So I was just wondering if anyone has ever tried this.
My guild has had thok heroic on farm for months now and they tend to not like to spice things up as much as I do and try new things for the sake of trying new things.
In my guild, we have always done what we call "the dream" which is to make the 30th stack be the hit that pushes us into kite phase, but because we always aim for exactly 30 stacks sometimes that means the 30th hit gets off and it kills everyone.
The thing is though, it doesn't.
It kills most of the raid but a handful of people always survive this supposed instant raid wipe mechanic. And all subsequent roars don't seem to do the additional damage that the 30th one does. I remember on more than a few occasions a handful of people lived, then everyone but myself (tank) died on follow up roars just from all the healers being dead. Then I stand there and tank it and survive it for like 10-15 more stacks and it really doesn't hurt me that much. I've heard of paladins and tanks with really OP self heals being able to survive prettymuch indefinitely through limitless numbers of stacks.
So obviously the mechanic isn't instant-death, it has a finite damage value. And it doesn't appear to do the big bursty awful damage but once, the stacks beyond 30 seem to do normal damage (or at least it feels normal to me).
I was just wondering if anyone has ever actually tried to throw in like 3 or 4 extra healers and then when the 30th hit comes just drop multiple priest bubbles, smoke bomb, basically all raid-wide defensive CDs just to survive that one hit, then use the additional healers to keep healing the damage forever.
It seems like a pretty simple thing to do, it seems like if it were possible people would've done it already but I found no videos or anything of this ever being attempted. Seems like with extra healers you could keep everyone topped off between roars pretty easily and still be able to blow defensives all at once to avoid the raid wipe.
if ALL roars beyond 30 did the extra badass damage it would of course be impossible, but like I said from my experience they don't seem to. Seems like only the 30th then the rest are normal again.
So just curious if this has ever actually been attempted or if anyone knows anything about it. Might try it on our next full heroic clear next week just for the lulz because siege is horrifically boring after all these months.