Onyxian Lair Guard
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These NPC's can be found in Onyxia's Lair.
These NPCs spawn during Phase 2 of the Onyxia encounter.
Abilities
- Cleave - Affects up to 3 targets.
- Ignite Weapon - Melee attacks cause an additional 17.5k (25-Players: 25k) Fire damage to all enemies within 5 yards of the target.
- Blast Nova - 5 second cast. Inflicts ~21-25k Fire damage to anyone within 15 yards.
Strategy
These NPCs will spawn during Phase 2 of the Onyxia fight every 30 seconds from the moment Onyxia takes flight.
They run in from the hallway entrance players use to enter Onyxia's main chamber and will aggro immediately.
The best way to handle these is to have 1 Off-Tank and a dedicated healer pick them up and pull them to a side somewhere safe and have all melee DPS focus fire them down quickly. Since they have abilities which do a large amount of damage to melee, melee needs to be watchful of avoiding any AOE damage these cause.
- Disarm works on these so performing any type of weapon disarm will remove the risk of Ignite Weapon for the duration of the disarm.
- When these begin to cast Blast Nova, the cast is 5 seconds and they channel a ring of fire around them as an animation. If melee are quick enough, they can run away far enough to avoid being hit by this as the NPC doesn't chase while its casting this spell. The spell only has a 15 yard radius so it's quite possible to get enough distance if melee moves as soon as the cast starts.
Since these spawn every 30 seconds for the duration of Phase 2 of the encounter, sometimes you may get a spawn right before the start of Phase 3. Its advised that the Off-Tank pulls this mob back toward a safe spot along the sides of Onyxia and DPS take it down quickly before DPSing the boss. This will give the Main Tank time to establish threat on the boss. Since these do a great deal of damage to melee, its not advisable that they are left alive for the duration of Phase 3 of the fight.