Never seen anyone die from this But it is that hidden trick, that rules WoW fights.

Eadric: You don’t have to turn all the way around, you can just turn to the side. That way you can turn back that much quicker. Also, since your healer can heal while facing away from the group so they don’t have to worry about turning around.

Paletress: If you have a pally or a priest with you, shadow resistance helps A LOT when it comes to the damage caused by the memory’s fear. I’ve actually seen it prevent wipes.

Black Knight Phase 2: I concentrate on keeping the addons preoccupied so they aren’t beating on the healer or any other squishie. I can usually take on 2 or 3 at once before the damage is too much. Sure I do less DPS overall but we all survive in the end.

And if someone dies early on in the fight, they can release and come back fairly quickly. We’ve had to do that a couple times with some of our less geared healers.

(1) Joust… ugh. Much suckage for the tank. Yes I’ll be glad when they fix it.

Hate levels carry over from the joust to ground phase. Which is why most everyone runs away currently to force a reset. Unless the Tank is doing the bulk of the damage during Joust phase it’s a pain to pick them up.

Careful about losing your mount mid-field… They don’t just trample you.. they have all the same attacks that you have. And since you’re not shielded their Charge will do 20k damage, lancing you is 8k… and they can “triple strike” (shield break, charge, lance) for a 30k total.

IMO: Shaman > Mage > Rogue > Hunter > Warrior. Healer, Sheeper, Poisoner, Annoyer and Free Ride.

(2) Priest, Paladin, Monk is the kill order for the packs, kill from Left side (Horde side of room) to Right side. Once you drop the last pack then the NPC will walk forward and become active.

Paladin (Eadric): Tank & Spank. Turn 180 when he starts to glow to avoid the stun. Hammer of the Righteous will ONLY be caught if (1) you’re stun immune (Beast Within) or (2) the stun is dispelled BEFORE the hammer goes into the air (~2 sec cast time). Once caught you only have one button on your bar… “Return the serve” so to speak. If you kill him with it, congrats, you’re a Face Roller!

Priest (Paletress): She comes out, you beat on her and then she goes immune and heals to full. Once she summons the Memory she will be immune to all damage, but continue to randomly serve up Holy Fire and Smites. Since she is immune you can’t stop her casting so the Healer has to be on the ball. The Memory will have a varying amount of HP (depending on which memory she summons) and will be one of the NPCs that the person she has targeted when the summoning starts has killed (Haven’t killed Ony? She won’t summon Ony). Look at the achievements to see the various things she can summon. Largely Tank & Spank for the Memory, occasional fear but no aggro wipe. Beat it down, then beat her down.

(3) Black Knight. He’s a total jerkwad.

Phase 1: Tank and Spank. Only thing to worry about is the Ghoul. It spawns randomly in the room, aggros to someone. Either Trap or MD to tank. Don’t waste CDs here. It’s too easy.

Phase 2: If you have good DPS you can blow CDs here. He will summon an Army of the Dead. If you have a DK in the group, they can pop AoD and the fun begins. If not you can either Volley/Kite things around while the group deals with him (if you want to attempt the achievement) or you can just burninate the Knight… Any Ghouls alive when he dies however become explody… just FYI.

Phase 3: This is the deal-breaker here. If you blew your CDs for Phase 2 then you’d better have good DPS. He’s going to come up with an aura that stacks damage on the whole group. He’s going to cast a debuff on a raid member at random (and yes, this CAN hit the tank) that DOUBLES the damage a party member receives. This is where you want to omgwtfpwn him. Usually Shamen will pop Heroism so if you have one in the group you’re pretty safe to blow CDs in Phase 2. Unload it all, enjoy your “Better Than Naxx 25″ loot.

The little snakes have a chance of soaking up a smite, saving a bunch of work for the healer.

Also, during p2 of the Black Knight it’s helpful to drop a frost trap near his feet, as that slows the adds and makes it easier for the tank to keep them close or for ranged people to kite them when/if they get aggro.

From where I come from, we call this “Fisher Price My First Lunatic Gaze”.

Once you get to Yogg-Saron, you’ll get it.

I do have to second Reanda’s point that the third phase of Black Knight is the best time for cooldowns since the sooner he dies, the less stressful it is on the healers.