Molten Core, Lurker Style!

[Arethor]

We never got close to the end of the battle.  The point of my question was this:  What happens if most or all of the magi go OOM and then the lords pop another set of spawn?  All damage dealers need to be sure they are focusing on the spawns, when present, but will that be enough to take them down before they split without blizzard?
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If we have enough mages we could try rotating blizzard casting so the sets of mages can regen some mana. Also limiting blizzard casting to when spawns pop. Not having a mage high enough, i'm not sure whether this will make a difference or not, but just thoughts off the top of my head.


Here are my thoughts about Warlocks in MC in response to some comments that were made and also my own experience.

I am a SoulStone dispenser and Imp Totem ™ placer. I'm also good at putting Curse of Elements on the mobs so blizzards make them ouch more. Warlock AoE is useless as it is all Fire based.

The only thing i can really contribute that seems to make a difference is Corruption/Shadowbolt and hoping for a bunch of Nightfall procs, but this would also sap my mana causing me to have to Lifetap or sit idle shooting my Fire wand.

One thing that might be worth trying that might make another warlock useful. I tried banishing the Firelord on our first double pull, no dice. It was immune. However, I never tried banishing the spawns. Next time in it might be useful for me to try a banish on a spawn so we have some sort of CC going on and we can focus on one spawn and the 2 firelords.

All in all, great time even though we didn't get far. We seemed more effective with our 35 man group than the 40 man. I'd love to go in again sometime soon and give it another shot, because I believe we can all do it if we all follow the suggested strategies of the leaders. When this happened we tightened up and got one firelord down to about 55% and the other down to around 75% Not exactly a phenomenal result, but much better than where we were and with some more refinement of strategy we should be able to handle a double pull.

The Double MT/MA bunching for Blizzard combination sounds like the most viable strategy to me. On our last pull when we split the assisting we controlled the spawns pretty well for a while, probably until we all started focusing on one again. I suggest 2 or 3 squads. 1 squad for each lava spawn and possibly a third to continue some DPS on the Firelords. It's great to control outbreaks of spawns, but if we're not doing something to take down the firelords other than the tanks that are holding them, they're gonna keep spawning. It's something that I think can only be answered by more trial runs. The AoE from Blizzard on the spawns might be substantial enough to make a 3rd squad uneccessary.