Originally Posted by Regen
Between a nice little ability called Shadow Blades this strat isn't as viable as it sounds. Assuming you eventually learn how to micro manage shadow debuffs with this strat (again, quite insane considering shadow blades requiring nonstop gcd raid healing --- maybe more manageable with 3 CoH's). You still run into confounding + conflag which can pretty much just instantly wipe you.
From experience it didn't seem viable because of Shadow Blades.
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Go watch the Aff Inc kill video. They have their entire raid below sacrolash eating blades. It actually makes healing easier since you are wiping your fire debuffs every 10 seconds instead of every 30. Meaning you don't run into those freak circumstances where one person got hit by 3 sears in a row and died. 2k damage every 10 seconds to 23 people means 138k damage every 30 seconds, even if you assume worst case scenario with 5 people every 10 seconds getting a 3 stack of flame touched that only adds about 70k damage from the remaining flame touched ticks. Letting flame touched tick on 5 people for 30 seconds is 135k damage, letting it tick on 5 more for 20 seconds is 90k and finaly letting it tick on 5 people for 10 seconds is 45k damage totaling 270k damage over 30 seconds. Now keep in mind this is a upper bounds on the damage done based on 6 stacks of flame touched per sear and assuming no one clears their debuffs early, but given both are represented in this way you are looking at 270k damage with using shadow nova to clear debuffs vs 208k damge having the whole raid eat shadow blades.
The strength of this strat as I mention earlier is that you have no chance of one person dying from eating multipe sears in a row in between shadow novas.
In terms of phase 2 this would completely take burst out of the fight and can easily be healed by two CoH priests solo every 10 seconds.