Originally Posted by aadric
This doesn't match our experience. It appears to only hit a few people regardless of clumping. Can anyone else confirm? Or does anyone have a WWS of his shadow attack hitting more than 3 people?
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In the demon-phase he switches his target to someone, casts the volley on that person and it will jump to the two closest players So no matter if you spread out or clump up, the damage input is going to be the same. But since clumping up makes healing a lot easier, and seeing the curse can't be outranged, there is no reason not to clump up in this phase. The curse kinda is the enrage-timer in this encounter.
We tried with several slighty different tactics, but as the OP has stated, there really isn't just one working tactic on this fight - this mainly concerns the "portal rotations". Imo it's all what your raid's strongest part is. Is it communication, anticipation or remembering a set rotation?
We used a tactic where the first 4 portal-rotations were somewhat fixed and after these 4 rotations everyone had been in demon phase and would have the debuff not allowing them to take another portal. At this point, we just went with "go down when your debuff is gone" and let the encounter decide the rotation for you. Other than that it's a matter of spreading in normal phase and clumping up in demon phase. As for the curse, I don't think trying to outrange or mitigate it with resistance gear is a reliable tactic.
On a sidenote, nothing in this encounter is spellreflectable.
Originally Posted by Dokos
I can't say for sure but I think he'll try to fit a quota of shadowbolts in a certain amount of time.
1 person ports in. Gets almost instantly hit by a shadowbolt. If no one joins next he'll keep shadowbolting until he meets X number of casts with an internal cooldown to prevent instagib.
The first group to get ported usually takes a lot of burst.
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This can easily be handled by letting your tank not tank the demon in this phase, but instead let him be tanked by the NPC until your second group joins in.