NiM Bestia

Our job here is to juggle everything else in the room and be sure we keep away from the Anvil Tank.  We do not want our monster getting buffed by the other 2.  If we end up on the right side of the room and get too close, we should adjust, not the Anvil Tank.

Main things to note:

• 1 Monster by itself will use "Fling" periodically along with their cleave attack.  You always want to position your monster so that its back is to a wall, so that when you get "flung" you hit the wall behind it and are only a few steps away from getting back into position.  Having your back to a wall will get you "flung" across the map and get the monster chasing you to where you landed, messing up positioning quite a bit.

• If you have to adjust a monster (IE move it to a new tentacle spawn), use your "hold the line/Hydraulics" to prevent getting "flung" as you move.

• ALWAYS stack your monsters on Dread Tentacles.

• If the Anvil Tank is too close to a tentacle, tell them to scoot back toward back or toward front to adjust.  They should be paying attention to this as well and making a couple meter adjustment to help as needed.

• Be sure to have the threat of the Dread Tentacles as they pop up.  If you or a melee DPS do not have threat, they will channel, if that channel finishes it will one shot players.

As a DPS, your job in phase one is relatively simple.  Focus whatever monster the Chase tank has and make it dead.  The DPS check in phase 1 is tight and is pretty much being able to have 1 monster dead before the next spawns.  If your group consistently has 4 monsters up at a time, re-evaluate your group composition, more burst may be needed.  NEVER switch off of the monster onto other spawns, except for one DPS that will handle the interrupts of the Dread Tentacles.

When a tentacle spawns, it will begin casting, this needs to be interrupted before it finishes, or it will kill a large portion of the raid group.  Once interrupted and so long as the group has stacked on it, and the tentacle is targeting a player in melee range, it will not do this death channel again.  Once it is initially interrupted, get back on the monster and rely on DoT spread to kill it.  Stay focused on the monsters.

There is nothing special to cleanse in phase 1.  Those pesky yellow puddles do not start until phase 2, just like Hard mode.  The Burst healer healing the Anvil tank will need occasional help from the group healer to keep up with the demand at times.  The group healer will need to keep everyone else up.  If DPS are taking too much damage from cleaves, let them die.  It is either the tank, or Dps's fault.  Let them sort it out and improve, rather than you trying to make your fingers bleed for them.

Main thing for you to be aware of are those evil larvae.  Run them to the chase tank if you get one stuck on you.  They will be busy, just run it in, let the tank or DPS cleave it and run back out.  Problem solved.

The dust should be settling from the transition into phase 2 and things from here should fall into a rhythm.  Phase 2 works much like Hard Mode with the following changes:

1. Bestia's stacks seem to come faster and force more tank swaps.

2. Monsters and adds do not stop coming up (In HM they do not start back up until 50% boss HP)  

   1. Keep in mind the other hard mode mechanics here.  

      1. Tanks receive the Swelling Despair Debuff from Bestia and need to swap.

      2. Players get the red circles (Combusting Seed) and yellow circles (Dread Pool)

      3. Everything there stays in effect and hits harder.

Best Bets:

All dps should focus monsters when they come up.  If monsters cannot be killed fast enough, burn time on Bestia will be lower leading to an enraged (All Adds spawn all at once and murder you).  As Tanks, be sure to stack and help with interrupts of the dread tentacles.  DPS need to burn monsters and tentacles fast to get back on the boss.  Try to let larvae stack with Bestia.  

Any dps classes with self heals can get dread pool (yellow puddle) dropped on them.  Snipers (with the self heal) in particular need to be careful and shouldn't stack in melee range.

Tanks will need to track each other's stacks of Swelling despair.  We generally taunt on dread strike, which seems to keep us at 4-5 stacks.  There will be pulls where this rhythm fails and tank swaps will not line up with this channel.  These stacks will flow from periods of slow application to rapid application.  Stacks will accumulate faster than monsters can be killed.  This will force tanks to swap under pressure.  Be mindful of "Fling".  The most challenging part here is getting flung away as you are trying to take Bestia off your cotank as they are stacking, swelling despair.  Our general goal is to swap at 3–4 stacks of this debuff.  On some of our greatest escapes, one tank has gone as high as 13 and survived the ordeal.  I do not recommend pressing your luck here.  Tanks need to communicate and save their taunts for these swaps, as they happen often.  A DwT here to take the monster while the tanks are swapping is very helpful with keeping a monster positioned on an active tentacle, or just to prevent an unwanted fling during a swap.

If you get a red circle, keep it in the group and keep doing damage, take it out right before the debuff expires so that you are not standing around doing nothing for 10".  It only deals damage when the debuff finishes.  I recommend having all melee stack on one side of Bestia (right foot for an example), if a melee gets it, move to the left.  This way that player can continue to dps with 100% uptime, and stack stacked in for AoE heals.