by Byron Mudry on Aug 09, 2009
With the 3.2 patch to the World of Warcraft: Wrath of the Lich King Blizzard has opened up yet another raid instance for players. The first encounter in the Trial of the Crusader raid is a three phase event where players need to defeat four different beasts of Northrend. The beasts come out as three separate waves; the first is the magnataur Gormok the Impaler, then the pair of Jormungars Acidmaw and Dreadscale, and finally the Yeti Icehowl. Our very own Byron "Messiah" Mudry brings you a guide that covers all you need to know to defeat the Beasts.
When Gormak enters the room, two tanks need to grab his attention and hold him by the door into the coliseum. All ranged DPS and healers need to stand in the center of the coliseum so that they are out of range of the stomp effect.
The first important thing that needs to happen in this part of the beast encounter is that tanks need to trade threat by taunting off of each other every 25 seconds. Once the current tank has 2 stacks of the bleed debuff they need to call out for the next tank to taunt. Done properly the tanks can trade back and forth and only ever have two bleed debuffs.
You can find the all the details in our guide to the Trial of the Crusader - Northrend Beasts Strategy.