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To the people using a quadrant method rather than a safe zone method, do you ever take portal spawn AoE damage? We found it was very difficult to spread out until we use the center of the platform as a "debuff only" zone
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Depends on how you set up the four group areas. We tank the dragon on the far side, sideon and the four strict portal-group areas (facing the dragon) are Left, Middle, Right, Back. Other strategies tank the dragon in the middle and have it more like North, South, East, West. Using NSEW has pros (easier to spread out) and cons: the thing that stopped me switching to that strategy was that you might have to run through the dragon when your ported back up and that each side has difficulty seeing whats happening on the other. With the dragon side-on, everyone is always on the same side of the dragon, can readily and immediately see whats happening in all other areas of the platform and never have to worry about frost breathe/tail swipe/running through the dragon when they get ported back up to apex point.
Although we did have some issues with Spectral spawn AOE damage, it was really only on learning attempts. Once you tell people that you must spread out
when your spectral exhaustion debuff is close to expiring , it becomes alot more natural and easy. We decided not to use a 'safe zone' up top. You always ran back to your original group location where you began the fight once you were ported back up. The middle group (standing in what other guilds call 'the debuff only zone' is where our melee group and their 2 healers (mt+group) stand only. Any extra melee are actually placed into a range group and move with that group. For example, if you were a rogue in the Far right group (because the middle melee group was full), whenever your debuff would expire you would run to your range group and stand near your mages etc - waiting for a portal down to spawn. This will ensure that that groups portal will spawn directly on all 5 of them, and not in melee range and force 4 people to have to move 20+ yards to where you were dpsing the dragon.
Finally, the fanboy in me is dying to say it: Amazing job designing this fight, Blizzard. I can only hope Kil'jaeden is just as good...