Wednesday, March 25, 2009

Arena Season 6 – Upcoming Changes, PTR Testing

[EU] PTR Testing - General Vezax
General Vezax will be tested on European PTRs on Monday Night, March 16, starting at 19:00 CET. Streams and loot/abilities updates will be available as soon as the testing starts, for more info please check the news post of the latest PTR testing. Check also the Ulduar Loot List.

Streams
Not yet!

Abilities
• Health - 30M (25-Man) / 7.7M (10-Man)
Shadow Crash - Fires a shadow missile at a target, dealing 11310 to 12690 Shadow damage to all enemies near the impact point and knocking them away. After impact, leaves an energy field that lingers for 20 sec, increasing magical damage dealt by 50%, reducing healing done by 50%, and reducing mana costs by 30%. (10-Man - 5655-6345 damage)
Searing Flames - Deals 13875 to 16125 Fire damage to all enemies within 100 yards, superheating their armor and reducing its ability to protect them by 75% for 10 sec. (2 sec cast time, interruptable)
Surge of Darkness - Empowers the caster with dark might, increasing physical damage by 100% but reducing movement speed by 50%, for 10 sec. (Self buff on Vezax, you have to kite him around the room while the buff is up, lasts 10 seconds)
Aura of Despair (Prevents mana regeneration from nearly all natural sources. Aspect of the Viper, Judgements of the Wise, Shamanistic Rage, and Spiritual Attunement remain at least partially effective. Also reduces melee attack speed by 20%.) is active throughout the whole fight, the only "normal" way to regain mana is to use potions. You can also destroy the saronite crystals flying in the room, they will drop a green cloud on the ground and will restore your mana, they will also damage you for an equal amount of health points (1000 Mana regen = 1000 Damage), this buff stacks and will regen more and more mana (and deal more damage as well) over time. The hard mode version of the encounter require you to not use these clouds
• After Vezax spawns the 8th saronite crystal, the Saronite Animus will spawn. This is an add with 8M HP (25-Man) / 2.3M HP (10-Man). It will repeatedly cast Profound Darkness (Inflicts 500 damage to all enemies, and increases Shadow damage taken by 10% per application. Stacks up to 99.) and stack it on the raid, 20 debuffs means you will get 200% more damage from shadow spells (including Shadow Crash missiles from Vezax)

Achievements
Shadowdodger Defeat General Vezax without any raid member being hit by Shadow Crash on Normal Difficulty.
Never Stand Near the Faceless DudeDefeat General Vezax without allowing him to regain health from Mark of the Faceless on Normal Difficulty.
I Love the Smell of Saronite in the MorningDefeat General Vezax after defeating the Saronite Animus on Normal Difficulty.

Loot Table of General Vezax 25man
Voldrethar, Dark Blade of Oblivion
Lotrafen, Spear of the Damned
Scepter of Lost Souls
Helm of the Faceless
Belt of Clinging Hope
Boots of the Underdweller
Boots of the Forgotten Depths
Grips of the Unbroken
Belt of the Darkspeaker
Mantle of the Unknowing
Ring of the Vacant Eye
Metallic Loop of the Sufferer
The General's Heart
Flare of the Heavens
Libram of Discord

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