We got about an hour in on mythic Archimonde and were only able to get to 70% - we were not quite prepared for soaking fires to be so insane J I have some questions to help guide our progression in the right direction, and would love for any advice on these or any other tips/suggestions you have for us.
We are 2 tanks (bear and warrior), 4 healers (disc, MWer, resto sham, resto druid – are trying to recruit a hpally). Regular spread of DPS, important to note are 3 hunters, 2 DKs, 2 mages. We are currently following the Big Dumb Guild start – fires on left and right of raid, pillars dropped diagonally from back of room to front of room, then bouncing from front to back of room to handle shackles).
Logs: https://www.warcraftlogs.com/reports/TnQz3JbL28ZNfRMj/
QUESTIONS
1) What should we be aiming for in terms of # of doomfire spirits? Our DPS killed Manno with only 3 doomlords, but we are really struggling to phase him before the 4th doomfire…. I think one problem might be our soakers were originally hunters, leading to next question…
2) What is the best strat for soaking fires? I think what I want to swap to is first soaker disc, second soaker off tank (can someone explain what this means – does one tank have both boss and brand add, is that okay?), third is hunters rotating so they can use two deterrence per soak. Dedicated healer on the hunters, disc on himself, tank handle himself?
3) Related to soaking, I know the soakers really need to get their golden orb debuff from the broken pillar or else the fire + shadow damage is too much. I read that they should hit golden orb, absorb fires (at ~10 seconds til allure?), grab another golden orb, then poop their fire. Is that true? Previously we were having them get gold orbs, at the appropriate time get fire, then poop fire, then come back for another orb – I think that meant they were getting nuked by shadow+fire… is that a valid assessment?
4) Does everyone need the golden orb, or should only the soakers and tanks worry about it? I’m concerned people will take all the golden orbs leaving the soakers with nothing. I know in theory everyone will come in and hit the same orb, but that is proving challenging given we need to immediately spread out for the next doomfire.
5) Our plan for chains – Chain 1, all move to back of room. Chain 2, hold until after wrought chaos, then move to front of room. Chain 3, all move to back of room. Etc etc…. is this the best/easiest strat? We are in no rush to push DPS in this phase so I want to do the safest/easiest strat for progression.
6)Holy moly what is the best way to handle wrought chaos? Any super awesome video guides? Do you suggest using exorsus, DBM, weak aura? I have read all sorts of different methods, what is the best way to handle this?
7) When do we use the ring each time? When do we hero? I am fairly confident at current DPS levels we will be able to survive last phase without hero, so I am pretty sure we should hero on pull. Not sure on ring though…
8) I read that you should wait to phase to 85% until after the shadowfel burst. That requires a lot of dps holding with current dps levels, so I’m thinking we want to just burn through but please correct me if I am wrong. Is this leading us to get doomfires faster than we should be getting them? Cuz as mentioned before we are struggling to phase before 4th doomfire for some reason.
9) Random question on last phase, is it still necessary to sac a tank on the second push back crystal?
10) Does anyone have a working macro to help people target the priority add at any given time?
11) Is there an addon to help with the dance of last phase? It’s only 4 dances so I can memorize it easily enough but just checking J
Thank you so much for any and all help with this boss. I hope changing our soaker strat helps us see further into the fight, as we were just getting destroyed J Wish us luck!!