I healed Nefarian last night, and as you may know before the boss lands the raid rougly splits in two to kill the adds. Now, as a healer, I position myself in the middle to be able to heal both groups.
Last night, Nefarian came next to me in human form and meleed me down (physical damage). I’ve never seen this before, is this normal? Most guides seem to focus only about the class calls and stuff, so I couldn’t find any info about this yet.
Just trying to improve for next time, any info is appreciated.
Thanks for your question. Yes I was wearing the cloak! The reason I ask is because Neferian meleed me (cloak doesn’t help against melee as far as I know) in some sort of human shadow priest form.
Hmm thanks for your reply. I am considering not standing in the middle again (or is the position variable as well) to avoid getting meleed. It was a couple of successive hits (like 1k+ followed by a 2-3k hit) so on my healers hp I am killed pretty quickly.
Lol, never heard of it. Do you have logs? It would show - maybe he just shadowbolted you. It’s a very small damage and is usually LoSed but can be healed through as well.
I think usually raids simply assign some healers (and DPS and tanks) to each side.
He teleports around and casts shadow bolts on random player, I’m guessing if he targets you and you get to close he melees you. Just get out of melee range
I remember being hit in melee 15 years ago also. In regards to whom he’s targeting, I’m not sure if this is totally random. A couple of weeks ago he was targeting me throughout P1 with his shadow bolts, and only me. Not sure if putting up shadow ward had an influence on that or if he targets the one with the highest resistances. Not sure, but I’m pretty regularly on his aggro-table in P1 for some reason.
Didn’t have logs, but the ingame combat log tab of the chat panel told me that it was physical damage. Not sure anymore if it even said melee, but pretty sure it said physical damage.
Since Nefarian is untauntable you probably got aggro from healing, the best course of action to avoid that is having your tanks be ready to hit him asap as he lands while you simply stop healing/casting/buffing/shielding in order to let them grab aggro.
He did something similar to me once. After I used self ress as shaman (I got ganked by a MC player) he started to cast all shadow bolts on me and then killed me in melee while being invisible just before phase 2 started.