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We killed archimonde on the second attempt after the 7 wipes the day previously. Everything just clicked and went well. We went back this week and spent an entire day on it before doing it again, as people weren't sticking to the layout we had assigned the week before and dying to things like grip + fire dot -> burst and being out of range of anyone who could've helped them.
How do you spread your raid out? Do you have a full circle, "camps" around him, a semicircle, or something else? Having camps where people try and stick together helps a lot for grips (we use 3 groups in a triangle). People need to stick to these camps too - ranged people should have their priorities as staying alive first, which includes being near their assigned decursers, and making sure they don't get doomfired.
There are a lot of tricks you can use to avoid fire, and if people do hit fire they need to be using EVERYTHING they can to survive. Even a bandage for 3 ticks in between the fire dot helps.
You can control the fire too - it generally locks on to someone who is in front of it, and will follow them if they turn too slowly. Think of it like a heat seeking missile in a film - if you turn slowly it just follows, but if you double back very quickly it loses the lock and carries on straight.
Other things include:
PvP trinket for fears (or glimmering mithril insignia if it works?)
Druids using shapeshifting runspeed mechanics to change direction mid-fear
Fear Ward (noticed you're alliance - always possible you don't have a dwarf priest I suppose) - might be worth putting this on healers/decursers instead of the tank and getting him to stancedance as you're lacking tremors.
As an aside, we've had 3 shamans both times we killed him I think, but tremors are hardly reliable to say the least. I wouldn't be surprised if it's saved melee getting feared into fire a few times though. You should also consider giving your shaman to the melee as they'll do a lot more DPS with totems, and have the bubble/etc rotation on healers for the tank healing (or use fear ward, if you have a couple).
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