Hey everybody,
yesterday we had our first attempts at chimaeron (normal) and although we had him at 2% in the last try I must say I was extremely taken aback by the sheer speed that is needed to get the people up to 10k again.
We tried several healer placements and ended up with me healing the double-taker via beacon and group one - 1HP guys. Most of the time I had no choice but take FoL to get the guys up to 10k again. Not because HL doesn't put out enough but because it was just too frickin slow. It felt more like us beeing lucky and unlucky at the same time - let me explain:
I already tried the top-down/bottom-up healing strategy. Two healers (a resto-shaman and a resto-drood) working on healing from "opposite sides" of the raidframes and me picking up leftover-1HPers. It seemed to me that there were still people at 1 HP the time the next caustic hit. So in a sense we got lucky that they weren't instagibbed but gut unlucky because now there were even moar guys sitting at 1HP.
That's the point were I had to put out some FoLs.
Apart from that sure the double-taker took a lot healing too but beacon and some hots did a reasonable job there. I just found our healers gooing dry like pee in the noon sun. The last Feud/massacre was more like a " >.< AMAGAWD whosgonnahealthatall?!" - and OF COURSE it was followed directly by phase 2. Needless to say that we didn't make the kill.
So: ANY help regarding on-spot-10k-heals in combination with mana-saving would be a GREAT help.
btw. we had something around 2,5 hours of (17) tries.