I have been digesting a lot of useful information wrt tortos heroic and ji kun heroic on the raid forums. However most of the info found here seems to relate to the 10 man version of those encounters. Since we are a 25 man guild I would like to pose some questions wrt the 25 man versions of said encounters.
Tortos
- Did you solotank tortos and bats with a prot paladin, or is the damage too high on 25 man to do this (I'm mostly interested in solotanking due to increased healing throughput possible on that one tank then). I'm not a fan of kiting bats (we have a prot paladin and a prot warrior as MTs), would rather AOE them down on the boss.
- How do your tanks deal with crystal, the limited tries we had, our tanks seemed to not be able to get healed when they took the crystal buff (as in: if they used the crystal buff when at 60% of their HP, they would remain at 60% of their HP and heals only increase the crystal shell shield - not get them topped). Are there any useful macros to cancel said shield if the tank would try to get the crystal buff just as he got a big melee hit?
- At what percentage do you stop killing turtles and plain nuke the boss (assuming we have a turtle or two ready to kick the next 2 shouts). We noticed on normal that towards lower HP of Tortos (20%? 15%?), he seemed to start continuously summoning turtles.
Ji-Kun
- For Ji-Kun I have found an overview of which platforms are in need of a tank to join, however that information related to 10 man, is the platform order where a guardian add spawns the same on 25 man? Would be very interested in hearing how people do group / nest assigns on 25 man.
- Can you still use a plate DPS / feral popping into bear to tank those adds or do you need tankswaps or a third tank?
- Any advice on number of people to send to each nest? On our normal mode kills we assign 5 groups of 4 people (3 dps, one healer), with each group being responsible for an area (both lower nest in that side of the zone as upper nest in that side of the zone).
- Is there a point / percentage where on heroic you stop doing nests and just focus dps the boss?
Thank you for any answers you can provide.