Originally Posted by thorin5
The only reason I can come up with that the Sacrolash -> Alythess kill order is the 'hard' version is the potentially problematic threat cap involved with Confounding Blow. If your tanks don't put out enough threat (which if they don't, I seriously wonder how you're at Twins at all) for your DPS to do their job and kill her fast enough then there could potentially be a problem with hitting the berserk. Though the fight is still stretchable by 30-40 seconds at least past berserk, even though Alythess does make quick work of the raid between Blaze and Flame Sear.
|
We thought this would be an issue when decided to try doing it in the reverse order, but since nobody in the raid needs to move at all in phase two if you kill Sacrolash first, you overall have much higher DPS. We killed her in something like 4:35 this week doing Sacrolash first, and our Alythess first kills were always around 5:15. We brought an extra healer for Sacrolash first as well. (10 vs 11). Overall, Sacrolash first is decidedly easier and just felt a lot more controllable. We brought a full melee group as well, so I'd imagine that if you could stack the raid with full ranged you could bring maybe 9 healers. I don't think we got a WWS of our kill but I'd assume the melee are taking significantly more raid damage than the rest of the raid.