Emalon the Storm Watcher (10 player)

Emalon the Storm Watcher:

Emalon the Storm Watcher is a simple fight, with a moderately tight DPS requirement. He has no known enrage timer. Reports are indicating that this boss has either a 6 or 10 minute enrage timer.

He has 3 major abilities:

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• Chain Lightning does the obvious.
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• Lightning Nova has a 5 second cast time, and functions similarly to Loken's Lightning Nova. Damage recieved is reduced by distance from the boss.
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• Overcharge is cast on a Tempest Minion, granting a buff that heals the target to full and causes the Tempest Minion to explode after 24 seconds. The buff that stacks on the Tempest minions will increase damage output by 20% every 2 seconds, maxing out at 240% before it explodes.

Emalon also has 4 adds, called Tempest Minions:

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• Each add that is killed will respawn about 3-5 seconds after it is killed.
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• One tank should be able to handle all 4 adds.
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• Watch Emalon for Lightning Nova casts, and run away once he starts casting the spell.
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• Upon receiving the Overcharge buff, the add is healed to full.
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• If a Tempest Minion is not killed before it explodes, it will cast Overcharged Blast, instantly wiping the raid. (With the fully stacked buff, that's ~25k damage to EVERYONE in your raid.)

Strategy:

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• Have your off tank run in and aggro all the adds, and drag them to a corner while your main tank taunts Emalon off the off tank.
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• Attack the boss until Emalon casts overcharge on a Tempest Minion.
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• Attack the overcharged Tempest Minion. This is critical - if the add is not dead within 24 seconds of the overcharge cast, you will be dead instead.
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• Have the offtank pick up the newly spawned replacement Tempest Minion.
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• Rinse and Repeat.
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TL;DR:

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• If you have DPS below 2k sustained DPS, do not attempt this boss. You don't have the sustained output that you will need to kill the Tempest Minions in time. (2k DPS is assuming a 98% ToT and a standard group composition.)
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• Attack Boss - Kill overcharged minion - Repeat. An average group should be able to down the boss before the 5th overcharge.

Zong!

Completed 4/14/09
We had 2 Tanks, 2 Healers and 6 DPS.

[Tanks]
Deathknight -- Emalon
Warrior -- Four adds

[Healers]
Shaman -- Deathknight
Paladin -- Warrior

[DPS]
Rogue, Hunter, Shadow Priest, Paladin, Mage and Warlock.

[Our] Strategy
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1. The Off-tank initiates the aggro and pulls the four adds to the right.
2. The Main-tank peels Emalon off of the Off-tank and takes him to the left.
3. The Melee DPS engages Emalon but should be aware of the Chain Lightning + other AoE damage.
4. The Healers and Ranged DPS stay on the side of the hallway (adds spawn from Emalon after one is defeated).
5. Emalon will randomly buff one of the four adds and it will greatly increase the damage output of the buffed add. It is easy to identify which one has received the buff. It will appear much larger than the other three adds.
6. All of the DPS should quickly dispose of the add on the "Super Happy Fun Time Anger Go Go Juice."
-- If the more powerful add hasn't been killed quickly enough, it will explode -- causing 20k~ damage to all around it.
-- If the add has been killed -- and your raid hasn't died of a horrible fiery death -- another add will be respawned near Emalon. The Off-tank needs to quickly grab it and move back to their own position.
5. Go back to #5 and proceed with the following steps until Emalon has been defeated.

My macro to explain tactics to a pug:
/raid :: Tank1 on boss - Tank2 on adds.
/raid :: Tank boss in the far left corner
/raid :: Tank adds in far right corner.
/raid :: Run from "Lightning Nova" or you're dead.
/raid :: He 'enrages' an add. All dps kill that single add.
/raid :: Spread out.