WoW Guide: Boss Strategy Moroes Karazhan

WoW Guide: Boss Strategy Moroes Karazhan

Moroes is an undead Rogue boss found in the Dining Hall of Karazhan, who has four undead adds with him. He can be a challenging fight because his Garrote ability deals significant damage over a long period of time.


HP – 386988
Damage – 6193-8172

1- Abilities:


Blind: Blinds the target, who wanders around, confused for up to 10 seconds. Moroes blinds the second person on his threat list randomly. This ability can be cured like a poison.
Cure quickly, you don’t want the off tank to be blind when Gouge occurs on the tank (see below)

Enrage: At 30% life, Moroes enrage, causing an additional 20% melee damage. Be prepared to extra heal the tanks.

Garrote: Every 30 seconds Moroes vanishes and garrotes a player randomly when he reappears. The garrote lasts for 5 mn and does 1,000 damage every 3 seconds. His threat does not reset.
Remove it if you can: Dwarfs, use the Stoneform ability. Mages, use the iceblock, Paladins use divine shield, and blessing of protection. If you can’t get rid of it, heal the damage with a couple HoTs. No one should die from garrote damage.

Gouge: Every 15 seconds, Moroes gouges his current target and begins attacking the second highest person on the threat list.
Make sure you have an offtank, and that your DPS classes mind their threat so that the off tank is always the second on the list.

2- Preparation:


You’ll fight 4 our of 6 possible adds:

Baroness Dorothea Millstipe (Shadow Priest)
Baron Rafe Dreuger (Retribution Paladin)
Lady Catriona Von'Indi (Holy Priest)
Lady Keira Berrybuck (Holy Paladin)
Lord Robin Daris (Arms Warrior)
Lord Crispin Ference (Protection Warrior)

Some more info about the adds

Baron Rafe Dreuger
Retribution Paladin
Health: 68k
can dispel shackle, casts blessings

Baroness Dorothea Milstipe
Shadow Priest
Health: 66k
Casts mana burn

Lady Catriona Von'Indi
Holy Priest
Health: 66k
can heal and dispel shackle

Lady Keira Berrybuck
Holy Paladin
Health: 68k
casts Holy Light, dispels shackles, casts blessings


Lord Crispin Ference
Protection Warrior
Health: 83.4k
very hard to kill

Lord Robin Daris
Mortal Strike Warrior
Health: 84k
hard to kill, can easily one-hit clothies, does melee-AE

Just look at the 4 adds and make sure you know which one is which. It is pretty easy to recognize who they are just by looking at them.

Try to bring 2 priests for this fight as it makes it easy to keep 2 adds shackled at the same time. Definitely shackle the warriors if you can, they take too long to kill.

3- Strategy

Start by having the main tank pull or by using Misdirection. As soon as the adds come into LoS, get them CC and tanked. Give time to build agro on the first to kill and start DPS.
The offtank should start to build threat with him very early in the fight. Make sure no other DPS get to the second place in the list.

Kill off the adds that aren’t CC quickly and start DPS on Moroes. The adds that are CC stay like that until Moroes is dead. Never let them get loose!

Gouge hits the main tank fairly early in the fight. The offtank should have built some threat and now be tanking Moroes. As soon as the Gouge waers off, the main tank should go back to building threat in preparation for the next Gouge. This switching of the tanks after Gouge continues throughout the entire fight and everyone needs to mind their threat.

Eventually Moroes uses vanish and is gone for a few seconds.

When he reappears, someone is randomly garroted.  Think about removing it with Stoneform, iceblock, Divine shield or Blessing of protection, or just heal through it.
The agro does not reset after Vanish so nothing really changes from a tanking prospective. Keep those adds CC, help offtanks maintain the second agro position by watching your threat, and heal up everyone who is taking damages from Garrote. The hardest part it to get the adds down. Once the remaining adds are CC and you are on the boss, it is not much of a problem.

Posted on May 06, 2008  Comments | Email |  Digg
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