09-17-2009, 09:35 PM
A Feral tank will not be able to hold aggro on Hodir hard mode unless he's in moonbeams. A significant portion of a Bear's threat comes from maul which is impacted by haste. If you want to do a strat where you keep Hodir stationary by the cache you'll need to go with a paladin tank or maybe a warrior with the new devastate.
As far as buff priority, for 10 mans we were finding that singed > crit > haste. keeping all ranged in the fires allowed us to get the singed debuff up much quicker and make sure that it never falls off. As you noted, you won't always find moonbeams near fires and the time the range need to move to keep the stacking debuff off will negate some of the haste effect. This isn't as important in 25 man where you'll have more ranged to apply/keep up singed. If you're finding that singed drops off at all during the fight you'll want to move more people into the fire to make sure the debuff stays up all the time.
We also found that stacking all ranged in the fires would allow them to get the crit buff more quickly and more often. We beat the hard mode timer by 40 seconds last time we killed Hodir using this strat.
PS
As far as buff priority, for 10 mans we were finding that singed > crit > haste. keeping all ranged in the fires allowed us to get the singed debuff up much quicker and make sure that it never falls off. As you noted, you won't always find moonbeams near fires and the time the range need to move to keep the stacking debuff off will negate some of the haste effect. This isn't as important in 25 man where you'll have more ranged to apply/keep up singed. If you're finding that singed drops off at all during the fight you'll want to move more people into the fire to make sure the debuff stays up all the time.
We also found that stacking all ranged in the fires would allow them to get the crit buff more quickly and more often. We beat the hard mode timer by 40 seconds last time we killed Hodir using this strat.
PS