09-17-2009, 10:23 PM
As you pointed out the singed debuff is pretty much required. What we do is dedicate 1 or 2 hunters to be full time on the boss. Their job is to keep this debuff up, if it falls off they have to answer for it.
Second is its your elemental dps that kills this boss, especially mages. One of our mages is one of those crazy people that consistently pulls at least 18k dps on this fight (I've seen him as high as 24k). How he manages this is whoever gets the crit buff is required to run to the ranged casters and spread it to them FIRST. ALso he hops around in the light beams (duh).
Make sure your melee, and whoever else you have assigned to it, is breaking out flash freeze. Review recount and question people who have low damage numbers on flash freeze because they are probably just being lazy. Put raid targets on the actual npcs (there is a macro you can copy paste for this somewhere) and assign people to break those out if its necessary.
There is also a mod that keeps track of the time to kill the boss (I forget what it is called at just this moment) use that to make sure you are on track. Don't cut it close if you are more than 15 seconds off and he is getting close to death call a wipe. We have lost quite a few hard modes simply because we were a second or 2 off our dps.
BTW on an off topic thing I like firefox but I just fell in love with it. I had this all typed out and the power went off just before I could hit "add reply". Seeing it still there when I loaded firefox back up makes me rather happy. :lol:
Second is its your elemental dps that kills this boss, especially mages. One of our mages is one of those crazy people that consistently pulls at least 18k dps on this fight (I've seen him as high as 24k). How he manages this is whoever gets the crit buff is required to run to the ranged casters and spread it to them FIRST. ALso he hops around in the light beams (duh).
Make sure your melee, and whoever else you have assigned to it, is breaking out flash freeze. Review recount and question people who have low damage numbers on flash freeze because they are probably just being lazy. Put raid targets on the actual npcs (there is a macro you can copy paste for this somewhere) and assign people to break those out if its necessary.
There is also a mod that keeps track of the time to kill the boss (I forget what it is called at just this moment) use that to make sure you are on track. Don't cut it close if you are more than 15 seconds off and he is getting close to death call a wipe. We have lost quite a few hard modes simply because we were a second or 2 off our dps.
BTW on an off topic thing I like firefox but I just fell in love with it. I had this all typed out and the power went off just before I could hit "add reply". Seeing it still there when I loaded firefox back up makes me rather happy. :lol: