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Natural · 04/30/08, 5:37 PM

First: I propose that we save ourselves the time of typing the twins names and simply call them RED and BLUE.

Last night we used a relatively nice trick to make the Red-first kill much more reliable.

Our positioning
Up top:
- Blue up top, slightly away from ledge (not in LOS of raid)
- 2 tanks on center ledge
- 3 paladin healers in SR gear spread out 10+ yards apart
Below
- Raid on Red
- Warlock in curtain

The advantage of this strategy is that the raid *never* gets shadowfury because Blue is positioned outside of LOS of the raid. The disadvantage of this strategy is that the healers up top are in a world of pain. They are tasked with healing themselves and the tanks (although the tanks do receive some extra healing from below), but as the shadow debuffs stack on them it causes chaos and begins to spiral out of control.

The trick we used is to give the 3 paladins + shadowpriest a bloodlust at the 30-40 second mark. With the speedy heals, the paladins are able to recover everyone to full health and maintain control for the duration of Bloodlust. With bloodlust and DS to reset their buffs there is enough time for the raid to zerg down Red and get to phase 2 clean.

Next week we will most likely kill Blue first; however, groups having trouble with the healers up top in a similar strategy would probably benefit from a bloodlust in the healer group. As a note--we bring 5 shaman (4 resto + 1 enhance) so all of our DPS groups were already getting lust.

04/30/08, 5:37 PM	#31 (permalink)
Natural Don Flamenco Natural Tauren Warrior <The Core> Tichondrius	First: I propose that we save ourselves the time of typing the twins names and simply call them RED and BLUE. Last night we used a relatively nice trick to make the Red-first kill much more reliable. Our positioning Up top: - Blue up top, slightly away from ledge (not in LOS of raid) - 2 tanks on center ledge - 3 paladin healers in SR gear spread out 10+ yards apart Below - Raid on Red - Warlock in curtain The advantage of this strategy is that the raid never gets shadowfury because Blue is positioned outside of LOS of the raid. The disadvantage of this strategy is that the healers up top are in a world of pain. They are tasked with healing themselves and the tanks (although the tanks do receive some extra healing from below), but as the shadow debuffs stack on them it causes chaos and begins to spiral out of control. The trick we used is to give the 3 paladins + shadowpriest a bloodlust at the 30-40 second mark. With the speedy heals, the paladins are able to recover everyone to full health and maintain control for the duration of Bloodlust. With bloodlust and DS to reset their buffs there is enough time for the raid to zerg down Red and get to phase 2 clean. Next week we will most likely kill Blue first; however, groups having trouble with the healers up top in a similar strategy would probably benefit from a bloodlust in the healer group. As a note--we bring 5 shaman (4 resto + 1 enhance) so all of our DPS groups were already getting lust. Last edited by Natural : 04/30/08 at 8:40 PM.