09-17-2009, 11:13 PM
(This post was last modified: 09-17-2009, 11:15 PM by Concillian.)
My experience is only for 10 man, but:
Singed needs to be up 100% of the time.
A corollary to that is that the mage NPCs need to be broken out ASAP, because there is a limited amount of time the debuff will stay up before it needs to be refreshed.
Cluster ranged around fires, this increases the likelihood of ranged getting shaman buff from other ranged. Healers should really not be near fires or melee, as shaman buff on them is bad. They can run to ranged if they need to spread it, but you don't want them to accidentally get it spread to them. The healers should be near one of the ranged clusters, but not too close.
Do what you can to get mages and ele shaman the crit buff, these are your big damage dealers.
Have DPS use pots when they're hasted + shaman buffed. We see people who average 6-8k DPS spike to 25k when they have both buffs. Adding a wild magic or speed pot is a big boost.
Anyway the whole fight is about managing the NPC buffs. It took us one night to learn it (10 man) and every kill since has been 1 or 2 shot of hard mode. The learning night it was wipe after wipe of being at ~20% at three minutes, then we said last pull and people hunkered down and we killed it at 2:54. Next week was 2:20 or something. Once you learn, you learn.
Singed needs to be up 100% of the time.
A corollary to that is that the mage NPCs need to be broken out ASAP, because there is a limited amount of time the debuff will stay up before it needs to be refreshed.
Cluster ranged around fires, this increases the likelihood of ranged getting shaman buff from other ranged. Healers should really not be near fires or melee, as shaman buff on them is bad. They can run to ranged if they need to spread it, but you don't want them to accidentally get it spread to them. The healers should be near one of the ranged clusters, but not too close.
Do what you can to get mages and ele shaman the crit buff, these are your big damage dealers.
Have DPS use pots when they're hasted + shaman buffed. We see people who average 6-8k DPS spike to 25k when they have both buffs. Adding a wild magic or speed pot is a big boost.
Anyway the whole fight is about managing the NPC buffs. It took us one night to learn it (10 man) and every kill since has been 1 or 2 shot of hard mode. The learning night it was wipe after wipe of being at ~20% at three minutes, then we said last pull and people hunkered down and we killed it at 2:54. Next week was 2:20 or something. Once you learn, you learn.
Conc / Concillian -- Vintage player of many games. Deadly leader of the All Pally Team (or was it Death leader?)
Terenas WoW player... while we waited for Diablo III.
And it came... and it went... and I played Hearthstone longer than Diablo III.
Terenas WoW player... while we waited for Diablo III.
And it came... and it went... and I played Hearthstone longer than Diablo III.