You need a couple of things:
Patience: Its going to take a while. Our first kill took us 14 minutes and 52 seconds, our second was around 11 minutes something.
Stamina: You need enough health to survive the full Embrace of the Vampyr as its highly unlikely either of you will have enough dps to break it early. I recommend wearing some pvp/high stamina gear. With commanding shout I was sitting at 18,500 ish which with a PW:shield left me around the 2-3k mark after the embrace, perfectly survivable. However, the more health the better.
Tactics: The Prince is a very simple fight, he only has 3 abilities, 2 of which are fight defining and 1 which is marginally annoying when you aren't carrying any Dpsers.
Embrace of the Vampyr = the reason why you need lots and lots of stamina. You basically have to rely on the fact that you will resist some of the damage with shadow protection.
Flame Sphere = As usual, fire = bad. Run away from these.
Bloodthirst = Annoying when your dps is a prot warrior and a holy priest throwing out dots and wanding.
Kiting is the name of the game. On our first kill we went for pulling him to the entrance and back, however today we tried a more simplistic and time saving plan involving just sticking to the space below his platform.
Starting from his platform, at the first fire orbs we headed down the steps, tanked him there for a bit before moving in the centre of the room to avoid the 2nd set of orbs and finally heading towards the steps where we entered his area. Its then a case of repeat, repeat, repeat for the next 10 minutes, interspaced with a few embraces ( we have had 3 embraces each time so far which given the fact we shaved a good few minutes off our kill time leads me to suspect it is percentage linked, not time based).
As the healer you want to always stay a good 30 yards away from the tank, which saves you having to do any emergency running and helps the tank leave in a hurry with intervene if needed. Whilst neither of you should get hit by any orbs, prayer of mending is its usual awesome self for running away.
The Embrace of the Vampyr is random so you can get lucky with your tank getting it every single time as we did today, but as long as you keep both of you at as maximium health as possible and shield whenever you see him start his warning speech there should be no issue there. The embrace is partially resistable so shadow protection should be up, and if its the tank who gets it, start casting a greater heal to land just after the embrace with its 100 percent healing debuff runs out to make sure the Prince's melee attacks don't finish him/her off.
All in all, its a very easy fight. Because you are kiting for a most of it, mana shouldn't be an issue, you get plenty of time outside the five second rule. This is particularly true of the Embrace periods, thats my time to wand or lie there thinking of trashy Vampire movies depending on whether I'm the one on the floor or not.
Result: One easily achieved Achievement.
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Having had a horrible time on this boss with a party of 5 only 2 days ago I am, once again, amazed at your achievements. Fantastic - you continue to inspire Barkie and me.
Its like the Nexus, less people in the party means less people taking damage, dancing in flames and so on.
The last boss in here is also easier with less people, 2 manning means only one shade to kill which really helps when your Nab tank fails to repair and has to tank duel wielding.
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