Refining Ragnaros Strategies

[MongoJerry]

It's funny how you keep trying to deny what we do every week.  Genkar is the majority of our healing, and I'm damn sure a Rogue hasn't died without pulling aggro in over a month and a half.

There's no need to get testy. No one's denying that you are doing it, but I am trying to understand how you are getting it to work. I've been killing Ragnaros since May of last year and have been playing shadow spec'd for six months. I do know my subject material, and I have concerns about suggesting this strategy as a general rule for other guilds attempting Ragnaros.

Different people do it different ways, *and* we have all the healers we need. No shortage. So, if the rogues need a little boost, there's excess healing capacity to take care of them.

Aha, that seems to be the secret. So, it's not a function of shadow priests being a fantastic source of healing. What it is is that your runs have an excessive amount of healers in them, so you can afford to have some of your priests go shadow and deal damage. That's fine. I mentioned that above as a possibility. However, most guilds have the opposite problem -- they're usually short on healers. In that case, you don't want to waste a priest's mana dealing damage when that priest should be keeping people up and reserving mana for emergencies.

I'm still curious about your positioning. There's no way with the orientation our guild uses that you could do it. Mind Flay has too short of range to hit Ragnaros from the outer ring, and you definitely wouldn't want a shadow priest to be up with the melee dps, getting them grenaded. I suspect that you use a mirror image of our setup, which is interesting to me, because we've found our setup to be the least chaotic for main tanks and main tank healers. Oh, well, it just goes to show that everyone has their special style.