One Rogue's Journey

Meet the Reliquary of Souls, some sort of crazy floating head-like thing with three equally creepy faces. This is an interesting fight for us rogues because we actually have a job that doesn’t just involve stabbing it to death (quite the concept, I know). As I said, RoS has three faces and these correspond to three different phases of the fight, each with a different gimmick.

Phase 1
The gimmick of phase 1 is that there is no healing whatsoever. No pots, no healthstones, no bandages, nothing. They just don’t work so don’t bother wasting them. Also of major importance is that there is no aggro table in this phase, RoS will simply attack whoever it is “Fixated” on. If you stand underneath RoS, in the center of the red selection circle for about five seconds he will fixate upon you. What does this have to do with you, you ask? Sounds like a prime oppertunity for tanks to rotate while you unload on it. Well, that’s true, but approximately every minute RoS will Enrage and that’s where you come in. You want to be Fixated upon during the enrage, so get underneath him about 5 seconds before it starts and watch your Target of Target (You do have target or target enabled, right?). When RoS switches to you, pop Evasion and take a few steps back. The reason for the few steps back is so that someone else can pick him up once Enrage is over. Once you finish this phase (a well geared raid can take him down before the second enrage), RoS will hide in his little cocoon for a moment. During this time, ghosts will appear which will restore 100% health and mana when killed. Afterwards Phase 2 begins.

Phase 2
Phase 2 is the most important phase for you, because you’re on interrupt duty. RoS will be casting Spirit Shock which must be interrupted as well as Deaden which should NEVER be interrupted. Missing an interrupt on Spirit Shock or interrupted a Deaden can easily cause your raid to wipe. Sounds stressful? It is, but luckily it’s not too difficult. So throw on some Mindnumbing poison (A warlock should be doing Curse of Tongues but just in case) and get ready. First thing you need to do is set up a rotation with another interrupter (Fury Warriors for pummel or another rogue for kick). My guild personally uses a rotation of 3 interrupts but it can be done with two. A simple macro like this can really help out:

/cast kick
/raid KICK OFF, PLAYER 2 YOU'RE NEXT

Not absolutely necessary but it doesn’t hurt. Now, make sure you have some sort of target casting bar mod installed (I like love Quartz myself). When it is your turn to interrupt Spirit Shock, STOP DPSING, just attack with white damage and wait for the cast. Spirit Shock has a 1 second cast (1.6 with Mindnumbing or Curse of Tongues) and you absolutely don’t want to be caught in a GCD or without energy. Once again, this can be very stressful but stay calm, pay attention, don’t kick a Deaden and you’ll be fine. Once this phase is over you do the ghost thing again and phase 3 begins.

Phase 3
During the transition between phase 2 and phase 3 someone (hopefully) will be dropping a nature resist cauldron. Grab your potion and use it immediately. The gimmick to this phase is that you will be taking increasingly more damage over time so it is a huge DPS race, however, you do not want to pull aggro at all. If you pull aggro, RoS will Seathe on you causing threat generated to be increased by 200% making it near impossible for the tank to grab the mob back, killing you, wasting time you don’t have and almost certainly wiping the raid. This will cause your guild to hate and shun you, causing you to quit the game, delete your character and find yourself languishing in the hell that is some terrible game like Zu Online. OK, so I’m exaggerating…but only a little. Seriously though, don’t pull aggro. What my guild likes to do is give the tank a good 10 seconds to generate threat, give him all the misdirects we have and then unload. When you drop below 50%, pop Cloak of Skill Shadows to help with the DOT. That’s all there is to phase 3. Finish it off and collect your loot.

Grips of Damnation

Decently solid gloves. Take them if you don’t already have your T6

And that’s it. Not much loot for being so important to the fight huh? Oh well, loot is definitely not everything. Time for Bloodboil!