Abilities:

Muradin Bronzebeard / High Overlord Saurfang:

• Battle Fury - Increases all damage done by 5% (7% in 25).  Instant (self buff, stacks with each attack)
• Cleave - Inflicts 110% of normal melee damage to an enemy and its nearest allies, affecting up to 3 targets.
• Rending Throw - Throws your weapon at the enemy causing 8% weapon damage and an additional 2750 Physical damage every 3.0 sec for 15 sec. Unlimited range. Instant
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Gunship Cannon:

• Cannon Blast - Launches a cannonball at the target. Inflicts 1000 Siege damage and generates 6 to 10 Heat.
• Incinerating Blast -Consumes all of the cannon's Heat to launch a massive ball of fire at the target. Inflicts 1000 Siege damage plus additional damage per point of Heat.

Sergeants:

• Bladestorm - Instantly Whirlwind up to 4 nearby targets and for the next 6 sec you will perform a whirlwind attack every 1.0 sec.  While under the effects of Bladestorm, you can move but cannot perform any other abilities but you do not feel pity or remorse or fear and you cannot be stopped unless killed.  Instant 
• Experienced - Damage done increased by 30%. Attack and casting speeds increased by 20%.  Instant (stacks over time)
• Desperate Resolve - Increases armor and attack speed by 60% (120% armor in 25).  Instant (occurs near death)
• Wounding Strike - Inflicts 200% weapon damage and leaves the target wounded, reducing the effectiveness of any healing by 25% (40% in 25) for 10 sec. Melee range. Instant

Reavers:

• Experienced - Damage done increased by 30%. Attack and casting speeds increased by 20%.  Instant (stacks over time)
• Desperate Resolve - Increases armor and attack speed by 60% (120% armor in 25).  Instant (occurs near death)

Battle Mage:

• Below Zero - Freezes the target in a block of ice by concentrating and freezing moisture in the air. The caster must channel to maintain the ice block. Unlimited range. Instant

Rocketeers:

• Explosion - The rocket explodes, inflicting 6300 to 7700 Fire damage to nearby enemies and Siege damage to the enemy gunship. Unlimited range. Instant
• Rocket Artilery - Launches a rocket that explodes on impact, inflicting Fire damage to nearby enemies and Siege damage to the enemy gunship. Unlimited range. 5 sec cast
• Experienced - Damage done increased by 30%. Attack and casting speeds increased by 20%.  Instant (stacks over time)
• Desperate Resolve - Increases armor and attack speed by 60% (120% armor in 25).  Instant (occurs near death)

Axethrowers:

• Hurl Axe - Hurl an axe at the target, inflicting 5700-6300 Physical damage. Unlimited range. 2 sec cast
• Experienced - Damage done increased by 30%. Attack and casting speeds increased by 20%.  Instant (stacks over time)
• Desperate Resolve - Increases armor and attack speed by 60% (120% armor in 25).  Instant (occurs near death)

The Fight:

This is the whole Horde vs Alliance Gunship battle.   The goal is it use the ship's Cannons to destroy the other ship before they destroy your ship.

Before you start, everyone should talk to the goblin/gnome npc to get yourself a Jetpack, put it on your action bars.   This is the means to jump from one ship to the other.   

Cannon Duty: 

There'll be 4 (2 in 10 man) of these.   They work on an Overheat mechanic.   Using "1", the Cannon Blast, will do the attack and fill your bar with "Heat" (your combo point mechanic).   When the bar fills up, you overheat and will be immobalized for 5 seconds.   Using "2", the Incinerating Blast, will remove all your heat and do extra damage.    So the goal is, to get as much Heat as possible without Overheating, and use the Incinerating Blast.     Watch the guages and don't mindlessly spam.    Best to have lowest melee dps on these cannons.

For the rest of the raid, there'll be 2 tanks, split the raid.   One half defending your ship, the other half attacking theirs.   Note, every single add will gain a stacking buff on themselves over time increasing their own damage and attacks speeds, so it is imperative to not leave any single add up too long and randomly focusing on another.   Ideally kill in the order they appear to minimize this, but you'll likely wind up aoe'ing anyways.   They also all have Desperate Resolve, which means they hit faster near death, healers be aware of the spike damage that'll occur.

Defenders:  Should consist of mostly 1 tank 3ish healers, and ranged.    There are 2 types of adds to deal with, Sergeants and Reavers.   

Sergeants basically have a Mortal Strike and Bladestorm.   This is why melee are not ideal on this side, ranged should have an easier time escaping.     Reavers just hit hard.     The tank is to pick them all up while ranged take em all down.

You should also get your ship captain involved, Bronzebeard/Saurfang.  Drag adds over if he's not doing anything, they help a lot with damage.    And one last thing, there will be rocket strikes from the Rocketeers, think Mimiron circles, don't stand in them.   Another reason for ranged, able to spread out for them.

Attackers:  Should consist of another tank and 2ish healers, and the melee.  There are 4 types of mobs on this side, Bronzebeard/Saurfang, Rocketeers, Axethrowers, and the Battle Mage.  

Bronzebeard/Saurfang should be tanked.  Nothing else there needs to be.   But should not be attacked, unconfirmed reports that if he's about to be killed, he'll just kill every one of you.   So tank just keeps him occupied, healers keep him up.    He will do a ranged Rending Throw on people if not tanked. Also, there's a Battle Fury self buff that he stacks on himself with each attack, and it's on an internal CD. It will come to a point where every one must leave the enemy ship and wait the 20 seconds for the buff to fall off. .

Rocketeers are the ones firing rockets and stuff at your ship.   There will always be 4 of them, assign 2ish melee dps to kill them.   These adds also follow the Experienced mechanic, so do remember to not always kill the new one that spawns and take out the older ones.

Axethrowers throw, axes, physical damage at the raid.   3ish plate dps would be best to take them up.   There will always be 8 of them up.   Experienced mechanic applies.

Battle Mages only appear every so often, timer or maybe percent based, not sure.   But when they appear, they'll freeze up the cannons.  That's when all the attackers dps switch to focus him down.   The ones in the cannon can jump over to the other ship and help.   If needed, and the defender side is under control, some of those ranged can help too.

And that's all the fight is, while keeping the adds under control, it's all up to the cannoneers to take down the enemy ship to end the fight.   For those stuck on the enemy ship when it goes down, we will remember your sacrifice!

Achievements:

I'm on a Boat - Claim victory in the Gunship Battle in which every raid member visits the enemy gunship only once in 10/25-player mode.

• In the 10 man, we first waited until the first Mage appears before sending the Attackers over.   They stay on for a couple of Mages before jumping back.   Then the 2nd team waits for a battle mage, and they jump over, kill ship before they all die.     One thing of note, brez's or use of rocket pack on the attacking ship will negate the achievement.   It appears to try to figure it out by how many times your feet lands on the ship, so don't do any jet pack kiting.