09-17-2009, 07:59 PM
I know some folks on these boards have done this, perhaps even a long time ago, and I wonder if anyone has tips for how to organize the chaos of this fight.
We didn't really dedicate time last night, but as a preview to working on it, we used a tank-in-the-corner strat for the first time. Our tank, a feral druid, tanked in the corner next to the rare cache.
This did a nice job of keeping all of the NPC's within spitting distance of the raid, and it was definitely easier to find them or each other, I admit.
However - what we are debating now is how to make sure that the singed debuff stays up while also prioritizing the highest DPS buffs for our ranged DPS (startlight and storm power).
From the tankspot video on this, they seemed to indicate that starlight was most important for ranged DPS, and that dividing the ranged into two groups that each stood in separate moonlights was an effective way of making sure storm power was utilized. I'm not sure I saw that...often the moonlight we saw wasn't near a fire, and on our kill singed fell off a lot.
I did also like the suggestion of marking the two mages and having each ranged group assigned to break one out, and only breaking them out. This seemed effective and made the NPC's less of a distraction.
Still, and I know it might improve with time, we only had one person breaking 13k DPS, and it was our mage ... who promptly ripped aggro from our feral tank and got killed.
Tips on how to organize the madness of getting buffs while avoiding falling ice and on how to put out high DPS without your tank losing aggro?
We didn't really dedicate time last night, but as a preview to working on it, we used a tank-in-the-corner strat for the first time. Our tank, a feral druid, tanked in the corner next to the rare cache.
This did a nice job of keeping all of the NPC's within spitting distance of the raid, and it was definitely easier to find them or each other, I admit.
However - what we are debating now is how to make sure that the singed debuff stays up while also prioritizing the highest DPS buffs for our ranged DPS (startlight and storm power).
From the tankspot video on this, they seemed to indicate that starlight was most important for ranged DPS, and that dividing the ranged into two groups that each stood in separate moonlights was an effective way of making sure storm power was utilized. I'm not sure I saw that...often the moonlight we saw wasn't near a fire, and on our kill singed fell off a lot.
I did also like the suggestion of marking the two mages and having each ranged group assigned to break one out, and only breaking them out. This seemed effective and made the NPC's less of a distraction.
Still, and I know it might improve with time, we only had one person breaking 13k DPS, and it was our mage ... who promptly ripped aggro from our feral tank and got killed.
Tips on how to organize the madness of getting buffs while avoiding falling ice and on how to put out high DPS without your tank losing aggro?
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