World of Warcraft Karazhan Guide Part 2: Moroes Walkthrough

If you're looking for a World of Warcraft Karazhan guide for Moroes, then you've come to the right place!

After defeating Attumen the Huntsman, make your way back towards the entrance of Karazhan where you will find some steps. It is vital for this fight that all DPS and tanks have threatmeters such as Omen. You will need some AoE here, so I will go over the group composition.

Optimal Group Composition:

2 Tanks (crit immune)

3 Healers (at least 2 priests required between healers and DPS for shackle)

5 DPS (1-2 good AoE mage/warlocks needed for trash)

The group should be geared appropriately in level 70 blues and perhaps a few epics.

Start out pulling the trash in the room at the top of the stairs. There are numerous AoE packs here, they're easy groups of nonelites that shouldn't pose too much of a problem unless you accidentally pull more than one group at once. Also note that there are several packs of elites as well that do not need to be pulled. We've pulled them accidentally thinking that they are AoE packs and wiped. There are also several single pull pats around the room, these guys hit hard, especially the valets, so be careful to keep tanks topped off when dealing with those.

Once you have enough of the room cleared to be able to go into the room to the left, then do so. This is the room where you find Moroes, but there is still some more trash to take care of. There are a few 2-pulls up against the wall, each of these guys hits hard and needs a tank. There are AoE packs sitting at the tables that may be dealt with in the same way you dealt with the AoE packs earlier. In addition, there are several Skeletal Waiters wandering around. These guys put a debuff on your tank called Brittle Bones that will occasionally cause their armor to go down a significant amount. When a tank has this debuff on him, he should wait for it to fade before tanking anything else or there is a good chance he will die.

After the room is clear, you're left with Moroes and his four friends. His four friends is what you need 2 priests using shackles for. Both priests should have a focus macro set up as follows:

/clearfocus [modifier:shift] [target=focus,dead] [target=focus,noexists]
/focus [target=focus,noexists]
/script SetRaidTarget("focus", 1)
/cast [target=focus] Shackle Undead

Simply target your shackle and shackle it once, then the macro will automatically retarget and shackle whenever you hit it. This way your priests don't need to actually change targets to keep their shackles up. You will need to kill 2 of the adds and shackle 2 of them. The 4 adds are random out of a possible selection of 6. I will give you a list of possibilities here. The ones at the top of the list are the highest priority to be killed, the ones at the bottom are highest priority for shackles:

Baroness Dorthea Millstipe (Shadow Priest)

Lady Catriona Von'Indi (Holy Priest)

Lady Keira Berrybuck (Holy Paladin)

Baron Rafe Dreuger (Retribution Paladin)

Lord Robin Daris (Arms Warrior)

Lord Crispin Ference (Protection Warrior)

The worst case scenario here would be to get the 2 warriors and the 2 paladins. I have personally never had that happen, though. If you are fighting either the holy priest or the holy paladin then you need to have your rogue on them in order to interrupt the heals (other classes with interrupts work as well).

Have your main tank go in and pick up Moroes and pull him to one side of the room. The adds to be shackled should be shackled immediately and kept shackled throughout the fight. The offtank needs to grab whichever of the adds he is assigned to tank (whichever plate wearer that you don't have a shackle for, or the second add you are planning on killing). He brings the add over to the main tank and must quickly get up to second in threat on Moroes and remain there while still tanking his add. Within 3 or 4 minutes the two adds should be down and you should be focused on Moroes.

Moroes uses several rogue abilities. He periodically vanishes and puts Garrote on a random member of the raid. This is a powerful bleed effect. It can only be removed by paladin shields, stoneform and ice block. For the most part you just need to heal through this bleed effect. In addition, Moroes uses both Blind and Gouge against the tanks. This is why you need 2 tanks on Moroes, as he will use one of those abilities on the main tank and then go after whoever is second on aggro. Very rarely, he will Gouge the main tank and then Blind the offtank. This is just bad luck and there's nothing that you can really do about it.

If you down the 2 adds and keep the other 2 shackled then there's no reason you shouldn't be able to defeat Moroes. Have your DPS focus on Moroes and once he drops, kill the shackled adds one at a time (they don't despawn). After that, loot that pesky butler and enjoy your epics.