Terenas Friday 4/14

[Concillian]

I suppose the amount of blasting is one of the things we're trying to gauge -- is waiting for a moment for tank aggro too much?  Perhaps.  Same with shackling -- might be better to heal through the extra damage taken and take those seconds for more drinking.  Perhaps a late shackle (would require coordination to keep it from being broken).
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Well it's the kind of thing we can practice a bit before opening by doing some pulls looking for hearthsinger. Or we can do a few pulls in for practice and reset

I expect that no shackle will be fine most of the time. Yuri, Fazuul and Octord all have pretty solid FF DPS. I will have to find the line of aggro on the mobs so they release for Yuri right before they die. This will allow the quickest progression, especially keeping your mana pool up. Like Sir_die suggests, it's probably best to heal people up for the next pull, then sit and drink to keep us going.

Fazuul should really only pull with moonfire when the gargs are up. He will be doing a lot of shifting back and forth otherwise, and that can chew up mana faster than it regens on quick pulls. CoA pulls or counterspell pulls to get things into charge range are another option aside from moonfire. Banshees and gargs like to stay in one place and cast sometimes, and that can get you into trouble in the very beginning when things are congested, so counterspell pulls on those guys can be a good thing.

The necro / shadowcaster pulls should probably be default caster tanked or AoEd. Fazuul and I can FF the skillies down real quick, and the casters do almost the same damage to our casters as to a tank. In the time it takes to LOS them to a safe tanking / CC location, the casters can have them half dead even if they decide they don't want to move... The primary cases where we have to pull the big humanoid pulls are right before bosses anyway, which is conducive for tank engaging while casters drink a little at the start of the pull anyway.