| Welcome to Dancing with a Nelf: Kurn's Guide to the Heigan Dance! The first thing we should do is get as familiar as possible with Heigan's room before even setting foot in it. These screenshots are taken from within the room. The important thing to know is that, when you enter, the majority of the room is to your right-hand side and the platform is directly in front of you. |
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In Phase 1, all ranged and healers go stand on the platform. The tank will tank Heigan on the floor, at least 20 yards away from the platform, due to the debuffing aura he's got, which increases cast time by 300%. Healers and casters should be at max range. Healers will also want to watch out for the disease he casts on random raid members. Still in Phase 1, the tank and melee DPS will start out on the side of the room closest to where we entered. As the fight continues, they'll want to move over to the right, whenever they see the green slime come up through the cracks. They'll want to stand ON a crack that just erupted slime. They'll keep doing this, moving to the right 3 times, then moving to the left 3 times and back over to the right, as needed. Keep an eye on the slime! In Phase 2, Heigan goes to the platform and starts to channel a spell. That is the cue for EVERYONE to BOOK IT over to Phase 2's Start position. The whole raid will now be dancing across the room just like the melee and tank did, only the speed is GREATLY increased. It is imperative that you learn the dance yourself and not rely on anyone else's position at all. Do not worry about other people. Worry about yourself. People will die. That's fine. Try not to be one of them. Below are some screenshots which, MORE OR LESS, show safe areas. The one thing you want to do, though, is to stay a bit further back from the platform than the screenshots show, as he has a PLAGUE CLOUD that deals 7500 nature damage a second to anyone on the platform or too close to the platform. (That's why I'm dead in most of these screenshots. :P) |
| So here's all of it together, more or less. Remember that these are only general safe areas, and the best way to not die is to run directly to a spot that JUST erupted slime. Do NOT RELY on anyone, don't rely on heals, don't stop to bandage. Healthstones and healing potions might be all you can do to keep yourself alive here. |
| Here's a look at the dance to the right in progress. REMEMBER THAT YOU HAVE TO GO BACK TO THE LEFT after you dance to the right, so do NOT run right to the wall after you've hit Step 4! A typical phase has you running right, then left, then right, and should end midway back to the left. At this time, ranged gets back to the platform and all melee hauls ass back to Phase 2 Start. At a phase change, that is always the safe place to begin the next phase, and the slime resets itself, basically. |
| Rinse, repeat, collect loot. Note that this is not any different on either Normal or Heroic modes, apart from boss health values, and that it's very doable even if half your raid is dead. ;) |