Originally Posted by Kirion
Sorry, but if you allow ticks on regular basis, you suck. This is not a dps fight and there is no such thing as 40 sec delay on gas nova.
3 seconds is more that enough to dispell. There is cooldown timer on nova. Stop healing, stop dps when it ends, keep boss in focus frame and place targeting circle on your group. Cast it as soon as you see nova warning. We have 2 priests with rather bad connection, but they almost never miss ticks.
We killed him yesterday, after a lot of p2 training. What helped us is to create strict pattern on where and when to run and announce every step. Something like: Tree, move to border, fire, move to border, etc.
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You're definitely wrong here. I've seen entire phases with 0 gas novas, and sometimes you get 3 in quick succession after the CD is up. Yes, the obvious answer to avoiding ticks it to have someone stand there targeting the ground with their MD and waiting for it. Your raid is going to continue to take aoe damage while your priests are sitting there waiting, which is OK as long as you have a contingency plan to cover for their healing.
I agree with the person who said the difficulty level varies an awful lot between attempts. Our quickest wipe resulted from one of our Mass Dispelling priests got an Encap (he was situated in his group that he was dispelling), which was immediately followed by a Gas Nova, it wasn't pretty. We also had an attempt where she didn't do an Encap or Nova for an entire phase.