Originally Posted by
T18Z
You have to use an additional boat team, send an extra healer up and 5 DPS. You increase the time it takes for Marak to die by 15-20 seconds, and Marak is really the only thing that going to kill you in the last phase. You also risk having your boat team fail, and the raid wiping.
You spend 16mil damage on the mini boss, meanwhile turrets have 2.2M and if you dps is good enough you'll only really need to kill 1, maybe 2, before Marak is dead. With heroism, potions and cooldowns the first turret dies in like 6 seconds. Going on the boat is the definition of wasted damage.
Penetrating shot, rapid fire and blood ritual are all a joke to avoid (BOP, shadowmeld, feign death, invis, ice block, bubble, spectral guise, vanish yada yada) , and Marak stops attacking while she cast BR too. You'll most likely get 1 cast of each besides blood ritual before Marak is dead. Essentially you are doing the last 20% as normal, except now you've got to spend 6 seconds killing an initial turret and dodge 2-4 fireballs from 30 yards that move at a ridiculously slow speed. During this whole time the range and healers can be stacked in a group in the middle or far away and stack raid CDs, where as with bombs stacking isn't really going to happen.
With Marak dead the last phase becomes a joke. The purpose of not using 3 boats is to maximize damage and kill Marak as soon as possible, because once that's done it's hard to wipe really, with either tactic.