Originally Posted by
Deathpony
It should be known that a lot of the video and online guides improperly display the health values in this encounter. Many guides were made during the PTR. Things have changed on live. Most notably is the health values of the mounts at the start, Darkfang and Bloodclaw.
For example. Icy Veins lists their 10m normal values as 12.7M. When in actuality they are 42M. The Dark Shaman health values are also different, being 348M shared health pool on live, while guides often list around 430M.
As a result, my guild went in there last night on this encounter and noticed we had to Lust at the start to burn through the substantially larger health values of the Darkfang and Bloodclaw, which were most certainly NOT 12.7M. This extra health causes the Rend dot they do to be more significant as it stacks up.
The trick the Devs are attempting to do is to get you to aoe burn it all down, and thus pop the 85% phase of the boss while doing so, and thereby trip yourself up. Don't fall for it. Use controlled dps to burn down the mounts, and then aoe the 2nd when it's health is low enough that killing it in this manner will not also trip the bosses to 85%.
Every video guide I've watched so far does not take this change into consideration and considers the mounts 'trivial' and 'quickly burned down'.
This isn't the case.