by Byron Mudry on Sep 21, 2009
With the 3.2 patch to the World of Warcraft: Wrath of the Lich King Blizzard opened up yet another raid instance for players. Over the past month Byron "Messiah" Mudry has walked everyone through the first 4 bosses in the raid. The fifth and final encounter in the Trial of the Crusader raid is a visit to our old friend from the Azjolnerub instance, Anubarak. The fight is fun and interesting, while maintaining much of the same flavour as the encounter with Anubarak from the instance.
Summon Swarm Scarabs (Phase two only) When Anubarak goes underground for phase two he summons Swarm Scarabs to attack the players. These creatures have relatively low health and can be killed fairly easily. They should not be tanked though, instead they need to be kited due to a hefty stacking poison debuff that they can apply. The debuff can stack indefinitely and does roughly 1,000 damage per tick per stack on the player and lasts 30 seconds. This can make it very difficult to heal a tank if they get too many stacks of it. In addition the Swarm Scarabs can enrage so make sure you have a hunter or rogue on standby to remove the enrage.
Join Byron "Messiah" Mudry as he teaches you how to defeat this giant bug in our guide to Anub'arak.