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Basic Information

• Difficulty Level: 4 (Easy)

Ideal Raid Composition

• 2 tanks (1 with spell mitigation)
• 5 healers (2 chloros, 3 clerics)
• 2 support (1 bard, 1 archon)
• 11 DPS (around half melee and half ranged)

Strategy

Oracle is a fairly simple fight, especially since the intended mechanics and strategy of kiting and killing wisps can be overlooked in favor of a far easier tank & spank approach.

At the start of the fight, Oracle will be passive and invulnerable while her two werewolves become active. As you enter, the werewolf on the right (Primal Werewolf) will be the "melee werewolf" and the werewolf on the left (Necrotic Werewolf) will be the "ranged werewolf".

The melee werewolf should be tanked next to the raid group, facing away from the raid due to its frontal cleave attack. The ranged werewolf should be kept near the middle of the room and away from the raid as it has a pulsing aura that will damage anyone near it -- your spell mitigation tank should be used on this werewolf (rogue or void knight). The ranged werewolf has a normal aggro table for the first few seconds, but after that it becomes locked/fixated on its current target, so be sure that a healer or support doesn't somehow get aggro on it before the tank does.

The entire raid should be grouped up behind the melee werewolf, while melee focus all damage on it and ranged focus their damage on the ranged werewolf. The two werewolves must die at roughly the same time, or the one left standing will become enraged. Throughout the fight someone should be comparing the health on the two werewolves and calling out which needs more damage. If the ranged werewolf has higher health, simply have a few melee run in and DPS it for 5-10 seconds and then get out; the pulsing debuff won't do enough damage to seriously harm them in that time. If the two health percentages are still very different, just call for DPS to stop on whichever is the lowest.

The only other concern during this phase is a "bomb" debuff that Oracle will put on a random player. Pay close attention to raid emotes throughout the entire fight and call out whoever is targeted with the bomb. When a player is bombed, they must stop whatever they're doing and run out of line of sight from the raid (as pictured in the image above). Wait for the debuff to fall off, then return to the normal position. Failure to do this will kill the entire raid.

Wisps will also spawn throughout the fight. When these reach the melee werewolf they will channel a spell and then buff the werewolf's damage if not killed in time. The intended strategy was for players to kill these before they could reach the werewolf, but the fact is the damage buff they provide to the werewolf is very negligible and they can simply be ignored. If your tanks are drastically undergeared, you may need to resort to the intended strategy of killing wisps and kiting the ranged werewolf around the room, but it is very unlikely you should ever need to do this.

Tanks should always save at least one defensive cooldown in case they are chosen by the bomb and need to run away from their healers, or if their werewolf is the last one standing and has increased damage. The ranged tank may also need to use a cooldown if his debuff stacks get too high and begins taking spiky damage -- just call out for extra healing if this happens.

After the two werewolves die, Oracle will become active and change into a werewolf herself. Melee should stay out of the middle of the room for the first few seconds to prevent getting initial aggro from the boss. This phase of the encounter is even easier, just tank the boss in the middle of the room and face her away from the melee, and proceed to zerg her down. Again, you may ignore all wisps; the damage they provide is simply not a threat. There will be some AoE damage going out to the raid, so it helps if everyone groups up behind her for easier AoE healing. Don't forget to call out bomb targets and it should be an easy kill.

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