Hello guys. Long story short; after wiping on cho'gall and and al'akir we killed both on Sunday (9manning alakir since 1dps died in p1). And we decided to go for Nefarian.
Battle.net profile: http://eu.battle.net/wow/en/characte...iolegis/simple
World of Logs parses for the attempts: http://worldoflogs.com/reports/rt-03zk490bmq2rijgk/
Spell priority during the cast of an Electrocute (every 10%) and after to heal the raid:
-PoM on the Nefarian tank (usually on cooldown no matter what)
-PoH during cast (landing right after it hits) on G1, then one on G2. Back to G1 and then another on G2. After that trying to only use "Heal" to top players off.
-CoH after 1st or 2nd PoH and on cooldown until everyone is topped and whenever 3+ take damage.
We had a couple of tries yesterday (14, to be exact) and transitioned into p2 with Nef at around 72-75% hp. We tried getting one Electrocute in p2 and transitioned into p3 with perhaps 1 blastwave going off due to bad luck (working on that). We tried electrocute in p2, but it killed 1 player due to shadow-nuke RNG so for now it'll only be attempted if we can blow some sort of dmg reducing cooldown to assure survival (and it's also hard on our mana).
Over to the point, i am still trying to figure out the best viable strategy for the encounter for my guild. Since we brought down Cho'gall on sunday i have now managed to get my hands on the 4th set piece and do have the good bonus for next time we'll be dealing with nefarian.
Our tank setup:
DK tank on Nefarian - Warrior Tank on Onyxia
Resto Shaman on Nef Tank, Paladin on Onyxia Tank - Me (Holy Priest) on Raid (and Nef tank whenever i can)
Questions:
1. How do you handle the shackling of adds? Do you bother at all, do you reshackle if someone breaks them? (I smite one of the first to spawn, draw them toward middle of the platform and shackle)
2. Last night i got terribly frustrated since the raid kept getting tailswiped. There are two instances where this is happening.
a)At the beginning with the positioning of Onyxia and Nefarian, where we get hit by either Onyxia's or Nefarian, or both. Not always, but it happens.
b)The Onyxia tank-healer getting hit every time the tank turns her (I assume this is unavoidable and we haven't had problems keeping him alive during that time)
3. I am the Raid Healer and with the recently acquired 4th set piece even more powerful at that. Question is, how are you dealing with electrocutes in regards to raidhealing it all alone? What kind of cooldowns do you use in p1?
I felt my group brought Nefarian to the 1st and 2nd Electrocute as fast as any other mediocre raid, but it took me quite some time to heal both groups back up, and the 2nd Electrocute came at about a very few seconds after i had managed to top the last person off leaving me little breathing room to do a Shadowfiend+Hymn (for as many seconds as i dare take) before 2nd hits and requires healing. Then after 2nd Electrocute my raid's DPS switched to Onyxia to kill her, getting them tailswiped/crackled and usually getting them to 50%ish hp right when we're transitioning into p2, leaving me to spamheal everyone up as much as possible before p2 pillars.
I'll be changing the last part before p2 so that DPS does NOT go to onyxia to finish her off, not all at least. Instead of switching to Nefarian once he lands, the DPS should stay on Onyxia until shes at 500-700k HP and then leave it to the tank. If she needs more DPSing 1 ranged can go over in the end. Does this sound sensible?
4. With the abovementioned change to our strategy, we might be able to push a 3rd Electrocute in p1. Would you advise doing so?
5. During the electrocutes, since 8/10 of the raid is at Nefarian, including the Raid Healer and the Nef Tank Healer; Do you have the Tank healer help with an efflorescence/Healing Rain/Whatever after an electrocute or do you heal the entire raid yourself on your own and leave the tank healer to only focus the tank? This applies to Electrocute-healing both in p1 and p3.
6. Would you advise pushing a Electrocute in p2?
The setup we will have available is:
Healers: Holy Priest - Holy Paladin - Resto Druid/Resto Shaman
Tanks: DK/Paladin - Warrior
DPS: Mage, 2nd Mage, Hunter, Warlock, Warrior, 2nd Warrior, possibly a Shadow Priest/Elemental shaman