Friday, September 13, 2013

Sha of Pride 10 Man Normal Guide - The Siege of Orgrimmar Patch 5.4


The sha of pride is the fourth boss in the Siege of Orgrimmar. Its main mechanic is called pride. Pride is tracked on the additional actionbar. You gain pride with you are hit by certain abilities, and one of the bosses abilities has a different effect based on your pride. It is pretty much a single phase fight with a burn section at the end.

Part 1 - Main Fight
Abilities
First I will go over abilities, then positioning and finally strategy.
Norushen is a friendly NPC and will periodically give 2 players a buff called "mark of the Titans". This gives immunity to pride gain. When these two stack they both get a 15% buff to to haste, damage and healing done.
Lets cover tanks. The boss has an ability called Wounded Pride. This causes any melee hits from the sha to give the target 5 pride. You want to tank swap so that you do not gain more pride.
Corrupted Prison is quite simple. 2 players will be teleported to two of the big circular things on the ground, one each. There are 3 big buttons on the sides of the circle. To free the player inside the prison, a player much stand on 2 of the 3 buttons. When a player is improsoned anyone within 12 yards of the prison takes heavy damage. Simply dont stand near the prison until you have to hit the button. Players in the prison take shadow damage per second and get 5 pride per second.
Mark of Arrogance is a DoT with an unlimited duration that can stack. Dispelling it gives 5 pride. The healer with "Mark of the Titans" should dispell as they will be immunne to pride gain.
Self Reflection is cast 20 seconds into the fight and about every 60 seconds after that. It summons small adds at the location of players. When they fully spawn they do high damage to anyone within 2 yards. When this is used the group will be stacked, so as soon as self reflection is cast the group spreads then stacks again once the mobs are spawned. After that they are simply AOE'd. The other tank should pick them up - any MD's etc help here.
The next add is called a Manifestation of Pride. They come every 60 seconds. They do mocking blast, an interruptible nuke that give 5 pride to the target and last word that which gives 5 pride to the 2 nearest player to it when it dies. It can be stunned, silences interrupted etc. On 10 man it took 2 hunters to deal with it. While many gudes reccommend tanking these adds we found that we did not have to.
The next ability is called Swelling Pride. This is cast every 60 seconds. It does high raid wide damage, gives 5 pride and the following depending on the players pride
0-24 - Nothing
25- 49 - Bursting Pride. A pool forms at your feet which explodes after 5 secs doing very high damage to those in it and giving 5 pride to those in it.
50-74 -Projection. Creates a projection of the player 15 yards away from them. After 6 secs it explodes doing high raid damage and giving 5 pride to everyone unless the player who gets the projection stands inside it.
75- 99 - You get Aura of Pride. Its a debuff that makes you do  high damage to anyone within 5 yards giving 5 pride to whoever it hits.
100 - Mind Controled.
We found that we never really got above 50 pride, so this was very easy to deal with. Simply spread on Bursting Pride and stack afterwards. Getting projection is still possible so you should be weary.
Phase 2
While it is a one phase fight, its a good idea to treat the burn phase as another phase. At 30% he gets Unleashed. This does 250k shadow damage every 10 seconds for the rest of the fight and resets your pride to zero. Each tick will give you 5 pride. You will need to stack, aoe heal and burn the boss down. Be weary that the other mechanics still apply, so you need to kill adds also.
Part 3 - Positioning and Overview
The raid stacks behind the boss, with the MT on the other. This means that gift of the ittans will be stacked quickly, you are away from the titan prisons and you are close to where the Manifestation of pride spawns. Since you are stacked you need to be sure to spread on things like Self Refelction, Aura of priude and bursting pride.
So essentially DPS should kill adds when they see them, tanks should swap, Healers should dispel mark of arrogence when they ahve Gift of the titans. People should spread when the small adds spawn, when bursting pride etc and should be ready to move to free people from the prisons.

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