I used to die during the Nightbane fight without fail during the parts where Nightbane flies off and we get masses of skeletons around us. Someone would always have to battle res me mid fight which obvisouly isn’t the smoothest way to run a boss fight. Last night, was the first time I didn’t die, so here are my tips for staying alive and healing through the Nightbane fight.
Healing assignments
The best healer should be on the tank whilst fighting nightbane and raid healing during the skeleton parts.
Every other healer should be raid healing for charred earth mishaps and also healing the tank when needed.
Fighting Nightbane
When the raid is fighting Nightbane, you must watch out for charred earth that appears on the ground and move out of it immediately. If you have the healbot add-on, set it up so that you can clearly see when you can dispel a magic effect from a person. You can’t dispel charred earth, but you can at least see the people who are in the charred earth immediately and begin casting heals on them incase they take forever to move out of it.
To see charred earth on the ground, you will need to turn your graphics spell detail setting up so that it is just past the half way mark. If you can’t do this, keep a PW: Shield on you to absorb some of the damage and look out for grey smoke rising from the ground as this is also part of the charred earth animation.
The Skeleton Part
This is the part where nightbane flies off for a bit and a few skeletons come out to play with the raid. There is also alot of aoe damage occuring that you will need to heal through.
You must have some form of protection against spell cast interruption for the skeleton part. Usually a pally or a shaman can provide this for you.
Spamming circle of healing (priest) or chain heals (shammy) on both teams during the skeleton part, extra flash heals on the tank when needed and using prayer of mending is generally enough to keep everyone alive. The 3 second group heal (prayer of healing) simply takes too long to cast and if you have no protection against spell cast interrupts, then party memebers will die. Be sure to keep yourself topped up during this stage and use PW: Sheild on yourself and send off Prayer of Mending around the raid as many times as you can during this part. This will help to keep everyone topped up while getting lots of aoe damage.
Mana Regen
Nightbane is a long fight and I usually run out of mana during the aoe part when I’m spamming my circle of healing. It’s best if you have a shammy who can drop mana tide in your party. I’d also suggest putting some mana oil on your weapon for this fight as well.
Send your pet in, drink a mana potion and use any mana regen-ing trinkets you have after the first skeleton part. If possible, use your wand at this stage to get outside the 5 second rule for spirit regen so you are fully topped up again. If you do it this early on, you will be able to use your trinkets and potions again before the end of the fight.
