Chimearon

saedo — Thu, 12/02/2010 - 14:19

Abilities:

Bile-O-Tron

Finkle's Mixture - Damage taken while above 10,000 health cannot reduce your health below 1.

Chimaeron

Melee - Attacks for about 120K a hit

Phase 1:

Caustic Slime - Causes 280K nature damage in an area and briefly reduces their chance to hit by 75% for 3 seconds. Damage is split among all enemies within 6 yards of impact area
Massacre - Inflicts maximum damage to all players (999999 damage, or your full hp)
Feud - Unable to perform melee attacks while heads are fighting each other
Double Attack - Will strike twice on his next attack
Break - Increases physical damage done on target by 25% for 1 minute, stacks

Phase 2:

Mortality - Goes into a rage, immune to taunt, increases damage taken by 10%, and reduces all healing effects of enemies by 99%
Double Attack - Strike twice on next attack

Notes:

Phase 1 (100-20%):

Talk to Finkle before starting to start up the Bile-O-Tron
Bile-O-Tron is a friendly NPC that spawns and sprays the Finkle's Mixture all around, go get hit by it
Healers note only have to keep most people (non tanks) above 10,000 hp for people to survive every single attack
Caustic Slime is a 280K meteor type attack with a -75% hit debuff, there's 2 things to note
Break is a debuff he puts on the main tank
Double Attack is a tank gibber, possibly use the OT to absorb this
If Bile-O-Tron is not up (boss can kill it), stack up so meteor damage is split
If Bile-O-Tron is up, spread out so only one of you takes the hit, with Finkle's Mixture as your cheat death
Massacre is an insta kill everyone in the raid move, again Finkle's Mixture to the rescue

Phase 2 (20%)

It's a zerg
No longer tankable
You can't heal (much) anymore either
Doesn't do the special attacks anymore except Double Attack
Gets 10% damage taken
So zerg zerg zerg away before he kills you all

Chimaeron 25 Man Strat

Maltoheals — Wed, 02/02/2011 - 10:43

Chimaeron 25 Man

Strat Courtesy of Jinxed with my own added comments(http://jinxedthought.blogspot.com/2011/01/chimaeron-25-man.html)

This will be the first tactic I write from downing a boss on 25 man
(although I posted a 25 man tactic yesterday, that post was initally
written as a 10 man tactic and I added the 25 man parts afterwards).
There is no special reason for this, only perhaps that our 10 man groups
have been progressing faster than our 25 man group. Note that there is
no difference to the tactics whether you are 10 or 25, beside the
obvious - you are more people and Chimaeron has more hp to counter that.
Some skills deal more damage too since there will be more healers to
deal with it. But the tactics are exactly the same.

Chimaeron is one of those fights that require minute preparation and
execution to be able to pull it off. It's probably as far from a fight
where you can "wing it" half the fight, as possible. Although we have
seen this pattern for many Cata raid bosses, I couldn't say it is more
true than when fighting Chimaeron. If you don't know everything about
his abilities, you will wipe and you will wipe fast. As most other
bosses, Chimaeron has two different phases of which the first one is a
"handle the shit"-phase and the last one is a "nuke him down" phase.

Preparation

When you start the fight you will get a buff called Finkle's Mixture
through the Bile-O-Tron. As long as this buff is active, no skill or
attack done to you while you are above 10k health will be able to be a
killing blow. The first phase revolves around this fact and all healing
will have to be done with this in mind. This fight is a healer fight.
Whether you have good or bad healers will make all the difference here,
and they will all have to pull their weight for you to be able to pull
this off. We used 7 healers and assigned one healer to each group and
the remaining two to the tanks. Sticking to your assignment has never
been more important, because you will never know when you'll need that
gcd to save someone. As a healer you will just have to trust your fellow
healers in that they are doing their job, dpsers should of course help
out whenever they can. In any case, make sure you have covered who is
healing who in greatest detail and make sure people stick to it.
Everyone will have to spread out 6 yards apart and you should have the
position of everyone in the room set before starting the fight. Everyone
will have to remember where their position is and make sure to get
there after the aoe.

Phase 1 - 100-20%

Keep complete focus on your healing and make damn sure not to
overheal, and this phase won't be so horrible. Because of the
Bile-O-Tron, you don't have to keep anyone at more than 10k health as
long as it is active, with the only exception being the off tank. When
Chimaeron gets to 20%, he will enter phase 2.

Caustic Slime

Unlimited range

Deals 280000 Nature damage and briefly reduces chance to hit for all
enemies in an area. Damage is split between all enemies within 6 yards
of the impact crater.

Caustic Slime - The reason you should stand 6 yards apart is because
of Caustic Slime. It is thrown at 4 random players for 280.000 damage
(10 man) and approximately 400.000 damage on 25 man (don't have exact
numbers). Because of Finkle's Mixture this won't kill you, but bring the
affected players to 1 health. These players need to be healed above 10k
hp asap, so that they will survive another throw of the Caustic Slime
(if they are unlucky enough to get it twice in a row) and most
importantly, to survive the Massacre (explained below).

Massacre - All players take maximum damage. This means the entire
raid will be at 1 hp, and need to be healed above 10k asap to survive
the next Caustic Slime.

Feud - Chimaeron will stop his melee attacks for 15 (?) seconds,
giving you time to heal everyone up to max health to deal with the
massacre when the Bile-O-Tron is inactive.

Double Attack - A really annoying buff on Chimaeron which will have
him strike twice on his next melee attack. The offtank needs to taunt
asap and be at full health to be able to take this blow.

Break - A debuff placed on the current tank that will increase the damage taken by 25% and healing taken by 15% per stack.

How to handle it;

1. Have everyone spread out 6 yards apart.

2. The tanks will be taking the most damage in this phase, except
during the aoe. Make sure everyone knows what to heal and that everyone
has an assigned healer.

3. Stack Break on Tank A, as soon as Chimaeron casts Double
Attack, have tank B taunt to take the blows. Tank A will taunt back asap
(but after the blows of course) to make sure that Tank B doesn't get
any Break debuffs, so that he will always be able to take the Double
Attack when needed. For this reason Tank B has to be topped off at all
times.

4. Deal with anyone who is affected by Caustic Slime by healing
them above 10k. Healing them anything above this is a waste of mana!

5. As soon as Chimaeron casts Feud, have the entire raid stack up
on a designated target and start spamming (yes spamming) your aoe heals
to top the entire raid off. Use any aoe heals necessary, but don't waste
mana of course. Chimaeron will still be casting Caustic Slime, and you
have to be stacked to spread the damage to be able to survive it
(remember it does several hundred thousand damage per slime, spread
amongst the targets).

6. As soon as the Feud is over, spread out again. Make sure everyone are keeping their range to eachother.

7. Rinse and repeat until 20%.

Phase 2 - 20-0%

Healers really get to relax here when compared to the first phase.
When Chimaeron gets to 20% he will cast Mortality, which will reduce all
healing done by 99%, meaning it will be completely useless to throw any
heals whatsoever. Therefore, all healers should instead start dpsing in
any way they can. He will also take 10% more damage, so this is a burn
phase if ever. The Bile-O-Tron will be active so everyone in the raid
can take two blows from Chimaeron before they die. He will also do his
Double Attack, which will one shot the target. You basically have two
melee strikes times the amount of people in the raid and any time you
can gather from kiting him on you to burn him down before you wipe.
People will die during this phase, but all cooldowns should be used and
anyone who becomes the target of Chimaeron during this phase should try
to kite him as much as possible, buying time for the rest of the raid to
burn him down.

Priest specifics

This fight was iffy because I felt like I wanted to be disc to handle
the Caustic Slime and the burn phase, and holy to handle the horrible
aoe damage during Feud. This is one of very few fights in Cata so far
where I did go very oom towards the last phase, because the aoe healing
is pretty intense. It is imperative that you keep track of the hp of
your assigned targets and don't heal a drop above the amount necessary,
10k, to save as much mana as possible. Having an UI that will help you
with this is recommended. Remember that any heal above this amount is
both wasted mana and a wasted gcd, since it won't do any difference
whatsoever if the target is at 10001 hp or 90000 hp. I liked this fight
actually, it gave a fresh take on healing, really putting emphasis on
the Cata way to deal with things. Maybe a good way to get your raid
healers to learn how to conserve casts and mana? Chimaeron isn't a fight
with alot of movement, unless you happen to be positioned far away from
the stack target during Feud. Therefore I recommend Inner Fire. Try to
switch to Chakra: Sanctuary before the Feud, to get as much aoe healing
throughput as possible. I think Disc could handle this fight well, as
long as there is someone else to pick up the aoe-healing somewhat. You
could use the bubble during one or two Caustic Slimes when the Feud is
up, but it won't compensate the Lightwell, CoH and Sanctuary. If you got
a choice between the two I recommend Holy (when writing this, before
the disc buff 4.0.6 patch). Alas, aoe healing is what cata raids are
about, and aoe healing is what holy priests do best.