Hey Hamanis!
No lock, and no furball.
What we do, on the fire phase, is the ranged and heals take up 7 positions in an arc, around what I call the grey basketball key. It fits nicely around a big circle where we pull the fire dog. Anyway, we rotate 3 stacking groups, for the fire dog, and get through that without much problem, like you mentioned.
We've only hit this 2nd phase, and only twice did we get to a 2nd wind storm. As melee dps, I'm not 100% sure what the ranged and heals are doing, exactly, once the lightning dog comes out. I know there was discussion about spreading out, so as to minimize the arcing lightning, but Codilla put forth the theory that if one person has arcing lightning (even after having been pulled out), then we all get it, due to proximity, once we all get sucked into the wind storm. I'm not sure that's correct, but I can't refute it, either.
So, it sounds like you're saying that yes, we can completely dispel the arcing lightning, so that nobody has it, going into the wind storm? Or, does it look like we're just not "un-clumping" quickly enough, after we're sucked into the wind storm?
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Heh. Our guild is lucky to have 10 ppl get together consistently, for each week's raid group. I'd love to have all of the buffs and debuffs, but it's not something that we could simply snap our fingers and make happen. Plus, we've been together a while, and we'd rather have our progression suffer, than force a friend to sit, just because of their class buffs. Hence, we have a MM hunter as a main raider. (Need I say more?)
That being said, I'm bringing the attack speed, and one of the hunters is typically tasked with a battle res (since our only other brez is a tank, who can't run to range) and the other with either spell haste, or some other damn thing I can't remember. I've pushed before, for the physical vulnerability and spell damage taken, but our GM would prefer to organize a comp around the assumption that at some point, somebody has to die and get brez'd. I'd rather give them hell, until they don't die.
But why do you say, that in a non-cheesy mode of doing it, that you heal up and
don't run to the end right away? There's that 80% healing/absorb reduction, after all.