You can dance if you want to, you can leave your friends behind…ĭo the Safety Dance! After you have established sufficent threat, and the beams are about to appear it is important that you line them up appropriately in order to ensure that the beams are no where near you. While you have plenty of time to get everything in order before the first spinning cutter, it is important that you acclimate yourself with the room to ensure that you can see everything from a comfortable vantage point. This macro allows you to see the playing field, the boss, your raid and the two Shadow Pulsars or purple orbs which rotate around the room. What I found was most effective was to set my camera at max distance by using the macro: The role of the Main Tank in this phase is essential to the survival of the raid, as you will be the conductor to this symphony of side stepping. The first spin comes approximately 30 seconds after you have entered the twilight realm and it is important that you have your bearings set so that you can do your job perfectly. After a few attempts you should get into a groove where you are used to the spin mechanics and you can continue to perform your 969 with out any hiccups.
It is essential that you create as much of a threat buffer as possible between you and your dps, because unless you have gotten comfortable with spinning and dpsing at the same time, it will be more important for you to focus on directing the raid and spinning the boss. By rotating him 90 degrees, the side of the dragon will be at the portal’s exit point. I like to rotate the boss 90 degrees so that as the rest of the raid exits, they are in the perfect position to start dpsing. It is important to understand that cooldown usage will be different for hard modes, this is only a suggestion for normal mode. This will ensure that your cool downs will be up by the time you enter your first spin. As soon as I have a 5 stack of vengeance, then I blow Avenging Wrath. I personally start off with a hammer, judge, then shield to ensure that I have a good deal of threat. This will allow you to run straight to him and hit him with some snap threat. If you all positioned the boss the same way it would be much simpler to describe, but since there are many different positioning strategies, the most important thing to remember is that as you click the portal to the twilight realm, you want to appear with Halion in front of you. What I have done to ensure that both of the above qualifications are met is that I will position myself in such a way that I have to look through halion to see the middle of the room. To engage the boss you have to be the first one in the portal, and the first one to be with in melee to whack the boss and establish aggro, as there is a complete aggro drop as you enter the twilight realm. The phase starts as soon as Hailon reaches 75% and will continue until 50%. While most of the fights that we have come across over the past few instances have been as dry as a day in the sahara, this provides a little more interesting movement mechanics.
Phase two of the Halion hard mode encounter has provided tanks with a nice twist to the Wrath of the Lich King’s typical tank and spank mechanics. You spin me right round baby right round, Like a record baby right round round round