We're currently getting to the 4th gate from time to time, hitting some major issues. We've only gotten past the 4th gate once (with about 6 players dead).
Here's our gate strategy.
Composition:
- 1 tank always on boss, get BoPed
- 1 tank always on adds (me)
- 5 healers (2 disc, 1 resto sham, 1 MW, 1 pally)
- about 7-8 melee
Gate 1:
- 1-2 minute DPS CD's when the 2nd and 3rd wastewalker drops
- Multi-doters dot everything
- Dispel dot
- Focus down Wastewalkers one at at time
- Jump on Dinomancer immediately, burn to 50%, then back on Wastewalkers.
- Cleave, other adds, and just clean up after wastewalkers
Gate 2:
- quickly burn first priest before any effusions can spawn
- 3 minute DPS CD's when the 2nd and 3rd priest drop
- Effusions have dps priority when they spawn
- Kept interrupts up on effusions and priests
- Try not to get any poison dots on the raid.
Gate 3:
- Range stack up (no need to spread).
- Multi dot all adds.
- DPS pop 1-2 min CD's on first Warlord.
- Melee stay on warlord, avoid orbs
- Range burn dinomancer to 50%
- When there is only two warlords up, ranged with adds stack on melee for cleave (move for orbs obviously)
- Tank CD's when mortal strike is up
- Offspecs cure diseases like crazy
Gate 4:
- Melee on small gate adds 24/7
- ranged spread 5 yards
- Ranged Burn down one war bear
- Ranged DPS shaman, then back to next war bear (trying to keep only one shaman up at a time)
- Melee taunt Dinomancer and melee get Dinomancer down to 50%.
I think that we have Gate 1 and 2 down solid when we don't screw up. Gate 3 seems to put us way behind on DPS. Gate 4 also seems very slow on DPS. It seems the shamans should be dying quicker.
As Gate 4 is opening, we still have one Warlord up (about 20% or so) when our DPS is really the doing their best. Most attempts, our DPS is behind even before that point.
So, my question really is this: Is our strategy flawed? Do we just fail at executing what I put above?
To help out, i've included a video from twitch of our *best* attempt last night.
Also, here are our World of Log numbers: http://worldoflogs.com/reports/rt-1n...?s=9088&e=9638
Thanks in advance for any ideas!