Boss Status: Farm
Setup: There are two distinct phases to this fight, and it is one of the hardest encounters to date in ZG for us. The coordination has to be superb and everyone MUST be paying attention at all times. To start the fight there are 3 priests and 2 elite tigers on the altar. Each priest will be tanked by a separate warrior and the tigers will be killed immediately to start the battle (they go down quickly). The MT will grab Thekal and tank him in front of his alter. The OT will grab Zath and tank him to the back left of the MT. The other warrior will grab Lohr'khan and tank her to the back right of the MT. Lohr'khan heals often so keep 2 rogues along with the warrior on her at all times to interupt, one heal and you have to reset.
Phase 1: The order of DPS goes like this: Zath>Thekal>Lohr'khan. You must take Zath down to 20% after killing the tiger adds, then move on to Thekal and bring him to 15%. By this time the rogues should have Lohr'khan down to 10-20% if they're doing well and interupting her heals. Once Thekal is at 15% bring all of the priests to the middle and AoE them like crazy. Keep an eye on their health and don't kill one too fast for they resurrect one another if they are not killed within 10 seconds of one another. This is the hardest part of this encounter. You MUST coordinate and kill them all within 10 seconds of one another or they will resurrect with full health and you have to reset. All of what needs to happen will be spammed in /rw or /s so keep an eye on your surroundings for further instructions if you're lost.
Phase 2: Assuming all went well in phase 1 and you got them all down within 10 seconds of one another, phase 2 shouldn't be as much of a problem. IMMEDIATELY after killing the last priest you MUST move up to the bottle neck that leads to the altar Thekal and his priests started on. Thekal will repop in Tiger form with 100% health after about 5-6 seconds so move FAST. Let the MT grab agro on Thekal and just beat away on him after that. He has some sick damage and random charges all over the place, so don't grab too much agro and keep steady DPS going. During this phase he spawns lots of tiger adds (up to 6 I believe). They must be crowd controlled (CC'd) in some way. All the mages can sheep the adds and the warriors/warlocks/priests need to take turns fearing them to get them off of the group (primarily they will be going for the casters). This is essential because with 20 people up and with decent mana remaining Thekal will drop very very fast in Tiger form. His armor and HPs are both low so we can DPS him like crazy.
That is the basic strategy to the Thekal fight, it's a lot to grasp; however, once you've seen the encounter it's not one that you'll likely be soon to forget.
