Molten Core, Lurker Style!

[Onan]

That's accurate.  On the occasions I stayed up and was able to grab aggro in the first place, I was having no trouble retaining aggro on the firelords with blizzard raining down.  In addition, my observation -- and that of the healers as well -- was that the firelords themselves weren't doing a tremendous amount of damage to the tanks beyond their initial onslaught.  They didn't have to start pouring on the heals until spawns started nailing us with AoE.

This, by the way, jibes with how things work in any old instance: if the tank grabs aggro on one mob in an AoE situation, the tank is going to hold it while AoE comes down.  Casters don't die because of the mob the tank has locked down, but because of the (x) others the tank can't cycle taunts on rapidly enough.

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I was there as my Main (lvl 60 Priest).

My take on the raid was that is was a frustrating, good time. I enjoyed the run. The last pull of pull 3 seemed to go much better than the other attempts. I was among the first to go down in that pull, and it was a spawn that got me. The MT's were not hard to keep up, once we sorted out the LoS issues. Really the spawns were the issue.

More AoE? That seems most reasonable, blizzard was really effective. I think perhaps assigning some of the heals to the AoE'rs might have gone a long way to keep them alive, especially since the MTs were not that hard to keep up. We had a lot of healers, probably too many, so assigning a few to that task should have been pretty simple. I also think that the direct DPS classes should have been instructed to ignore the spawns. Not once did we even really dent a firelord, as were trying to get rid of the never ending spawns.

Just kill one at any cost? I don't think we could have blasted one of the firelords to death even expecting a wipe. Again too many healers in the mix for that. The mass silence would have have made that almost impossible.