the 2nd tank, which will instantly remove the debuff
• If a taunt fails and no backup taunt is available a paladin's Blessing of Protection on the main tank will cause the boss to attack the other tank
• The boss is resetable - if a tank dies it is recommended the raid run down the stairs to reset the boss

 

 

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