Originally Posted by
Squirl
a) Follow ShC (auto-optimize is NOT OPTIMAL, btw) or just stay mastery. Haste vs Mastery is discussed in a number of threads.
b) MfD for sure. If you're not noticing a difference, you're using it wrong.
c) Rupture everything. Hold cooldowns for between doors unless you
really need it on one of the doors. I don't think I use FoK at all.
d) Maybe one:
Code:
#showtooltip
/tar Direhorn Spirit
/cast Throw
/targetlasttarget
/startattack
but it's better just to kite the add in circles.
MfD is more of a personal preference. It's good for the gates, but it feels to gimp the DPS during burn by a significant margin. If MfD feels better, go ahead and use it but it's definately not necessary. I did use MfD for the early progress on Horridon but had anticipation for our first kill and every kill since then.
I tend to use FoK a few times during the fight. This is not because of personal DPS, but to boost our casters damage. Our lock could fill the task but I find it easier to do by myself and I guess it's less DPS lost for me than the lock. Depends a lot on the situation though and that being said, at most I do use FoK just a few times at most.
The macro you provided I would consider as mandatory, it really simplifies the burn phase and thus gives more time to focus on dealing damage. What I'm used to do with the macro is to hit it twice after spending a couple of global cooldowns (all depending on how close to add might be, of course), hitting the macro twice and spending a few globals again. After doing this for the time that Jalak is present, direhorn spirit should be quite far and you don't need to push the spirit away that often.
I do have a slightly different macro though, to avoid having separate macros for horridon and tortos. Works wonders.
Code:
#showtooltip Throw
/cleartarget
/tar Direhorn Spirit
/tar Humming Crystal
/cast Throw
/targetlasttarget
/startattack
I wish the best of luck for OP and everyone else progressing. :-)