Wotlk - ICC - Forge of Souls - Devourer Of Souls

[crowdx]

Something that I think was also said is that when you get the beam of death/woman's face, run anti clockwise, this seems to work best for this fight. I have found this fight is subject to luck too, sometimes I easliy clear it and then the next time in 5 seconds my toons are dead from him jumping on them and killing them before I can get a heal off. My general strategy is that if things go wrong early in the fight I try to run my toons out of the room, once you get around the corner he resets and then you can rez any dead toons, helps a little with the repair bills lol
I think this fight and Ick and Krick in PoS are the two fights I have most problems with.

[BobGnarly]

I don't use the autofollow method. I found that I was spending too much time jockeying for position so they could cast, not to mention it was leaving those wells all over the place on the floor.

Also, I used to think the "abyss stare" always went clockwise, but it doesn't. Seems to be random. This makes it hard to guess which way to go, because if you guess wrong, you'll follow the beam which, even for a second, is bad news.

What I do (paly + 4 shaman):

- Setup all slaves just inside the door to this room, to the far right (as you enter the room) and facing directly forward (towards that set of stairs).
- Engage in the center of room.
- Stop attacking when using Mirrored Soul. Very important to be expecting this as, like many other cool and awesome abilities in this game it's instant cast so it'll probably come out at the 99% of your cast. Try to anticipate and be ready to interrupt.
- Try to interrupt Phantom Blast if you can. It's by far the majority of the damage your tank will take. Having said that, I usually don't because my round-robin spell interrupt macro stops all my toons from casting (don't ask, long story), so I found that I'm better to keep dpsing and heal when I need to. Plenty of time to heal during Mirrored Soul anyway.
- When he does Well of Souls, move all the slaves immediately to the left just enough to be out of the well, and resume kicking ass. I don't wait for my current cast to end. I know it seems better to finish the cast in progress, but I was finding that just that extra 1 tick or whatever was causing me to have to heal, or even lose a toon some times, so I move immediately now.
- Unleashed Souls: ignore, pop bloodlust and kick even more ass.
- Wailing Souls: By far the hardest part, and where you're most likely to wipe. May turn either clockwise or counterclockwise. I wasn't able to find a consistent movement pattern that really guaranteed me safety here (and autofollow lags), so what I settled on is casting chain heal such that it lands right after she starts casting and not move at all. If done correctly you should take one or two ticks of the beam and, with the heal, be fine. Try to be topped off with slaves before going into this phase.

Just keep strafing left each time he does the well of souls, you'll have plenty of room to kill him before you hit the left wall. I believe this simplified movement and positioning scheme is superior in management overhead to the follow approach.

I'll try to get a video in the next few days and put it up.

[thinus]

Same for me, avoiding Wailing Souls is the only hard part. I've always just healed through Phantom Blasts.

My only real problem on the fight is that I have some channeling in the group and when channeling they automatically turn to face the target.

Priest: Penance
Mage: Arcane Missiles
Hunter: not sure

Because the channeling changed their facing when I strafe they tend to all go in different directions. But even so, I manage to do the fight reasonably easily. I don't try and burst it. Slow and steady and make sure I react quickly to the different abilities.