Originally Posted by
Raxxed
Our Rogue is slowly lvling her warlock to raid on
Our enh shaman was our 3rd healer - but dpsing for the fight
Our ret pally is our only.. whats the word.. normal? dps
I really really like melee on this fight. When they kill the protector they reset their stacks, then back on the boss. No hassle with running out randomly to reset stacks, it's all fixed.
Ranged are just as good, though! They just simply have to walk 2 yards backwards and poof, no more stacks.
I'd strongly suggest bringing as many burst dps as possible. You really need to get the sparks down. We had a 5% and a 3% wipe (Not to the enrage) but if we had killed another wave of sparks we would've killed the boss. Skipping an extra protector in the second Phase1 is crucial (imo).
We finally ended up getting 5stacks, then 5stacks again. We would kill 5 waves of adds and then ignore the 6th and just zerg the boss down. This made up an unbelievable amount of time on the enrage timer, causing us to enter phase3 with the boss on 31%.
You need to be aiming for 2 protectors in Phase1 the first time and 3 protectors in Phase1 the second time, aswell as knocking off 5 waves of sparks each time.
Don't run out in phase3, just stand and zerg, it lasted about 40 seconds with 10 stacks for us.
For the pillar phases, we split the group into 2 groups of 5, one went left one went right. The tanks picked up the adds whilst dpsing the pillars.
What I suggest on the pillars is that both groups zerg the middle one down, so that you have free movement to pick up the adds. (Both pillars on both sides have to die before they actually go down)
---------- Post added 2012-10-04 at 10:00 PM ----------
To be totally honest, we could 3heal it if our dps was better
So the group comp change was not 'needed' per say, but necessary when lacking the numbers required.
I'm sure theres people out there that have 3 healed it (not sure why, would only make it harder) but it's still possible providing your dps is good enough.