03-22-2006, 07:38 PM
MongoJerry,Mar 22 2006, 12:41 PM Wrote:It's not a matter of opinion. This is an absolute fact. Ragnaros grenades only mana users. Now, if your guild has found a position that allows shadow priests to deal damage without being in grenade range of your melee dps, then that's fine. But whatever you do, you don't want those shadow priests to be within grenade range of your melee dps. Otherwise, you end up with all your precious melee dps flying off into the lava, greatly decreasing your overall dps.
It's funny to me that your emphasis is so much on shadow priests. I'm a shadow priest, but our guild has our shadow priests focus on healing rather than dealing damage in this fight. It seems far more important to make sure that the melee dps stays alive and as much as I like vamp embrace, it alone isn't going to cut it. It'd be far more important for priests to conserve their mana for healing in case something goes wrong. If you have a significant number of warlocks in your raid, then I could see assigning one shadow priest to make sure Shadow Weaving is pumped up, but otherwise all priests ought to focus on healing rather than on dealing damage -- unless you have some wierd raid setup where you have an overload of priests.
No, what usually happens is that the main tank gets punted and some members of the melee dps stay in melee range.
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You are probably familiar with the tiny lip of rock where the rogues can go to be safe from any damage of that minor AoE knockback that Ragnaros does. Just across the lava from that, there's a spot that juts up, along where the ranged DPS should be standing. Most of the time, this is where melee DPS goes to hop across to their spot. If you have a shadow priest standing here, he can hit the entire group with VE. I might have a little more +dmg gear than most shadow priests, but this easily handles almost 75% of any damage they do. This, with the melee healer tossing a renew on them, will easily keep them topped through the whole fight. One of our locks on Stormrage takes him down every time now, and almost every time, I'm in a rogue group VEing them to full. DPS is really the key to ragnaros, because he will eventually wear down any raid who can't throw the requisite amount of force at him quickly enough.