Castle Nathria - Raid Boss Tactics - The council of Blood

Background

The Council of Blood presides over courtly functions in Revendreth. Castellan Niklaus is a strict military commander with an indomitable will and impenetrable armor. Lord Stavros, a foppish dandy, leads the court in dance but is also deadly with his blades. Baroness Freida wields powerful anima magics and commands the dredger wait staff-along with the respect of the entire court.

Overview (Fast Tactics)

  • You will fight 3 bosses at the same time.
  • These bosses do NOT share health.
  • When a boss dies, the other two get their health back up to 100%.
  • When a boss dies, the other two get an extra ability each.
  • Each boss has 2 main abilities.
  • When one boss dies, the other 2 gets full health and an extra boss ability each.
    When the 2nd boss dies, the last boss gets full health and another boss ability.
  • When a boss gets 50% health, you enter intermission and have to dance. 

The main abilities

Stavros
Teleports behind tank and does a rush toward tank.
Melee must fight this boss from the side of him, not in front or behind.

Several players are targeted in pairs and must find each other to remove dmg on them.
Also, dmg circles spawns under them several times.
Players must find each other fast and run together until pools stops spawning.

Freida
Casts Bolt of power that does raid dmg.
Must be interrupted.

Niklaus
Summons an add that runs to the boss and shields him.
Kill that add asap.

The extra boss abilities

Stavros 1st extra ability
Dancing adds spawns on the platform that must be dodged.

Stavros 2nd extra ability
Entire platform is full of dancers.
One pair of dancers can be killed and must be killed before time runs out and it’s a raid wipe.

Freida 1st extra ability
Does heavy raid dmg periodically.

Freida 2nd extra ability
Summons soul spikes that impale tank plus a increase dmg taken debuff.
Same time, entire raid takes dmg as well.

Niklaus 1st extra ability
Summons small adds that attacks raid.
Bring boss to the adds and cleave dmg on them while attacking boss.

Niklaus 2nd extra ability
Summons a big add that does very heavy dmg and must be tanked and tank swap asap.
Full nuke on that add.

Kill Order

  1. Stavros
  2. Frieda
  3. Niklaus

The dance

Whenever a boss reaches 50% health, they will retreat to the balcony and players have to dance.
Each player gets a position to stand on. It is highlighted with light. Run in to it to start the dance.

You will have to move accordingly (left, right, up, down).
Watch the positioning of the small goblin NPC. Face the same direction as the NPC. 
You have to do the same as they do.
The platform has a square form shape. Move an entire square, when you move. 

If you failed in anyway (didn’t run to the light, danced wrong moves) you will be sent to a cage on the side of the platform and die.

Tanks

Main tank on Stavros
Off tank on Niklaus. 
Tank swap needed

Positioning

Tank the bosses in the center of the platform.

Kill Order

  • Stavros
  • Frieda
  • Niklaus

Stavros has 2 nasty abilities that requires entire raid to do a lot of extra work.
They must stack when becoming partners and at the same time move around. Fail does high dmg fast.
They also must handle loads of dancers that regen health, immune to AoE and spawns blood that is nasty.
Getting rid of that is the best choice.

Frieda is nasty but can be handled as a second kill. 2 players must share dmg with a random targeted player that is tossed to the side of the platform before 8 sec. Tank boss in mid. Have players that are fast or have warlock portals and gg.

Niklaus summons a big add as final ability. This add must be tanked and does heavy dmg. Full nuke on that add on top of boss for cleave dmg on boss.

Abilities and Tactics

The Dance

Whenever a boss reaches 50% health, they will retreat to the balcony and players have to dance.
Each player gets a position to stand on. It is highlighted with light. Run in to it to start the dance.

You will have to move accordingly (left, right, up, down).
Watch the positioning of the small goblin NPC. 
You have to do the same as they do.
The platform has a square form shape. Move an entire square, when you move. 

Lord Stavros Abilities

Evasive Lunge (Tanks)

Stavros boss teleports behind the main tank and does high physical dmg to players up to 20 yards on front of him.

Tactics: Evasive Lunge (Tanks)

  • Ranged stay away
  • Melee beware. Stand on the side of boss.

Dark Recital

Stavros boss assigns players in pairs as partners with a red beam between them. 
The marked players will drop swirls on the ground that does dmg if touched.

Dark Recital

Stack on the players you become partner with and run away from raid.
Keep running together until the link is broken. 

Extra ability 1 (when a boss dies)
Waltz if Blood

Boss spawns adds that dance on the platform. 
Touching them does high Shadowdamage and a 1 sec stun

Tactics: Waltz if Blood

Dodge the dancing adds. 

Extra ability 2 (when another boss dies)
Dancing Fools

Spawns loads of unkillable adds that dance. 
Only one pair can be killed.
That pair must be killed before it finishes the violent outburst cast that kills the raid.

Tactics: Dancing Fools

Find the killable pair fast and use cooldowns and kill it.
This will happen twice.
Use damage CD the first time and Bloodlust/Heroism/Timewarp on second time. 

Castellan Niklaus Abilities

Duelist´s Riposte

Boss hits for high physical dmg and a debuff.
Debuff increase the dmg of next Riposte by 100% ever 25 sec and stacks. 

Tactics: Duelist´s Riposte

Tank swap every 2 stacks. 

Summon Dutiful add

Summons an add that runs to the boss and shields him. 

Tactics: Summon Dutiful add

Kill the add asap. 

Extra ability 1 (when a boss dies)
Dredger Servants

Spawns adds on the sides that throw food that does dmg. 

Tactics: Dredger Servants

CC and kill the adds. 
They are spread out. 

Extra ability 2 (when another boss dies)
Castellan´s Cadre

When the other 2 bosses are dead, the third gets a 2nd new ability.
This boss gets Castellan´s Cadre.
The boss summons an adds that fixate a random player. These adds cannot be cc in any way.

Tactics: Empowered with Anima - Castellan´s Cadre

Player fixated by the adds must kite.
THe add changes player to fixate. 

Baroness Frieda Abilities

Drain Essence (Tank)

This boss puts a stacking debuff on main tank.
This debuff reduces the max health by 1% every 6 sec for 1 min.

Tactics: Drain Essence (Tank)

Tank swap when the other tank has 2 stacks

Dreadbolt Volley

The Baroness boss casts Bolt of power periodically to all players. 

Tactics: Bolt of Power

Have 2 players to keep up the interrupts on this boss all the time.
Or a paladin tank.

Extra ability 1 (when a boss dies)
Prideful Eruption

Spawns a welled up pride next to each player that does moderate dmg to all players within 6 yards.

Tactics: Prideful

Healers beware. 

Extra ability 2 (when a boss dies)
Soul Spikes

Summons 4 spikes that attacks main tank.
Each spike does high dmg and increases dmg taken from it for 4.5 sec.
A portion of it does dmg to raid.

Tactics: Soul Spikes

Healers beware.

When to bloodlust

If you have Stavros as last boss to kill then use dps cooldowns on the first time when Dancing Fools. Then use Bloodlust/Timewarp/Heroism on the second time Dancing Fools comes up gain. 

If you have Niklaus as last boss, then use it when you start attacking this boss.

Heroic Mode abilities and tactics 

The heroic mode part in Council of Blood regards which of the three bosses that is alive as the last one.

Stavros Heroic Mode

When Stavros is the last one:

  • Puts a debuff on all players (Two Left Feet).
    Every time a player moves, it reduces their movement speed by 2% and stacks fast.
    When standing still, the stacks goes down fast as well.

If you decide to have this boss as the last one standing then beware that you must handle his other boss mechanics that requires a lot of movements.

Baroness Frieda Heroic Mode

When Frieda is the last one:

  • When a player take dmg from Freida, it spawns pools at their location that does moderate shadow dmg every half second. The pools lasts for 30 sec.

If you decide to keep her as the last one standing, then beware that players will take a lot of random dmg from her first extra ability (Soul Spikes). Have the raid close to each other every time she casts it so the pools are on certain positions of the platform.

Castellan Niklaus

When Niklaus is the last one:

  • Casts Castellan´s Fury that makes all adds that are killed get a 100% dmg increase for 18 seconds and any other add within 12 yards also gets the buff.

If you decide to keep her as the last one standing, then make sure that the big add (Veteran Stoneguard) does not get this buff. Tank the add further away from adds.

If you kill the waiter adds, stack them up and control them as much as possible to reduce dmg and kill them.

If you don’t kill the waiters, healers must beware with healing cooldown rotations and raid must beware with their survival abilities.

The Attendant add does now get 100% dmg increase but will buff other adds if they die close to the attendant.

 

18 Dec 2020