#beth'tilac

[erebus-blackheart]

Beth'tilac – Matriarch of the Cinderweb Brood, Beth'tilac and her merciless offspring sate their appetites by sucking the magma and fire from the corpses of elementals. To provide her broodlings with added sustenance, Beth'tilac has woven a network of incendiary webs throughout her lair to trap unsuspecting prey.

[morynne-blog]

Strategy: Beth'tilac

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Like spiders? No?

Perfect.  This is the encounter for you to release all your pent-up aggression toward the 8-legged critters, though by the end of it, you'll be so sick of them, you might not want to kill another spider. Ever.

Name: Beth'tilac

Raid: Firelands

Tanks Needed: 2

Phases: 2

Catch: Add control and then burn.

This guide is for the normal encounter.

So here's the deal, the way my raid has done it is different than I've seen on most other places.  This might not work for your group. This is a 100-0 strategy.

Phase 1: The Cinderweb

On the pull, Beth'tilac will ascend to her web above.  She will need to be tanked, so you'll need to figure out how to get people up there.  Good thing there's an easy answer.

When the pull happens, you'll get a number of Cinderweb Spinners hanging from above.  Your goal is to get all of the spinners down from their strings.  Anyone can get these guys down with a Taunt style ability.  They have reasonably low health, and can be taken out pretty quick.  Ideally you want to have all of these Spinners down fast because they do some raid damage.

Your Beth'tilac tank will want to immediately take one of the strings up to the top of the web and begin tanking her.  It's important that a healer is close behind, otherwise your tank will die, and you'll likely have to wipe the raid.

Beth'tilac slowly loses Fire Energy over time. Cinderweb Drones also siphon some of her energy when their own energy is depleted. Whenever Beth'tilac runs out of Fire Energy, she will set herself ablaze, causing Smoldering Devastation.

When Smoldering Devastation is about to happen, your tank and healers from the top will need to jump down through the web back to the rest of the raid.

What's everyone else been doing? Why, killing spiders of course!  Your second tank will need to pick up the Cinderweb Drones that spawn (big adds).  Largely they are a tank n' spank situation, but the DPS you have that is good at AOE will need to be killing spiderlings that spawn from 3 different areas around the room.  If the spiderlings reach the Drone, the drone will then consume the spiderlings and regenerate health.  Which is bad.  The spiderlings can be slowed, and have reasonably low amounts of health.

Timing should reflect that the drone dies about the same time Beth'tilac does Smoldering Devistation, and the cycle will repeat itself through a total of 3 Smoldering Devistations.

Note: When the third Smoldering Devistation is about to happen, instead of DPSing the drone, the spiderlings should be everyone's priority because Beth'tilac will also consume them, regenerating health.  The Drone should be close to dead anyway, so it may take just a couple seconds of DPS to get it down.

Phase 2: Really Angry Spider

After the third Smoldering Devistation, Beth'tilac will come down from her web, and it turns into a burn phase.

Here's what she does during this phase:

Frenzy – Beth'tilac periodically casts Frenzy, increasing her damage dealt by 5% until the end of the encounter. This effect stacks.

The Widow's Kiss – Beth'tilac's deadly kiss boils the blood of her current target, reducing the healing dealt to the target by 14 to 22% every 2 seconds for 20 sec. The kiss also causes the target to inflict increasing Fire damage to their surrounding allies within 10 yards. (Tanks only, so they'll need to be spaced apart a bit)

Ember Flare – Beth'tilac emits a blazing heat, inflicting 18500 to 21500 Fire damage to enemies on the same level as Beth'tilac.

Consume – Beth'tilac consumes Cinderweb Spiderlings, healing Beth'tilac for 10% of her maximum health.

So how does the raid deal? Well first off, make sure your drone is down, then group up on one of Beth's back legs. Everyone. Melee, ranged, healers, everyone. Tanks are the only ones that should stay at her face.  DPS your heart out.  Burn your cooldowns, but only burn Heroism when your healers need the extra boost.  Just remember that her damage output increases the longer this phase goes on.

What does a Hunter need to know?

Phase 1: Your job will be to drop ice traps for the tiny spiders and AOE them down.  When there's no tiny spiders, be on the drones.  Don't forget hunters have a taunt for those spinners! Distracting Shot works wonders and drops those guys like a bad habit.

Phase 2: DPS your brains out.  Make sure Rapid Fire is up and ready to roll, have potions to blow, and make sure your rotation is as tight as it can get.  The faster this phase is over, the faster your healers love you again.  Trust me, they hate life at the end.

Hunter Loot from Beth'tilac

Flickering Shoulders (of horrible) - I got these the first time we killed her, and the enchant is less than desireable.  Mastery/Haste, and there's no hunter spec out there that likes both. You might get luckier than me though.

Widow's Kiss - Not ideal again with Mastery/Haste, but certainly an upgrade for the beginning of T12 content.

Still having trouble? Check out Learn to Raid's video.

Good luck!

Original Article

[zanbon]

MM spec for Beth'tilac

http://www.wowhead.com/talent#ccZfRGMGMMubof0M:VzkkVf

What's special about this spec? Assuming you are assigned to a group of Spiderlings, this spec provides maximum amount of add control while taking points in talents that boost DPS and give focus for killing the adds.

1 point in Rapid Killing — extra DPS from your Steady Shot when killing Spiderlings, procs Rapid Recuperation

2 points in Concussive Barrage — additional 4 second slow on Spiderlings

2 points in Rapid Recuperation — instantly gain 50 focus when Rapid Killing procs, that's 2 more Multi Shots you won't need to cast Steady Shots for

2 points in Entrapment [SV tree] — provides a snare to root Spiderlings... don't forget Snake Trap procs this as well!

Glyph of Ice Trap — increases the radius of your trap, ensuring more snares/slows for those rogue adds that don't want to follow the path of everyone else

Your primary focus in this fight is controlling the Spiderlings, not maxing your DPS, so you will want keep that in mind when going in to the fight.

You would think SV would be best for a fight like this where it's all about AOE and add control, but with the MM talent of Bombardment combined with Rapid Killing and Rapid Recuperation, plus the fact that Entrapment is so easily obtainable without being SV, MM is a very strong AOE spec for a fight like Beth.

With this spec, you should be able to solo a set of adds. But don't be afraid to call for help if you need it!

[lfwowplayers-blog]

..cause I couldn't find any elsewhere.  Lemme know what you think, and please reblog if you like it.

[jamhatts-blog]

So the Firelands grind started this week. We're 4/7 so far. Here is our Beth'tilac kill. Will record the others when I'm comfortable enough with the fights to make me lag :3

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