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MobVaros Cloudstrider
Image of Varos Cloudstrider
Title <Azure-Lord of the Blue Dragonflight>
Gender Male
Race Drakonid (Dragonkin)
Level 81 Elite
Reaction Alliance Horde
Location The Oculus
The Oculus

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Varos Cloudstrider is the second boss located in The Oculus.

Attacks and abilities

Energize Cores: Periodically covers about 1/3 of the platform with bolts of arcane power, inflicting 5700-6300 Arcane damage.

Strategies

The fight is mostly a tank and spank which requires your party to be constantly repositioning to avoid the rotating Energize Cores arc. The ability causes several adjacent orbs around the outside edge of the platform to emit small tendrils toward the center before releasing an actual blast that deals damage. It covers about 1/3 of the platform, and subsequent discharges always rotate one orb in a counter-clockwise direction.

Four small lightning bolts between discharges are warnings for where the next damage will occur. Do not stand underneath them. Simply tank Varos in the center and run away from them to avoid lightning damage.

On occasion Varos will summon a Captain which grabs a nearby flying drake who will start firing a beam onto the platform that follows one random group member and damages anyone on contact. Simply get as far as you can from it without putting yourself in danger of the Energize Cores or dragging the beam across another party member.

The entire fight (even on Heroic) is extremely easy if you kill all of the dragons flying around before landing.

One trick to make this fight easier is to take advantage that area of the arcane power actually extends from about 1/3 of the orbs to Varos. Because of this, a good tank can pull Varos to the edge of the platform and drag him counter-clockwise around the platform and allow the rest of the party to stand in the center of the platform and simply turn to keep facing Varos and avoid the beam as required.

Loot

Normal mode
Heroic Mode

Quotes

Aggro:

  • There will be no mercy!

Air strike:

  • Blast them! Destroy them!
  • Take no prisoners! Attack!
  • Strike now! Obliterate them!

Death:

  • They are... too strong! Underestimated their... fortitude.

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