This is a punishing fight for melees, but we can make it work, let's break it down then.

Talents that i use for this fight.

Tiger's Lust for mobillty on demand, getting out of oozes and what not.

Chi wave because of its healing/damage component and short cd already making it a part of my rotation.

Ring of piece because bosses are affected by disarms.

Diffuse magic well as a damage dealer your only source of harmful damage is mage and anything to mitigate it, is good.

Rushing Jade wind, due to it's low cd and because i like to send a clone to the oozes and do some AOE on them with this ability.


Now to the fight itself.

IMPORTANT:The Dark Shamans are susceptible to Grapple Weapon, which not only decreases their melee damage but also increases the performance of the monk who used it. It essentially becomes a DPS cooldown, increasing your damage dealt by 5% for 8 seconds on a 60 second cooldown.

• If targeted for Ashen Wall or Foul Stream, always aim it away from your raid, and away from the kiting path of the bosses.
• Touch of Karma during Geyser if you wish to stand in it, roll away if not.
• Stoneskin as needed, and Diffuse Magic works well with Toxic Mist.
• Kill the boss at all costs, range will kill the adds.

ATTENTION:One thing to note for all cloak users, if you aim near the adds at all during a cloak proc, you can get aggro and they will come to you and kill you if you do not notice that they aggro'd to you.

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