I dislike this part of Karazhan. The Curator himself is not particularly hard, but the mobs before him are a bunch of mana-draining bastards and some of the mobs after him are immune to magical damage.
The Curator himself is a Gear check for the entire raid. He hits hard-ish (about 3-4k on plate), but he shouldn't present any real problem to a decently-geared tank.
There are a few wrinkles to the fight:
Hateful Bolts: He will regularly hit the second on the Aggro list with a Hateful Bolt which does 4.5k-6k Arcane Damage. We normally have either a Warlock, Shadow Priest or Melee offtank fighting for second place on the aggro list. Arcane Resistance gear will help the Bolt tank, but isn't really necessary if they have a decent amount of health.
Arcane Flares: These will spawn every 20 seconds and randomly target a member of the raid and move towards them doing arcane AoE damage along the way. They have 12k health must be dealt with as soon as they spawn, and I'd reccomend the DPS classes with the highest burst damage focus on them.
Evocation: Every 90 seconds, he'll Evocate for 20 seconds. During this time he won't attack, but will do take triple damage from any attacks.
If you're in the early stages of gearing up for Kara, then you'll need most of your DPS (except for the Bolt Tank) focussing on the Flares to make sure they go down fast. We also found having a Shadow Priest for the Healers was invaluable since this is a pretty mana-intensive fight.
Handling the adds quickly is the first priority and then hitting him is the second. Have your DPS finish off whatever add is up and then burn him down asap. Blowing cooldowns during evocations is heartily reccomended.
A group starting on him will usually kill him in 4-5 Evocations, whilst an overpowered group will only need one. As your group gears up,you'll be able to have all the less burst-intensive DPS (Rogues, Shadow Priests, Affliction Warlocks, Hunter pets etc) stay on the boss whilst Mages, Hunters, Arms Warriors and Shamans kill the adds.
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Agreed that the trash is just annoying.
The boss himself is pretty straight forward as you have said and is a big DPS check :)
Couple of things, any warlocks you have in the group should throw a Curse of Doom onto Curator about 50- 55 seconds before EVO so it pops when hes vunrable. We also keep our shadowpriest on curator all the time, this is to take the hurtful bolts and keep the shadowdmg debuff on him to help wiht the CoD's (Last run our lock got a 32K CoD and 22K shadow bolt!)
These days we have a couple of Melee DPSers and maybe a Mage or a Hunter on flares and all the single-target DoT casters on the boss.
In the beginning we had all the spare DPS we could manage on the flares since we needed to get them down.
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