High Priestess Arlokk (Panther)

[Kuracynn]

www.wowwiki.com/High_Priestess_Arlokk

[Kuracynn]

PREPARE TO BE SHOCKED!!!

The WoW Wiki actually has a useful, easy to use Strat for this fight.

Warlocks get a chance to shine in this one with "Hellfire"

This boss has always been infamous. Recently those I raid with have discovered easy mode...using a warlock to hellfire. It's the simplest and most successful strategy I've seen. Simply have a warlock hellfire the entire time right in the middle. Put a big X on him with the new icon system and have everyone stand on him. The warlock can single handedly kill the adds with only occasional assistance from other AoEs. They simply hellfire the entire time, the healers just need to keep a couple Heal-Over-Times on the warlock.

Notes:

1. The warlock will never be attacked by the panthers unless he is marked, or there is no one marked at all
2. Though mage's AoEs are good in other situations they aren't as mana efficent or as high DPS as hellfire. Frost Nova is bad because a frozen mob will attack the first person in reach and no longer only attacks the marked target.
3. The warlock should make a macro to shout when he's marked. Once marked your hellfire will be interrupted almost instantly and you will not be able to AoE. Someone else...another warlock or mage needs to take over.
4. When the panthers get real bad mages should throw a couple arcane explosions and other warlocks might consider one hellfire, but it's not needed that often.

The rest is easy, dps the boss when she appears.

Cool, eh?

[Azubis]

FULL Arlokk Strategy page from WoW Wiki:

Boss 6- High Priestess Arlokk
Arlokk is the sixth boss located in the Zul Gurrub Instance. Her aspect is that of the "panther".

Arlokk's Abilities

Arlokk has several abilities that she uses in the fight. They are as follows:

Summon: While Arlokk is alive, mobs of Panthers will be summoned around the area you are fighting her in. These mobs will consist of high level elite and non-elite panthers.

Stealth: At 3 points during the battle Arlokk will stealth and vanish from the fight. This leaves the party time to deal with the Panthers.

Hunters Mark: When this mark is placed on a player all panthers will attack that person until it fades. It lasts approx. 2 minutes. While a pain to the marked player who will need healing, it actually makes it very easy for other players to find the panthers and groups them up nicely for AOE effects.

Strategy

Once the gong in the Temple which Arlokk resides in is hit, a rush of panthers will attack the raid as well as Arlokk. The ranged elements of the raid should be by the Gong while the Main Tank should be tanking in the middle of the room. For the first part of the fight, all DPS should be centered on Arlokk.

The healers need to watch out for Arlokk's "mark" and be sure to spam heal anyone unfortunate enough to recieve the debuff. DPS should be centered on Arlokk until she stealths, and not attacking the panthers because this battle relies heavily on downing Arlokk quickly.

After the first stealth, the party should center on killing the panthers as quickly as possible. When Arlokk returns, the panthers will spawn at an even quicker rate and need to be kept under control (AoE's, flash bombs, fear, etc, etc). All I can say here is that Frost Nova is your friend and should allow you some degree of crowd control with these mobs. Arlokk should stealth one more time before the final engagement with her.

One very simple way to deal with the adds in this encounteris to have 2 people assigned to tank them at either place where the panthers come out of. A warrior is best, but a paladin with consecration can do the job just fine too. Just have them there the whole encounter and heal them, they don't take too much damage and you can forget about the panther adds.

Danee from the Windrunner Server sends us this addition to clarify positioning:

Position 1 tank & 1 paladin in front of each of the panther cages. The main tank stands center between the cages, this is where he'll fight Arlokk. The rest of the raid stands at the end of the room opposite of the gong, near the entrance. Once one of the pallies hits the gong, Arlokk will appear and summon a mob of panthers out of each of the caged areas. The pallies should consecrate, giving the warrior time to use challenging shout. They will fight and heal at their end, this will keep the bulk of the panthers out of the raid. Meanwhile, the rest of the raid focuses all dps on Arlokk

On Arlokk's third repop; the raid needs to down her as fast as possible, simply because of the speed at which the panthers will begin to spawn. At this point it is a race for DPS to down Arlokk, before getting overrun with all the adds that will be popping throughout the last part of the fight.

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I hope we down her this week. ;D