Originally Posted by
Iyona
We found 3 healers 3 tanks to be the best setup.
3 tanks allowed us to release all drakes beside Slate on the pull without tanks getting gibbed, 3 tanks allowed us to minimize the healing lost from the MS debuff. Disc Priests do help some but are definately not mandatory.
* Make sure your tanks spread aggro among each other intelligently based on number of stacks.
* Make sure your dps prioritize killing the whelps then focus one drake at the time. Kill order after Whelps are down doesn't matter.
* My raid group kill all drakes we activated but I've seen some having one or two tanked away from the raid for rest of the encounter.
* If you wipe to his roar for the last 50%, try releasing the Slate dragon.
* We found damage taken and healing done to be the lowest after the first Halfus tank swap and used Heroism at that time.
* Use the tank with the highest non-block avoidance tank Halfus on the pull. Also make sure he/she kites him for ~10 seconds until the Nether Scion's effect has come in place.
* A Paladin's Divine Shield or Hand of Protection clears the MS debuff. We used this to delay tank swaps and make things happen more slowly and more controlled. We cleared stacks at 8-9, depending on tank health, then swapped before 5.