Tuesday, March 2, 2010  Valithria: a DPS DK Perspective
Valithria is the already famous/infamous 'healing fight' of ICC
- and what a fun one it is! I love a fight that switches things
up and gives healers a chance to shine. As a DK, however, this
fight is a fairly mundane one (conceptually) of killing repeated
waves of adds to keep them from stopping your healers. Still,
your dps is very important to successfully completing the
encounter, so let's get to it!  Pull/Phase One: I DON'T use my
Army on the pull in this fight. In fact, I usually save it for
the last 5% of the fight when adds are going crazy and
threatening to wipe the raid - then it's ok for the Army to
provide the last few seconds of add-tanking and may provide a
few seconds of healer breathing room, since dps is not the main
point anyway. Control is. Use your ghoul/gargoyle on cooldown
just to help make sure you're controlling adds.  Kill Order: As
you should know, the key to succeeding in the fight is killing
the different types of adds in a pr