Onyxia Postmortem

[Arethor]

On thing I would like to add concerning Warlocks in Phase 2...having Warlocks on Whelp duty is a bad idea.  Of all the classes in the game, we have the most DoTs available.  Between my talent build and Arethor's talent build, we could have singlehandely put 6 of the 8 debuff slots on her between Corruption, Siphon Life, and a Curse (this can net around 300 to 400 DPS per Warlock).  Of all classes, we're best left to keeping the damage up on Onyxia (hell, our SBs hit like a ton of bricks with CoS up on her with potential crits in the mid to high 2000s).  Looking at the Damage trackers alone shows just how much damage me and Arethor were putting out last night.
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Unfortunately i was still of the mindset that clumpin=deep breath. Now that i know that's a myth I'll run around to keep my DoTs up more. I let them fall off too many times during our attempts. My shadowbolt crits with CoS only reach maybe 2000 with my current build. I've been planning on a respec, but with the possibility of the free respec from the patch anytime soon I've been putting it off. Common crits for me are around 1700-1800.

Thoughts for the future:

Phase one: My imp totem for Darian seemed to be a very good plan. I'll continue to run alongside the dragon as he's pulling her to the wall and drop my totem (no wonder i'm enjoying my shammy)

Phase two: As stated, I'll be more mobile, keeping DoTs up and spamming Shadowbolts. Lifetap+Bandage ftw!! I'll also be sure to stock up on more healing pots.

Phase three: Get on the ledge and when the DPS call goes out, cook the lizard with Shadowbolts at a sporadic rate.

Other thoughts:
As Lissa stated between 2 Corruptions (Useful for instacast Shadowbolt procs), 2 Siphon Lifes (So we can keep lifetapping and regening health), CoS and CoE, it might make sense to not have all priests spamming SW:P. Just a thought, but maybe have the priests in the warlock groups (who aren't in a whelp group) responsible for keeping SW:P up. That way we're never bumping off one of the DoTs that help to raise DPS or allow the Warlocks to spam Shadowbolts. It would also conserve priests' mana for healing as only 2 of the priests are ever casting SW:P