Hey guys overthe holidays most of the 25man guild i am in took a break from raiding, so a few of us got together to try and down madness on 10man, which we were up to in 25. This is how it went, may help those who are also stuck a bit.
The original strategy we used was green,red,yellow,blue and we would try stack near the tank for the elementium bolt but not use bloodlust until the final platform (which we never got too) in this set up there was 2 tanks 3 healers and 5 dps, a balanced mix but we were really lacking that burst dps to get the bolt down before it killed us all with another pulse.
The new strategy that was suggested to us by our GM was going with 1 tank, 2 healers and 7 dps. The idea with this strat is that as soon as the tentacle at the back of the platform spawns everyone runs over to kill it to get it down before the next impale, most of our dps were at about 40k but we had 1 person in his off spec down at 33ish so it wasnt too difficult. whenever the bolt came down through the timezone we would switch over to it and maybe 1 melee would stay on the tentacle to ensure it died if it didnt die before the bolt got in. We just followed the usual strat stack for bloods, all get onto the blisterings and yer. As a boomy i was switching out of form and rejuving everyone inbetween platforms for a bit of extra heals and ele shaman was using healing rain (i think)on occasions to help with the damage which wasn't even that bad. Getting to blue platform we would dps the big wing to about 20mil (80%ish) then leave it but as soon as tentacle at the back spawned we would run overand pop lust a few seconds later to try get it down in time, next we all stacked at the very back of the platform had powerword barrier and the raid bubble wall from our pally tnk up too, after that we zerged bolt then moved into the wing. For the moment we just waited for the bloods to spawn and did not push the wing, once bloods died we killed the wing off with warrior doing rallying cry when first blisterings popped, we were bout 10-5seconds from cataclysm every time but healers were good for mana by not having tentacles and bloods up at the same time.
phase 2: jumped over again classes that could heal topped everyone off before the final burn. Burn DW then tentacles as priority, using dream if they had shrapnel on you, army helped as shrapnel could target them aswell as pets. After they died we went back on to DW let tank pick up the adds and cycle through cd's, dream was massively helpful here and he was SS so if he died he could get up right away, when tanks did die dps were able to tank a single one for bout 10 seconds with big heals and mitigation. dps were to kill a marked add and then the other to decrease damage. after jsut burn DW then kill tentacles and tank picks up adds and we left tank with them and zerged down DW. originally we were having a few 4-5mil hp wipes when trying to kil everything however DW admits defeat at 2mil hp so 7 dps all down about 40k thast over 1mil every4 seconds, we were really only 8 seconds away from.
set up: 2 warlocks, boomy, ele shaman, pally tank, shad proest, disc priest, holy paladin, frost DK, fury warrior
hope this guide helps those who r stuck