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Hard mode Vezax tip

Posted by Keeva | Druid healing, Raiding, Tips & guides | Tuesday 22 September 2009 9:13 AM

The Vezax fight is unique in that you cannot regen ANY mana during the fight (although you will get about 25% back from Lifebloom blooms). Pots, Innervate, MP5, spirit, none of it will help you get any mana back. On normal mode, you can stand in Saronite vapors to regen a little mana, but on the hard mode version, you can’t. So every little bit of mana counts, and once spent, you can’t get it back – so the more you spend, the harder it will be for you in the final moments of the fight.
Here’s an ultra-quick tip for those of you attempting hard mode. I use it each time and get a real kick out of it. You’ll need to practice the timing, but once you get into the groove, it’s easy.

Just before the tank runs in, set him up with a full stack of Lifebloom, a Regrowth, and a Rejuv.
As he runs in, refresh your Lifebloom, then Innervate yourself BEFORE you enter combat, to get back to full mana before the fight starts. You may need to coordinate this with your tank – if he pulls too quickly you won’t get your mana back before you go into combat (remember, Innervate will stop working as soon as you enter combat) and if he pulls too slowly, your HoTs will drop off.
Quickly refresh your Rejuv also, while you have innervate. You should hit full mana before you enter combat.
After the tank engages the boss, refresh your Lifebloom stack just before it expires.
Refresh once more just before it expires – so that’s one initial stack, and two subsequent refreshes.
Let your Lifebloom expire the next time. This will (hopefully) give you a heal on the tank, and will also return part of your mana back.

You’ve just given your tank a Regrowth, Rejuv, three cycles of full Lifebloom ticks, and possibly a Lifebloom bloom (if he took damage at the right time), and all for “free” – you should be back at full mana after you let your Lifebloom expire.

Most people will pre-HoT tanks before pulls anyway – but this way you can guarantee that you start combat with full mana, and keep those full-strength Lifeblooms rolling for a couple of cycles – all for “free”.

Oh, and don’t forget – if you need to battle rez someone (and you’re the absolute last resort – DPS druids should be doing it before you if possible) jump in the black puddle to do it, if you can – it will save you some precious mana.

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Comment by Rezznul — September 22, 2009 @ 9:42 AM
I like that. I’ve played with the timing on that, but the way you put it, that’s quite slick.

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Comment by Ian — September 22, 2009 @ 9:57 PM
I hadn’t thought of using innervate, usually I just eat
We have been fortunate in having some really good disc priests who handle most of the healing load for this fight. Until the animus spawns I can usually just use the casting lifebloom from inside the shadowcrash patch to keep mana up and usually only need an occasional rejuve or nourish to help.

Swaping gear is essential for the fight to get the biggest mana pool. Use either spellpower or int trinkets. Learning the fight the old BC flask of distilled wisdom is best. I regret letting one of the many leather healing bracers from Razorscale get disenchanted. In hindsight I could have grabbed them and enchanted with int instead of spellpower.

Shadow protection pots should also be used when the animus spawns to help with the aoe damage.

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Comment by Bellwether — September 22, 2009 @ 11:15 PM
The pre-HoT innervate is something I’ve always done; it’s very effective! But after that…

In 25-man, the general rule is for Trees to do -nothing- until the Animus spawns (well, punch the boss for extra deeps). In 10-man, the rule is to do close to nothing (unless you’re three healing it, then do completely nothing) until the Animus spawns.

A hint for normal mode Vezax, however, is to watch the boss’s health with your mana pool. If they remain in sync or you remain slightly ahead, then you’re doing great

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Comment by Running Elk — September 23, 2009 @ 5:53 AM
Here is a tip for using the shadow crash pools. Normally, you don’t want to use shadow crashes at all since it reduces your healing effectiveness by 75%, However, if you stack a triple LB on your tank while in the shadow crash, it will tick for the low value, but bloom for full value, and refund a good amount of mana to boot.

I used this a few weeks ago and I *think* this is still the case.

Peace,

Elk
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Comment by LIfe — December 4, 2009 @ 7:35 AM
Just want to be sure since there is so much outdated stuff out there… is this information still current with patches and stuff?

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