Baleroc 10 man heroic - How to do it?

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We are planning on trying this guy on heroic mode since we have 3 raid days left and only 3 bosses (2 if you don't count Rag as that is only a 30 minute thing with trash).

What we have available to us:
Tank:
Feral Druid

Healers:
disc/holy Priest
Holy Paladin
2 x Resto Druid.

DPS:
Arcane Mage
Warrior
Rogue
Arcane Mage
Elemental Shaman
Balance Druid
Feral Druid
Hunter

I'm thinking we want to roll with 1 tank, 2 healers and 7 DPS to even have a chance of beating the enrage. I'm hearing that Resto Druids are shit for this fight so we will probably be running with 1 holy paladin and 1 disc priest I imagine.

But how do we best attack this encounter, both from the start of the encounter and in general.

The thinking is that we will use the warrior with shield wall and other crap to take a lot of shard stacks and get one healer build up fast.
Should we be using Bloodlust at the start to help this process or what is the best way to attack this encounter.

Also if a dps with tourmented and a healer have to link won't you be pretty much fooked at that point or are there smart ways to get out of the bind that this will put us in?

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You blow hero at start for prepots.

Disc + hpala.
1st shard: Let your feral druid take upto 18 (with bs) and let your rogue take the rest. <- Both healers stack, have tank use cds and if you really need to heal the tank let the paladin switch.
2nd shard: Let your balance druid take upto 14-15 (with bs) and let your warrior take the rest. <- Priest stack.
3rd shard: Let your feral druid take upto 14-15 (with bs) and let your rogue take the rest. <- Priest stack.
4th shard: Let your balance druid take upto 14-15 (with bs) and let your warrior take the rest. <- Paladin stack
5th shard: Let your feral druid take upto 14-15 (with bs) and let your rogue take the rest. <- Paladin stack.

If for any of people in the line get countdown you need a backup (preferrable mage) to jump and do their spot instead, if one of the druids has been swapped blow a cd to make up for it (aura mastery, pain surp, pwb, sac)

After the 5th shard you start doing 8-8-9 rotation, meaning you need all your dps to cycle around (this includes the ele and mages aswell) and have both your healers make sure their tank buff is always activated so they can maximize their heals on the tank, since dmg can very spikey. Your hpala should heal the shard people at this point with beacon on the tank and the disc can focus on tank healing full time with a few shields on raid members if he can spare the mana.

[Petrix]

Make the healer priest go holy... More emergency CDs for the blades, and you can not mitigate those with shields anyways...

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Make the healer priest go holy... More emergency CDs for the blades, and you can not mitigate those with shields anyways...

Incorrect. PWS does work on decimation blade.

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Incorrect. PWS does work on decimation blade.

Confirmed "absorb" works, resist/block do not.

[Aeiri]

You can have the Feral druid soak the entire first one with outside cooldowns. We have a shadowpriest soak the entire first one and a feral soak the entire second. To get massive stacks.

[UunaPriest]

I am also interested in how to deal with healers-tormented dps links, is there any way to avoid the healer getting tormented debuff when you kill the link?