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Foofer · 04/10/08, 3:23 PM

We use somewhat of an odd strategy for encapsulate. We do not run away from the player that gets encapsulated.

Our groups are stacked by group in sort of a "triforce" (with the MT alone at the top, 2 melee groups in the middle/side areas, 3 caster groups at the back) slightly over 20 yards away from each other. When a player is encapsulated, 2 priests heal the encapsulated player with COH and the shamans swap over. Our first two kills, we had 3 shaman, 2 priests and 3 paladins healing (for a total of 8 healers) and we felt very comfortable with the strategy by the end of the first night (not having people die anymore to encapsulate).

Our third kill was amazingly more rough as we had lost 2 resto shaman and brought in a resto druid (for a total of 7 healers) and took us a while to get down. We were constantly having the encapsulated player or the odd person in their group dying due to their group not being topped off. I think we'd be fine with 2 priests and 2 shaman (with a mix of 3-4 paladins/druids) but any less than that just feels like an uphill battle for our strategy.

We decided to stack up because it allowed us to continue putting out damage without having to move.

Some other things I've seen over the course of our kills:

We've had the MT get encapsulated on three seperate occasions. I'm going to go ahead and assume that's due to another player being above in threat. Anyone else experienced this and think otherwise?

We have had a prot paladin in for all of our kills and even delayed our second kill a night because we were missing one. It really trivializes phase 2 and I'd recommend bringing one if at all possible.

Rebirth during phase 2 is bad - at least if their corpse is in a breath... On our latest kill, I was asked to raise a shaman that had died for bloodlust. His corpse was in the cloud but I thought nothing of it, since normally BR'ing someone in damage is okay since the person being raised will spawn on top of the druid. Not the case here apparently. He spawned on top of me and was immediately mind controlled.

04/10/08, 3:23 PM	#34 (permalink)
Foofer Von Kaiser Foofer Tauren Druid <Blood Legion> Illidan	We use somewhat of an odd strategy for encapsulate. We do not run away from the player that gets encapsulated. Our groups are stacked by group in sort of a "triforce" (with the MT alone at the top, 2 melee groups in the middle/side areas, 3 caster groups at the back) slightly over 20 yards away from each other. When a player is encapsulated, 2 priests heal the encapsulated player with COH and the shamans swap over. Our first two kills, we had 3 shaman, 2 priests and 3 paladins healing (for a total of 8 healers) and we felt very comfortable with the strategy by the end of the first night (not having people die anymore to encapsulate). Our third kill was amazingly more rough as we had lost 2 resto shaman and brought in a resto druid (for a total of 7 healers) and took us a while to get down. We were constantly having the encapsulated player or the odd person in their group dying due to their group not being topped off. I think we'd be fine with 2 priests and 2 shaman (with a mix of 3-4 paladins/druids) but any less than that just feels like an uphill battle for our strategy. We decided to stack up because it allowed us to continue putting out damage without having to move. Some other things I've seen over the course of our kills: We've had the MT get encapsulated on three seperate occasions. I'm going to go ahead and assume that's due to another player being above in threat. Anyone else experienced this and think otherwise? We have had a prot paladin in for all of our kills and even delayed our second kill a night because we were missing one. It really trivializes phase 2 and I'd recommend bringing one if at all possible. Rebirth during phase 2 is bad - at least if their corpse is in a breath... On our latest kill, I was asked to raise a shaman that had died for bloodlust. His corpse was in the cloud but I thought nothing of it, since normally BR'ing someone in damage is okay since the person being raised will spawn on top of the druid. Not the case here apparently. He spawned on top of me and was immediately mind controlled.