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Ruby Sanctum Tactics Basics:
The main boss of the Ruby Sanctum is a dragon: Halion.
The Ruby Sanctum Tactics consist of 3 phases.
Phase 1: (until he's down to 75%) on the physical (normal) realm
Phase 2: (Until he's 50%) in a Twilight realm
Phase 3: (50% and below) on both realms simulations with raid split between 2 realms. Damaging him on one realm will make him take and do bigger damage on the other one. Back to Top
Basic dragon attacks:
Halion has a flame breath attack (about 45K damage, 2 secs cast time), tail attack and cleave like all dragons.
Halion's Physical realm Abilities:
Meteor Strike (12 Yards AOE):
Deals about 80K fire damage on a random spot on the room, and then spreads out fire trails in an X shape from the point on impact. ( In heroic mode also spawn an elemental add).
Fiery Combustion (DoT Curse):
Does about 4K damage every 2 seconds, and puts a debuf on the player, which upon removal puts a patch of AOE on the ground that causes damage to player in it, and also knocks them out of it (how handy).
The patch on the ground is bigger the longer it took to remove the Debuff.
Halion's Twilight realm Abilities:
Death Orbs:
Besides the regular dragon attacks, Halion summons 2 death orbs that rotae around the room, and shoot death beam that connects them and kills any player caught inside. This forces the raid to keep rotating around Halion.
Soul Consumption:
Just like the fire ability on the physical realm, only this time the patch upon dispel pulls players inside it instead of pushes them away. Back to Top
Ruby Sanctum Tactics step by step:
Ruby Sanctum Tactics step 1:
Pull Halion and position yourself in a "traditional dragon format", meaning all the raid stays to his side to avoid tail and breath attacks.
Ruby Sanctum Tactics step 2:
When a player receives the Combusion Debuff he should quickly run to the edges of the arena, and be dispelled / decoursed out of it as far away from raid as possible.
Ruby Sanctum Tactics step 3:
Beofre meteors will hit a patch will appear on the ground indicating where it's going to fall. Stay clear of it, and beware the X shape trails leading from it outwards.
Ruby Sanctum Tactics step 4:
When Halion is dropped down to 75% he will summon a portal to the twilight realm and disappear, use the portal and follow him there
Ruby Sanctum Tactics step 5:
Keep rotating the raid around Halion to avoid the death beams of the death orbs on the far ends of the arena.
Ruby Sanctum Tactics step 6:
When a player receives the Consumption Debuff he should quickly run to the edges of the arena, and be dispelled / decoursed out of it as far away from raid as possible.
Ruby Sanctum Tactics step 7:
If you haven't used bloodlust yet phase 2 is a good time, since pulling bloodlust on phase 3 is not advisable (unless you have 2 bloodlusts, 1 for each realm, but still, will be tricky).
Ruby Sanctum Tactics step 8:
When Halion is dropped down to 50% he will split himself for both realms. Split yourself as well, with even DPS split between 2 realms.
Ranged should prefer the physical realm (no need to avoid death orbs) and Melee the Twilight realm (no need to avoid the X fire patches on the ground).
You can not leave one realm unattended as he will start rapidly healing himself.
Ruby Sanctum Tactics step 9:
Make sure you have dispellers on both realms as well!
Ruby Sanctum Tactics step 10:
Continue DPS on both realms. Do no hurry up too much, it is more important to keep the DPS on both realms roughly equal, so no one realm group is making the other realm's Halion hit too hard. There is an indicator on the top of the screen. 50% indicator suggests the DPS is evened.
Ruby Sanctum Tactics step 11:
Just be careful till the end of the fight and you should be golden.
