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Finally Main Tanking Kael'Thas in TBC Anniversary!

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Intermediate 5 min read For: World of Warcraft players familiar with TBC raid mechanics.

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A group of players attempts the Kael'Thas encounter in The Burning Crusade Classic, with one member main tanking for the first time. The raid faces multiple wipes and challenges but ultimately succeeds, showcasing coordination and adaptability.

[00:04]
Raid Start

The raid begins with banter and preparations for the encounter.

[01:56]
First Wipe

The group wipes due to a mechanic where the boss follows players, killing everyone.

[04:51]
One-Shot Boss

The group one-shots a boss, surprising themselves.

[07:46]
Kael'Thas Strategy Discussion

Players discuss the phases of the Kael'Thas fight, including handling advisors and weapons.

[11:05]
Advisor Phase Begins

The first advisor, Thaladred, is engaged; melee must avoid his attacks.

[14:46]
Weapon Phase

Players must kill and loot weapons to use against Kael'Thas.

[23:52]
Shield Mechanic

Kael'Thas casts a shield that must be broken with staff weapons; the group fails the damage check.

[30:19]
Final Phase

The group uses Bloodlust and nukes the boss, successfully defeating Kael'Thas.

[34:45]
Victory and Loot

The raid celebrates the kill and distributes loot.

The raid successfully defeats Kael'Thas through teamwork and adaptation, despite initial wipes and complex mechanics.

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One-Shot Surprise

The group one-shots a boss they expected to struggle with, leading to laughter and disbelief.

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Shield Damage Check Fail

The group fails to break Kael'Thas's shield, resulting in a wipe and a learning moment.

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Victory Celebration

After a challenging fight, the group defeats Kael'Thas and expresses excitement and relief.

34:45

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[00:04] the stack up. >> [laughter]

[00:22] >> Heal the arcane missile or no, heal the heal the person who's getting missile. Power word shield flash heal. Wow, this is A hard is it healing fight then? That's fine.

[00:44] Rocking, you got to get up. Thank you. Ampy, can we get a wisdom up? Um but what did you judge?

[00:57] What what did I judge? Just wiped. Yeah, what did you judge? I'm judging threat, man. I'm main tanking that was Yeah, okay, buddy. Yeah, what do you mean out. Thanks. Stop fighting.

[01:12] Thanks. Stop fighting. >> [laughter] >> [laughter] >> Yo, you have a taunt?

[01:26] Everyone on priest. Can we kick that one in the back? Take a kick kick. Nice.

[01:42] Bring that purple thing in us. I'm trying to think when we should lust I'm trying to think when we should lust here, uh raid leader. that's all. >> Oh. That's fine.

[01:56] I'm thinking we still need a wisdom on the boss, sir. I'm threading. Slicks get out. Slicks get out. Slicks get out. Oh wow, he's following us. Uh health stones?

[02:09] He killed everyone. >> [laughter] >> Dude, the team was moving away from him. He followed us.

[02:26] It's still winnable. Rez Grimoire. there's a feral druid exploding. >> Oh [\h__\h] get out OF HERE. OH NO. GUYS, USE SLOW fall if you can. You're going to need it.

[02:41] You're going to need it. >> [laughter] honestly. This is fine. Just kill the ads and then We need a B rez on Gimmel. Zero B rez, sir.

[02:56] Oh no, sir. Kill the skull. hand. >> actually a kill. Lock in.

[03:10] Why is Gimmel still dead on the ground, man? Someone help him. Thank you. We don't have a Oh, yeah. Let's go.

[03:25] Biggie damn. Okay. up. When Salarian goes big purple, you need to run away.

[03:43] In a circle. Okay. Okay. I think. Nice. Look how locked in gimmels is. I'm going to move.

[03:59] Okay. This guy is not classified as a demon. said. Yeah, yeah. It's good. It's good.

[04:14] Yeah. Good. Good.

[04:27] You're doing so good. Make us proud. Take it home. through the middle so Ray doesn't have to move. Okay. Honestly, you don't even need to kite it.

[04:39] Are you calling me that tanky, sir? Yeah, I I must have some some remnant memory of some private server you had to kite it. I don't know.

[04:51] brick wall. It's that ring, sir. Oh, [\h__\h] sir. Wait, are you telling me the one boss that Ampy raid leads we one shot? What?

[05:03] How is this possible, man? I think that that Robocop boss was >> Yeah, yeah. This This week if we were leading, we would have one shot this two Savix. Easy boss. That's all it is.

[05:17] Easy boss. That's all it is. Yo, good job, boys. I'm proud. Good job, guys. It was lucky. >> [laughter]

[05:31] >> All right, one boss left. >> back or Who can roll on this? That's really good for a warrior.

[05:45] Real. Good warrior execute phase. Not a single roller. All right. Um

[06:00] confirm here. Definitely not. Wait, really? They don't like 1.8 speed. Merk, do you concur? You're the roller here, Merk.

[06:13] here, Merk. Yeah, maybe he wants it. It's not how that works, I don't think, man.

[06:33] Don't think All right. >> Yeah, I don't think anyone really Yeah. Yeah, I don't think it's good for anyone

[06:47] Okay, we have some gauntlets here. No one reserved it. Looks like it's resto one reserved it. Looks like it's resto shaman bis, holy paly second bis. seeing, Zera? You? 25 spell damage, two gem sockets. Yeah, yeah, I'm looking at

[07:02] them. >> [laughter] Grats. Girdle of righteous path. Yeah, I was

[07:17] Girdle of righteous path. Yeah, I was kind of looking at this one, too. It's just holy paly. We don't have holy palys.

[07:34] Um He's a paly main, so he's sad.

[07:46] off spec? It's like a holy off spec, but I rarely play it. Take it. I don't ever play holy. All right. Let's pause hard. So, I've done this a million times on

[08:01] transmog runs. You pull Kel'Thuzad, he role plays. And then this one comes out and then I think it's this one next and this one and then this one or something.

[08:13] And you kill them all one at a time. And then they all come out at the same And then you take their weapons and then you kill Kel'Thuzad. That's what I remember. Um

[08:26] So, it would seem like phase one is kind of easy. We just kill one at a time. The first dude, I think walks really slow and you just kind of kite him. probably just kill. The other Sanguinar, I think is a healer.

[08:39] Phase one should be free. When they all come out at the same time, we have to >> What do you think, Savix? Um all I remember is the warrior has like a knock.

[08:52] It one-shotted us in like the last last PTR. Hunter has like a bomba. Mage just mage things. Yeah. And I think the lord

[09:04] Should talk positions. Positions and assignments cuz there's a lot going on here, right? They all come back up. Yeah. Leaders? Uh I think we do a nice pull and feel it out. A nice pull and feel it

[09:18] out. Okay. You know what I mean? >> remember there's like there's eggs that need to die. I mean, one at a time we figure out the max and then from there we go. It'll click.

[09:30] Let's let's do a a dry pull and then from there we uh we kind of put it all together. I'm missing Wobbly still. I'm going to hit him up on Discord. >> DM'd him, but I think we should just go.

[09:44] He hasn't replied. Okay. Can we at least figure out who's going to tank the ranged boss? The ranged boss is tanked by a caster. Yes, yes, I remember now. Fel Cod, Ryken, or Mechanix, who wants

[09:59] Fel Cod, Ryken, or Mechanix, who wants to volunteer to tank the Astromancer? >> any speak up. You know, honestly, um

[10:11] I mean, Mechanix, you look kind of tanky, man. You want to do it? Sure. All right, great. Mechanix on the caster. you grab like

[10:24] square. So, when they all come out at the same time, what's up? Yeah, let's do it. Cool. And then, yeah, when they all come out at the same time, we'll have Mechanix

[10:36] at the same time, we'll have Mechanix get X, Wild Shape square, Amp moon, I'm skull. manifest after the Sunwell was destroyed. Welcome to the future. A pity you are too late to stop it. No

[10:50] one can stop me now. Salama Ashal'anore. Let us see how your nerves hold up against the Darkener, Thaladred.

[11:05] against the Darkener, Thaladred. PREPARE YOURSELVES. Yeah, I'm I'm perma silenced, so so kite him out. >> HP. Yeah, casters just range it. Melee don't get hit. Yeah, melee don't get

[11:21] hit. Melee don't get hit. That's on you if Melee don't get hit. That's on you if you die. perma casters of kill that one even when they get ressed.

[11:36] But none can withstand the might of the blood hammer. Okay. Behold the blood of >> Or maybe you want to tank it? I'll try. Rower. Okay, so we need uh shremmers down on

[11:51] Okay, so we need uh shremmers down on this. All right, cuz where you kill them is where they res, huh?

[12:11] remember. They have like 20% HP they used to. They have like 20% HP they used to. Thus endure the warlock supreme. Thus endure the warlock supreme. Need big heals and mechanics.

[12:29] Oh. This is going bonkers. I see. This is ranged. There's two ranged mobs. When they come back up ranged kill the Well done. >> Cat Wait, the casters should probably die first.

[12:49] And Ampy, you do the bombs. Nice. Okay, so when they come back up Ampy on bombs, casters kill the caster first. We could probably kill the bomb dude first.

[13:05] bomb dude first. Yeah. Kite the other one. the ranged dude, the guy we killed first. Hunters kite the melee dude. Or

[13:17] weapon Oh, I forgot about the weapons. Yeah, just kill all kill them all.

[13:29] Hold it on. I I taunted it your empty. I don't know. forgot we have to kill the weapons. Should we be focusing the staff?

[13:41] that and then staff? >> hunters, shoot the bow.

[14:46] But perhaps I underestimated you. It would be unfair to make you fight Their DPS is terrible here. I need to get What? They're all rezzing. They've got to kill the weapons fast and loot them Yeah.

[15:01] uh I think you guys probably have to do your jobs though. Yeah. Kill the skull first. Kill the skull first. >> [laughter]

[15:13] So we need way more damage on those. Okay. would be melee on the engineer, casters on the grand astromancer. We have hunt

[15:26] Let's have one hunter kite Thaladred around the room. And the last one we just have Oh, it's a paladin, dude. last one. Or I can pick it up either way.

[15:39] Uh, I don't think so. Let's pull now. Energy. Power. I depend on you.

[15:52] >> destroyed. Yeah. And then you try to just keep him away. to the future. So, the back. No one can stop me now. Melee can stay No one can stop me now. Melee can stay out.

[16:12] Let us see how your nerves hold up against the Darkener, Thaladred. PREPARE [screaming] YOURSELVES. JUST

[16:25] room. He's going to swap. Yeah, don't get hit. Melee, you guys can just stay out. It's not doesn't even matter. Like everybody can just get to the back so in case it swaps to you.

[16:47] Kill him even further if we can, all the way up to the wall. best advisers. But none can withstand the might of the blue Uh, so, wild shape, you pick up Sanguinar since threat will hold the

[17:01] >> Summon Sanguinar. Blood for blood. Tremor's down on this one, too. He's in a group one >> [groaning] >> Wild shape, bring him over here to

[17:15] diamond. Yeah, bring him to the wall. too quick. Don't kill him yet. >> I'll take him. way here. Okay, but you need to play with him.

[17:30] >> K'tharrnian will see to it that your stay here is a short one. Casters only. stay here is a short one. Casters only. Thus Andu- I reign supreme.

[17:53] So, Merkt, keep that Shrummer down in phase two. You have proven worthy to test your skills against my master engineer,

[18:07] skills against my master engineer, Talonicus. You're taking him. Guys, let me throw it.

[18:37] many weapons in my arsenal. >> Staff, tank the axe out. Keep it out of >> Staff, tank the axe out. Keep it out of the red.

[18:49] Try to stack the rest here. I'm on the wrong staff. staff. Keep that Keep the axe a little closer so he's getting hit by AoE.

[19:01] Just just a little bit out of the red. That's good. now. It's very comfortable.

[19:23] time. Sure you're picking up your weapon. Sure you're picking up your weapon. Start using your spells.

[20:13] It would be unfair to make you fight all four advisors at once, but fair treatment was never shown to my people. I'm just returning the favor. people. I'm just returning the favor. >> Do you want them?

[20:36] >> Elindra, watch. Elindra, warrior is coming to you. Warrior is on Z shots. Dude, I got one shot.

[20:50] Did I get hit with that holy shield? Maybe that was my fault then, cuz I got crushed. I shouldn't have get crushed without with holy shield. without with holy shield. This is not 3.8, 3.2, 5.8, 2.2 Warrior

[21:04] This is not 3.8, 3.2, 5.8, 2.2 Warrior on Cabell. Cabell running. now. reading the shield. Shields the caster absorbing 100,000 damage. absorbing 100,000 damage. What about double?

[21:20] 30-second cool down. Chummer's. Oh. Oh, it's 4 seconds.

[21:32] Where's Anub'arak? Trying to think what I want to keep on this thing, too. Uh I'm just going to put it to this for now. More perils.

[21:46] Let's just kill Thaladred and then Sanguinar. After we kill Sanguinar, Wild Bearus main tank. Double press Thunder bro.

[22:02] >> Tell Cog. Where the Thunder's at. No. Try to be a Bearus real fast. No. Try to be a Bearus real fast. I will not. I will not. Okay. I'll be on warrior next.

[22:28] Should get ready for KT. Yep. Okay. Forgive me, my prince. This thing has a lot of RP. has a lot of RP. Oh, maybe not.

[22:45] Okay. And then use your shield when he pyros. But at the very end of his cast, yours not going to last. Yeah, yeah. Obey me. Hit these guys that are MC'd with the

[22:58] dagger. Shiv them. Off-hand dagger shiv. hand and then twin cleave. I just used my shield on the fireball. Yeah, you're dead. Uh, can you take it from me? Uh, you can just kick the fireball. That

[23:13] shield has 18 more seconds on cool down. It might be up. It might be up. Okay, I can just eat the fireballs. Just pirate. Okay, that's 8 seconds left.

[23:25] Okay, that's 8 seconds left. I think I'm fine. Get away from that red beam. I got disoriented. have staff if you don't have staff in range of you. Okay, need a staff in

[23:40] use it, use it, use it, use it, use it, use it. Yeah, use it. Okay.

[23:52] because we have to break his shield. Uh, so we missed the damage check. Okay. Cool. It's good to see all that. Yeah, yeah. It's good to see all that. Yeah, yeah. It's a sick fight.

[24:07] do with the shield to not get one shot. We need a little bit more help on the staffs and staves. Wow, that is a very fun fun fight.

[24:59] It's going to swap targets soon. Don't get hit. Mechanics, guide it out.

[25:11] All the way back on the wall if we can. Nice. Next is Sanguinar. No one die here. Let's get threat on our bear before anyone else attacks. Let's get a tremor down as well. Yeah.

[25:25] Let's get a tremor down as well. Yeah. Pre-tremor on the fear.

[25:54] >> Okay. Next is casters on the astromancer. No one else needs to go in.

[26:21] Okay. Let Ampy pick up threat on the engineer. damage? Cuz someone moves or >> Like I think it's just the mech. Yeah.

[26:38] It's just It's just how it goes. Okay. Guys, watch your threat, please. This I need to have good threat for next phase. phase. Right again, careful.

[26:54] All right, weapon time, boys. You want to lose your aggro or no? She's on Casey. Nah. She's on Casey. Nah. >> Okay.

[27:41] Demo shout's huge. Uh try to bolt if we can. Nice. >> Pick up your weapons. Heal.

[28:13] Melee, watch out for the cleave. Get world on.

[28:26] Whoever has aggro on the dude in the back, just kite it in the back. Melee, start on uh Talankis, which is X. Be max range. uh Talankis, which is X. Be max range. Casters on caster.

[28:43] Gimmel see, kite him in the the Gimmel see, cowbell kite him in the back. Seely kite him in the back. Limo kite him in the back. Limo kite him in the back. Limo Limo Limo move. Kite him in the back.

[29:00] Nice. Seely it's on you.

[29:15] Good job Seely. Twists is on Twists. Twists kite him. Sanguinar. Casters on Thalatred. Casters on Thalatred. Tremors down. Tremors down.

[29:32] Thalatred. Slick Slicks.

[29:49] Finish off Sanguinar here. Ready for Kitty. Yep, I'll go on the Ready for Kitty. Yep, I'll go on the position.

[30:07] Mr. X yeah, threats. Not great. kick as well.

[30:19] Lust. Lust Lust Lust. So crusader. Okay.

[31:00] now. Pyroblast, nuke the boss, nuke the boss hard, hard, hard. Nice. I didn't even need to use it. That was insane. Good guys. Good job.

[31:17] phoenix. Get away from Don't let it Don't let it explode on me yet.

[31:46] guy during this phase. Should just be running away.

[32:10] He's about to do his thing. Grab your hearts now. See all those purple beams? That's danger. [music]

[32:32] once uh it's almost over. 8 seconds. Stay close. Away from the purple though.

[32:48] able to kick these. Stack up again. Thunder. Stack up.

[33:11] I got disoriented. I'm going to bubble cancel. That can't happen again. I need You're too far from staff. I have it now, yeah.

[33:44] Move out. Sigari. Now we have air phase again. Spread, spread, spread.

[34:16] We make another stack. Kick that if we can.

[34:31] >> [screaming] >> What was harp? Mount mount mount mount >> What was harp? Mount mount mount mount no mount no mount.

[34:45] You that is a sick fight. I mean that fight is dope dude. I've never actually done that as current content. Yeah, that is amazing. content. Yeah, that is amazing. Let's go. No mount.

[35:00] they didn't do it. I hate that I have to do this. Shout out to Ampy for carrying again. I I thought for sure we could do it Savix. Holy crap. >> [laughter]

[35:16] somewhat blind pug TK first day but Ampy comes in clutch with the carry as per usual. Oh my dude look at Galbold's gear. He Oh my dude look at Galbold's gear. He was fighting like this?

[35:29] >> Did anyone gear check Galbold? Oh no no he he has good gear. Oh. He just died. Okay. Let's get some rolls going on. Yeah. Verdant Sphere.

[35:52] deserved. Geez. Well deserved Ampy. Well deserved. Damn. Sunhawk is Uvador. Only player Grats.

[36:06] Only player Grats. Finger is Finger is Genka Korean Master Chaubold. Good luck.

[36:26] FOUR PLAYERS COWBELL, CHAUBOLD, LIMO, Wild Shave on the chest. Good luck.

[36:39] More chests. Uh we're The way my add-on does this is two separate rolls, just to separate rolls cuz I don't know how to do it any other way in my add-on.

[37:12] Ziffabos. Oh, they're both gone. My bad. Um so, [laughter] Smari, grats.

[37:25] Crap, I already said that it would be two rolls though. So, I think we Crap, I think I messed up the second Crap, I think I messed up the second roll.

[37:38] this? Cancel roll. Yeah, let's just redo it. twice, but since I already said it'll be two rolls, we'll we'll redo it.

[38:04] And then, Pattern Tailoring They're bind on pickup boots, so only if you're a tailor that can also use it.

[38:34] raid or Uh You'd have to get a crafter. It's bind on pickup, so

[38:51] know, uh enhancement shaman, fury warrior for a weapon upgrade, or a pattern user. But they should have something they can hypothetical. So that may never happen. Um what are

[39:05] the Nethers like the pattern? So like the Boots of Blasting? The Boots of the Protector. Yeah. Nether Vortex. >> belt, the belt from Malshaped uh

[39:19] I don't even need Nether Vortex. What needs Nether Vortex? Anyway, roll if you need Nether Vortex and you can actually make use of it. I'd use that on the make use of it. I'd use that on the belt.

[39:39] Just cuz you're the winning roll. While they're working. Okay. Guys, thanks for coming. Massive GG's.

[39:54] exactly what we thought. W. Tomorrow we're doing SSC. I think the raid is mostly full, but we might have some spots if you guys want to come. Is that right, Savix? Uh yeah, we might have like one spot or

[40:09] two. Couple spots, but that's it. So >> Yeah. We'll be playing more hardcore. We're still alive in hardcore, TBC phase two came out, hit in TBC, then we'll play more hardcore. We'll hit it all. All

[40:22] support. Thank you to YouTube as well for the Uh crazy gifted members over on YouTube, so We're out of here. Peace.

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