Filikul

Filikul
Level:	58
Size:	12-person Raid
Cluster:	Mines of Moria
Region:	Moria
Area:	The Water-works
Location:	[16.4S, 113.7W]

"Hasta went forth to discover the meaning of the strange happenings which occurred but weeks before. He has not returned, and his companions are becoming worried that something may have happened to him...."

Description

Filikul is level 58 12-person raid instance accessible via the Instance Finder. This raid is colloquially referred to as the "Turtle raid" or simply "Turtle". It consists of a single boss fight with no additional mobs. Of all of the Moria raids, this is historically considered the easiest.

The actual entrance to Filikul is in the Water-works in Moria through a door at Gabil-munz ^{[16.4S, 113.7W]}.

Raid Locks

This raid has a raid lock which resets daily at 6:00 a.m. server time.

Bosses

Level	Name	Difficulty	Species	Dread	Morale
60	Nornúan	Arch-nemesis	Dread Turtle	0	17,420,480

General Raid Preparation

• Most of the damage in this fight is Acid which is Tactical Damage. Therefore characters should focus on increasing their Tactical Mitigation as much as possible (preferably at maximum), which can be accomplished with gear, Virtues such as Fidelity, Tolerance, and Honour, and with Scrolls of Supreme Warding Lore.
• Cooked Food, Fortifying Food, and Trail Food all provide beneficial buffs to in-Combat Morale/Power Regen, Resistance Rating, and other stats.
• Because of the high amount of raid-wide damage in this fight, all characters should bring a variety of Morale potions.

Walkthrough

Spoiler Alert

Preparation Two tanks are required for this raid for boss positioning and to tank swap his tiering DOT. The raid should also include two or more healers (since there is a lot of raid-wide outgoing damage throughout the fight) and a lot of DPS, since the quicker Nornúan is defeated the easier the fight is. Support classes that increase incoming damage to Nornúan are also very helpful. Starting the Fight While Nornúan is pathing around the main room, the raid should group up outside the gate to the room. Once the encounter starts, everyone will be in combat and the gate will close after about ten seconds. Therefore the entire raid should run in together to avoid anyone getting locked out. Once the gate is closed, the fight cannot be reset without all raid members being defeated. Alternately, one raid member can run into the room and quickly run out as soon as they get in combat but before the gate closes. This will cause Nornúan to reset and despawn for one minute, giving the raid time to enter the room and position themselves appropriately before he respawns. Nornúan has frontal AOE attacks, so the tank should turn him around so he is facing away from the rest of the raid. Fighting Nornúan This entire fight is in essence one long burn phase. Nornúan has two abilities which damage the tank and the entire raid and tier up over time, and the higher they tier up, the harder it will be to defeat Nornúan without wiping.  Profuse Bleeding The beast snaps out at (character)'s flesh! Acid DOT applied to the character with Nornúan's aggro (should always be the tank) that lasts 50 seconds and tiers up every 23 seconds. This DOT is very damaging at high tiers, so the second tank should take aggro (tank swap) from the first tank as soon as they reach tier 2 of this effect (2,187 damage). The first tank then should take back aggro as soon as their Profuse Bleeding DOT has expired, and then the second tank takes aggro once their DOT has expired, and so on.  Gushing Wound The beast roars in anger, then sends spines from its shell about the room! or The beast shakes its shell violently, spraying spines everywhere! Acid DOT applied to all raid members that tiers up every 65 seconds. This DOT is very damaging at high tiers and will lead to the raid wiping if Nornúan is not defeated quickly. Once the DOT reaches its maximum tier (9) about 10 minutes into the fight, it is exceedingly difficult (virtually impossible) to keep from wiping. DPS should use offensive cooldowns right away at the beginning of the fight, focusing on anything that increases their outgoing damage or increases Nornúan's incoming damage. Because Nornúan has so much Morale, DPS will likely have multiple opportunies to use offensive cooldowns. The goal should be maximum DPS output at all times such that Nornúan is defeated before the Gushing Wound DOT tiers up higher than the healers can cope with. Once the Gushing Wound DOT has tiered up to tier 3 or 4, everyone in the raid will be taking significant damage, and therefore all raid members should use defensive cooldowns as needed to ease the burden on the healers. Also since this is a long fight, Power management will be crucial and characters may need to use Power-granting skills or Power potions.

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