Ragnaros Strategies & Tactics

[nobbie]

So, we've had quite a few more or less good attempts on the Firelord Ragnaros during the last weeks with our Horde raid. The raid has enough good gear for a first kill, and neither fire resistance nor potions are a problem. We can take down Ragnaros pre-sons to about 40% of his hitpoints, which should be enough to take him down after the sons phase is over.

The problem is basically the sons phase, which conists of 3 phases:

- incoming sons
- fighting the sons
- Ragnaros emerges again

During these phases we just lose too much people and mana (mana-burn from the sons), mainly because either the tanks/rogues lose aggro of the sons, the sons come out too quick from a warlock ban, or frost novas fail too often to keep the sons at bay (-> mana-burn). The result is basically a chaotic situation where the sons can fire-damage and mana-burn the raid like hell.

So, what does your raid do exactly during the 3 sons phases? How do you keep the sons at bay and the chaos under control? Is it just practicing, or is there a proven "fool-proof" method to make these 3 sons phases as painless as possible, so that about 80% of the raid still stands with enough mana post-sons to finallly take Ragnaros down?

If anyone here could post or link to a detailed guide, I'd be very grateful :)