Noobing Molten Core

[MongoJerry]

We will try him tommorow using your suggestions on tremor totems and "stance dancing". Hopefully he will fall quickly and we can procede to Gehennas on the same evening.

Any hints on the best strategy to tackle this particular beast (Gehennas), before we go off on our noobish rampage through the Molten Core?  ;)

Gehennas casts curses and has two guards. Basically, he's Luciferon but just a little tougher. Like Luciferon, it's best to tank the boss and pull the guards well away from him so that dps players won't get cursed or damaged while killing the guards. After the guards are dead (which takes very little time), everyone settles in for a long but not terribly difficult fight against the boss. The main thing is to remove his curses and to tell people that if they're getting hit by his rain of fire to move out of the way of it.

As far as tanking and healing rotations go, we use a probably more elaborate system than is necessary, but it works. We set up two groups of healers. Each group has three priests and a druid in it. The three priests heal in a rotation among themselves. The priest who is healing heals the main tank at range while the other two priests stay back out of range so they don't get cursed or hit with rain of fire. The druid's job is exclusively to remove curses and to heal the priests in the rotation. Alternatively, a mage and a shaman can be used for the same role (mage to remove curses and shaman to heal the priests).

Everyone else does their normal thing. Obviously, two warriors will be needed to temporarily tank the two guards and the other healers in the party should make sure to heal them. After the guards are dead, everyone attacks the boss and the healers not in the main healing rotation heal their own parties and maybe throw random heals on the main tank. I imagine that some mages should be assigned to remove curses on everyone but come to think of it I don't recall that ever happening in our raids. It's possible that people just know to do that on their own, though, after raiding Molten Core so much.