The Fallen Protectors is the 2nd encounter in the Siege of Orgrimmar raid, and the 2nd encounter in the Vale of Eternal Sorrows LFR.

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General Strategy/Overview

This encounter is a single-phase council style fight, similar to the Conclave of Wind encounter in Cataclysm.  These bosses have their own individual health pool, and must be killed simultaneously/within 15 seconds of each other.  They have a group aura called "Bond of the Golden Lotus" and if any boss reaches 1% health and any remaining boss(es) are still active, they will channel an ability that will restore 30% of their maximum health if completed.  So again, all must die within 15 seconds of each other.

They all each have a shared ability called "Desperate Measure".  When one of them reaches 66% and 33% health, that specific boss will become invulnerable/vanish and spawn 1-3 embodied spirits that need to be killed in order to force the boss to rejoin the fight.

Because of this, there doesnt appear to be any preferred order to kill the bosses as their abilities do not change throughout the fight, and since they all must die simultaneously, it is best to just progressively bring them all down one at a time.  Bring one down to 66%, kill its spirit adds, then bring the next boss to 66%, kill spirit adds etc, and just keep progressively wittling them down.

Rook Stonetoe

Rook's is a Monk/Warrior type boss.  Must be tanked.  His primary abilities are as follows

1. Vengeful Strikes (tank warning) - stuns his current target and deals ~140k phys dmg 2 times/sec for 3 seconds. (6 hits total)
2. Corrupted Brew - Hurls a keg at random targets dealing ~100k shadow damage to anyone within 5 yards and slows them by 65% for 15 sec
3. Clash - targets a random player and forces them to charge him.  Both the affected player and Rook will meet 1/2 way from where they were standing and he will immediately do "Corruption Kick"
   1. Corruption Kick - a spinning crane kick-style ability that deals ~95k phys dmg to targets within 10 yards every sec for 4 seconds, will also apply a DoT dealing 60k shadow dmg every 2 secs for 6 seconds.
4. Desperate Measure - When Rook reaches 66%/33% health, he will go invulnerable/immobile and spawn 3 embodied spirit adds.  Once all 3 adds are killed he will rejoin the fight.
   1. Embodied Sorrow (kill 1st) - casts "Inferno Strike", sending fire spell at a random target and splits damage between all targets within 8 yards
   2. Embodied Gloom (kill 2nd) - casts "Corruption Shock", sends a corrupted lighting shock at random locations, dealing ~120k nature dmg to anyone within 4 yards. IS INTERRUPTABLE!!
   3. Embodied Misery (kill 3rd, should be tanked) - casts "Defiled Ground", smashes the ground, dealing ~275k physical dmg to the current target and knocking them back (should be the tanked).  This will also leave a damaged area on the ground, dealing ~80k shadow dmg every sec to anyone in it.

He Softfoot

He is a rogue style mob, and utilizes bleeds and poisons like any good rogue.  Must be tanked.  His abilities are as follows

1. Garrote (healer warning) - essentially shadowsteps and places Garrote on a random player, deals 64k phys dmg every 2 seconds.  This ability can ONLY be removed once he hits 66%/33% health and enters "Desperate Measure"
2. Gouge (tank warning) - Stuns current target (tank), and will then fixate on a random target until taunted.  If his Gouge target is facing AWAY from him, they will not be stunned, but just knocked back instead.  Tanks should watch DBM timers and turn away when he is about to Gouge you.
3. Master Poisoner - Will randomly apply poison to his weapons
   1. Noxious Poison - causes his melee attacks to spawn poison pools on the ground, dealing ~68k nature dmg every second to players standing in them.  CAN be jumped over.  Will disappear once he enters "Desperate Measures"
   2. Instant Poison - sucessful melee attacks deal ~60k additional nature dmg.
4. Desperate Measure - Will Vanish away and spawn 1 Embodied spirit add at 66% and 33% health.
   1. Embodied Anguish
      1. Mark of Anguish - places this on a random player, causing him to focus that player and deals periodic shadow damage and roots the player in place.  The player marked will receive an extra action button, allowing them to transfer the "Mark" to a different player within 30 yards.  Should ideally be passed to a tank.
      2. Shadow Weakness - debuff applied when he strikes his focused "Mark" target, increasing shadow damage taken by the "Mark of Anguish".  Each time the "Mark" is passed, the ENTIRE raid will gain 1 stack of this.  Try to limit the passing of the "Mark" to prevent high stacks.

Sun Tenderheart

Sun is like a shadow priest, She remains stationary and is not required to be tanked.  Her primary abilities are as follows

1. Sha Sear - Causes an explosion of shadow dmg around her current target, deals increasing shadow dmg to the target every second and to all players within 5 yards of the affected player.
2. Shadow Work: Bane - Places a DoT on multiple targets (2 on 10-man PTR) which deals ~80k shadow dmg every 3 seconds for 18 seconds.  In addition, every time this ability deals damage, it will jump to an additional target, up to a total of 3 times/jumps.  So if you have 2 people affected initially, both will jump after 3 seconds, making 4 affected total, etc.  THIS CAN AND MUST BE DISPELLED.
3. Calamity - Deals 30% of all players maximum health as Shadow dmg.  This will also remove the "Shadow Word: Bane" from players who are still affected by it
4. Desperate Measures - Sun will place a dark shield around her, making her immune at 66% and 33% health.
   1. Dark Meditation (healer warning) - During her DM, she will pulse moderate-high shadow damage to the entire raid until she comes out of DM.  The damage is cut by 50% if players are standing in her dark shield with her.
   2. Manifest Emotions - She will spawn
      1. Embodied Despair and Embodied Desperation adds on either side of her while she is shielded.  These adds constantly spawn miniature adds that run to attack you until the larger ones are killed.  ALL adds (both the large Despair and Desperation, and their spawns) are shielded and will reflect damage back to the player that attacks them.  The 2 large adds must be brought down quickly, but do not kill yourself doing so.

Thats it.  A lot of abilities to cover, but overall should be a relatively uncomplicated fight.

Pick which boss you want to focus and just rotate through them. When one enters its DM, focus down the spirit adds that spawn to break them out of DM and keep rotating.  The big thing is just remembering all of the abilities of the Bosses, their spirit adds, and how to counteract them.