Just adding to the voices of those recent Bear achievements:
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Prot Warr MT
Prot Warr OT
Enh Sham
Fury Warr
Dest Lock
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Spriest
Spriest
Holy Pal
Resto Sham
Fire Mage
This project started for us about a month and a half ago, and taking place only on weekends to not interfere with our weekday schedules of 25mans. All in all I think we have spent either 6 or 7 weeks with tonight being our first bear. We have been farming Illidan for 3 weeks now, but many of this group are not/ were not part of the raiding core.
As can be seen, we lack perfect synergy with dual Prots (meaning lost DPS), the lock being pushed into g1 so as to accomodate the mage in g2. g2 never had any mana issues the whole run in the slightest, and hindsight being 20/20 we could probably drop 1 of the spriests and bring another melee to provide significantly more synergy for both groups.
We usually run with 3 healers but made a switch at the last minute for the 2nd spriest. We were pretty cautious with pulls being as how we didn't have AoE tanks (feral swipe / pally pwnage) and only 2 healers. Lynx down with about 40sec left on the clock.
Control >>> Speed. Know the pulls, invest in learning them and setting a pace, but focus on control. In no way shape or form did we rush through things.